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If I remember right, the Columbia River has its source in British Columbia.
All bakfiets models come with (optional) rain tents, so young can kids stay dry and out of the wind. Cold is usually more of an issue than rain on longer trips. In a bit of snow, I feel a lot safer on my bike than in a car. Just adjust speed and do controlled braking to feel the grip (or lack thereof). It helps a lot that I live in a flat country (Netherlands), as snow/ice and slopes are a really bad combination with cycling.
Super happy Hy 1.0 has been released! It was the first proper open-source project I contributed towards and I don't think I would have been as engaged as I am in the community without it.
What a disappointment. They had freeform mode as a dev option for years, but avoided pushing it as a supported feature. I assumed this was because it fucking sucked. I've tried it. Freeform, desktop-like windows on an 11 inch tablet are simply terrible for multitasking. But no, here they are, releasing the feature with no meaningful changes. The state of tablet multitasking is a travesty, but neither Google nor Apple seem interested in fixing it in any way other than a shitty reproduction of clunky desktop windowing. How about letting us tile more than two windows together? How about letting us stack apps into tabbed panes? How about a sliding environment like PaperWM? Just off the top of my head, any one of those is more likely to increase tablet productivity than "here's a bunch of rectangles; you wrangle them!"
They are real, yes. I have post hog implemented for analytics, and I can see the recordings!

The duration varies, but most drop off from the landing page (60%), some reach billing and drop off (~30%), ~10% try the free plan and then drop off haha
I don't know if it's actually necessary, but it's the upper end of the recommendations I've seen/heard, and I noticed a surprising improvement in performance after I cleaned/lubed it.

I assume it's also more important on e-bikes (and especially cargo e-bikes) since the chain sees higher forces over longer periods of time.
Looking at Piece Heatmaps in Different Openings
They've got all the hallmarks of a casino. Zero natural lighting, tons of blinking lights, and the occasional dopamine hit when a server goes down.
I tried out Apple's implementation of desktop windowing on tablets called Stage Manager with a borrowed iPad. It's still not a real replacement for actual laptops. Sure you get multiple windows, but switching between them it still inconvenient: you don't have Command-Tab or Command-` like on a Mac. All window manipulations have to be done with fingers touching the screen. I end up believing a real desktop windowing system is still superior.
while I often wonder what part of today's knowledge will appear brutally obsolete for those born in the 2100s
I am not, but consider that unrefined salt is less worse than the refined stuff, which as I pointed out, does nothing but season food.

You should also consider the inestimable value of salt to the ancient world, and perhaps not merely for its preservative uses. Perhaps salt today is uniformly worse than it was thousands of years ago, because all the really good deposits are tapped out?

Salt is one of the many things that is still trading on its "brand name" and reputation, yet it's been replaced by an impostor.
This sounds like a lead/architect issue. If you can't roll out a custom UI component library, use one of several mature libraries that already handles these cases. Accumulating tens or hundreds of thousands of lines of UI tech debt is not an Agile issue.
Thank you for sharing that, it’s awesome to see so many of us still around!

(Not trying to gatekeep—anyone can be a hacker, no matter when they start. Just sharing some fun memories—I still remember upgrading from a 386 to a 486, then to a Pentium 133. Or the LAN parties. Or when IRC splits let you take over a popular channel for a while! Fun times! The new tools being built today, especially around AI, are just as exciting and remind me of the early days of the internet. There's so much more to create!)
> Would you still build that app, because it solves an annoying real world problem even if you got paid $0?

Assuming you’re talking about building an app for other people, I personally would not, no. The market is sending a clear signal that it values the app at zero dollars. In other words, they don’t want it.

> If not then the problem you are solving is probably not important and a waste of your time anyway.

This is exactly the question that charging money answers: Do people just say they want your app or are they willing to “put their money where their mouth is” and actually buy it?

(Also note that not all things are paid for with money. Some are paid for with time or attention, so adjust for that if necessary.)
Lenovo tablets have split screen, floating windows over fullscreen applications, and the option to put all applications into windows kind of like in the post.

Though admittedly split screen is the most useful of those
Android Stage Manager…

I do know similar window managers for Android existed in the past and Samsung still got their Dex but making it official emphasizing the responsiveness reminded me a lot of stage manager which Apple decided to make available only for the expensive iPads.
Memoir: A Novel System for Neural Lineage Tracing
Making money doesn’t necessarily imply value is being created. For example casinos create the illusion of value and generate a lot of money.

Unfortunately, like a casino a lot of tech is an illusion, e.g. social media- you walk in and it’s flashy and exciting, but you walk out having lost hours of your time and possibly a few brain cells.
Most of this is people like you and me completely ignoring IPv6 and similar technologies, just because they're not the default
>it seems people are more willing to post about their achievements, rather than ideas and plans about their products.

Other people can steal your plans and ideas, they can't steal your revenue.

Also, rather than declaring that other people should rethink what they are doing, maybe just reconsider your choice to be involved in it.

Full "build in public" isn't for me, if it matters.
That's why I think parent's comment is kind of funny. This site is VC news. If you're looking for actual hacker culture, this ain't it. This website is mostly VC devs, not hackers.
Sure, but I'm one of the kooks who will plug a tablet into a monitor and use keyboard and mouse. Seems handy for that.
Very interesting. When my buddies and I started playing in Ableton after years in Adobe Audition (circa 2010?), we immersed ourselves in Session view for writing and piecing everything together, building songs top-down instead of left-to-right. It completely changed our entire workflows, and that seemed like the point.

I'm only ever in arrangement view when I'm finalizing the order of the sections before final mix down.
NFL Makes Historic Debut in Brazil–Cheers, Confusion Ensue
“Fans yell at wrong times, merrily curse refs in Portuguese and wonder why ‘astronauts’ keep huddling.”
Congratulations Android, you've successfully recapitulated the evolution to desktop windowing. Took you only 15 years!
They will soon have a convenient starting point: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/office/introduction-to-p...
It depends on how you got your insurance.

There's a law limiting liability with employer-provided stuff to the amount in question. It wasn't that bad a law as originally intended: retirement accounts. But it also limits liability with insurance. Liability is capped at the amount of the denied claim--which means that in most cases it would cost more than the recovery.

I'm not sure what the legal situation is when there's no employer involved and you have an exchange plan.
> It seems like quality has much less of an impact on sales than many of us would wish.

This is the unpleasant truth of the matter. As people who hone our craft and want to take pride in our work, a competent developer’s ethos is at odds with maximizing profit.
The Plummeting Cost of Artificial Intelligence
And the US was far more resourced than Russia currently is. If Ukraine can keep up with attacks on Russian petroleum infra into winter, it could permanently shut a material amount of their production capacity for years.
So you think the universe might be made of, say, subordinate clauses?
I lived in Irvine for 5 years. Even though I love suburbia, I felt Irvine was somewhat dystopian in a Stepford Wives way. No, it won't be a central city.
I really liked the Ioniq 5 on a test drive, and my neighbours who lease one really like it too.

The Renault Scenic e-tech (maybe not sold in US?) also has a longer range than a Model Y and for less money. It seems generally pretty nice.

https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/renault/scenic/357432/new-rena...
>How do you know if someone is a care provider or they just say so?

We have central authorities for that and as a patient I don't have to worry about it.

In the case of public insurance (which over 80% of Germans use) the care provider bills the insurance company, not you. And people can't just pretend to be medical professionals because the insurance company can easily check if you actually have a valid license to practice medicine in Germany. Again there are central authorities for that which maintain registries.
From the paper: „[…] two powerful techniques are essential for MEMOIR: first, a set of genomic elements termed ‘barcoded scratchpad’, whose sequences can be specifically targeted and deleted by Cas9-gRNA, are integrated into the genome of cells. Therefore, for a single cell, its progeny inherit the alterations of the barcoded scratchpads, and all the daughter cells can be traced permanently.“
Had a similar problem with Aetna in NJ. I thought my situation was unique
Just wondering, is the dire state of Canadian phone providers (Bell, Telus, Rogers, etc.) a product of government regulation or private cartelization?
I worked in companies that are committed to Agile and companies that have a completely custom planning and development process. I don't understand your argument. What process in Agile dictates shipping subpar UI?

Build, test, file bugs, resolve bug. You can do this within any framework. Or, better, develop a high quality UI component library instead of asking a junior engineer to write CSS for correct checkbox handling.
> If you don’t have a Pixel Tablet handy, access the Pixel Tablet emulator in Android Studio Preview, and select the Android 15.0 (Google APIs Tablet) target. Once your device is set up, select Enable freeform windows option in Developer options to explore the capabilities of desktop windowing and how your app behaves within this new environment.

I noticed this last year on Android 13, and I found it a bit unusable on an 8.4'' tablet and useless on a phone. But i think it has less features in Android 13/14, as the management (maximize/restore) looks a bit different on 15.

It still looks like it doesn't have a minimize icon (also not when maximized), which for me is essential in a desktop environment.
A dive into the making of Immersion (64k demo)
Speak for your dense population area self. 418m gets me to the end of my rural driveway. Kids school is 8.3 miles (13.4km).
Title should be cloudflare pages, as the CDN doesn’t cause this issue.
I think you are on the right track, but realistically I think the answer is even more cynical: the last 20 years in software has been all about refining business models that remove choice and disempower customers. Quality doesn’t matter. Privacy doesn’t matter. Price matters a little, but only in the sense that you need to make your monthly SaaS fee low enough to avoid sticker shock- you don’t need to provide real value though. Just keep milking those monthly fees and make the UI a little worse every year or so.

Lack of interoperability and vendor lock-in, the move toward SaaS software that you run on behalf of your customers, making network effects fundamental to your value prop, bundling, and the enterprise sales tactics you pointed out are all ways that quality of software has been removed from the conversation entirely.
"a mix of parents and admin."

Yes, sorry, I meant enforcement in general. Parents and admins are absolutely a big part of that.

"A teacher confiscating a phone could very well be confiscating $1,000+, making it a harder justify to a lot of parents."

Those parents should probably reconsider their justification of buying a $1k device for a child if that child can't be responsible with it.
With a fully enclosed chain guard, you hardly ever need to clean or oil the chain. Belt drives are basically maintenance-free.
Volatile compound assignments are nonsense. This incident is up there with std::span when it comes to illustrating how unserious WG21 are when it comes to improving software quality.

The deprecation would get you a warning for this nonsense in new C++ versions. It would still compile as before, but you'd get a warning so that maybe you can write something which isn't nonsense instead - an opportunity to express what you actually meant. But this was unacceptable of course.

You can see some of the same wailing for uninitialized access. Currently draft C++ 26 will just silently initialize your variable to some agreed bit pattern so that you don't incur Undefined Behaviour for uninitialized access by default. This seems to make many of the same people very angry.
Show HN: Gridtalk - Leave comments anywhere on Earth (Flask + MapTiler)
I've created a Flask app that allows users to add and view comments tied to specific locations on a map. Here is how it works

1. Users can browse a world map and leave comments at any location.

2. Comments become visible when a user's cursor is within 50m of the comment's coordinates

3. Ideal for sharing local insights, tourist tips, restaurant recommendations, etc. It's also ideal for shitposting.

I built this over the course of a few hours as demo to help me learn to how deploy a flask application using digital ocean droplets. I have listed the tech stack below

- SQLite

- Flask

- AlpineJS

- Digital ocean droplet.

- MapTiler

It's missing SSL so I will fix that at some point as I want to figure out how to do that. Bot protection would also be good to figure out as well as a better system for displaying comments. Overall droplets are a nice way to deploy stuff and much cheaper than using Vercel(Nothing new there!)
IMHO this is an absolutely fatal design flaw. It means that if it were to become very popular eventually the largest instances would take over the network due to network effects. ActivityPub has eventual centralization baked in.

Nostr is closer to a real decentralized social network, though it has other problems. Chief among these is trying to be Twitter, which has always been a model of interaction that lends itself to obnoxiousness. This was also a problem with Mastodon. If we're trying to do better, we should not be trying to duplicate a toxic environment. Still Nostr is architecturally superior.
Introduction – Steve's Jujutsu Tutorial
> None of these ARM processors had hardware floating point

More importantly, IEEE 754 floating point ISA is not great for calculators - they don’t require the speed a personal computer does, and calculators work hard to hide the fact numbers such as 0.45 can’t be represented as IEEE 754 floats.
I think it's less about money and more about the endless access to metrics and analytics which will impact how you feel about your project. A forum of maybe a few dozen people you somewhat know loving something 20 years ago would have sufficed but now it all tends towards vague bigger numbers of people you have minimal knowledge of to feel at all good about the effort put in.
In lieu of 10,000 likes, which might ultimately feel hollow anyway, making a couple hundred dollars will probably suffice.

I made a super niche modding tool a few weeks ago; it's got one star on GitHub but the two nerds that have actually used it are delighted with it and I'm very happy about that. The notion another few in the future will find it is oddly nice to think about
FTFA: "Arbour estimates the fossils are 66 to 68 million years old."
Google in 2057:

"We're excited to announce that Android Tablets now have a terminal, with full support of terminal applications like 'ed' and 'grep'!"
Idk, compare it to a forum like lobste.rs that has a much more strict filter for what's allowed. Personally I find lobste.rs a lot less entertaining because it's too on-topic and has a stuffy feeling
Cyber Threats to Shipping Explained
Wait until you try Samsung's Dex. It could replace my Linux laptop, with my tmux/vim dot files environment
I would .zip them up and email them as Gmail attachments.
I definitely follow you but noting a thing: the more we "advance" the more we implement again very old solutions, back for the pioneering Xerox PARC era, some random examples:

- most UIs actually have switched from the "commercial menu" model to a "search&narrow" one, now are kind of very rudimentary CLIs;

- from "commercial widget-based GUIs" back to some kind of DocUIs, today they are web, back than PostScript and alike, but the idea is essentially the same;

- NotebookUIs (like Jupyter, IDEs like R-Studio where some "GUI elements exists mixed with text) are more and more common and well, tomorrow someone will rediscover Emacs buffers ideas...

So, while most computer users are consumer only, those who can't consume only a little step at a time, following a kind-of Greenspun's tenth rule reimplement partially and with many bugs and limits old ideas. I do not know where we could go in 10+ years, but... Even with all the bug-ridden modern overhead, we actually rediscover classic solutions, at a certain point classic desktop computing will came back forcibly IMVHO...What I do not know it's how much time and injuries we will suffer in between...
Health system to pay $65M after hackers leaked nude patient photos
> only to have Android Studio force me to update Gradle and dependencies and whatnot, and break everything

This. And people are surprised that many just wrap websites as apps on Android.
#2 is a weak argument, a lot more gamers didn't know him and moderated their expectations based on the marketing
and for those interested in history, Docker was first announced 10 minutes afterwards on the 26:24 mark.
Cost models are completely different too.

Bikes have very low maintenance costs and if you buy second hand you don't lose much on resale.
These ideas are simply inappropriate for a church, a sacred space. The fact that such ideas are seriously considered is also why we can't rebuild the roof in a different way today anymore. In the past, when people rebuilt the roof, there was some consensus on what a church should look like, today people have to rally around rebuilding it exactly, or have it become a playground for bored starchitects.

The glass pyramid in front of the Louvres and the Eiffel Tower are separate buildings. A better example would be the Bundestag, but that's a secular building and the glass dome here is a message of renewal and transparency.
I'm happy to discuss my opinion especially after describing my reasoning, you just went for some completely unnecessary snark.

To extend on my reasoning: it seems like the camera and phone industry is still perfectly thriving despite very precise diagrams right down to circuit designs and component specifications being accessible via nothing more than a Google search for "sony <model> service manual level 3". There is a healthy ecosystem of devices and manufacturers on one side, and officially licensed as well as unlicensed repair shops on the other side, and there are many resellers for original spare parts as well that allow both larger operators and adventurous tinkerers to repair their devices on their own if they want.

Unfortunately, this cannot be said about a lot of other electronics branches where a lot of Things eventually become dead paper weights due to DRM, bespoke critical parts failing without spare part supply chains and/or information how things should work (say, test point voltages, signal patterns, ramp-up periods) or simply because the manufacturer vanishes off the face of the earth, forcing owners of such devices (assuming they still work after the manufacturer ceased paying server bills) to decide between doing what is right and discarding of stuff that poses a threat to other netizens or to keep their stuff running and have it hacked sooner than later.

Since the market has clearly failed to provide products that are built to last, the e-waste amount is clearly unsustainable and the electronics markets of Shenzhen with the wizards there being able to do virtually everything one desires cannot be replicated elsewhere, I propose strict governmental regulation.
The National Endowment for Democracy:What It Is and What It Does
Always is a bit of a stretch. The split screen feature came with Android 7 in 2016.
Impressive work, they reinvented the Chromebook
I think as a general rule, any shiny new market strategy will perform worse in year 10 than it will in year 1. Law of diminished returns and all. And that's before factoring in any platform enshittification.
Probably over 90% of what I use my personal laptop for is browsing the web, watching videos, listening to music, and writing notes. In a general purpose OS, I value security above all else. Privacy is a close second, and of course stability, ease of use, resource lightness, and application support are also important factors.

I haven't found a desktop operating system that ticks most of the boxes, especially security and privacy. The only OS that ticks all the boxes is GrapheneOS, but it's not really a desktop OS. That's why I'm so excited about these updates, and why I wish there was either a good keyboard/trackpad case for the Google Pixel Tablet running GrapheneOS, or someone would make a laptop that had the necessary requirements to support GrapheneOS.

I code on my work laptop, and if I really wanted to, I could probably SSH or VNC into a Linux box to code on GrapheneOS. There is also pKVM, which will probably make it easy to run Linux VMs on GrapheneOS at some point in the future.
(note, sounds racist, but not what I meant. What I meant is that when there's a lot of people coming, it's mechanically harder for people to enter pre-existing social groups, thus the impression that people are not welcoming)
I think the vast majority of users just want a good experience. UI fluidity, timeliness of notifications, DMs, image/video quality, etc. Decentralization is near the last of their concerns.
TikZ does have a steep learning curve and can get pretty convoluted, but once you get a hang of it, you have a tremendous amount of control over what you are doing. I sometimes feel like TikZ is more like TeX instead of LaTeX given how primitive it can be, but it can be quite powerful if you give it enough time.
It's really an economy of scale thing, and is not that surprising.

The economy of scale is separately at the level of hardware procurement, security, interop, bandwidth, access to electricity, and probably other things.

This isn't a normative claim. Simply that the tendency for these types of things to centralize as complexity and demand increases is natural.

I think it's tough to say that it was taken away, or that there's anybody in particular to blame.

The hardware market moves fast, the capabilities needed evolve fast, etc.

It's still 100% possible to host your own stuff. Many people do, but it's obviously a vast minority. But it's not like there are licensure requirements to host your own website. Some things are disallowed by consumer ISPs, but you can also generally upgrade that allow it.

It's worth noting that when it was simple and unrestricted, it was also vastly more expensive and far fewer people participated. Part of the reason why internet is so cheap now (on a $ / byte basis) is that new offerings were designed that restricted people on the now available cheap plans from doing things that are very expensive.
Hard to believe this hasn't been abstracted and solved at the browser level in 2024.