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> So being able to get through life with your basic needs and propagate is the definition of success now?

For a lot of people... yeah, that's true. When people say that HN is a bubble, they mean it.

I don't know anything about your background, but have any of your friends ever said something like "my biggest dream in life is to be a mom"? Here in Canada, I've heard that from several friends. For a lot of us on HN that might sound trivial, but we're a strange bunch in our own special ways :)
I've worked on systems for consumer goods/products companies and one thing that's consistently come up is the need to do demand planning and some forward looking sales analytics. In a number of cases we needed to do analysis based on product mix/category, consumer profiles (age, gender, color preferences, etc), or even geographic weather events that might influence sales spikes. We had humans doing this full time at the places where I worked.

This has always felt like the kind of task that would be perfect for ML-type systems/algorithms, but I haven't figured out a good way to mentally map the problem space onto ML because I'm just not super familiar with the ML topics and, as I mentioned, the mathematics has always turned me off.
But it has "protection" in its title! It must be protecting us right...
Not for men (for the most part, as in 99%).
They either love vagina, and are disgusted by penis, or vice versa.

In ancient Rome, "It was considered natural and unremarkable for men to be sexually attracted to teen-aged youths of both sexes, and pederasty was condoned as long as the younger male partner was not a freeborn Roman." [1]

Most people would agree that genetically, men haven't changed all that much in the last 2000 years or so, which lets us discount the idea that a genetic bit has recently been flipped.

That leaves the notion that sexuality is - at least in part - a social construction.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexuality_in_ancient_Rome
Or every time you buy a new car instead of a used car, you kill 1-2 starving people somewhere.

Such math is hard...
> Looking at modern day web development we are seeing the opposite, where the program is many times bigger than it's output

You're seriously underestimating the size of output in a web browser. Consider that the CSS, JS and HTML describe the position of every pixel and its motion on the screen.
Chaos Theory
Xabber never fixed that even though their development branch has at least some activity? That's good prioritizing…
You're right, I should take a look through the source more often.

I chalk it up to my C# dev background, where source code was either completely impenetrable, a Sacred Thing that nobody should feel privileged to look at, or both.

I'll have to give it another look sometime.
I find that stoicism helps with that feeling. Forces you to at least be somewhat functional.
Yeah, that makes sense.

Adding additional filters is fairly easy, but I think we decided against it thinking that "no one" would find them or be interested.

Maybe we're wrong about that (there seems to be demand here, and HN seems to be doing just fine with multiple feeds/filters).
> I've yet to ever see or hear of it properly executed in practice.

Isn't Netflix the poster child for this, and haven't they been for a very long time now? Not the content, which resides in their and others CDNs, but the back-end, webservers, databases and management systems are all supposed to be in the cloud now (after a long time migrating).

> I think it's a really hard thing to try and bolt on to a legacy system

There are different levels. Architecting a sharded database solution before you need to might be a bit excessive, but designing for multiple web, storage, or processing servers, etc from the start even if using bare metal is smart, and allows (relatively) easily adding capacity even if you are just colocating somewhere. At the point where you are already able to add capacity by scaling hardware, the cloud is a fairly attractive target, especially since automating the steps you take to add/remove hardware is likely trivial if you've already been doing it manually for a while, as the rough edges have likely been smoothed away somewhat already..
I agree. But how much cheaper will a replacement battery (or repack) be after 10-15 years?

Will a 3rd-party battery replacement industry evolve, or will we always be stuck buying from the manufacturer?
Kubernetes supports this already. You have the choice to either mount the secret into the container file system or set it as a environment variable. https://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/secrets/#using-secrets...
Hmm, in Boston they only pay 2/3rds of what Google does for somebody with my job title (not counting stock or bonuses). And as soon as you get outside of the "hot" markets, those multipliers are pretty bad. If I compare their Rochester, NY salaries with what I've actually earned working in rural college towns, well, I've gotten better paychecks in academia.

They seem like nice folks, but as an experienced remote worker (with a history of both remote employment and remote contracting), I wouldn't bother to apply based on what I currently know.
That is what project centipede is all about, a migration path from Win32 to UWP.

I don't care, as I would rather see a modern sanboxed OO ABI make Win32 drink beers with Carbon.
She's referring to issues in the backup process specifically, not in the company culture (which IMO is pretty good).
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I love TMSB. I remember one episode where they had to build a bridge out of toothpicks and gum drops (they were shrunk). Not sure why that episode sticks with me, maybe because I was really into K'nex as a kid?

I'm kind of bitter that they replaced Ms Frizzle. Lily Tomlin is still alive and in another Netflix show, why couldn't she voice her?
I'm working on pulling the images now, like I did for the Rijksmuseum CC0 dump. FWIW a good place to host that torrent is the Internet Archive - it's great for discoverability.
I know the article isn't advocating euthanasia. I think that, too, is a flaw in the logic of the article.

I think it's totally fine to exhort people who don't have strong dog preferences to select non-compromised dogs. It also makes sense to me to advocate rescues. We own a rescue, too. Where you lose me is when you suggest that it's unethical to purchase a purebred dog.

Acquiring a rescue when you have a preference for a purebred puppy is an ethically positive action. I think few people here would disagree with that. The fallacy in your argument is that the positive outcome of acquiring a rescue does not automatically imply that a acquiring a purebred is ethically negative; it can be --- and I think usually is --- ethically neutral.
I'm in a similar boat, except I have 10 years on top of yours. It's actually been a lot of fun, the learning and building, but I've been driven by the same fear.

First off, this is hard and very few (any?) have this figured out. It took me going through a major depression episode and other, significant, life changes to start to work on this.

About a year ago I've started to change some key habits and that has helped to alleviate this feeling. To start with:

* Reduced the amount of tech news / startup news I consume significantly. I cut down the number of blogs from ~ 300 to ~ 10.
* I have a hobby (woodworking in my case). I tried a bunch of hobbies over the years and it took a while to find something that I'm sticking with, but just keep experimenting
* Meditation and non-tech and non-business reading has helped. Instead of reading 10 business/startup/tech books for every 1 fiction/biography/history/fun-topic, I reversed that relationship.
* Vacations. Not some huge travel-the-world stuff, but a weekend getaway with friends / significant other is amazing. Could just be to look at vintage stores, art galleries, sit on your butt by the pool, etc. Don't have goals, get lost and don't watch the clock

Lastly, the most important piece. Spend the time and the energy you're investing right now in projects and "growing" on figuring out what you want out of life. This is not some existential thing nor is it some grand plan. Starting a company is a goal and good one. Traveling 3 months out of a year is a goal too. Don't get hung up on it, it'll change and evolve over the years. Just start somewhere, you can "pivot" as you move forward.

Here's the most important piece though - how do you measure yourself? Forget realistic/unrealistic or external/internal - doesn't matter. Identify what are the metrics that you use to gauge your progress and what it means for you to have had a successful week (day - too short & month/year - too long).

Then, ask yourself: why that?

The answers to the questions above will help show you a path from feeling like you're spinning in one spot and what to do next.

Reach out if you want to talk about any of it.
Set it to "lead" and "a lot of experience" (I'd grade myself intermediate-to-senior and above-average experience IRL) and the top of that range is less than I make now, and I'm not big on self-promotion/networking and could probably make quite a bit more if I were. Plus their benefits are worse than what I get at my tiny company. Their comp calculation sucks for my area.

They're paying talentless Wordpress dev prices for their mid-tier devs, by local standards. This is in a mid-sized midwestern US city. LOLWUT? No one decent in my city would accept a job there.
> It was only because of what Arch unilaterally did

Arch is a bleeding-edge, latest software kind of distribution. They did not made the decision 'unilaterally'. They made the decision to ship the latest software for their own distribution, as they always do. It may have proven that a lot of software is extremely poor/inflexible, (i.e. rests on weak assumptions), but I am glad Arch moved forward as that showed their resolve to move technology forward even in the face of a lot of pressure from outside groups.

I just think that instead of blaming Arch, try to make your scripts more robust, i.e. loop on all 'python*' binaries in /usr/bin and use the first one whose --version gives you '2.x' instead of relying on /usr/bin/python being python 2 when the latest version is 3 and Arch is known to ship latest software.
It has the Linux kernel you just bring the GNU or whatever you need. But Google now supports containers on ChromeOS so if access you can just run in a container and the use Android X Windows server on same box.

If Google would gives this away have my perfect development solution. I can play my Android games on my 2 in 1 and then use full Linux when in laptop mode. But I can also debug my containers on my laptop as native.

But when needed I have sold browser and other core things can never be touched. Basically give me a iPad and a Chromebook and a full Linux development machine. Well no kernel dev on Linux but most things, native, shared read, etc.

But I want an extra SSD that is separate from the kernel SSD. I think this can be done and even keep read share from boot dev and something running as a container.
Money, blockchains, and social scalability
I highly recommend starting with Cat's Cradle over Slaughterhouse Five, especially if you like thinking about religion (and the silliness of religion, dictators, and technology)
Separately, one thing I'd be excited about is filtering by users at companies in a certain grouping (e.g. by Geo, industry, or some other affiliation like YC or 500 Startups alums). Siftery can do this since users have verified business e-mails.

Does this sound interesting?
How about replacing your entry point with:

envdir /run/secrets <stuff>
I have the impression this is being moved off the frontpage in an accelerated manner ...
It can be difficult to feel normal if there isn't a word to describe how you feel. If all you see is depictions of a certain kind of person (straight and cisgender [1]), but you don't feel that way, are you broken, wrong, crazy even? I've seen countless accounts of people that fit the formula of "I felt different all my life, and it wasn't until I heard the word <label> that I understood."

So yes, maybe if you're straight and cisgender you never gave a thought to it, because the majority of people around you were as well, but to a little transgender or asexual teen, hearing the label is like finding a community and comfort blanket all in one.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisgender - Cisgender (often abbreviated to simply cis) is a term for people who have a gender identity that matches the sex that they were assigned at birth. Cisgender may also be defined as those who have "a gender identity or perform a gender role society considers appropriate for one's sex."[1] It is the opposite of the term transgender.

Edit: kid->teen, I'm not talking about pre-pubescent children
And because of that, many pet owners now want Malinois* instead of Shepherds...because they saw one on TV and it looked super obedient and they think, well if the police are using them, it's probably just what I need to complete my apartment..!

You'll see the same problems in Malinois in - my guess - 3-5 years from now. Let a couple generations go by. Keep an eye out for phrases like "old world" and "large-boned" when you start seeing super-sized Mal's walking around Petsmart.

eternally SMH
It's the same team that's behind Pagoda Box. Nanobox is in many ways the next evolution of Pagoda Box.
RT was literally the exact opposite of UWP. I would argue they killed the RT BECAUSE of the shift torward UWP.

The RT was a stopgap measure to try and force windows onto a Architecture it wasn't ready for. Most of it didn't work at all which is why it failed.
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Slapstick was one of my favorites, plenty of sarcasm to go around. I've been trying to get through Player Piano (his first novel) but it's a tad dry.
If you're interested in more about this particular subject, I think Gleick does a pretty good job of providing a 'road through history' on the subject of the representation/computation duality in "The Information".

If you're keen on the broader problems of philosophy that will sound strikingly familiar to anyone who has studied a bit of computer science, Bertrand Russell's "Problems in Philosophy" is a tidy little dip into the fundamental problems philosophers have wrestled with throughout history, and the various tools they've invented to solve them (including logic, mathematics, and by extension, computer science)
It's completely ironic, the tone of the show is extremely anti-authoritarian (a huge part of the show is eviscerating "washington consensus" liberals from a leftist perspective as well as pathological sycophants in various political orgs) and appropriating the nickname of fascists in Turkish AKP for their fans is a joke.
Surely the very first thing I do with my first quantum computer is to run .NET on it.
A few questions I didn't see addressed in the article:

Did they confirm metastability? I guess confirmation of that isn't as easy as simply removing the pressure and seeing if it continues to shine and conduct electricity, or they'd have mentioned it.

As rocket fuel, how do you convert it back to molecular hydrogen to release all that energy? As simple as lighting it on fire in the presence of an oxidizer?

Is it liquid or solid? If liquid, how practical is it going to be in their suggested use in long-distance power transmission? You'd need some kind of flexible packaging that doesn't allow for voids to open up (because then you've lost conductivity) that also won't leak.

And if it's easy to light it on fire as rocket fuel, how can we prevent our long-distance electricity lines from turning into fiery conflagrations in hostile conditions? Could lightning strikes detonate them? Maybe that risk could be reduced with high conductivity coatings on their outer wrap, but that doesn't cover every eventuality.

I met a guy once who was in the business of providing valves for liquid hydrogen handling, he said it was very tricky to handle the stuff safely. Stringing it all over the countryside in a form that packs more than a 3x energy punch of its conventional liquid form could be interesting.
When I say process, I mean some of our operational processes like making sure backups work. There was an incident with data loss last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13537052

Like any company, we have our own business operations issues too but it's still one of the best jobs I've ever had. We're pretty open about our flaws, to the point where the CEO even has a page that lists his out: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-operations/ceo-pref...
There are many other good arguments you could use to say that racism still exists, but voter ID laws isn't a good one. Brown people can get an ID just as easily as white.
This secrets infrastructure is only available at run-time and with Swarm? Are you looking to handle build-time secrets?
You're saying getting in Google has nothing to do with intelligence?

Have you gotten an offer from the Big4?
Because i can install vundle with a single line in my setup script (already have a "provisioning" kinda script for each time i fire off a machine).

I dont have to update that script for new plugins, its a single "Vundle user/repo" in the vundle.rc file. Vundle then installs it, and handles it.

Could it be scripted, sure... but its much more readable in the vundle form (or other managers for vim), and its also in a more logical place... and its portable, even to a windows machine... its kinda a separation of concerns kinda thing...
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>On the other hand, if we used words like "penis-loving" and "vagina-loving", which are descriptions, we'd get along much better.

I think that would just be confusing, as you're conflating very different things. I'm gay in terms of who I'm actually attracted to, but I find both penises and vaginas sexually interesting. Similarly, gay men aren't necessarily particularly into penises and straight men aren't necessarily particularly into vaginas. (With regard to the latter, witness all the nasty misogynistic things straight men are liable to say about them.)

I'd also point out that as a gay man I'm far more attracted to transguys, who generally have vaginas, than I am to transwomen, who generally have penises.

So in short, describing my sexuality in terms of which genitalia get me going would be very misleading, and I'm not an isolated case.
Easy way to reach your goal
But Kubernetes secrets are stored - and by default transmitted amongst managers - in plain text. And Kube will share secrets with all kubelets, no questions asked. They're not "secrets".
It has nothing to do with bubbles. They started doing it years ago to grow faster. There are some good articles about what happened.
The video config can be changed by the CPU in the middle of a scanline so you can't decode an entire scanline in a tight loop but need to run video decoding interleaved with the CPU (currently it's ticked after an entire CPU instruction though, not per cycle), and every tick of the video system needs to figure out all the decoding parameters again, because they might have changed since the last tick (and demo-scene demos use this mid-scanline-stuff a lot).

Also the display isn't driven directly by the 6845, HSYNC and VSYNC go through the Gate Array where a few ticks of latency is added, the same is true for the interrupt request that happens every 52 scanlines.

On top of that the CPC has an extra funky pixel bit pattern (http://cpctech.cpc-live.com/docs/graphics.html)

I haven't spent any time at all yet optimizing the video system though, for instance the pixel decoding might benefit from lookup tables. I first want to get it accurate enough for demo-scene gfx demos, and than will take care of performance.
You don't need a LLC, you can just enter into a partnership and be done with it. The thing an LLC gives you, however, is some liability protection as well as tax benefits.

As for bank, that is going to depend on how much money you have in the bank at any given time. When I opened my account for my business I had ~$1000. That made me look into local banks, since bigger banks like Chase required at least $1500 in the account at all times.
And the U is a unitary operator (the propagator in this case). "i" is also found everywhere in QM.
One other thing - whether you want to travel or not, reading Vagabonding is helpful for the mindset. Some of Tim Ferriss' writing on this is helpful too.

The idea of financial freedom is not a one-size fits all. It really depends on what you value and how you want to live.

However, that's another existential question without an easy answer, just lots of work on self-awareness.
Do you mean "conformation"?
I'm glad that things are much better for you. Thanks for keeping up the fight.
Arch was my first distro, ten years ago, and I'm still using it. There's a learning curve, but the documentation is second to none and at the end you'll have a system that you actually understand and can maintain and troubleshoot. When I try other distros, I find they always fall over in some baffling way[1] and I pine for the dead-simple package management of Arch.

[1] Installing a 32-bit package on Debian uninstalls all 64-bit packages????????????????? Why is this even allowed?
There already is one, it's called Supported Source: https://supportedsource.org/

More projects just need to use it.
I don't know that this is the case. A lot of top talent works remote, because they prefer to be valued by output rather than face time or butt in seat time. The too talent which does not work remote, does so often by choice, because they prefer to be "in the mix."

But it probably also depends on how asynchronous their organizations are, too. GitHub is super asynchronous, as is Pluralsight. These are companies who, as part of their corporate DNA, have adopted means of working together which don't require being together in an office. Pluralsight, for example, has offices, teams, and individual contributors all over the US. We work together using Slack, BlueJeans, and GitHub. It works incredibly well.
Do you think it has to do with being detached socially from other people, even family members?
For a country with such low GDP the debt to GDP ratio is not a good indicator of its future. If the country's economy performs at all its GDP could go up multiple times. The situation is different for a middle income country such as Argentina. One can't reasonably expect Argentinian GDP to go up multiple times so the debt is a lot more onerous relative to the GDP. There is a well know "middle income trap" that is hard to escape. The economic upgrade required to move to the developed status from the middle income rung is much harder than what is required to move up from a very low base (really just "normalize") such as Ethiopia.
Also, the larger a team is, the more the average ability of the team will approach the average ability of the population it recruits from.