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Refreshing to hear opinions like this on HN. I feel similarly but often times feel alone with that feeling.
> Doesn't amazon hire anyone and everyone these days

No.
Its not “fringe”, it is demonstrated as a thing which occurs.

Some particular multigenerational effects may be controversial, speculative, or even fringe, but that multigenerational epigenetic effects exist is not at all fringe.
Why everyone's talking about 'nepo babies'
> Removing physical U2F keys from an account without request seems to be the worst possible reaction to suspicious activity.

Exactly, unless they were added during the suspicious activity. But this seems to be not the case.

I work in cybersecurity and I've seen hackers setting up PINs etc on hijacked Whatsapp accounts just to make it harder for the legit owner to recover it. So if it was a really recent addition it might make sense. If the Yubikey was there for ages it's a really stupid move because it's the one way the real owner can prove themselves.
Reddit is run by an American company. Thus, whatever is featured on the site needs the implicit approval of that company's owners. Thus, the content on Reddit needs to be palatable to that company's advertisers or else the company will lose money. This leads to homogenization and mainstream voices drowning out everything else. Small, independent, local newspapers are supposed to counteract that. It doesn't happen though since most local newspapers are owned by large conglomerates.
I think what the author was saying is that there is a difference between pride in one's self and pride in one's work.

The bricklayer allegory is interesting. If I were that contractor, I would have said sure I'll do it, and after it was done, I could say that porch is now the nicest part of the house.
Is this like Flutter? I see they say you can use a WGPU based renderer but it seems like the desktop and mobile apps are still akin to using a webview which isn't a great user experience.
Freedom of movement is tenuous, and one of the greater paradoxes of the modern "libertarian" movement. The freedom isn't even universally supported on the left -- democratic socialist countries rely on high taxes and low economic inequality to maintain their systems, which, the reasoning goes, is unsustainable in the face of an unrestricted influx of economic refugees.
It's undeniably shitty behaviour from the Goo but I'm increasingly getting the message that the only sane attitude is detachment from anything I posted in some past , more naive age. Scribe on vellum or linen rag that which is for the ages, and ignore the rest. If it's on a server I don't even mourn it, I killed it already by putting it there.
You are right, but you're missing the flipside of this: they also drive mental illness. Adaptations like these can be constructive or destructive to a person and society, and it's current consensus (which may be wrong), that it's better to have less of an ego in average case.
Also, there were many airplane hijackings in the 1970s. I don’t remember if they were called terrorism, though.
The ones on f-droid are each horrible in its own specific way - some don't support scrolling, some don't support pinch-to-zoom, some have UX from 2012, some don't allow you to save the file (how am I supposed to save a bank statement then?).
Per other comments in the thread, Ms. De Santis might be imaginary and just a way to puff Ms. Rossi up. At the least, her portrait was a stock photograph on the staff page of RECEPTIO.
My comment was not intended to scold anyone. Just an opinion based on experience of having to take care of a couple kids, and watching my dad neglect his kids to take care of his excessively old dad.

> usually preferable to trying to take care of kids on a shoestring budget while still building a professional and economic foundation.

Which does not apply to the person deciding to lease space on a cruise boat for 12 years for a few hundred thousand dollars.
Ofc consensus changes. Based on new data. That's how it is supposed to work.

> If your response to being shown government-announced covid deaths [..]

Well, that's what you are trying to promote. That you linked some raw data, not a conclusion-statement from this government, is all i need to know. I'm not calling you a liar. I just assume there to be another angle you might be missing (the motivated reasoning part), but this is something for experts in the respective area. And if not, it will change consensus accordingly. Unless, ofc, you believe in some grad conspiracy of all the governments all around the world. I don't.
"I don't think I can go out and get anything that's competitive with the Cortex-A72 in Raspberry Pi 4, for example -- and a lack of software maturity in the Linux userland"

Eben Upton's RISC-V knowledge is dated. Both this cpu core and the one in VisionFive2 are quite competitive with A72.
Mouseless: A replacement for the physical mouse in Linux
It's not too late as they don't yet know who carried out the vandalism.
Don’t forget the HN threads for jobs on the 1st.

I’m working on this for you as well; should have more info tomorrow!
Most problems are trivial, particularly to people with domain expertise.

I think getting really pulpy, difficult problems is a rarity even at the top of the field. I don't think that should be the goal and particularly not most of your time (it would probably drive us insane)

What we can do is solve trivial (or easy) problems in ways that are elegant and robust and easy for other developers to understand. That in itself is a challenge.
I've only recently started using a calendar to keep track of my personal schedule (the same way it is normal to do so for one's work schedule). I would like more tools like this to make it more convenient than manually adding everything (though ideally using .ics rather than Google Cal). Either via third party tools or companies allowing you to download .ics files from them.

Flights are an area this would be particularly handy; some airlines allow you to download flight reservations as .ics files, but very few in my experience. I looked into making a script to do this in Python before (based on confirmation emails) and while it would be quite doable, the lack of consistency in how the emails are formatted and the airports are described makes it non-trivial (if you want to properly handle timezones).
See https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt. There is a debate to be had over every spam mitigation technique. For instance banning VOIP numbers would prevent most 2fa codes from being delivered and has a high false positive rate in general. What you are talking about with the hops is called "traceback" but is generally rather complicated due to the ways call routing works in practice and is often done manually.
Incorrect. Many think the downsides can be mitigated but the fact is that many women over 30, and especially over 35 will struggle with infertility. Methods like IVF may work but you’re often signing up for a year of stress and anxiety for every child you want. Methods like egg freezing fail far more than people think, and then you’re left with an empty family for the remaining 40 years of your life. It’s a bleak situation and I think people should stop putting it off. At the very least, they should put in some serious thought before they’re 30 to understand their options.
Isn't this more of a stable set of people on the cruise ship? You would be able to have normal relationships with the other long term contingent of the ship. I don't think starting a family would be viable, and you'd have to get anything but first aid elsewhere, but that would be arrangable.

That said, I agree on the tax evasion and planet pollution.
Removing pre-existing security measures due to suspicious activity seems an odd strategy.
This seems inadequate to explain the removal of security keys. Unless Google inferred that OP was not just a garden variety intruder, but some sort of advanced persistent threat that had added such keys long ago?
I’d imagine many of the same considerations come into play when a structure straddles a state line in the US. I wonder how that’s handled?
Related, but different, & if there's someone at Google looking at this:

There was a Titan Bluetooth Key (for 2FA) Vulnerability, you've said you'll replace the affected keys[1], but you're no longer doing so. Which is frustrating.

[1] https://security.googleblog.com/2019/05/titan-keys-update.ht...
Google's implementation does not seem to be doing much good anyway. To be fair, it is not just Google -- most companies feel the same pressure of having to implement MFA but then also make it convenient for clueless users to recover their access.

The right way to implement hardware keys is to allow registering multiple of them (so that you can put at least one or two off-site -- in a secure storage) and then not let you recover the access under any circumstances without showing you still own at least one of those keys.

If you can recover access without the keys then what is the point of keys in the first place?
I mean, I've purchased a place and generally agree, but that's relatively low rent for a faang employee and he also would basically be getting (what he considers to be) a continuous low cost vacation out of it, where someone else manages all his home maintenance and repairs, and he gets to travel to a bunch of new locations.

Like I said I don't have interest in cruise ships, but I can't say I haven't considered trying to set up a similar continuous arrangement with a hotel.
>Now it's an endless wave of samey overproduced trash that intends to generate "IP."

Can't wait for the movie adaptations and shipping.
Calendars are one of those things where I just don't get why tech companies can't work together to make them interoperable.

Maybe in 10 years, once the EU managed to make messengers interoperate, they can do the same for calendars.

I don't understand why I can't just share calendars between iCloud users and Google users, or like here, let Google users easily subscribe to 3rd party calendars.
I am always thankful when people share their life experiences. I think the post captures the growth that many programmers experience throughout their professional life.

However I do think that the naming is a bit off. I don't think many people would describe a great programmer as someone that chases fassion, drinks kool aid, overengineers things and rejects proven technology and practices.

Their description of their approach now ("I'll do so only when it's the simplest and most maintainable solution to the problem") is much more aligned to what I believe great programmers do.
With only one winning block (generally), yes your chance of mining the specific winning block doubles.

There is no explicit co-ordination regarding blocks mined, and no hashes tried by other miners have any impact on you or your odds, except if they win, as there is no (known) co-ordination between (independent) miners on what has or has not been tried yet - any block which produces a valid next-in-chain value is the 'right' one, and every miner who gets a value which isn't the right one, got a wrong one.
Did you cover the $8000 yourself? I would contribute to that.
Makes sense for B2C where discovery is done through app stores I guess. But no B2B decision maker is idly browsing google play for expensive SAAS products to use on a whim. Best there to focus on a web app that does everything well until you get into time/cost luxuries like mobile app - unless you really do need something only native can do.
> Unpopular opinion: pride and ego actually drive personal ambition, technological achievements, and human progress.

Yes, for the 0.0001 percent of us that actually do something monumental and worthwhile. For the rest of us who are working in a glorified ad agency, it's just pride and ego if we think otherwise.

--Realistic cynic
I disagree. Couldn't get Deadly premonition working. Windows recommended XP compatibility mode and it worked!

All the 25 years of code is still in Windows 11 they just hide it with a lick of paint.
If you want to play old games Microsoft is still your best bet.
agree with this view a whole lot more
The problem is Marketing departments are typically ran by boomers who want these things cranked out. Easy goals for them, they're not graded on the performance past open rates.
The account has had some security keys set up since ~2020, with additional keys added last year.
+1 for - Bitwarden
Worker bees are not important to the hive organism - there just need to be a sufficient number- afaik there is mass die-off during winter and a core remains to cluster together for the heat during the 3 months.

Normally worker bees live 4-6 weeks, but the winter generation somehow is coded to live the entire 3 months.
Give it ten to twenty years for large battery storage to get cheap, solar panels prices to drop even further, online education options to get better and high quality satellite internet to become prolific and I think you’ll see more and more people opt for this kind of lifestyle. You’ll most likely get more and more pre fab kits and shipping container style homes you can just slot together and drop anywhere. It would also be a rational response if the insanely high house price inflation/insanely low wage inflation trajectory continues.
I guess it's "...to Learn Nginx/Prometheus/Grafana/Lua".

Per the first line of the link: "The objective of this repo is to build a body of knowledge on how CDNs work by coding one from "scratch". "
On the local news this morning it was reported that the vandalism was not carried out with firearms.
People can obviously do what they want but... You can live in one place you enjoy (don't need to buy a house) and both enjoy what the local area has to offer and travel to other places that interest you. He mentions maybe doing this for 3 years; there are few guarantees he'll be able to unload the rest of his $300K lease. Living in a 237 sq. ft. room and being able to make presumably brief stops at cruise ship destinations hardly sounds amazing. And, as someone else mentioned, it's something like a $40K/year fee on top of the lease. So about $5K/month for room, board, and utilities.

Which is in the range that upper middle-class people may pay anyway but certainly isn't a bargain and opens up many other options.
Counterargument: if you had any pride at all, you would quit working for a glorified ad agency.
> you now have twice the odds of being the one that gets it

This is not the right way to think about it. Someone else publishing a valid block doesn't deprive you of a reward. You just continue mining on top of their now latest block.

When a miner's hash meets the difficulty target, they have a valid block that they publish, and will collect its reward (except in the unlikely case of another miner finding a valid block at almost exactly the same time).
The amount of rewards a miner collects thus depends solely on how often their hashes meet the difficulty target, irrespective of the total hashrate.
I know this is not about MS Access perse, but I still feel there is a void concerning decent MS Access FOSS alternatives. MS Access hit a certain sweetspot between functionality and ease of use that I haven't seen anywhere since. Retool or Airtable are always named as viable alternatives. But they're not imho.

I have built many MS Access applications and they always were surprisingly resilient. I believe even to this day there is a MS Access database GUI application running somewhere I built 15 years ago. Standalone, not connected to the web or anything. Just plowing away, just a single self contained file (mind the Office dlls etc.), backup and recovery is as easy as copying the complete file over to anywhere else and you're good.

I think I have tried every alternative out there, but none hit that sweetspot (they always lack something).
Since I was 12 (I'm nearly 50) my drive to program has always been about understanding, duplicating, and then exceeding the work of others. Part of this is ego- the desire to be respected for my intelligence- and the other part is a desire to see certain science fiction futures come to pass (elective gene therapy, interstellar travel, machine singularity) through my discoveries.

At some point I realized I'm not going to be the equal of Lord British or Jeff Dean. This was a huge blow to my ego. Like the author, this had huge impacts on me. So instead, I worked harder: more hours spent programming, tediously working through all the bits and pieces that smarter people can solve quickly. And that taught me something: grinding like that comes at a price (life satisfaction).

What drives me still is passion: the desire to be able to do something I know is possible, with my own hands.
This is kind of how I feel about functional programming like with Haskell or Rust. Once you get all the types in place, everything just fits together like a puzzle. I'm sure it's similar to a woodworker seeing a nice wood joint fitting together and becoming strong [0].

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/lqvtxe/tra...
Evolution doesn’t give a damn what you think a brain region is called (2018)
Your doubt on viability is misplaced. A variety of ASIC miners are profitable with kwh prices are high are $0.12/kwh. The average electricity price in the US is less then this, with as low as about $0.08 in some locations. [1]

Small/medium mining operators just build in those cheapest locations.

The largest operations are turning towards purchasing or building their own capacity, some of which activity will still contribute to a supply/demand curve that raises prices for the entire country (or at least region). In some cases large mining companies have even recommissions old coal power plants, e.g., Marathon Digital Holdings w/ the Harding plant.
I guess you can consider me a fan of WinForms. Besides, you can change the background color and add a stupid amount of padding to everything and voila, you now have "modern". Hell I used to have something for C# that did exactly that and made WinForms apps look like they were made for Windows 10. It was pretty cool, ngl

I've been tinkering with wxPython since I can't get pygobject to work in Python 3 in Windows. It really isn't that bad, certainly not nearly as weird as trying to wrap my head around folks' awful (are they ever not?) React codebases and this moronic idea that everything has to bundle Chromium

Also you really can't beat an instantaneous cold startup time. It's the tits
this is very much distro specific experiences. others and Linux upstream care very much
> This is in the works.

Nice! Will it be exposed system-wide so that I can open PDFs from within any other app in Firefox?
It's one of those interesting examples where Hackernews's dual identities conflict... it's half "interesting engineering stuff" and half "startup culture stuff".

In this case, the article's business stuff made my eyes glaze over, lol, but that random thumbnail and metaphor they used was really interesting. I wish I could find the source of that image... unclear if it's just a mockup that NFX made for the blog, or if there's an actual machine vision water flow classification project somewhere.

My Googling is really failing me this time. I can find articles (scholarly or not) on kayaking, water physics, machine vision... but not at the intersection of the above, and not any other instances of that image or lookalikes. Most of the AI projects out there are classifying aerial images from a bird's eye view, at ocean scale, not "how fast is this water that I'm looking at from shore" scale.
This was all going to go to Microsoft, then Amazon somehow got that cancelled by suing.
"Not quite squared", because the parent comment also started with "not quite".

The sibling comment is exactly right. Your odds of mining a specific block are altered, but this doesn't mean much. If everyone else but you disappeared from the network, without a difficulty retarget, your odds of mining the next specific block are 100%. The rate at which you mine these blocks is exactly the same as the rate at which you mine blocks when you represent 1% or 0.1% of the network hashrate.

Example: Fixed difficulty, so 1/1,000,000 hash wins, 1,000 hashes/sec.

a) You are 100% of the network hashrate. Your odds of finding the next block are 100%. After 500 seconds of mining, your odds of having mined 1 block are 50%. After 500 seconds, the network will have produced on average 0.5 blocks (I know, awkward.)

b) You are 1% of the network hashrate. Your odds of finding the next block are 1%. After 500 seconds of mining, your odds of having mined 1 block are 50%. After 500 seconds, the network will have produced on average 50 blocks.
I'm actually half surprised there isn't an office database app that is simply sqlite3 file/tables that uses a couple special tables to store the forms layout/logic with a relatively simple player application.

Funny how useful MS Access is after all these years, despite a few competing options over the years, with none really taking hold and no really good open-source alternatives.
Because the point isn't JUST to disrupt LGBT events. It's to scare people and ultimately prevent further events both by making that community self censor AND by intimidating neutral people to oppose them.
Ask HN: Top highest-rev customer announces partnership w rival. Best response?
Would love to hear all comments, but in particular, those that are a) based on actual experience and long ago enough to explain the actual (vs expected) outcome, b) applicable to the enterprise software segment, and c) refrain from oversimplification
> The right way to implement hardware keys is to allow registering multiple of them

Google allows this.
How do you check for it? I have UniFi equipment- is there something built in that can monitor it for me? How long a test do you need? Can/will it change over time?
In North Carolina, the state terrorism law doesn't cover that. There has to be an intimidation component. Same for Washington state.[1]
I covered the majority. One person sent me a decent sum; I’ll share their name once they tell me it is OK to do so.

Feel free to email me if you want to. I have some requests for help trickling in still and probably have it under control but I won’t say no to assistance.
That only happens around -20C, which is when most IC cars start to struggle too. It’s like every EV caveat is some gotcha that means we shouldn’t adopt, when IC cars have many of the same issues that we accept without really thinking about it.
I agree about the terminology not being the best so the article tries to differentiate it from normal boredom by calling it "profound boredom"
> The first principle is that you must not fool yourself
I could believe that the energy saved in curtailment could power all of the remittances which Bitcoin so helpfully enables.
Where has the river level gone up to match this increased flow rate?
You missed the second part.
> I never understood why does the bicycle crowd feel the need to push everyone else to ride bicycles?

I have never understood why the automobile crowd feel the need to push everyone else to accommodate their desires and their restructuring of towns and landscapes around cars. Not to mention their sacrificing safety for people not in cars!

If you want to be a car person, OK: you be you. But they don't deserve the primacy they have managed to seize.
> would suddenly take a lot longer

After a 40% hash rate drop, transaction inclusion would take 66% longer on average (1/0.60). So, it would increase from an average of 10 minutes (and potentially up to 40 minutes) to an average of 17 minutes (and potentially up to 50 minutes).

I can't imagine any kind of transaction where 10-50 minutes is timely and acceptable, yet 17-67 minutes is unacceptably long. Either 10-50 minutes is already too long/unpredictable, or an increase to 17-67 minutes does not make any difference.

> probably an increase in fees

Bitcoin's fees did not spike significantly during the one hour between 17:00 and 18:00 UTC.
Tesla extends Shanghai plant shutdown amid Covid-19 surge
Imagine your home moving four timezones away as you need to be hospitalized for a few days.