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Why has examine.com disappeared from search results?
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I was going to say that "examine.com is one of the best sites on the internet for information about supplements/nutrition". But it's not. It's the best site on the internet for that sort of thing. It's great that Google is attempting to fix the issue of bullshit nutrition sites ranking highly, but I sincerely hope someone at Google sees this and does something to help out Examine, which is a tremendous resource.
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Blizzard Employees Staged a Walkout to Protest Banned Pro-Hong Kong Gamer
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As much as I want to think change will happen, it's much more likely this will be a few weeks of PR and ultimately nothing will change.For something to change people have to vote with their wallets. In this context that means cancelling subscriptions or dropping games they are already playing in favor for ones by competitors with better integrity, and I don't see that happening.Diablo players could go to Path of Exile, its closest competitor, but that game is massively invested into China as well and partially owned by Tencent.Warcraft RTS players represent a small market right now with almost no microtransactions or ongoing revenue.WoW players have alternatives, but not many I am aware of that aren't heavily Chinese based as the MMORPG category is dominated by Chinese companies like Perfect World.Starcraft players don't have a lot of alternatives as SC has dominated the esports and highly polished RTS category for over 5 years with the same game. The closest competitor would be Age of Empires or Warhammer, I'm not sure how much influence China has over them, but they are different types of RTS games.Heroes of the Storm players can go to Dota or LoL. LoL being owned by China and Dota being owned by Valve with strong Chinese market involvement.More alternatives are needed IMO.
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The .Org Fire Sale: How it sold for less than half its valuation
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I wrote about this too - linked in the article.
https://lancewiggs.com/2019/12/01/did-isoc-leave-1-billion-o...The travesty is that ISOC has given up a sure-fire stream of $55+ million/year in tax-free income, along with the ability to easily grow that to over $100m/year with price increases - all for just over $1.1 billion.As any r/personalfinance reader can tell you a rule of thumb for endowments is to spend a maximum of 4% of your assets each year. This means $44m from the $1.1bn, which means ISOC is immediately worse off than they were forecasting for this year (~$55m). Alternatively use the Yale method, which in today's low-return market will yield similar or worse results.Moreover it's clear that ISOC are not behaving as the sharpest of investors, so we can imagine that the endowment might be be poorly managed or over-spent.
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Utopia, a visual design tool for React, with code as the source of truth
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To me this editor gets it right in the sense that we don’t need to get rid of code as the “nocode” movement is trying. Instead we need to make coding more enjoyable and figure out ways to make it more interactive.One specific thing Utopia addresses to me is the need for the code and the actual thing to be treated more as one single interactable component and not two separate things.Instead we're treating the thing as a one-way compile step. There's no way to sync the DevTools in-memory changes we make to the DOM with the actual code.The fact that Utopia allows the two things to be treated as one is a huge step towards making webdev more enjoyable.And they’re following good steps… SwiftUI’s editor is very similar in this regard. Using the code as the main thing but having all kinds of interactable components around it that make writing code simpler with cool visual autocomplete widgets & visual aids.Before with direct DOM changes building something like this was impossible but now with the React paradigm is seems natural to have this sync between code and visuals.Kudos to the team for pulling this off.
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Why A4? – The Mathematical Beauty of Paper Size
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The metric system is such a beauty, that it's shocking that is not used everywhere. The fact that a liter of water has a relation with the size of the paper we use is just poetry.
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The technology behind GitHub’s new code search
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I use their new code search a lot to grok how people use certain features, or implement certain things. But I do wish there was a way to filter out forks. Sometimes I search a string and just get a bunch of forks all with the same result. For example, searching a common class in a Rails app often just shows a bunch of rails/rails forks, which is a lot of noise to sift through when you're trying to see how devs commonly use a certain feature.
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Amazon cancels my account after exposing account lockout for “racist doorbell” [video]
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Summary:The YouTuber had his Amazon affiliate account canceled after 7 years
without warning or evidence of wrongdoing. The reason given was that
purchases made through his links were for personal use or made by
friends and family, which he denies. He finds the timing suspicious as
it came a week after he made a video criticizing Amazon for canceling a
customer's account for a racist doorbell claim. He argues that the small
amount of revenue from his affiliate links is inconsequential to him.
He believes Amazon is becoming less accountable as it grows in power and
treats customers worse. While not excusing Amazon's actions, he
questions whether enough vetting was done before canceling his account.
The snap decision shows how trigger happy Amazon is to remove people's
accounts.
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Daring Fireball: Universe Dented, Grass Underfoot
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"There is no grass in Moscone West."There's a gigantic grass lawn right next door, in Moscone Center.Steve Jobs was a great man, but this remembrance hit a sour note for me. It's not about Steve Jobs, so much as it's about an outsider's fantasy of what Jobs' (very private) inner life was like. And if this bears no resemblance to reality, it's not a remembrance at all. It could even be offensive to the people who knew him best.Remember the man for the person that he was, not for the person that you imagined him to be.
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U.S. charges Edward Snowden with espionage
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So now is the time to identify the federal prosecutors who filed this and petition the government to have them fired. In addition, of course, to asking for a complete pardon for Snowden.It also should be noted that any of the Congressional investigations into this mess are perfectly capable of giving Snowden a grant of immunity from prosecution.People ask what to do. There are at least two avenues open to nip this completely in the bud before prosecutors get rolling, and several other ways of notifying our elected representatives that going down this path is unacceptable.These are political charges, and as the governed we should stand up to the people who are supposed to be working for us and demand that they be dropped. Immediately.
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Vermeer's paintings might be 350 year-old color photographs
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It's really clever, and I enjoyed the process involved immensely. The whole project is a work of art IMHO. I'm looking forward to watching the documentary of it all.I also like this conclusion.> My experiment doesn't prove that Vermeer worked this way, but it proves that he COULD have worked this way.I do take issue with the hypothesis.>The way Vermeer painted this wall is consistent with a photograph. It is not consistent with human vision. If you were standing in the room that Vermeer painted, you would see that wall as a pretty even shade of off-white. The retina in your eyeball does some image processing to minimize the effect of light and shadow. To your eye, the wall appears to have far less contrast than it actually has. And if you can't see it, you can't paint it.Then you can't see it through this device either.I'm not an artist, but I've taken a few art classes, and one of the transformative things that happens during formal art training is that you learn to look at things in non-intuitive ways. For example, when most people are told to "draw a dog", even if they're looking at one, they reach back into their semantic memory, look up the mental function for "draw dog" and reproduce that.The same thing is true for colors, brightness values, etc. A great deal of formal art education is learning to detach your visual stimulus from the semantic association you would otherwise naturally make...and perhaps reattach it to new semantic associations like "negative space" and "comparative brightness" and "relative white value". When you get really good you can even start reprocessing a scene or a model, deconstructing it in your mind and then reconstructing it via some other technique. You can go from photorealistic reproduction to complete abstraction.http://www.etsycreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/vince...https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_94URbVj_t8A/SZ7v2Iw28qI/AAAAAAAAA...http://uploads2.wikiart.org/images/vincent-van-gogh/the-star...https://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/e8b99...http://www.mde-art.com/art-blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/a...I think a better hypothesis might have been "techniques at the time weren't suited to such exact reproduction of scenes, even great artists slightly distort objects and subjects in their work. Yet these paintings don't appear to suffer from such distortion, the shape and color reproduction is as exact as a tracing or photograph. There must have been a technique or tool used to assist the artist in not only tracing the shape, but reproducing the colors."
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Feynman Lectures on Physics now free online
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Is this worth reading for someone without a particular need to understand physics in depth? What I mean is if I take the time to read these will I learn anything useful to someone not pursuing a career in physics or related field?
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Mathematical games interesting to both you and a five-year-old child
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I've been writing little one-page javascript pages to introduce my four- and six-year-old to various mathematical concepts like cardinality, place-value, sets, factors, equivalency, etc, etc:http://ideonexus.github.io/Explorable-Explanations/The boys love some of them (others not-so-much). Based on this article, I'm getting lots of ideas for new ones to code. Most of the code is original, but I try to be careful to give credit to anyone whose code or ideas I build upon.
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Many packages suddenly disappeared
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PSA: Please be cautious because this is an excellent opportunity for taking over packages and injecting malware by malicious people.Example: https://www.npmjs.com/package/duplexer3 which has 4M monthly downloads just reappeared, published by a fresh npm user. They published another two versions since then, so it's possible they've initially republished unchanged package, but now are messing with the code.Previously the package belonged to someone else: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:oDbrgP...I'm not saying it's a malicious attempt, but it might be and it very much looks like. Be cautious as you might don't notice if some packages your code is dependent on were republished with a malicious code. It might take some time for NPM to sort this out and restore original packages.
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A well-known URL for changing passwords
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That looks like a good idea, but why not go one step further? Provide a common API interface for password changes.Think about it: If you assume your pw manager database is compromised - what do you do? Go to a hundred webpages and change your password? probably not.
Your PW Manager can't provide a feature to do it for you. But it could if there was such an API.
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How to Find Hidden Cameras and Spy Gear
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Doesn't mention the good old Nonlinear Junction Detector.
(NLJD) [1] or The Broom as they call it. It can find any unshielded device containing semiconductors, no matter if the device is powered or not - which is pretty cool. It is possible to build one yourself which is even cooler. Although I have to say, while it is a WW II era device, DIY building is not a beginners project. The British documentary "The Spying Game - Walls Have Ears" has a good interview with its inventor that even includes a demo of the device by him in his wonderful old school lab[2].[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear_junction_detector[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EWYI9zfF9Y#t=22m30s
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Google Urged the U.S. to Limit Protection for Activist Workers
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These comments read like a bunch of low-income retail shoppers defending Walmart because they provide something they otherwise couldn't get.I think these types of debates are bellwether for programmer/IT professional unionization. These are the exact types of lawsuits brought against organized labor as it was trying to get organized to prevent exploitative behavior.It's disturbing to see these same anti-organization arguments rehashed simply for a new industry.
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David Graeber has died
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A tremendous loss. I would highly recommend Debt: The First 5000 Years to anyone here.
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Welcome Home, Garry Tan
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Believe it or not, my journey to Y Combinator started similar to how you may experience YC — through being a regular lurker and reader on Hacker News.I went to Startup School, me and my cofounders applied, we got an interview, and we got in. I was an engineer, designer and PM. I'd built teams and products, but I'd never built a company.YC gave me a shot, a community, knowhow, and the ability to access capital, talent, and customers.YC changed my life. I want it to help a lot more people achieve their dreams and goals. It did for me, beyond my wildest dreams.
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Stretch iPhone to its limit: 2GiB Stable Diffusion model runs locally on device
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Congrats on the release!I gave this and other available applications a try and I don’t understand what people see in ai image generation.A simple prompt generated a person with 3 nostrils, 7 squished fingers, deformities everywhere I look, it just mashes a bunch of photographs together and generates abominations.Pay close attention to generated models and you will find details which are simply wrong.What is the use case that I’m missing?
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Shutting down my legal torrent site after 17 years
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Man my heart goes out to you.I owned and operated an adult website for 18 years. For 15 of those years it was primary source of income. It was completely lawful and above board, no user-generated-content so I never once had any issues with controversial content etc. One day last year we get a notice from our bank telling us that we were deemed "high risk" and they were closing our commercial accounts. For months we tried to find any bank or credit union that would take us but they all turned us down.Someone actually posted our story to HN but it's not really tech related so didn't get many upvotes or engagement.So I know how devastating it is for ignorance and stupidity on the part of the others to shut down something that a) you worked hard to create yourself and b) was such a huge part of your life for so long. Extreme empathy.
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Tell HN: t.co is adding a five-second delay to some domains
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I can confirm. NYT shows a five-second redirect delay: "wget https://t.co/4fs609qwWt". It redirects to gov.uk immediately: "wget https://t.co/iigzas6QBx"
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iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus
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Honestly for me the best part is the USB-C.Every year it's a new camera, new whatever, but USB-C is going to mean I can get rid of all these lightning cables.Not increasing the price is nice, I guess. Will have to buy more USB-C cables, though. (Technically the low highest end phone is higher, but higher spec, too).It comes with one USB-C to USB-C charging cable - not sure if it is a data cable, also.Pre-order Friday, delivery 22 Sept. Probably going to move on it just to get that USB-C, need to see what carrier deals I can find.
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Petition to Pardon Edward Snowden
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I don't mean to be cynical, but a mere petition is just the tip of the iceberg.This is a government agency that is commiting widespread breach of privacy. A petition will not be respected. It's an OK start, but it will be essentially meaningless.If you want results, riot in the streets. Civil disobeience. Historical actions and movements that achieve some measure of peace.The ease of an action corresponds to what it can achieve. Do you want change? Show the government how badly you want it. Fight for your rights. Don't just click a link.They've demonstrated they don't care for the voice of the people. So change the domain to something they do care about.
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NSA phone surveillance program likely unconstitutional, federal judge rules
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I have mixed feelings about this.Some of the metadata in my opinion is obviously OK to collect - the stuff that would have been captured by a pen register decades ago - Who you called, who called you, how long you talked - this stuff, which is otherwise known as call detail records it available to nearly everyone who works for the telco and is not really what I would consider private.Other stuff - like Geolocation data is in my opinion clearly not OK to collect - it constitutes an unreasonable encroachment on privacy, normally to track someone historically a warrant must be obtained first, and it required probable cause, I see no reason why a lesser standard should be applied here.I don't consider blanket recording of calls to be acceptable, but I don't see that as something that has been happening, at least on domestic to domestic endpoints (it's not really technically feasible to do with the way the telephone network is structured), its a bit easier to record calls going to international endpoints because of the structure of the PSTN - VoIP is its own deal, and YMMV on weather you can actually capture those calls or not.I don't want to see us throw the baby out with the bath water as it were, nor do I want the unreasonable encroachment on privacy to continue.
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Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome are such memory hogs
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People are using µBlock now for precisely this reason.https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/%C2%B5Block-vs.-ABP:-...https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/%C2%B5block/cjpalh...
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
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Shipping Rust code in Firefox
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AHHH Telemetry! I feel like there is a group of people who freak out to any form of telemetry, I just wanted to highlight them using it to track bugs. It's super beneficial to any form of changes, especially something like switching an entire language for a component.
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A Wikipedia editor's long-running campaign
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This is extremely concerning. Phillip Cross was easily caught because he was running his mouth on twitter, and was blatantly making one-sided edits from his single account. Imagine if a country like Russia makes an orchestrated effort to achieve similar goals, using an army of fake-wikipedia-profiles. They could easily turn Wikipedia into a platform for disseminating propaganda. In fact, I'd be surprised if they haven't done so already.https://www.vox.com/2018/2/16/17020974/mueller-indictment-in...
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Mobile customer location data is ending up in the hands of bounty hunters
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Perhaps this is a good reason to use Google Voice and not give anyone the underlying real phone number with cell service.
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A Walk in Hong Kong
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I am in Verona (Italy) at this time, and I'm in a hotel where some tourists from Shanghai happen to be as well.
I'm alone, so I hang out in the lobby a lot. I just engaged in some small talk with some of those tourists, and the discussion somehow shifted to the Hong Kong protests.Basically what they sad is that western culture in Hong Kong clashes with the chinese culture. They don't seem to say that the chinese way is the right way, or that the western culture is the one to accept. They just say that they are different, and that of course a shift in culture is difficult for Hong Kongers. They think it will all pan out somehow: Hong Kong has to accept that they are Chinese now, and accept all the consequences that come with that.I understand that the viewpoint of hn, a very USA oriented site, is different, and that most people here think that the libery of HK people should not be taken away from them because democracy is the only way, but I think the chinese point of view should be heard as well, and should be taken into consideration to get a better understanding of everything that is happening.My personal opinion on this is that China should just let them keep their autonomy, and let them be Hong Kong: a state by it's own with it's own rules and laws.
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Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud
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> you OWN YOUR dataLike most people here I'm fairly hard line when it comes to personal data abuses but I still struggle with the concepts of owning data about yourself. It's a confusion I see amongst less technically literate people when a well meaning person explains to them the importance of some latest data breach and they try to understand the concept that they owned this data, it was theirs but now it has been "stolen" or abused in some way.I would consider going as far to say that framing the data as owned by you is a bad approach, but maybe I'm just being pedantic about the language. Company A does have data about me, but I don't own it, and they have responsibilities to protect it (or delete it if requested), but I don't see any ownership in the equation, especially when the nature of the data can become quite abstract while still maintaining some reference to you.Not to take away from the intention or sentiment of framing it that way though, I'm just musing.
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List of Twitter mute words for your timeline
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- create a private list- instead of following people, add people to the listBam. No ads, no suggestions, no "x liked this", reverse chronological order with no missing posts.
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I Learned French in 12 Months
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I don't believe there is a shortcut for "hacking" languages. I'm a diplomat, and currently learning my fourth language to the C1+ level.When we learn languages, it's a full time job. It was 9 months to learn Mandarin to a B1, 6 months to a C1+ in Spanish, and I'm currently at a B1 in Estonian after 5 months.There are several things I think are crucial after years of full time study (note: this assumes you're going for professional fluency, not just touring around the country where interactions are largely scripted and predictable):* There is no substitute for production - you must speak the language with a native speaker (not an app) and talk about topics that are relevant to the kind of scenarios you anticipate. We spend the first several months discussing current events in target language - at first scripted, then later free form. This builds vocabulary and helps fluency. This is quickly expanded to discussing current events in depth and participating in mock debates.* Give mini presentations - target 3-5 minutes of talking about a relevant topic with little prep time. The difference between intermediate and advanced is the ability to move from discussing only facts to making a coherent argument. Native speakers will often not be able to follow your train of thought without learning to connect cause and effect using structures appropriate for your language.* Interview native speakers - prepare 2-3 questions about a particular topic and check your comprehension by translating their answers to English. This obviously helps build your comprehension, but also helps to learn to "automate" comprehension while you are thinking about something else. If you can take notes in English while a native speaker is talking at normal speed (and achieving 90%+ accuracy), it will make it easier for you to participate in normal speed conversations.* Read target language news - this is critical for expanding vocabulary and learning colocations - knowing what verbs are used in particular contexts (e.g., do they say "I talked with X" or "I talked to X". Do they say country X shot, launched, or threw a rocket?)Bottom line - language learning is not just about the number of hours you put in. The quality and type of practice you do matters a lot. You aren't going to be fluent via Duolingo alone. You need to put in the time using structured practice with native speakers to really learn anything.
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Valve's Proton Has Brought 6000 Windows Games to Linux So Far
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I hadn't heard of Proton before and the article doesn't explain. Here's what the GitHub repo for it says [1]:> Proton is a tool for use with the Steam client which allows games which are exclusive to Windows to run on the Linux operating system. It uses Wine to facilitate this.My question is, what's the "secret sauce"? If this is in fact that much more successful than Wine, what's different? Is Valve putting lots of dev time into it? Or is it just pre-configured for ease of use?[1] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton
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Hyundai to acquire Boston Dynamics
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Crunchyroll acquired by Sony, BD acquired by Hyundai, Slack acquired by Salesforce...Our economic system seems to have a natural tendency towards monopoly. This is happening before our eyes and we don't even realise it.
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Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions
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As someone who has used Firefox since v0.* I really, really, really dislike the language they have used lately.> relevant suggestions from our trusted partnersThe suggestions are not relevant to, and the partners not trusted by, me.
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Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang
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The author writes well and makes compelling points. His "I want to get off Mr Golang's Wild Ride" post is good too.But I don't find myself agreeing with his position, which is "you shouldn't use Go for production services" (he explicitly says this in one of his Go posts, I forget which one and don't have time to look right now).The better alternative to Go is Rust. Okay, sure, I'm willing to admit that in the examples presented, Rust handles things better. But Rust isn't a panacea. Rust is complicated and hard, and often it's not worth taking on that burden just to theoretically handle cases that rarely occur and even more rarely cause any problem. Programming is a means to an end, and the cost of using Rust (hiring, increased development time) is often not worth it.The reason Go is successful is because it's easy for companies to use to solve production problems with teams of varying expertise. Its stdlib is well-featured, its ecosystem is good. There's generally one correct way of doing things. The same doesn't appear true in Rust. For example, an _incredibly_ common thing to do in production code is to make a web request. In Go, there is no need for debate, you use the stdlib. In Rust, you have to use a crate, which requires a decision to be made. Even worse is the async story, in Rust you have to decide whether to use Tokio or whatever. That burden is just not present with Go.Btw this article should not be flagged and it's pathetic that people have flagged it.
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Learn to sew your own outdoor gear
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I guess this is a good place to share my open source large format laser cutter design for sewing projects. It’s cheap to make, works pretty well, and the whole gantry assembly slides right off leaving just a sheet of plywood with low profile 3D printed rails on the sides. So I throw my rug over it and it becomes my floor when not in use. Important because the laser cutter can cut a full 60” wide piece of fabric two yards long. It’s basically 5 foot by 6 foot, and I don’t have space in my apartment for a dedicated machine that takes up all that space. But since this doubles as my floor it works great! Also includes a raspberry pi camera on the laser head which serves as a pattern scanner. I really want to finish my video on this thing, I’ve just been busy. But please take a look and considering building it! If you have any questions open a GitHub issue and I will do everything I can to help. I think it’s a great starting point (designed in three weeks) and I’d LOVE for other people to reproduce it and extend the design! The machine has a few hiccups but I use it all the time for my sewing projects and it is SO nice to get all the cutting done repeatably and automatically. You can even scan existing clothes often without disassembly and turn those in to digital patterns!https://github.com/tlalexander/large_format_laser_cutter
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Introducing react.dev
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Well, bummer. I have a mature product using React Components which are now legacy. It looks like in the future, I'll slowly migrate these over to functional components, as is standard in the documentation.I'm disappointed by the fanatical adoption of hooks, but I saw it coming and I can't say their legacy documentation didn't warn me.I'm happy that other people seem to enjoy them without restraint, but obscuring magical details and making side effects seem like more of a big deal than they really are in programming seems like a design choice intended to infantilize engineers and shelter them from reality.I might finally invest some time into what it looks like to create front ends independent of any of the existing frameworks that exist today, which I think is probably controversial, but I want the decisions I make to last longer than the whimsy of engineering teams who don't care that they might change their mind in 10 years.I think having seen front-end software come and go so many times, I'd rather write some simple utility functions wrapping `Document.createElement()` and use native event handling.Too much fluff in front-end.I want the decisions I make to last decades, not just a few years. I don't think that's a sentiment appreciated by most, though.
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Substack Notes Launched
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I love Substack. But apart from to mess with Twitter I really don’t understand the point of this.https://substack.com/profile/241262-casey-newton/note/c-1446... I’d a good summary. I don’t want to subscribe to hundreds of newsletters to see tweet (sorry, notes). But if you change that setup, it really is a Twitter clone with no upside to writers.
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The Five Stages of Hosting
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Where would you go to find a "condo"? There are no links in the article. What is the pricing/reliability/support like having your own server in someone else's data center?
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Show HN: Automatic weekly meal planner, also plans your leftovers
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I am surprised and delighted by this site!I cannot stress enough how well this nailed the contingencies that may come up when I was just using this. My first thought, I actually don't know how many calories I should eat--BAM there is a button that helps me generate it. What if I want to lose weight? BAM! Button for that option.Then I see the meals generated and I think, well, I'm a vegetarian so this chicken won't work, but then BAM I see the vegetarian button.You've got a real knack for thinking like your users.
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Forgotten Employee (2002)
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A college friend of mine (with CS degree) was hired as an automated tester about 6 months ago. The project he was hired for and assigned to was put on indefinite hold right after he was hired. He's an "asset" on that project, all of which are frozen. But because he's a new employee, he can only be on one project at a time, so he has no responsibilities. He has a weekly meeting with his manager, where he informs her that he's still doing nothing and he'd be happy to do anything, while she replies that he has nothing to do. Also he is not allowed to use the internet for non-work-related tasks.Recently the CTO has begun roaming the halls in his department. The CTO gets upset upon seeing my friend doing nothing. So he has to look busy all the time. He spends hours of his day typing nonsense into Word.I told him he could be doing any number of things to improve his skills (which are lacking already). He is disillusioned with the corporate world at this point, his previous two jobs not being much better. Instead he applied and was accepted to the master's program this fall. My hopes for him are not high, but I don't know how to encourage him.
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The Frameless Geodesic Dome I currently live in
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If you want to live in a city, it's not the cost of the house that kills you: it's the dirt.In Seattle, where I live, my property tax statement tells me that my (large, nice) house is worth roughly half as much as the land it sits on.Given that these domes don't float, you still need a place to put 'em. If your goal is to opt out of the cost of housing - an evil which this blog post expounds upon at length - your first order of business isn't so much "what to live in" but "where is it going to be".
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Tota11y
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I'll post this here since people interested in accessibility will be reading this thread.I have terrible vision. One of my pet peeves is when I go to a website on my phone through safari that doesn't allow me to zoom the text. For those occasions, I came across a JavaScript bookmark that I created on my phone that runs to undo whatever is preventing me from zooming in.I'm not a web developer (I do desktop/server software development), so I have no idea how or why certain pages implement this policy/style. It just seems a little arbitrary to choose a font size for your site and not allow visitors to zoom-in in case they have trouble reading the text.
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Show HN: Something pointless I made
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I made this demo using http://www.pixijs.com/Something I'm really happy with is the psuedo-3d effect on the cat using a displacement map.I took the cat sprite (http://dn.ht/picklecat/mesmercat.png) and made a "depth map" (http://dn.ht/picklecat/mesmercatdisplacement.jpg) where white is closest and black is furthest. This information is used to determine how far to move the underlying pixels. It's enough to give a subtle illusion of depth.
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Show HN: I made a database of remote companies
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This is great! I like that the focus is on companies (regardless of their hiring status), rather than job listings. When I started searching for remote positions a while back, I was more interested in finding a good company first, not necessarily a company that happened to have an open remote position at that particular point in time. So once I found a place that I liked, I'd add it to my notes and check their site from time to time (or if I really liked what they were doing, I'd get in touch directly). For me at least, that seemed to be more effective than constantly checking remote job sites.For anyone else who's in the same boat, here are a few similarly helpful resources:https://github.com/jessicard/remote-jobshttp://workingremote.ly/leaders/distributed-companies/https://triplebyte.com/ycombinator-startups#q=&page=0&refine...https://stayintech.com/info/explore (The companies on this list aren't all remote, but I'm including it anyway since diversity + inclusivity were also among my criteria.)
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Guide to Remote Work
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Not a single mention of "child" or "children" in the text. Nor in this discussion so far.I'm wondering how many of the people advocating working at home have children and how they deal with them.
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Keyboard latency
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I'm surprised the "humans don't notice 100 ms" argument is even made. That's trivially debunkable with a simple blind A/B test at the command line using `sleep 0.1` with and without `sleep` aliased to `true`. To my eyes, the delay is obvious at 100 ms, noticeable at 50 ms, barely perceptible at 20 ms, and unnoticeable at 10 ms.Not to mention that 100 ms is musically a 16th note at 150 bpm. Being off by a 16th note even at that speed is – especially for percussive instruments – obvious.On the other hand, if you told me to strike a key less than 100 ms after some visual stimuli, I'm sure I couldn't do it – that's what "reaction time" is.
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Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis
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This page will wreck your browser history. The post explains the rationale at the end, but frankly speaking there should have been the warning for each checkbox.
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Show HN: Bloom – A free and open source 'Google'
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Wouldn't "G Suite" be more descriptive than "Google"? Putting it in quotes kind of makes you think you're not referring to the search engine, but still...However that may be I love the mission, awesome work!
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Ray tracing in notepad.exe at 30 FPS
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How common is it to be able to read/write another program’s memory space? It’s not something I’ve ever done before, but it doesn’t seem like it’s a very good idea from a security standpoint. Are there other use cases that I’m missing?Still, this is a really cool hack.
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New Intel CEO rehiring retired CPU architects
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This is an encouraging move.My secondhand understanding was that Intel was losing top talent due to pressure to pay closer to median industry compensation. Top engineers recognized they were underpaid and left the company.I've been part of a similar downhill slide at a smaller company in the billion dollar revenue range. To be blunt, once the [mediocre] MBAs start realizing that the engineers are getting paid more than they are, the pressure to reduce engineering compensation is strong. Frankly, there are plenty of engineering candidates on the market who are happy with median compensation. Many of them are even great engineers and great employees.However, being a top company in a winner-take-all market requires the top engineers. The only way to attract and retain them at scale is to offer high compensation. I'm hoping that's part of what's happening here.
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Zotero: Free, easy-to-use tool to collect, organize, cite, and share research
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Zotero is, if you're not in the market for a closed source silo like EndNote, the only game left in town. Mendeley went full on Evil, and Papers for Mac is Mac only, closed source, and missing dozens of functionalities that are absolutely a must have in academic writing and research.An absolute must have is BetterBibTex (https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/), which adds better Citekey management and, my personal highlight, "export on add" functionality. In short, everything I save into a specific folder in my library gets exported as a .bib file right away. That way I can click a button in my browser and have the citation ready in my LaTeX editor, Word, or Obsidian (https://github.com/hans/obsidian-citation-plugin) within seconds.The latest beta also adds full Markdown export for Notes. I tend to keep my notes on papers in Zotero, attached to the paper, but export them for filing in Obsidian (which I then feed into MkDocs for our work group's large repo).Unless you need Apple Pages support, which Apple keeps to itself and only sells for mighty moolah to a select few, Zotero can do anything EndNote can do, is Open Source, and with that won't drive your PI up the wall with yet another expense.
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One-liner for running queries against CSV files with SQLite
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sqlite3 :memory: -cmd '.mode csv' ...
It should be a war crime for programs in 2022 to use non-UNIX/non-GNU style command line options. Add it to the Rome Statute's Article 7 list of crimes against humanity. Full blown tribunal at The Hague presided over by the international criminal court. Punishable by having to use Visual Basic 3.0 for all programming for the rest of their life.
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Dwarf Fortress’ graphical upgrade provides a new way into a wildly wonky game
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I've tried DF ages ago, but it was simply too hard for me. I never really got into digging a fortress, already the first few minutes bounced me off.Even read a DF book. No help.I just bought it on Steam.Probably I will never play it, but it's one of those purchases that are… aspirational. I'd like to be a person who plays DF. I know it's stupid.But graphics and better onboarding are a real argument for me.What tipped me finally over the edge towards buying was the background about the creator's health problems. I like that he's doing DF single-mindedly and I can afford the game without thinking twice.
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Stable Attribution
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This is a great website, but not in the way the authors intended. Based on some of the examples they explicitly provided, it is clear to me Stable Diffusion creates novel art. Here's a random example https://www.stableattribution.com/?image=a2666aee-0a1a-411b-...I will admit this is a nice tool for verifying the creations of SD aren't pure copies, so I think it will be useful for a time. But as AI-generated images start to taint future datasets, attribution is going to be significantly more complicated.
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Making It Legal to Play Outside: “Reasonable Childhood Independence” Bills
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The US seems to be the only country that has this problem. Children here (Norway) walk to school on their own at the age of five or six, some of them take buses."Ashley Smith, a foster dad, testified about being investigated for neglect because one afternoon his daughter, 8, was doing her homework on the front lawn. A passerby reported an “unsupervised” child (not knowing Ashley was actually inside). The upshot: “We went through a period of eight weeks of not knowing if we would continue being able to keep our children,” said Ashley."That's just astonishing!
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User: Junnn11
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Wonderful illustrations!Whenever I see someone that is interested in a very specific niche and obviously expends a lot of effort towards it, I'm always in awe. How did they become interested in the topic? Why choose this specific thing? How do they keep their motivation to continue with it?I've personally never really felt like I've cared enough about anything this much. Because of this, I've always felt like I'm missing something in life. I would love to be passionate about something as much as Junnn11 is about Arthropods.
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Comic Mono
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I was curious why it seems so much nicer than Comic Sans (and many commenters here seem to agree).Many of the letterforms have been dramatically "straightened" -- a Comic Sans "m" is kind of hideous, with the three vertical strokes intentionally all at different angles... whereas in this one they're all essentially vertical.Comic Sans is ugly because it's terribly proportioned (intentionally) to mimic the way a child would write. But when you straighten everything and the letters necessarily fit into a grid... it's just much, much nicer aesthetically.Just a gentle "handwriting mono" font, rather than the original which is (again, intentionally) horribly kerned and where half the letterforms feel like they're about to topple over from imbalance.
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AI real-time human full-body photo generator
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> “If you want to use images produced by Human Generator in commercial projects, contact us.”If there is no copyright in AI-generated images, then how can they possibly enforce this?
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Please don't learn to code
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I really, really disagree with Jeff Atwood here. Jeff has interpreted "learn to code" with "become a programmer". They're not the same thing. I don't think that is what this meme is about at all.Programming is logical thinking in practise. Programming is breaking a problem set down, thinking step by step through it, thinking of edge cases, and making it work. There is nothing wrong with Jeff's BASIC example, if that is where the mayor of NYC ends up.There was once a time when books were only read and written by an elite group. Now everyone can read - and everyone can write. There are still the elite authors that write better than the rest of us. Just because everyone can write, doesn't mean everyone is trying to be a professional author.Computers are a part of society. To function well in society, it's beneficial to understand a little about how they work, and how to make them do things. The essence of programming is making a computer do something more efficiently than you can.Programming isn't just the advanced stuff - recursion, pointers, functional programming, or whatever. Maybe Jeff is too far down the rabbit hole to realise this, but most people don't know what programming even looks like. They don't know how we tell computers to do the things they do. Recently I was with a customer, making notes about changes I needed to make to their application. They asked me "Is that how you make it do that?". No - that was my TODO file. And these are people that work on computers all day, every day.It's beneficial if marketing folk understand the basics of programming when they're doing web ads. It's useful that CAD engineers know the basics so they can automate AutoCAD. Its useful that financial accountants know basic programming so they can become more efficient with analysing data.If the mayor of NYC wants to learn to program in his spare time, why the hell not? I bet there wouldn't be the same complaints if he wanted to learn how to surf.edit: grammar
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An Unexpected Ass Kicking
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No discussion about this?when people use iPads they end up just using technology to consume things instead of making things. With a computer you can make things. You can code, you can make things and create things that have never before existed and do things that have never been done before.I think closed devices are really a step backwards. I learnt programming (and a whole lot more, like mathematics and logic), when I picked up a computer as a kid and discovered Python and started hacking around. I could look around for tutorials, download code or try out code from books and nobody stopped me.On a somewhat similar vein, I am also sad that desktops are slowly going away. I learnt so much more about computers (and how it is not magic) by building my own.I think something needs to be said about systems that allow you to explore and hack around for the fun of it.
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100,000 stars
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WOW, that is amazing. I'm always blown away by stuff like this, where you can actually get a sense of how small we all are and how distant even the closest neighbor stars are.I just close my eyes for a minute and think (or try to), what would it be like for those people that are finally able to reach, say, Vega (I know it's not the closest). Sure, this is not a big deal in sci-fi, but for reality, it's pretty mind blowing. This is 100% why I seriously want to live for a few hundred years: to have an opportunity to see the first time we actually go to the nearest star.In the meantime, I guess this will have to suffice.I also love this image that is not interactive like this, but still mind blowing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Earths_Location_in_the_Uni...
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What really happened at PyCon 2013
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Thank you for posting this. I wasn't at PyCon 2013, but I really wish the discussion would get back to the fact that 99% of what happens when technical people get together is positive and cool. It's really sad that the ridiculous 1% gets so much attention.I actually don't think technology people are that bad, not as a class. Most types of ambitious male business people are a lot more vulgar and perverse than the technologists. VC-istan execs tend to have inappropriate, power-imbalanced office affairs, traders and bankers go strip clubs more often than is healthy... programmers swear slightly more than average and some are socially awkward. Not the same category.
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U.S. Drops California Case Against Apple After Accessing iPhone
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I feel like cases shouldn't be droppable unless both parties mutually agree, and the courts also must first agree.the courts should not agree if it's a case that could set a precedent that can have far reaching implications.What if next time, a smaller player than Apple was caught in this sort of case, and they can't fight back as easily? Then it'd be easier to setup a precedent favourable to one party. This seems like a way to legally manipulate the common laws, and I think courts should put in place measures to prevent such manipulation.
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U.S. top court tightens patent suit rules in blow to ‘patent trolls’
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Going forward, I can't see any tech companies making the mistake of incorporating in the state of Texas. Better safe than sorry.
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Toward Go 2
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The paragraph I was looking for is this:> For example, I've been examining generics recently, but I don't have in my mind a clear picture of the detailed, concrete problems that Go users need generics to solve. As a result, I can't answer a design question like whether to support generic methods, which is to say methods that are parameterized separately from the receiver. If we had a large set of real-world use cases, we could begin to answer a question like this by examining the significant ones.This is a much more nuanced position than the Go team has expressed in the past, which amounted to "fuck generics," but it puts the onus on the community to come up with a set of scenarios where generics could solve significant issues. I wonder if Go's historical antipathy towards this feature has driven away most of the people who would want it, or if there is still enough latent desire for generics that serious Go users will be able to produce the necessary mountain of real-world use cases to get something going here.
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Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List?
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Can anyone recommend some book about Africa? I would like to gain some insights about life there, ideally fact based, maybe some history? Doesn't need to be the whole continent as well, would love to start with any particular country.This year I decided to read at least one book a month the ones I found most inspiring were:
* Factfulness - how we can misinterpret the data and how most of us have a wrong idea about the state of the world
* Let my people go surfing - growing a business organically, doing the last harm and taking care of your people. This book inspired me to start my own business and follow some of the ideas presented in this book.
* When breath becomes air - memories of a neurosurgeon battling cancer. Very insightful and important read about dying. In a way it's a heavy book, I cried multiple times when reading it.
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Dear Spotify, please let me unlink my Facebook account
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I already unlinked my Spotfiy account from Facebook with this way: https://robblewis.me/convert-spotify-facebook-to-email-login...No account migration of contacting support is needed. Just use your registered email account to reset (or in this case actually set) your account password and afterwards you can log in via your email+pw. Then in the Spotify preferences the button to disconnect Facebook becomes available.
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“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of proprietary lock-in” (2017)
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"I'm scared of vendor lock-in, so I'm going to build something that's completely provider agnostic" means you're buying optionality, and paying for it with feature velocity.There are business reasons to go multi-cloud for a few workloads, but understand that you're going to lose time to market as a result. My best practice advice is to pick a vendor (I don't care which one) and go all-in.And you'll forgive my skepticism around "go multi-cloud!" coming from a vendor who'll have precious little to sell me if I don't.
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Pure Bash Bible
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I have a personal dislike for regexes and non human readable code, it gives maintenance headache. It's why I avoid shell scripts as much as possible.The first example is not human readable, if the name of the function is a lie, I have no idea what this piece of code do : trim_string() {
: "${1#"${1%%[![:space:]]*}"}"
: "${_%"${_##*[![:space:]]}"}"
printf '%s\n' "$_"
}
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Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack?
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I think people are still severely under-estimating how dangerous this was.Back in 2013 when The Associated Press was hacked with a tweet of "Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured" and erased $136 billion in equity market value:Archive: http://archive.is/8lCMVhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/04/23...This twitter hack could have literally destroyed economies, started a war, potential for black mailing politicians and others etc.This really needs to be looked at with much bigger eyes. This wasn't just a bitcoin scam.
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Security.txt
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The last time this came up on HN it got quite a negative review from someone who had tried it on several sites: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19152145It apparently attracted automated scanners and the signal to noise ratio was atrocious.
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Tell HN: Internet Archive is facing a Big 4 Publishers lawsuit
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So...they didn't think the law should apply so they just decided to ignore it?What were they expecting? How can they possibly expect to win this lawsuit? I hate copyright with all my soul but this is just stupid. You can't just decide to take the law into your own hand. This is just a waste of money and effort.
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Give babies peanut butter to cut peanut allergies, study says
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This is not new news, but nonetheless important to replicate and keep studying. I think the first often-cited study about this was in 2008 [1]. There are several more, including one in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2015 [2].Basically, the original study looked at Jewish kids in Israel versus the UK and saw that peanut allergies were about 10x lower in Israel, even though Jews of European background (Ashkenazi) there are fairly similar, genetically, to Ashkenazi Jews in the UK (the majority of both groups migrated recently from Central and Eastern Europe).There is a snack called Bamba that they eat in Israel. It's kind of like a peanut butter Cheeto puff, and it is a nearly-universal snack for young kids in Israel. It melts in your mouth, so a 6-month-old can eat it almost as soon as they eat solid foods. It's about as popular in Israel as Cheerios are in the US, maybe more so. The hypothesis is that Bamba consumption there dramatically lowers the risk of developing peanut allergies.[1] https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:00026...[2] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa1414850
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I quit my job last March and it was a bad idea.
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So, here's my story; I tell it occasionally when stories like yours come up.I had no college experience, but did manage to jump right in to a good I.T. job while I was still in high school, and from there into an even better I.T. job in another state where I made more money than I knew what to do with. (I've never been good with money, and didn't understand what "savings" meant.) I worked there until suddenly one day I went on a camping trip with family, came back, and decided I hated computers. I quit that job, and the industry.Then the dotcom bust happened.So, at about your age, there I am, living back with my parents. They at least were supportive, but it took me a while to get my feet back under me. I took some simple jobs, took up rock climbing as a hobby, eventually became a climbing instructor, learned a whole bunch of skills but got paid next to nothing.Eventually all of the credit I had amassed during my previous life in I.T. ran out, and I was deeply in debt with not enough income to manage it. My parents had moved away, and I ended up moving with them. Again.Not my proudest moment.It took months, applying to nearly every job and place of business in the area, but eventually I got a simple retail job. I lied about my past experience so that they wouldn't tell me I was overqualified to operate a cash register.I let my bank accounts and credit fall apart. There was nothing I could do about it but start over. So I did.Eventually, I was ready to re-join I.T. and happened by dumb luck across the perfect job opening for me -- about 6 hours' drive away. I patched up my car enough to get me there, and took with me the bag of spare change I had accumulated over a year or so.The boss and I hit it off, and I got the job. It was one of the most challenging jobs I've ever had -- I was a one-man I.T. department for a store & restaurant that had no budget for anything fancy. All patchwork, all the time. I had gotten pretty good at that by then.I was homeless at that point and my car barely got me there, but I happened to have some friends in the area so I stayed on their couch and made up for it by cleaning while I was at home. My first paycheck got me living expenses, the second got me the new radiator that my car needed, and so on.Several years later, I've gone through a couple more jobs (a step up each time), started my own business, my credit is slowly rebuilding, the business is supporting two other people. It's still a struggle every day, but it's an uphill struggle. Every year is better than the last.So, if your friends are giving you a hard time, tell 'em to knock it the hell off. Or find new friends. You've made a mistake -- maybe, you won't really know for sure for years -- but you have an opportunity to gain experiences that others never will. If I had never been a climbing instructor, I never would have developed the people skills that I needed to be an effective manager, let alone a business owner. You don't know what the future holds, so there's no sense in admitting defeat yet.I won't try to lie to you, the next few years could be rough. Real rough. There could be an awful lot of days where you don't want to get out of bed, you don't want to do anything. Depression certainly doesn't make it any easier -- I know that from experience, too. But, if you keep trying anyway, you may discover that your best days are ahead of you yet.Also, you're really not an idiot. People that never take a risk rarely end up in great places in life. You took a risk, it hasn't worked out so far. But, you didn't know what was going to happen before you did it. An idiotic decision is one that you know is bad when you make it. Unless you have an unusual power of foresight, you're not an idiot for making the decision you made.Keep working on the freelancing. Keep getting better, keep making connections with other people. You have to become very aggressive now; it's not like a regular job where somebody else is doing the marketing and management for you and setting a schedule. Learn to start recognizing little victories. If you made enough money this week to pay a bill that you couldn't pay last week, that's a victory. Learn to get good at operating within razor-thin margins. Make sure you take a real hard look at all of your expenses; people that aren't accustomed to this style of living often have expenses that they believe they must have. At one point, my expenses were literally: food, and gas for the car. And that was it. I had no bank account, I got my checks cashed at the grocery store, I kept the cash in my wallet with a little extra hidden at my crash space (because paranoia), and so I knew exactly how much money I had to spend and live off of. If I had an extra $20 come payday, that was a real good week.If you're lucky enough to be in an area with good public transit, ditch your car. Those things are money sinks. The moment you can't afford your insurance or registration, you will get pulled over. It's like magic, really bad magic. And the fines and fees just pile up, and there are no sympathetic ears when that starts happening.Let go of everything that you think you have to hold on to -- your sense of importance, of self-worth, anything that might be holding you back or keeping you from making the hard decisions that have to be made -- and just decide that you'll buy it all back later.Then just take your life one day at a time for a while.
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TSA Pressures Mainstream Media Not To Cover Story
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Overlay a thin layer of material over the metal plate (the dark/black region in the images) that has a regular repeating pattern (think checkerboard) that shows objects suspended beyond the body's silhouette.Problem solved.
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Bill Gates takes part in Reddit's Secret Santa
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Someone in the reddit thread asked a good question, what would you give to Bill Gates if you are his Secret Santa?
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Reverse OCR
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Perhaps this could lead to a new kind of captcha that only bots can solve. I doubt it would be efficient, though.
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Amazon Dash Button
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This looks awful. Imagine a house full of branded buttons. Yuk. Though I'm sure my toddler would love pressing them endlessly. And all that packaging in the video, the horror.It must an April fools joke.
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Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getting sick
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I'm really amazed by all the supporters on here. When I first heard about Soylent, I thought it was a terrible terrible idea. I mean, there's so much to food. It's not just eating it, it's all the flavours and ingredients and cooking with friends and loved ones and parties and such. I'm guessing most people on here use it as a supplement + regular food, but when I saw it originally, it seemed like it was intended to be someone's only source of food.I think I'll just stick to Quest bars when I'm too busy to eat right. :-P
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I'm giving up on PGP
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People who use PGP keys, can you give examples of your use? I'm genuinely curious. Who are you contacting, or who is contacting you? The author says he only receives 2 encrypted emails a year. Not only do I not have a PGP key, I don't think I've ever found myself in a situation where it was even an option to use one.
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Report of Active Shooter at YouTube HQ
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“Active shooter” is just the term used now? Does anyone know how that came to be?It sounds like a too-calm euphemism that an interest group thought up.
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Subscription Hell
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At the time of this writing, all of the comments here are focused on content, but I want to touch on the author's bit about software:> It’s not just Bloomberg and media — it’s software too. I used to write everything in Ulysses, a syncing Markdown editor for OS X and iOS. I paid $70 to buy the apps, but then the company switched to a $40 a year annual subscription, and as the dozens of angry reviews and comments illustrate, that price is vastly out of proportion from the cost of providing the software (which I might add, is entirely hosted on iCloud infrastructure).I have noticed this as well, that a not-small number of software programs have turned from "give us one money for this version" to "give us slightly smaller amount of one money per month, but do it in perpetuity if you want to keep going with the data you've entered."That, to me, is crap and is incredibly frustrating, especially when the subscription model is coupled with a data lockout threat. A task manager, a word processor, even a drawing program...none of these ought to require a subscription to be able to use. Sure, have a subscription service for something that needs upkeep, like a syncing service (but get out of here if all you do is just lump it into the user's iCloud storage) or a data feed. But it's almost insulting to say "we used to charge you $50 once, now we're charging you $29.95 per month forever (if you want to see those notes in two years, and no, we don't have a data takeout API); it's such a deal!"
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No Kings: How Do You Make Good Decisions Efficiently in a Flat Organization?
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I would like to refer to the following - The Tyranny of Structurelessness, originally meant to address the concerns regarding 'flat' organizations."This means that to strive for a structureless group is as useful, and as deceptive, as to aim at an "objective" news story, "value-free" social science, or a "free" economy. A "laissez faire" group is about as realistic as a "laissez faire" society; the idea becomes a smokescreen for the strong or the lucky to establish unquestioned hegemony over others......Thus structurelessness becomes a way of masking power, and within the women's movement is usually most strongly advocated by those who are the most powerful (whether they are conscious of their power or not). As long as the structure of the group is informal, the rules of how decisions are made are known only to a few and awareness of power is limited to those who know the rules. Those who do not know the rules and are not chosen for initiation must remain in confusion, or suffer from paranoid delusions that something is happening of which they are not quite aware."https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
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How is it like to be a dev in Iran
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I’m always caught by surprise when I see intelligent, educated people ignore the nature and actions of Iran to justify their adversarial feelings towards the US administration.Iran is on an unprecedented aggressive and violent push towards dominating the Middle East.They are deployed in Syria, building forward bases to threaten Israel, destabilize Lebanon and pushing it closer to another war with Israel by funding and arming Hezbollah.They are sponsoring and arming Shiite militias in Iraq and provide them with ballistic missiles to threaten other Middle East countries.They are supporting and funding the Houthis in Yemen who are responsible for the civil war and attacks on Saudi Arabia and Gulf states. They are supporting, funding and arming Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza, both of which are recognized terrorist groups intent on murdering Jews.They are responsible for historical attacks on US forces in Lebanon during the 80s which killed hundreds of Americans. They are later responsible for the attack on the Jewish community in Argentina in the early 90s.
Lately multiple Iranian operative cells have been exposed in Europe, trying to engage in assassinations.They are bullying Gulf states. They are calling for the destruction of Israel every few weeks.Iran is developing a ballistic missile program which is intended to threaten Western Europe (they are up to 4000km in range now with their latest missiles).Finally, Iran hangs gays from cranes.Now, why would anyone in their right mind oppose sanctioning this country?
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Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer
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On the list of things I always Google, is how to create a symbolic link under Linux. I just can't figure out a way to remember what comes first; the source or the destination. The man pages add to the confusion by calling the "source" the target. So, the rule of thumb I now follow is cp or mv semantics.
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Efficiency is dangerous and slowing down makes life better
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I've found "efficiency as the opposite of stability" a very powerful concept to think about - even though it's fairly simple, it seems to be almost a fundamental law.Whether it's about the economy at large, your own household, a supply chain, what have you - as soon as you optimize for efficiency by removing friction, you take all the slack/damping out of the system and become instantly more liable to catastrophic failure if some of your basic conditions change. Efficiency gives you a speed bonus, at the cost of increased risk / less resilience to unforeseen events.Stewart Brand's concept of "Pace Layering" comes to mind for how to deal with this at a systemic level - https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/issue3-brand/release/2
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I Have Resigned from the Google AMP Advisory Committee
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Years ago I made a news aggregator site which involved dynamically digesting rss feeds and then generating an iframe display of the target story alongside related stories from other sites.The site caught on in certain circles and pageviews skyrocketed within a few months. I was not the only person pursuing this strategy at the time.Before a year had gone by, almost all the major news sites had updated their pages with JavaScript intended to either block iframing altogether, or to “break out” of the iframe, redirecting the viewer to their actual page. We even got a few nasty letters and emails about it with terms like “litigation” casually thrown in.The project became untenable because of this and I shut it down.Fast forward a few years and imagine my dismay when I see Google Amp doing essentially the same thing - but on a much larger scale....
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Bespoke Synth 1.0 – open-source software modular synthesizer
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I'm a software developer right now but I've worked with DAWs as a producer for more than 5 years. You can't even imagine how frustrating is working with Digital Audio Workstation. One messy plug-in and you can lose hours and hours of work. Preset management is a nightmare, there are so many things that they could do to go forward, but the Sequencer market is stall and hasn't moved in years.Imagine if they applied something similar to a git versioning system to music projects.... I don't even know if the VST interface can be used or if it's licensed somehow from Steinberg.Also consider that there are no good audio drivers for Linux (like Asio for example) so you're almost forced to stay in windows or Mac...No plug-in or DAW has a CLI... I could go on for hours...I'm doing some digital audio processing for a startup idea and the only thing I've came up with is using sox trough a Python API.
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Advent of Code 2021
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Would people reccomend this as a way to cement an understanding of Python / OOP in general? I’m typically more geared towards data science style scripting use cases and want to explore more problem focused programming.
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Google Maps now requires WiFi scanning to use navigation
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What are some reliable alternatives for both iOS and Android? I'm unsure how are Apple Maps, but they were hideous a while back for Eastern Europe at least.
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Show HN: We built a developer-first open-source Zapier alternative
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At first I thought that a code alternative for a no-code solution like zapier was counterintuitive.
But as an engineer using Zapier (for the first time) these past few months I got so frustrated by the lack of an option to just write some "if" or just 2 lines of code to make things work the way I want them.I think trigger.dev nails it. This is exactly what I needed.
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Netflix loses 1M users in Spain over password policing
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Netflix have really dissapointed me. I've been a subscriber since before streaming, and have even been content paying the subscription fee during the "breaks" of not using their service for up to months at a time because I so badly want(ed) them to succeed. I also understood the difficult situation they were facing when the producers of content were makkng ridiculous demands on their distribution, or worse, just pulling their content because they were opening their own service or some fuckhead like Murdoch threw money at them to keep an exclusive lock on it.Their streaming model of watching on-demand (i.e., not a weekly release, here's the whole show to watch at your own pace) and their investment in shows that were not the usual low-brow trope-laden predictable shit meant I was actually excited when a new show was announced. My favourite TV-watching moments have been getting lost in shows like Narcos, The Ozarks, or even the seemingly polarising Orange Is The New Black.Now I log in and see nothing but nostalgia tv, trash telly like Love Is Blind, or inexplicably 1/3 of my screen is listing mobile games that Netflix think I would be interested in... and I'm genuinely concerned shows like The Diplomat are just going to leave us all hanging.Meanwhile the other streaming services are at least as bad, but typically worse.
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PostgreSQL 9.4 Released
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Like every year before, the Postgres team has blessed us with an early christmas present. And like every release post before, I'd like to use this opportunity to say thanks to the team for the awesome job they are doing year after year.It's not just the database itself (and that's awesome on its own right), but it's also all the peripheral stuff: The documentation is seriously amazing and very complete, the tools that come with the database are really good too (like psql which I still prefer to the various UIs out there).Code-wise, I would recommend anybody to have a look at their git repo and the way how they write commit-messages: They are a pleasure to read and really explain what's going on. If everybody wrote commit messages like this, we'd be in a much better place what code-archeology is concerned.Patches from the community are always patiently reviewed and, contrary to many other projects, even new contributors are not really required to have a thick skin nor flame retardant suits. The only thing required is a lot of patience as the level of quality required for a patch to go in is very, very high.Finally, there's #postgresql on Freenode where core developers spend their time patiently helping people in need of support. Some questions could be solved by spending 30 seconds in the (as I said: excellent) manual and some of them point to really obscure issues, but no matter what time it is: Somebody in #postgresql is there to help you.I think there's no other free software project out there that just gets everything right: Very friendly community, awesome documentation, awesome tools, and of course and awesome product offering to begin with.Huge thanks to everybody involved.Also: Huge YAY for jsonb - I have many, many things in mind I can use that for and I have been looking forward to this for a year now.
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AI generated music to improve focus, relaxation and sleep
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I still can't find anything better to program to than Nujabes. I'm going to give this a genuine shot, but Jun Seba really left his mark on me for life. I find myself listening to his albums and songs at least twice a day.I think it's because of his repetitive beats, smooth strings and soft instrumentation. There's a reason there are 10 hour 'homework' edits on youtube for almost all of his songs.Counting Stars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-tTmSY4m4MVoice of Autum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvcQWJaaQDwArurian Dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6E9WMM0vko
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Verizon closes $4.5B acquisition of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer resigns
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I find it interesting that the comments section of the WSJ (a pretty capitalist-friendly corner of the internet) is filled with complaints about Mayer's "overpay" as CEO and outrage over her "golden parachute," while HN (a much less capitalist-friendly corner of the internet) has gone through 40 comments and I've only seen a couple questioning her pay as CEO, and several comments praising her job in the role.Take away Marissa Mayer from this story, and replace her with a generic CEO, and I'm not sure we'd see the same mood in either comment section.Why is this? Is this because she's from Google? Because she's a former engineer? Because she's a female CEO? Is she just a politically polarizing topic ala Elon Musk?Genuinely curious. Anyone have any ideas?
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Magic-Wormhole – Get things from one computer to another, safely
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> Copying files with ssh/scp is fine, but requires previous arrangements and an account on the target machine, and how do you bootstrap the account?~Assuming that you have openssh and rssh installed, you bootstrap like this:
useradd -m -g users -s /usr/bin/rssh tmp
passwd tmp
edit /etc/rssh.conf and uncomment allowscp
Share the password with the party you want to exchange data with. Make sure your ports are open.See: https://serverfault.com/questions/197545/can-non-login-accou...The use case I see for wormhole is if you're working purely in the python ecosystem. That's it.You're free to disagree of course, but I prefer ssh, since it's peer-to-peer end-to-end encrypted,
and extends to cover other use cases much more easily (rsync, VNC, etc.).
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Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database
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I don't know why everyone is being so negative in the comments so far. It's really discouraging to other people who want to share something they made. It makes me sad.OP: This is cool. It's not meant to replace Netlify or GH Pages or a million other things, and I understand that. Some people just want to make something and you made something. You've done more than so many people here by just releasing something and that's something to take great pride in. I don't have a use for it personally, but I think it's really cool and I took a look at the code to see what was going on. I found it neat.Ignore and excuse everyone that's expecting a multi-million dollar product from you.Everyone else: If you're genuinely asking "what's the point of this?" or "why's it free? who are you? why should I trust you?" or "what does this do that Netlify or GH Pages doesn't" — let's get real for a minute: Not everything is meant to compete with these services, or any service. There are a hundred-thousand products that exist on the internet with very happy users that you and I have never heard of. This bias that everything needs to be "the one" that we all use is discouraging, isn't the goal of this community, and isn't in the hacker spirit. It's fine to be skeptical and curious, but don't be a downer or shame.This is show and tell: Timmy brought a rock he thinks is cool, Cassie brought her mom's diamonds, and Shaun brought a 2Pac album. Don't yuck other people's yums.
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In Defense of Richard Stallman
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Diversity -- but no diversity of opinion...Inclusiveness -- but let's ostracize the non-conforming aspie...Fairness -- but let's fire people or make them resign from unrelated positions for their personal opinions, because obviously all of a person's life should serve as a big PR, and god forbid they don't play the role 24/7. Someone might call them for it on Twitter, and what could their employee/organization do other than fire them? (in the "Land of the free" nonetheless)Not to mention the blatant conformity and blandness -- punishing experimentation, personality, eccentricity, being the devil's advocate, controversiality, and, worse of all, being 'unprofessional' (as if the FSF is something akin to 1970s IBM)...First they came for Patch Adams...The current environment rewards the worst kind of scum: holier-than-thou hypocritical tell-tales and people who enjoy yielding power over others by drawing lynch-mobs.I have wrote against Epstein here in several threads, but I could have lunch with a person who has controversial opinions on the matter like Stallman. People like those who finger-pointed and cheered on the personal consequences on Stallman, I'd prefer to live in another universe from.Are you happy now? Justice for Epstein's victims served? (on someone who never even met Epstein)Speak up now, or don't bother to cry crocodile tears and set up the "black ribbon" when we eventually lose Stallman, and tell stories of how he inspired you, etc...
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