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No, absolutely not. Web technologies are now well described and well formalized, but they are built upon extremely sloppy foundations. This results in multi-paradigm technologies that work extremely well and play well together, but architecturally and stylistically are all over the place. Worse, most people are not formally educated to execute on these technologies and simply guess at correctness. If you are both smart and well experienced that expressive flexibility is not an impediment at all, you can independently find correctness through independent research and experience, but most people lack both the intelligence and experience necessary to overcome this hurdle.

Let me explain it like this. Writing software is just another form of writing. Writing, at least on a very simplistic level is something everybody should be capable of achieving with even the most modest and basic of elementary education. Yet, most people cannot do more than write shopping lists or granular syntax like filling out forms or writing small letters. The effort to achieve something actually original is not great, but its entirely reliant upon a high level of openness which is tightly coupled with high intelligence, and most people don't have that. Even worse is the ability to do it often enough as required for employment requires high industriousness and there is absolutely no correlation between industriousness and intelligence, which means intelligence alone is not a sufficient predictor of success.

The problem is then expectations to achieve original output are inversely proportional the availability of people to do the work even for the smallest of tasks. Compensation does not make up for this, not even close. For one thing the demand for the requisite labor is too high. Secondly, most of this output requires extremely low effort and most employers cannot bring themselves to pay extremely high incomes to tiny repetitious tasks even if few people are capable of doing it well. Third, even if they were willing to pay in excess of $300,000 for a person to put text on screen 2 hours a day the greater concern is how to replace that person should they get hit by a bus. The high salary, even for low cost geographies, is not a stretch after consideration for recruitment and benefits and so forth, so other factors become greater constraints.

The solution business has settled upon is to architecturally constrain the effort, even at great expense. Then everybody must do things the same certain way and do so without any investment of training on the part of the employer. The output can be garbage, but if the developers are commodities at least the cost of continuity remains low and finding replacements is dramatically faster.
I lived it. Someone saying they "debunked" it doesn't change my experience.
even by just buying a bunch of cheap sensors and doing all of the work on your personal-computer.

The cynical response: you won't be able to do that, because buying that equipment will set off red flags. Only existing users -- corporations and governments -- will be allowed to play.
Just because gov. websites might discontinue support for Firefox doesn't mean that is going to impact the browser's, lots of use cases are outside of that industry.
> a person's Google searches are used to establish criminal intent in criminal trials.
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> can ask google for the IP's of people who searched for particular terms within a geographic area

These aren't mass surveillance. The threat of search is government systems passively sifting through all information in existence looking for "criminal activity" and then throwing the book at you.

In both of these cases the government is asking Google to run a SQL query against their database that wouldn't be aided by an LLM or even the current crop of search engines.
Doesn't work at all with Enhanced Tracking Protection enabled in Firefox, and times out when it is disabled.

I guess it's supposed to do something like this: https://dnschecker.org/online-traceroute.php
Same here! But I'm gonna bookmark this and try it another day. Kudos for sharing this - love to see younger folks hacking. This is a cool idea.
Sorry, ignoramus here: Which paper is “Step by step”?
Ah, yes, the age old "I'm not an asshole! I just have high standards!"

High standards can be communicated without being toxic. It's just more effort. If most people had the same high standards for their answers they have on the contributions of others (whether on Wikipedia or in general) things would be far better.
I was added to a waitlist, despite their blog post saying there's none. Is anyone else dealing with this?
> Now the mysterious query: SELECT (SELECT sum(a) FROM xx LIMIT 1) FROM aa

To be clear, that's just an absolutely pathological query, since column "a" doesn't exist in table "xx" -- it only exists in table "aa".

You can use values from outer queries inside of inner queries, which are called "correlated subqueries". Which is not recommended unless you're already a real SQL expert, because they're so confusing (and their performance is also pretty absymal).

But this isn't even that -- this is an aggregate function across an outer variable. I consider myself a strong SQL expert, but looking at this query, it just feels nonsensical. Not only could I not tell you what it would produce -- I couldn't even guess at what its author intended it to mean in the first place.

> Later in the article we will see that SQL implementations don’t even agree about the correct result.

I'm not surprised at all. I'm actually more surprised they produce results at all, rather than just errors about it being an invalid query.
It would e.g. take 33M users who agree to pay $5/mo for a Mozilla "support subscription" to collect $400M a year.

Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but when I do the math (33M x 5 x 12) I get $1.98B.

Maybe you meant $1/month?
> News of the study was first reported on Israel’s financial news website The Marker.

The article does not provide a link, I only found this one in Hebrew. The headline is asking "did the Hamas make make a fortune? short selling against Israel has been revealed on the Wall Street stock exchanges" later: "it is very likely that the source of the inside info is coming from Hamas. Also evidence of exceptional short selling at Tel Aviv stock exchange, which resulted in tens of millions in profits after the attack"

(article behind paywall, can't read all of it).

https://www.themarker.com/markets/2023-12-04/ty-article-maga...
Tip: if you find that the "remember my login" ticks never seem to work for you, it's likely your browser's "Enhanced Tracking Prevention" or whatever. You should be able to disable it for just the domain that the authentication portal itself is happening on. Helped a lot for me.
I can’t change the 12V lead acid battery in my EV without using a reverse engineered OBD-II dongle. If you don’t use the dongle to reset the charge circuit, it fries the new battery in about a month.

Here are incorrect directions explaining how to do it:

https://www.mybmwi3.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17838

Step 14 requires the magic dongle.

Note that they are not disconnecting the main battery, so they are risking electrocution from the >> 100V DC batteries.

There are some comments about not letting the old battery get into a low voltage state.

That’s tricking the charger into not overcharging the new battery to death.
Just you wait, being able to generate the elusive magenta-wavelength photons will revolutionize the industry, I tell ya.

P.S.: I feel bad for that other group working on a foolish quest for "white photons", but a color-wheel in any art textbook clearly shows that white is a mere mix of colors, unlike the pure and unsullied mono-chromaticity of glorious magenta.
Question: Does this mean that animators draw every 2nd or 3rd frame and then some technology interpolates the missing frames? It sounds to me like that is not fundamentally different from interpolating 24 fps to 60 fps.

I suppose there are two differences:

1. The artist retains control of the interpolation between drawn frames.

2. The computational resources available to the artist far exceed those available in the TV.

Apologies if this is an uninformed question, I watch animation but don't know how it is produced.
"gift planning" here means "getting rich people to give us large checks".
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Motherfuck! Mozilla's board and their funding projects almost makes me want to abandon Firefox and go to Chrome.
> Salary has nothing to do with productivity at this level of an org.

That's nonsense. The difference at this level is you're not looking at personal productivity, you should be looking at a much broader interpretation. Except Mozilla doesn't. They've seen flailing commercial performance and have rewarded the CEO and laid off developers. It feels like madness because it is.

I love Firefox but Mozilla deserves to burn to the ground for this mismanagement.
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Is the Mozilla Foundation a software organization or a LGBTQ+ advocacy organization?

If it's the former then what business do they have caring about Brandon Eich's personal donation to support a ballot initiative?

If it's the latter then it's a conflict of interest and Brandon Eich should be asked to leave.
Those aren't staff.
Maybe they should try spending a little more. Whatever they are doing now isn't working.
> The question is how much you need to be to get a competent executive relative to the open market.

No! The real question is what happens without an executive, but some cheaper leadership structure instead?

I mean, maybe a cheaper leadership structure (whatever it may be) would run the company into the ground, but, well, at least they would achieve the same outcome for cheaper.
This is not true, you can run non-send futures using Tokio: https://docs.rs/tokio/latest/tokio/task/struct.LocalSet.html
That's just your phone.
Once the siphoning happens on the same machine your client is running on it's easier to detect through anti-cheats at least. If it can run on a completely separate machine it seems like it'd be essentially impossible to detect except through changes in how a user acts like only going directly to the mobs with the juicy loot and ignoring the trash but that's really tough to detect.
Curious how the BPN service presents to Apple.
Because it simply isn't ergonomic and the people who could do something about it don't care.

For instance, people were told to use sub-keys instead of their master key.
When Thunderbird integrated PGP (effectively deprecating enigmail), sub-keys were not supported for a long time (are they now?). Thunderbird devs didn't really care that they just broke multiple people's workflow. That's how you butcher adoption.
Reading this post makes me desirous of an email provider political compass chart.
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Many times I Google something like "Wireshark from remote ssh" and I manage to stream the remote tshark stream to my local Wireshark UI. However, this is very interesting and welcoming project, and I guess it will make it simpler in many use cases
If Spotify is struggling to pay royalties they can make their own music
I think "trivial" is a stretch.
Profullstack/Bookmarklets
This could be applied to any gadget with "smart" prefix in the name (eg - Smartphone, smart TV, smart traffic signals) today.

I wish people would stop believing that "smart" things are always better.

But, we're basically being trained for the future you mentioned. Folks are getting more comfortable talking to their handheld devices, relying on mapping apps for navigation (I'm guilty), and writing AI query prompts.
That would have been an acceptable explanation in the 1950s or early 60s. But after 1964 one of the sides adopted the regional name as a national identifier, thus invalidating it as a neutral name.
The fact that an entity can sometimes benefit from deceit has nothing to do with capitalism, specifically, and capitalism is not the simple proposition that profit justifies anything, even if some people sometimes suggest that it is, in order to advance their agenda - in a rather deceitful manner, I might add!
That's what I'm curious about too.

If it does manage to do a good job imitating what an actual iPhone would do though - is there any way Apple even could shut it down without breaking iMessage on old iPhones or forcing people to update?
People do a lot of reading online, but not so much math.
> its own philosophical baggage

Could you elaborate on this statement?
UK sets out how pornographic websites must verify users' ages
I hope that the moment iOS is forced to allowed alternative browsers, Firefox is ready on day 1.
You may have used the wrong link, this is the correct one: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.beeper.ima
Official MTG tournaments "allow" proxies, cost is not and never has been a prohibitor to any paper magic.

WoTC as a card distrubtor on the other hand, does not agree with this. Thankfully they have no input on the matter. And is why they push the online avenues as much if not more than paper.
IQ is negatively correlated with fertility [1], which makes declining IQ a plausible explanation for this development.

1. https://georgefrancis.substack.com/p/dysgenics-by-the-number...
We're pretty GSuite/GAuth-oriented too but the parts we use work just fine on Firefox.

What parts of that are forcing you guys to be Chrome exclusive?
Exact same experience in Austin, the quality of internet providers is so much better. There are multiple options for gigabit and none of them have data caps. When living in the Bay we only had one option and it had a data cap that we regularly hit; living in a house with 5 tech people will do that. In Austin there are no data caps, much better service, and a more consistent price. It's amazing what a little competition did.
Oh, so we’re back to square 1 with IE6 (it’s just called Chrome this time) and marginalities. Thank god this time we already have jquery so we don’t throw it out of our projects too aggressively it may save a day once again.
I write down my tasks each day, pen and paper has been shown to increase recall, which makes it a very useful tool.
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A good friend of mine is 18 and Russian. He is a programming prodigy and is trying to formulate a plan to get out. He's thinking about his future CV and applying for jobs. What would be the best frameworks to invest time in getting experience with now?
> the actual current switching electronics are off-the-shelf relays

So? The system that controls the relay (with logic to prevent exposed high-voltage contacts while the car is unplugged, or danger if the cord is damaged or immersed in water) is just as safety-critical as the relay itself.

> "didn't use a GFCI or AFCI breaker where one is required, but did try to address the same safety hazard those breakers address, in a way that wasn't as good as such a breaker

Stop right there. What you describe is automatically incompetent, all by itself.

Seriously, don't do this ever. There are extremely good reasons why anything but certified, unmodified hardware is illegal to install in electrical wiring. There are equally good reasons why you can't omit required safety hardware, even if you "tried" with something else.

These laws are written in blood.
And thanks to Sony (patent US8246454B2), this might as well be real…

https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/b4/2e/a1/779dd8d...
Alternately, the technically savvy users understand that allowing Google's control of Blink to replace open standards with whatever implementation details Google prefers is to be avoided at all costs.

It's just a repeat of the IE 6 debacle.
Someone’s definitely going to jail for this. I can’t even think of what the defense’s argument could be.
Farmers (farm owners) are middle
(petit bourgeois) class for small fanily farms dependent largely on the labor of the owners, and upper class for large farms, but are a small share of the rural population and, in modern society, the latter are not necessarily rural at all, whereas the bulk of rural population are farm or farm-supporting laborers.

The bulk of the modern upper class are non-farm-specific capitalists, who tend to be urban-dwellers, and bulk of fhe petit bourgeoisie (middle class) are non-farm-specific small business owners and elite urban laborers whose wages have sufficed ti give them a capital nest egg sufficient to be a significant share of their economic support mechanism.
A galaxy only 350M years old has surprising amounts of metal
I have been using Sway and Firefox for the last three years at least, and have never experienced crashes. Sway and Firefox as packaged by Debian Stable. I really wish people on HN threads complaining about Firefox bugs clearly stated 1) their environment, and 2) who packaged the Firefox, because those are what could make all the difference.
How does this library compare to Turbo/Stimulus?

Happy to see competition in the world of "minimal JS" frameworks. Have you done a comparison with Turbo/Stimulus from DHH and company?
IMO, the GP was perfectly clear, and there's no need to misunderstand it on purpose to insist on some unverified narrative.

You could just as easily disagree, with a valid point.

(And anyway, the phenomenon you are talking about stopped on most of the world at around the middle of the last century. The very few exceptions where it is still happening do not support you claiming it's a rule.)
I am not sure why so many people are against mathematics in school. Cambridge is full of harvard, mit, bio and tech employees. I would think they would realize the importance of math.

This trend is really upsetting. My daughter is a baby but i am already looking into math circles and alternative mathematics curriculums since us math education was bad before this trend of gutting mathematics education.
With the exception of the ambitions of fringe terrorist groups, the land that Israel has ruled since 1948 is not disputed territory.
what the hell happened?

Firefox was the chosen one.
Had a permanent role (mid weight) level before, applied for contracts. Nothing special!
this is all true, but what is the better system? Communism has its merits, but it’s extremely reliant on competent, benevolent leadership and struggles to be economically viable in an American-dominated world.

I think that a Keynesian, well-unionised economy with strong regulation is the solution. I’m sure they exist, but I struggle to think of many examples in history of over-regulation leading to a fault, but I can think of many, many examples of under-regulation managing it, and yet largely due to the capitalist-controlled media, over-regulation is the more feared of the two. This isn’t to say that over-regulation isn’t possible, of course it is, but I don’t think it is in tech.

To go on a tangent, I personally don’t believe in the untrammelled progress of tech. I can understand why people are so vehemently against that idea, of course it’s frustrating to restrict human ingenuity, and there’s a lot of money to be made, but tech is quantifiably making people’s lives worse. Smartphones are a fucking travesty. IQ scores are down something like 10% from the 90s. The internet isn’t great, but at least when you had to be at home logged into a desktop there was some friction. Now an entire generation is plugged into it permanently. An entire generation that doesn’t really read books, rarely thinks alone and in many ways hasn’t had to learn organisational or navigational skills.

AI doesn’t look like it’s going to make any of this much better. Even if we don’t achieve AGI, which I hope, neural networks are only going to get better and better, the best and most powerful ones in the hands of the richest people, who will simply use them to worsen inequality even more.

What else is next? Neuralink? Human genetic engineering? You would hope regulation would stand up to them, especially aesthetic genetic engineering, but who knows?

What we need is a nice big solar flare EMP. Something like the Carrington event
(Part of this might be that all this HN traffic is overwhelming my tiny server a bit, I'm working on getting it smoother live rn)
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Across the river in Alexandria and the surrounding suburbs, this was true as well (not sure about Netflix, but the housing boundaries)

The bureaucrats, lawyers, doctors, and career officers (Pentagon) were highly concentrated in a few neighborhoods that border the Potomac (Old Town through Fort Hunt). A few blocks away, the Rt 1 corridor was largely working class or lower class, with some young enlisted families from Ft Belvior.

This extended to my high school - there were 3 buildings - first was arts/music, second was STEM and honors, and the third was the gym, auto shop, wood shop, and cooking. It's not hard to imagine there were students who never entered building 1. And the only reason I was ever in building 3 was the weight room and the one semester of auto shop I took.
Snark is against the rules on HN.

> Don't be snarky.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
No question, such a query should not be written. That's probably the reason why this odd behavior, which is even different in various DBMSes, is not causing everyday problems.
Wonder if some kind of ai-agent thing(s) will become so widely used by people, that government services come to assume you have them?

Like happened with mobile phones.
the benchmark of what other CEOs make is a horrible metric. There is an entire industry of « Consultants » who will justify a higher CEO salary by claiming that other CEOs make the higher salary and then work with those other CEOs by point to your now higher salary.
Do you think European regulations don't apply to European companies? They do, it just gets less publicity when e.g. Criteo get fined for abusive tracking than when Google do.
Thanks for the recommendation, I'll give freetube a spin!
Really happy to see that original customers are getting this included as well. I was worried that this was a ploy to say "we know we said you all would be grandfathered in, but that was for _Beeper Cloud_, our old legacy one. This new one is a monthly charge". Thanks for being great, @erohead
Wow, when's the last year you read or sent an email?

Doesn't posting on forums count as transmitting/receiving messages using a digital electronic device, like email?
> we may have to accept it and try to work within the context of (what we'd tend to think of today as) mass-spying.

We do have to live in the nightmare world we're building (and as an industry, we have to live with ourselves for helping to build it), but we don't have to accept it at all. It's worth fighting all this tooth and nail.
So if I try really, really hard, I can get the law to do what it's supposed to do without any effort on my part? How is that in any way a positive?
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