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Ask HN: What new tech gives you the same thrill you got from PCs and the web?
From childhood through young adulthood, I was enamored with PCs, the web, and the things you could do and learn with them. Now that I’m older and work in the industry, neither of these things bring me the joy they used to. I suspect many on HN may find themselves in a similar position. If so, what emerging technologies give you the same thrill that the early days of personal computing or the web did?
The challenge is that the level of complexity with rules interactions in MtG is absolutely enormous, especially if you want to allow the freeform format, which allows all sets and cards.

Note: You can see all the rules here: https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Comprehensive_Rules
Spielberg had a bar mitzvah, what more do you want?
Sometimes I feel like having _a_ standard is perceived as perfectionism. I've definitely had professional experiences where "permissible work" means the same thing as "whatever the business can get away with" and not "work that meets a certain standard."
and i distinctly remember this critique being made at wikipedia's advent, as well.

and it is not without justification! https://undark.org/2021/08/12/wikipedia-has-a-language-probl...
Student loans became non-dischargeable. That broke the market.
Natural phenomena, extending beyond what's strictly weather, often get lumped into "meteorology", including earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes. One fairly well-known case is the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), whose remit includes not just weather by hydrology, seismology, and volcanology.

Generally: concerns of an extra-human, non-biological origin. E.g., JMA doesn't address pandemics.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Meteorological_Agency>
The thing you're missing is that an LFSR counter can be 20% of the gates of a binary counter.
I didn't notice how they measured productivity.

If it was simply the company is more profitable after an IT investment then there are possibly confounding factors.

If it is more complex than that, I would like to read the very lengthy research investigating all those confounding factors.
Loans. Loans are how this happened.
Wanna share why having loans make people price-ineslastic? Mortgages are a thing and people aren't indifferent to house prices.
Well... I've been programming for something close to 25 years, created a bunch of libraries used by... I don't really know the statistics today, but at the height of popularity there were certainly hundreds of users. I can write decently in a bunch of programming languages, some very popular and some not so much. I've been a teamlead for some years, a department manager.

Today I'm a grunt in a department of a large international company. This department was previously a separate company, but was acquired two years ago. The parent company has very little interest in what our department is doing in general.

But, that's not the most useless part, of course. My boss sucks as a programmer. But, on top of being very bad, he's only worked for this one company where he's today. He has no clue how bad he is because he's never seen anything else. After tasking me with writing some code and not being able to understand it, seeing how I wouldn't use the disastrously bad practices he instituted in his department, he decided to never give me any work that requires writing any code ever again.

It's been close to two years since I've written the last bit of code that went into any of the company's repos :) I've been given tasks that require exclusively painfully boring manual testing. It's even funnier because all those things I'm allegedly testing are, sort of, tested automatically (but automation is so awful that it mostly doesn't work).

I attend every morning meeting (online) and just read the news / Reddit / HN during the meeting. The meetings consist of my boss enjoying himself talk for about an hour. Then me and the other guy tell him that we have nothing to add and wish him a pleasant day.

I haven't opened my work email for months :) The last time I did so was because HR sent some form I had to sign, and they found me in Slack to tell that they've been waiting for my signature for far too long.

To add to the pile: the product our department works on is awful in more ways than I can count. It's hard to decide which part of it is worst, but to give you an example: in one of the recent features the customer asked for, instead of implementing this feature the two developers assigned to the task produced two MS Word documents, one around 10 pages long another one closing on 90. These two documents detailed a DIY process of implementing this feature (by the customer), mostly consisting of shell commands interspersed with terse and vague descriptions. Needles to say there was never any kind of plan for how the feature should be implemented. Product management is, basically, nonexistent where I work.

And then I was asked if I can test it... :D In, like... a few days. Because the mothership company requires publishing a release a month, and that feature has to be in the next release.

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Hope you feel better about your plight now :)
Wow, I once added clippy to a website I worked on too :)

It wasn't an all-nighter, though! I used clippy.js, so it was just a few lines!
Oh sure. The way I see it, I just don't buy into "other people murdering for lesser reasons makes my murder ok." I think they had systems of due process, knew due process was important, and decided to yeet people anyway. But yes, I realize people are a product of their times, etc. etc. And I don't think this is a controversial position within Czechia, from what I encountered?
I think the red oceans are just longer term pieces of the puzzle. The blue ocean opportunities were quick wins.

By the way, Chinese companies own multiple Western ICE car manufacturers. Those manufacturers (Volvo, Lotus, Polestar) are transitioning to EVs or only make EVs anyway.

Here’s an example on the software side: what happens if the Chinese smartphone players drop Android? Let’s say Xiaomi and Huawei now only come with a Chinese OS which can run Android apps as a stopgap, replacing Google Play with their own App Store. Those two brands represent 20% of European cell phone marketshare.

Now imagine this Chinese OS gives Samsung a better arrangement than Google. Overnight, Google is basically out of the picture.

That’s right, they only have to convince one phone manufacturer who already depends on a third party company for their OS to switch, and the instant they do so they win over more than half of the European smartphone market.

https://gs.statcounter.com/vendor-market-share/mobile/europe
Totally agree with you! I think it's important to differentiate Excellence (achievable) from Perfect (non-achievable) Thank you, zero-sharp!

-Ehsan Etezad
Cisco was started by a husband/wife team who were the heads of IT for the Stanford Electrical Engineering School and Business School respectively. Anecdotally, they first developed the technology trying to connect the networks for both schools.
Roku looks into serving you ads on whatever you plug into its TVs
Businesses will charge what the market will bear. And if 'the market' can get government loans to pay for tuition, then the market will bear an awful lot.
(I did specifically choose to leave that wording in :P )
If you use linux on your work laptop you can use oathtool to register 2fa. I have a custom script (with zenity) that, when pressing a global hotkey, allows me to fill the 6-number directly. No personal phone needed, and it's even faster. My work laptop is my work's 2fa device.
I run the official WordPress ActivityPub plugin, so my blog is a “instance”. Since sometimes I post longform content and the plugin doesn't let me customize the template accordingly, I opted to post an excerpt plus link on fediverse. Not the ideal scheme, I know.
>The CFO and some senior leadership erroneously blamed it for their shortcomings/used it as a scapegoat

the key thing to understand about ERP systems is that this is their primary purpose. anything else they claim to do is secondary.
Yes, I think that your take is correct.
True. In the early to middle days of Java, I read that Sun spent millions of dollars on marketing it, and related stuff around it.
i once worked for a small startup that had licensed an autocad clone [https://www.intellicad.org/] and were customising it as a low-cost autocad alternative for the indian architect market. the platform itself had a bunch of bugs and performance issues, and i was hired to work on some of the more egregious ones (it was kind of fun, i learnt a lot doing it, but it was an ultimately futile task because we were never going to really compete with autocad. but that wasn't the useless part; i was willing to give that my best shot as long as everyone was realistic about what we could and couldn't achieve).

the useless part came about when the company was clearly going down the drain, and the ceo was desperate to find a pivot. he had a friend who was a chip engineer, and said friend had complained to him about how hard and unintuitive EDA tools were to work with. our man gets convinced that the problem is that "these EDA firms hire scientists and mathematicians, but no one who really knows about UI design, unlike CAD companies", and that if we could hook our CAD product up to some open source circuit simulation libraries we could come up with an mvp that would be clearly so much better to use that we could get funded to develop it.

now i usually take the stance of "okay, you're the product guy, tell me what to implement and i'll get it done", but this time i pushed back pretty hard over what a fool's errand this was. but he had his hardware engineer buddy talking into one ear and the "make money fast" shoulder devil talking into the other, and would not listen. so fine, i took a couple of months to play around with CAD fileformat parsers and electronic simulation libraries, got some very basic circuits working and handed over an MVP which of course went precisely nowhere.
The actual reason was that Apple wants to encourage native development instead of targeting some other platform and then emulating or simulating that on iOS.

At one point they even required all iOS apps to be written in only C, C++, Objective-C, Objective-C++, JavaScript and no other languages. They walked that back almost immediately.
Some other thoughts:

- Personnel-level warning to immediately rerack servers, close racks, and get off ladders and away from fall hazards

- Proactively spin up generators to reduce failover in the more-likely event of a power disruption

- Potentially temporarily shut off very large circulation fans so that blades don't collide with the housings

- Potentially stop and carefully restart cooling water loops, in case there's a rupture in the system somewhere
It's not trivial to do. You have to save rewards points, learn transfer partners (and their booking sites), and be willing to book ~330 days in advance for certain flights.
PG&E rates: new fee would change monthly electricity charges
I agree there should be a statute of limitations on criminal records as well.
Google search is terrible because Google's stopped caring about search quality in favor of monetization. It doesn't mean an LLM can outperform a traditional search engine that cares about said quality.
What book? I always thought that doing this with Evans PDE would be the best possible way to learn the subject, but I am not skilled or dedicated enough to do such a task.
Almost assuredly he knew it was a bad idea, but had a goal of "implement machine learning" from his VP or just wanted it in his resume.
Probably the lack of vision is not just failing to turn into the direction of new “products” but not acquiring, digesting and eliminating those busines who start to grow before they’re too big. See Microchip for example, how many relatively small semiconductor and technologies manufacturers have already eaten.
They did try them. That was why they threw them out the window.

I’m not sure a more level headed trial of the catholics in Prague would’ve prevented the war for long. That particular power struggle could’ve easily boiled over for any reason.
I definitely second the VS Code recommendation. I'm doing a lot of work with Jupyter these days, and Jupyter's accessibility really sucks. The VS Code Jupyter plugin is just as good as the rest of the app.

I'm also a fan of the IndentNav[1] addon. It essentially allows you to navigate code like a tree, using indentation levels for hierarchy. This is very useful to skip over functions or blocks of code you're not currently interested in, get a quick overview of what a large function is doing without getting into the nitty-gritty details, or quickly figure out what if statement an "else" belongs to.

[1] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=TonyMaly...
It doesn't need to be the best. Even the decent stuff has gotten overpriced. Decent mixer bourbon is like $35/bottle and the decent straight stuff tends to be about $50/bottle. The prices vary by state due to taxes and stuff of course. But $50/bottle is getting steep for many people.

The off flavor bottom shelf stuff doesn't interest me - I still consider it overvalued for what you actually. An iconic example of this for Scotch would be Old Smuggler. I'd rather drink my homemade beer, wine, and mead - dirt cheap and usually good stuff.
"Health care led with 72,000 new jobs, followed by government (71,000), leisure and hospitality (49,000), and construction (39,000)."

An increase in government employment is not real growth. Healthcare growth is also probably at minimum 50% driven by an increase in government spending on entitlements.
Slightly off topic but I never logged in on my kindle so I don't get ads. I just load ebooks on it with my computer.
Meh. If a circle was able to escape Flatland by rising into the third dimension, how would you prefer to describe it?

Similarly, if we were able to escape 3-space by moving into a 4th spatial dimension, what would you call it? If this hypothetical 4-space is Euclidean, then it contains exactly one dimension that is perpendicular to our familiar 3-space, so we would be perfectly justified in calling it The Fourth Dimension.
Defense jobs have gotten goosed in the nuts, too. I'm getting dinged every few hours this week. I know, I know, first world problem, but it's a nice change.
> And now with the beauty of AI, we can actually analyze someone’s camera roll really succinctly and have an understanding of who you spend time with, when, where and why, at least in broad brushstrokes.

And sell the info on who's doing what with whom...
>The Personal Iris was a deep purplish-brown, and the Indigo was ... indigo.

Nice.

I once worked at a startup that had a Cobalt Qube in the server room, and the Cobalt was ... cobalt blue.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cobalt_Qube_3_Front.jpg

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_Qube
I'm impressed you can host it on the Oracle free tier. Great project, thanks.
He has an article about that one too: https://jpkoning.blogspot.com/2013/05/disowned-currency-odd-...
Respectfully, I think you overestimate the fandom's attachment to the EU. Certainly a non-trivial portion were very attached to the EU, but there were plenty of people who didn't care about the EU. And a very large group of people who like EU from this thing, but not from that thing.

And it can't be ignored that Lucasfilm threw the EU under the bus with the Prequels, and even before that with things like Splinter of the Mind's Eye.

The thing that's hard is when you've invested a lot of time and energy into something, and then the owner comes along and breaks your heart. Here's to finding love again.
Techno Elite by any chance?
So what, we're now back to 2018 when emulators were all the hype? Cool.

Err, why am I flagged from this thread? - I mean seriously cool.
2018 was the hype when emulators were the thing. It's great to see such.
I joined a startup once where everybody seemed to be working on something completely different.

One project was an eBay tool, another was a chat assistant, another was an energy comparison tool...

The CEO was never in the office, she was always flying around the world with her daughter (given a made-up C title) visiting CEOs of large companies and throwing out numerous hooks to see who would bite.

I very quickly saw through this whole charade and quit a month after joining.

Some years later she managed to wangle a sale via a well known tech company she was previously a C level for. Who knows what it was that she ended up selling ...
My kids' school in rural Midwest US has been giving every kid an ipad and providing wifi on the bus since ~2014. They had classroom WiFi in early 2000s at the latest.

Really not sure what OOP is talking about.
Do you think a communist government with the same power as the US would refrain from the above?
LLMs are both language processing engines and knowledge bases. This article explores the knowledge base aspect of LLM and sheds light on the potential danger. The authors are well-justified in doing so because ChatGPT as a knowledge-bot is being used by many end users for its knowledge.

However, to my knowledge, many enterprise applications that are being built using LLMs feed task-specific curated knowledge to LLMs. This mode of LLM use is encouraging. I do not think this article acknowledged this aspect of LLM use.
During my tenure in college, had a professor that would write 10s or 100s of line of code to do things that could literally be done in one or two.
Pointed this out to him a couple of times, not that I had been a dev for 15 years at this point. Everytime he squashed anything I said.
Comes to end of semester project. Within 24 hours of him handing it out, myself and team handed in final solution, which absolutely worked and fulfilled all requirements.
We all got a not completed at final grade. Found out later that only 3 people in the class got an A, and they were the only females in the class, everyone else got a not completed. Immediately after having a convo with the "professor" and the threat of convo with dean of students, suddenly everyone got a passing grade.
What a piece of human garbage.
Ask HN: Am I safe regarding xz?
Upon seeing the xz backdoor reports, I checked my version and saw that my machine (arch btw) contained the compromised version. I swiftly updated to a patched version but am unsure of how to detect if it has been exploited.

I had no ports open for ssh (or anything else), but the sshd service was active.

What should I do ? Wipe and reinstall my distro, or am I safe ?

Thanks
I have seen 150 lines of SQL replaced with 12k lines of Java.
Mortgages don't qualify for income-based repayment schemes or forgiveness for govt/nonprofit employees.
This kiosk thing, exactly as you describe was built by A Turkish bank, way after mobile banking was in everyone's pocket.

The bank's customers are mostly aging so they thought this would be great help to them.

I recall the kiosk got into a few locations, worked for brief period of time and then got deprecated all together.
That reminds me of a story about a friend of mine from high school. In fourth form (age 14) he did every exercise in our maths textbook and sent the author a list of corrections to the printed answers. I don't think this was very well received by the author. That friend went on to miss 7th form year, got preferential entry into a maths degree, and had his degree by the time I finished year 1.
Nice catch! (English isn't my native language.) Changed it. Thanks!
I saw discussions on GitHub where it was suggested that they refuse to match based on metadata over folder structure because they don't trust people to tag files properly. With my library, it generates multiple album entries per multi-disc album because I have them organized with a subfolder per disc, which not only makes no sense considering when you could easily match on disc number and parent folder, but is also a regression. "Short on developers" is a good excuse for lagging in features, not for poor design/implementation. Finally, relying on non-standard fields for matching is unnecessary and is in line with the "overly opinionated" complaint.

I'd probably use Jellyfin if it got the basics right and lacked a thing or two, or if its opinionated implementation was limited to trivialities like how Plex refuses to use local images not named cover.jpg. But it's too opinionated, too inflexibly, about too many things, and I think its opinions are stupid, so it crosses the line as far as I'm concerned. Doesn't help that the code is convoluted and I couldn't figure out how to make changes to the way it analyzes files easily.
This is super cool of them. It makes me feel like renewing my license.
Nice writeup! This reminds me of the barebox bootloader April fools two years back, which will connect you to #barebox, when all other boot targets fail[1]. :-)

The focus there was on adding TCP support to barebox though and it lacks your nice GUI elements. Only interface was CLI (which can be drawn on top of EFI GOP when barebox is built as EFI payload).

[1]: https://lore.barebox.org/barebox/20220401145902.GF4351@telli...
Ahh that was it, yes it was clippy.js!

It was a desktop app though (with a C++ & Python API) that we had built a lot of integrations around, so there were a lot of Qt schenanigans going on, and I think he had attempted to get it to actually try and search some internal DB too for witty remarks.
I meant that we are actively developing a new implementation of the Fortran language itself here. We are still adding features and fixing bugs. Fortran code that compiles and runs today with llvm-project/main HEAD may well not compile or not run with older release branches.
Have any emulator apps been published and approved already?
I've worked on two different startups that built products until our runway ended—over a year of work in both cases—and then pulled the plug before getting our first customer.

Maybe that doesn't count?

I've also worked on a multi-year product for a large company in Redmond that I was really proud of when building it. It doesn't matter what the product was supposed to do, just imagine it sounding kind of sexy and being very complex and brainy. It was for scientists. When I told someone who wasn't dumb but was outside the software industry about what I'd built, he looked confused and said "well, why wouldn't you just use [a free piece of software that is well understood and runs on every device] instead?" and I had no good answer, because he was right.
A bit like Lost (TV Series)
No, I want to stay focused on movies/series/anime. There's already a lot to handle for me alone working on this, and ebook/music is just different enough that supporting it will need a good amount of efforts.
In many cases it's a hype cycle. It's possible that specific years really are excellent. But it's impossible to know unless you get in at the same time it is blowing up. Once it's been hyped, it's hard to obtain, hard to live up to, and sometimes quality goes down as supply ramps up (although with aging it's not ramping up fast).
The use of "retro" is interesting. Probably intended to exclude Switch emulators, but what will the cutoff be?
I think (and I could be misremembering here) is that Emby started off as C# and both Plex and Jellyfin are forks of it. Also a lot of folks in this sphere seem to be on windows as their primary platform, and C# along with visual studio is pretty on that stack
I vaguely remember this as well, but that wasn't the only reason. The other reason was security/ability to review apps. If an app can run arbitrary code, then they don't know if it contains a virus or something else to escape the sandbox. Or something like that. This was all quite a long time ago and Google isn't being super helpful in searching for old posts.