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>There is no shortage of hard problems left to solve

Yes, and there never will be. The problem of life is which one to choose. This problem is getting harder in the sense that there's more choice now. (In the old days if peasants didn't labour as their fellows did then they mostly died. Simple choice.) But even though we have choices now this doesn't imply it's possible to live a life of distraction and convenience. The illusion that this is possible leads to nihilism, despair and mental disorder. Which are themselves hard problems.
Just responding as op, but pka nailed it.

If you're writing every line of code directly then these all feel like conveniences. If you write code that's more generic then they become exponentially compounding edge cases.
Here's the challenge with "more arms".

We talk about the "need to protect against an unjust government" (going back to the original reasoning why 2A was enshrined)...

You basically have two scenarios there, as we've seen play out around the world:

1. The military / soldiers revolt, 'remember the patriotism', whatever you want to call it. The government is toothless because their military isn't going to quell civil uprising.

2. A general or colonel decides it's his time, and has the backing of the military. A military with access to fighter jets, armored helicopters, bombers, not to mention the actual big guns, NBC weaponry. And then we have the 'militia' populace, limited to largely semi automatic small arms or less. Is the military going to "play fair", or are they, per current US doctrine, "shock and awe" a demonstrative show of force.

Either way, largely, we'd be fucked. The days of rebel insurgencies hanging out in the jungle/desert/ wherever providing credible resistance to a tyrannical government never really applied to the US.
Thanks, I've wanted this too, and have a new fun project.
While I don't recommend this daily hygiene plan, for the doubters on HN there is some research into this which does not conflict with the parent's statements.

According to a variety of authorities, body odor is the result of bacterial interaction with sweat and oil excretions of the body. The medical name for severe body odor is bromhidrosis. But the key is that there is an interaction between the microbiome in the area around your sweat glands, and your sweat that causes the odor.

Anthropologists studying primitive peoples have found many cases of people who do not bathe regularly and yet do not smell either. A group at MIT did some studies with repopulating the microbiome with ammonia consuming bacteria from soil as a way of avoiding body odor without washing. And the folks at the Microbiome project cultivated a bunch of microbiomes from people's arm pits and thighs which also informed this area (although there isn't really a pro-biotic deodorant that I know of yet)

As I understand it, showering and washing isn't getting rid of "odor" it is getting rid of bacteria that is outgassing odor after processing your sweat. You could be odor free without showering with the right bacteria consuming the sweat.
May I recommend making the links in the emails clickable? (i.e., HN Profile in the intro emails)
I think this skill is what kept me going through the frustrating patches after I decided that I wanted to be a programmer. I started programming later than many here (after I had obtained a degree in an unrelated field), but I'd always enjoyed breaking and fixing computers and software as a kid and so I'd picked up "computing", as you put it, as a hobby.

That sort of hobby teaches you to keep ramming your head against the wall until the bricks start to crumble, which is helpful when you're trying to learn a language but the package you want fails to install on Ubuntu, or your program won't run despite you having checked the syntax a thousand times, or a concept doesn't click until you've re-read it every day for a week. You learn to see computers and software as a mess that you will necessarily have to untangle and rearrange for things to work properly, instead of thinking of things that don't yet work as "broken". And you learn to Google until your eyes start to melt.
Nah, it's literally one express freeway bus. That's what's so great about Seattle public transit.
It's also definitely a matter of culture.

I've lived in Europe and Africa, traveled quite a lot in Asia and America, and what people consider offensive is very contextual, including odors.

I noticed there is some link between how the society handle sexuality and the way we perceive odors. In south America and Africa, quite a lot of countries have a very natural approach to sex, and the body in general, and hence the odor of a healthy non-hobbo human is not perceived as such a problem, even after a day of work under the sun.

In the US, despite having a culture very sex oriented, the population itself is not at all liberated. You are a very sexually frustrated society. And body odor is a problem.
For a brief moment. Just like how brushing your teeth makes your breath smell alright for 30 minutes.

Nice to have a gameplan thereafter though.
We probably don't live in the same place. You see, I live in reality, while you live in a fantasy world where your ability to drive your car for cheap matters.

Roads need to be _EXPENSIVE_ to use, Cars need to be expensive to own
Transit needs to be _UBIQUITOUS_ and _CHEAP/FREE_ to use

_ANY_ other combination is insanity. It has been proven time and time again that any other combination leads to insane amounts of congestion.
Those mempool stats doesn't suggest spam at all. It's basically impossible to identify spam transactions.

Both Steam and Stripe stopped accepting Bitcoin, that's a fact.

It's only logical that people stopped transacting when fees grew sky high.
You're getting into the same exact box with Bitcoin.

You're not going to securely store anything in Venezuela until order and a functioning government system is restored. Venezuela is an entirely collapsed nation at this point. You're lucky to have any access to electricity to use Bitcoin and things are still getting worse there.

Safely store your Bitcoin. Gun to the head, you lose your Bitcoin and your life if you don't give up whatever access is needed.

You store your USD in your home (or wherever). Gun to the head, you lose your dollars and your life if you don't give it up.

Plausibly given the extreme murder going on there, you lose your life regardless if it becomes known you have any money, whether it's in USD or Bitcoin.
No. I am stating that OSM has no setup for, or desire to, accept useful but incomplete data. And unless they do, they will not have data available that other services have.

I know where Google, Bing, Facebook, Yelp, Foursquare, etc get phone numbers and current business hours for our clients. They are straightforward for us to work with, and we are happy to give it to them. OSM is not easy to work with us, so don't get that data.

OSM has a choice. Be easy to work with, or have limited data. OSM has chosen to be hard to work with. That is a valid choice, but then you have to live with the result.
That's wonderful, but now you're trying to solve mass transit and affordable housing at the same time. The fact of the matter is that a war on driving is a war on the working class. You can get a used car for just above $1000, but that's how much more you would be paying per month to live within transit distance of your workplace.
I salute your motivation in researching this question, and thanks for sharing.

I tried to phrase my original appeal carefully, because I didn't want to entirely discount the possibility that it was all just people chasing bullshit. But there's a lot of things in life that look that way, but the people doing it actually have what they think are good reasons. But, yeah, that doesn't sound good.

It seems to me that from a strictly engineering perspective, once you have a corporation involved that the pressures involved would, or at least should, inevitably turn any putative "blockchain" solution into a centralized database owned and administered by the corporation. To be concrete about it, how would WoW gold be improved by a blockchain? The answer is not only that it would have no additionally-useful features, but that it would take numerous hits.

For $100, I'll share with anyone my clever plan for taking a centralized database for tokens and just calling it a blockchain. Oops, I may have given my game plan away. Well, in the spirit of things, perhaps you should still throw money at me. ("In the interests of customer convenience, we just run the blockchain for them... and our engineers have also optimized blockchains quite a bit, eliminating all the Proof of X problems... And from there we were able to optimize turnaround times and responsiveness in the system... OK, basically, it's just a Cassandra installation... but we forked Cassandra and called it Cassandra - Blockchain Edition.")
I had the same experience a few years ago, in the end I stuck with Google Maps, with Maps.me as a backup. But ideally, I'd like mapbox to release a Google Maps like app, as their maps are just stunning compared to anything else that renders OSM data. (I havn't yet found any other company using mapbox data to create a useful map I could use, usually it's just built in maps like uber)
Should EU companies be allowed to send my data to the US, then?

Of course not. Businesses should be bound by the laws of their jurisdictions.

And you won’t catch me defending the US throwing its weight around to violate the sovereignty of other nations either. It’s wrong for us to do it too.
> for me what is great about Go is it removes BS and incidental complexity, & is just really well-designed and pleasant to work with. i happily choose it for personal projects.

Go was the first compiled language I learned coming from Python and scientific computing. And I felt the same way and was so delighted to write fast native multithreaded code without ceremony.

But then I learned some other languages that have elegant and powerful type systems (namely, Rust, OCaml and Haskell) and now I'm somewhat disgusted at my former self. Go could have been great, but it ain't. It's a blub language if ever there was one.

I know my opinion on these things doesn't matter. But I feel resentful of Go, I feel like I was duped.
I wouldn't recommend it at this moment. The powers that be did a pretty good job of knocking a lot of vendors offline-- then the runup in bitcoin made exit scams attractive while simultaneously making it cost a fortune to tumble/transfer.
One of the consequences of the transition from command-line interfaces such as DOS and Unix to contemporary GUIs such as macOS and Windows is we have moved from environments that do not make a sharp distinction between programmer and user to environments that make a sharp distinction. One of the nice things about command-line interfaces is being able to make powerful tools that are composed of smaller tools. Unix has a powerful collection of tools, and if those tools aren't powerful enough even with combined by pipes, there's awk and sed, and then there are scripting languages. Contemporary GUI applications, however, work very differently. Instead of being composed from smaller programs, many contemporary GUI applications such as Microsoft Word, Adobe Photoshop, and iTunes are large monoliths that are expensive to write (just consider how large the teams engineering these products are, and consider how much effort it would take to write a clone of these programs from scratch), difficult to combine, and are difficult to script unless they are specially designed to support scripting (e.g., AppleScript, Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications, etc.). Web applications are even harder to write than native GUI applications, and they are even more difficult to deal with in regards to interoperability and scriptability.

It didn't have to be this way, and there's room for a future where it doesn't have to be this way. The Smalltalk-76 environment demonstrated that it is possible to construct composable and interoperable GUI applications. The Genera operating system for LISP machines worked similarly. Apple's OpenDoc initiative would have introduced the wider world to the concept of composable GUIs, although it was canned as a consequence of Apple adopting the tried-and-true OpenStep platform as the basis of future Mac development. An operating system environment inspired by the Smalltalk environment and LISP machines that provides both a REPL for tasks that are equivalent the Unix command line and an OpenDoc-like API for designing composable GUI or even web applications would create an environment that is both easy to use and programmable. I've been growing more and more excited about the possibility of such an operating system for workstation users that could one day serve as an alternative to contemporary desktop operating systems and environments such as Windows, macOS, and the Linux desktop.
> First, the Russians, in other instances

Those are different "Russians" - judging from the name (Cyber Berkut) they most likely not even Russians but Ukrainians, as "Berkut" is the name of the security force that has been, among others, protecting Yanukovich in Maidan events in Ukraine in 2014. Russian group would not likely take the name of Ukrainian security force - there are a lot of nice Russian names available. But pro-Russian Ukrainians (which there are a bunch of) would. In any case, the only relation of those to APT*s is that they also leaked emails. So far I don't think there was a credible claim of any Wikileaks-published DNC mails as being fake, were there?

> But the broader point here is that one group is leveraging and digging and amplifying some bad behavior

Wasn't that like what 90% of past electoral campaigns were doing - digging dirt on each other (going back to high school and beyond) and blowing it up into a huge deal? I don't think Russians exactly invented the whole "dig up some dirt on the opposition and talk about it incessantly" trick.
For the past 10-15 years I have only used Shampoo maybe once a year. Every time I ask my barber how it's looking back there, I always get the thumbs up.

The natural oil that accumulates let me style my hair without using products.

I also do not use body wash / body soap and no complaints around smell although I do use deodorant everyday.
As a purely practical matter, does it really make sense to prioritize the arming of millions of teachers to handle this?

I know a lot of teachers and they are really busy with all the other stuff that they have to do, what would you trade off in favor of training?

Without getting into the politics of this, the fact of the matter is that these types of shootings are really rare, and if I had to draft up a list of problems that schools face then mass shootings would certainly not crack the top 10, or even top 100 problems / priorities to focus on.
My interpretation of your comments is that the state of North Carolina used as an argument against deregulating its taxi market to an extent that would allow Uber to operate in the state that Uber might not survive the ensuing competition.

If so, that is indeed then a normative observation, and it's also a pretty silly argument. Thus, my incredulity that is actually the case. I'd be interested in knowing what, then, their argument actually was.
> I asked around the office. No one else is getting 60 hours.

Sounds like significant sampling bias right there. US prime age employment rate (25-54 years old) is 78% (which counts part time employees). I'd guess that the 22% you didn't interview, and the part time employees (who likely don't work in an office) are far less busy.
Russian opposition leader Navalny's name shifts snow in Moscow
> Was this an experiment you ran out of desperation?

Well, I wasn't getting any call-backs for a while, so kinda...I'd go check out the career pages and every single one of them had these various sections "women," "minorities," "veterans," etc...pretty much every category other than white guy from average state school that doesn't have rich parents or professional connections...then I clicked on one of the links and all it showed were "women in tech" and how much they supported women...all the pics on their website were of women...it was okay, I get it, you don't want/need any more white guys...I thought it would be funny to apply as a woman without changing a single thing on my resume other than the name...and lo and behold, I called emails/call-backs from every single company I had previously been rejected by...I'm not even kidding, same college, same professional experience, same extra-curricular activities...everything the same other than name/sex.

> When these companies responded to you (as 'Joanna'), did you proceed with the interview process?

I did not...if they were going to be sexist I had no desire to work for them at that point, plus it left such a sour taste in my mouth. I did find a company that wasn't sexist so I ended up going with them in the end.
And it's yet another clear illustration what the whole "Fake News" effort is about. It's not even about meddling in elections, it's making sure some rich sleazeballs prostitute pics don't make it to their wives, or the press. And of course, that when that does happen, "revenge" is exacted and traces of it get removed.
Then it's very polite of Lyft to price competitively to allow Uber to stay relevant when they could easily undercut them, due to their much smaller line item for "expensive policy-mongering."

This is conspiracy-theory level evidence and rationalizing.
Having active hobbies is key. Many places and climates aren't suited to that though. Dragging yourself to a gym ~every day for years quickly becomes tiresome. People turn to group ex and personal trainers to get through the mental boredom but that's too expensive for many to afford.
The first mistake was committing to civilization in the first place. Hunter-gatherers were probably happier and healthier than any of us before we started moving into marginal habitats and resorting to agriculture to survive.

I don't think the Mongols or Comanche had "massive environmental problems". Steppe nomads don't need any more infrastructure than the steppe. They also manage to kick the asses of any "civilization" that hasn't managed to invent machine guns yet.
I have one of these and can 100 pct vouch that it works for me, no question whatsoever. YMMV
Drugstore brands such as Axe, Old Spice and Irish Spring are absolutely terrible. I'm currently using Dr Bronner's castile soap (eucalyptus) and while the smell is strong, it's not offensive. I also like Ivory (bar soap) and Every Man Jack.
>The GOPATH environment variable now has a default value if it is unset. It defaults to $HOME/go on Unix and %USERPROFILE%/go on Windows.

If this is what you are talking about - they 'fixed' it in 1.8 a year ago.
Vimperator did that. Just miss it.
It's interesting on Star Trek how they avoid that with various challenges for the crew, including holodeck malfunctions. But you have to wonder how people back on cozy planet Earth outside of the highly motivated Starfleet types are able to stay away from the total convenience and immersion of holodecks, replicators and transporters.
AIPAC, who have a well documented history of interference, and have controversially managed to avoid registering themselves under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
I can't reply to the $1000 used car comment, but holy shit are people short sighted.

Yep, $1000 for a car. That's it! That's all it takes. That car will now last until infinity without any extra costs, maintenance, headaches, etc.

Jesus people are stupid.
I don't get it. Soap doesn't seem very volatile. The article leads with deodorant and soap but the rest is about paint and lacquer, which seem way more volatile than soap.

How does my soap get into the air? Is it volatile and I just don't know?
> I don't know of any decent OSM apps on that proprietary platform

Is ViewRanger of use? (Disclosure: I used to work there).

It’s focused on outdoor pursuits such as hiking and biking rather than driving or public transit, but OSM is one of the available maps.
I imagine if you're working on a project with 3 packages and only 1 package changed then the test will automatically skip the other 2 with no flags or changed command needed? Or perhaps if your working on one large package and only one file changed?
Even if that's 100% true at face value, it has no relevance to my point.
Linux (ubuntu) using xfce. Always have one workspace devoted to a full-screen Vim window, so can get there with a keyboard shortcut. In my .vimrc, I have

set clipboard=unnamedplus

so that yanked text is copied to the X11 clipboard. Yank buffer, switch back to browser (or what have you), paste.
With Vimium, the whole procedure is mouseless.

pbcopy on Mac brings back memories.
And that's all right of way that could otherwise be used for rail. So it's not just a matter of building both, but of choosing one mode or the other.
Does your insurance cover it?
Replace "car-hailing app" with "phone that makes calls", "desktop operating system", "game", "TV that decodes images from airwaves", "car", "firmware to read expiration dates in juicero machine", "running shoes", "watch", "water kettle", "firmware that predicts upcoming heart attacks in pacemaker", "app that displays a map".

When do you think it starts becoming ridiculous to demand the rights to not update to the user? Do you think that a juicer that stops working because its firmware hasn't been updated recently, and they just changed their expiration date API, is reasonable? After all, yeah, I'm using their health-friendly juicer as a service, just as I'm using a TV to decode the airwaves as a service.
Regarding deodorant, has anyone tried AO https://shop.motherdirt.com/product/ao-mist-2/
Exercise-induced sweat is composed primarily of water (98-99%) and a little bit of salt.[0] Obviously, salt water just rinses off. You don't need soap for that.

If you get physically dirty, especially greasy, then yeah, use soap.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perspiration#Composition
More on point would be owning a cellar, or not eating food that requires refrigeration.
> "Search all the parks in your city, you'll find no statues of committees"

This doesn't necessarily mean that committees did not play a vital role in various historical events, just that people don't like to make statues of them.
no kids, work less, eat fast food, be sloppy

Not saying its a great lifestyle but easily get to 60 hours.
Industrial Society and Its Future isn't a good moral justification for mailing bombs to people, but it's still an interesting set of ideas that's difficult to refute.
Wife would say so - and I can smell myself. I think the trick is you need to rub it for about 30 seconds - longer than people are probably willing to do it. But there's noticeable before and after results if you do that.

Here's an article I found that goes into the chemistry of it:
https://www.thoughtco.com/how-stainless-steel-removes-odors-...
My big fear is in our rush to optimize labor/workers for computer science we will make them obsolete soon like most of the other workers in the face of automation and ai.

I feel good about what technology can do, but not for the next generation of computer science or tech workers.
My hair is a mess when I don't use shampoo and conditioner, but I haven't used body soap in years. I've asked friends and co-workers about body odour, including ones that will call me out on my shit. Not a single one of them notices it.

I don't, either - but I do notice it after I've done something athletic, or I haven't showered in 16 hours. I don't think it's because I'm desensitized. A shower and a clean change of clothes fixes that right up.
> F# has sum types, and replaces null with an option type - great ideas, but you can approximate these ideas in any language if you need to.

How? You can make up for it somewhat with linters, unit tests etc. but it's tiring and nowhere near as robust as a type checker that enforces null checks for you.