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It’s addictive for lots of people, everyone has different brain wiring rigs! I agree though that there are tons of easier jobs with higher pay that let u go home at night and still enjoy futzing with sideprojects — esp government with vacation policy and sick days!
I like the French balloon guy's idea - float above, and land at noon. This is the same loophole drone pilots used to fly over national parks for a while -- they could take off outside the park boundary and legally fly above the park, as long as they don't land. [1]

I believe NPS amended their rules in 2018 to prohibit this now, but I don't have a source on that, just word of mouth.

[1] https://forum.dji.com/thread-99353-1-1.html
Really? Google Analytics repackages and sells user data to third party data brokers?
How is it fundamentally flawed?
In tech we take for granted that we can get data and create metrics for everything we might need. Once you get out of companies that have been around for fewer than 10 years and into organizations that are operated purely on personal relationships, with sometimes an exogenous legal or regulatory framework, it's what you might call chaos.

I would ask if data availability is going to be a big generational rift.

This kind of data-driven accountability (or surveillance, depending on your opinion) is anathema to the culture of many public agencies. Beyond the social consequences of this specific work in policing, the effect of ubiquitous data on institutions can cause huge, rapid change. Not all of it planned.

In the case of the Invisible Project in this story, the data is damning to the legitimacy of the institution. It's no longer about anecdotes and individual cases. There is a clear problem and solution, with direct accountability for implementing it, and a clock ticking on how much lost legitimacy they will accept before doing so.

The rift that data creates is, will younger generations with presumed access to data accept the institutional response, "because we say so," when the data suggests otherwise?

From a data perspective, I don't think we can underestimate the effect of a generation raised to understand that "random," just means a gap in information about rules and inputs, and is not necessarily a source of justice or fairness.
No worries, we are talking about two different things.

I'm saying that when a grad student or adjunct teaches a class, they get paid a few thousand dollars. The students in that class are paying 100x that amount in tuition.

I'm implying that grad students should be paid more for this service, instead of the money going to administrator salaries and football stadiums.
Compressed air energy storage is also being investigated in a variety of forms:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_air_energy_storage
I'm yet another person who's skeptical that this project and its instances will be able to solve any issues that currently plague the more popular, profit-based social media platforms.

In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if it worsens things. Let's take the widely-known phenomena of 'information bubbles' - where your feeds/networks only serve you information that confirms something you already believe/some worldview you already have.

Not only would a mastadon instance server be prone to attracting users of the same mindset - cross-posting from other sites would be problematic. What if posting on instance A doesn't violate instance A's content guideline terms, but does violate the content guidelines of instance B? Users of B are less likely to see certain content from A. In some ways that's worse than the one-instance for profit networks. As much as I dislike the snarky reply to bad-retweet phenomenon - at least opposing ideas are being discussed there.

Plus, these instances can be run by anyone, and those people can set up any terms they want. Someone like Alex Jones could set up his own mastadon instance, and have his own content guidelines, and wrap his followers in an even 'thicker' information bubble.
Vivaldi is based on Chromium, not sure it counts as much as the others you listed. Reminded me of an article from a couple days ago: https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/2160072/redcore-ceo-admits...
It worked out for the time being, but npm destroyed the illusion. I don't even see the problem. A package manager could rely completely on git with the advantage to not have an single authority that isn't giving a flying fuck about quality and security of the hosted packages. Yes it forces you to dig out a good package, evaluate it and look at the track record of the devs. Someone has to do it, but it is currently hardly happening.
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It may be full of sharks. Specifically, though, my issues are with the two companies who pretend they are privacy companies and aren’t.

They bring shame to our industry, and further, shame to our cause.

I will stand up against them everyday regardless of what kind of repercussions come to me. That’s what it means to protect people’s privacy.

Cheers!
To add to this, if you root your phone and install adaway you would be free from ads even in an app.
That was my whole point! That the Chinese certainly know about it. All Americans and Europeans have easy access to chopsticks, too, and access to the knowledge to use them. Yet adoption is just different.

You just proved my point from the other direction, because in America ramen noodles certainly don't come with a fork, it's not how they're eaten.

>after all you think all those instant noodles sold in shops are eaten with chopsticks instead folding fork which it's in package? it's not like fork it's some strange concept for Chinese. every Chinese eat instant noodles more or less, majority of them eat them often with fork (when on train or traveling elsewhere)

If you look at how I started this thread, it was just as a counterexample to the poster bsder, so we can just stick to agreeing that the "same" or similar technologies see different maps of adoption for no real inherent reason. In America nobody eats ramen noodles with a fork, amd they never come with a fork.

No real reason for this. :)
A dollar still has inflation. Counterfeits are an issue though there are well known mitigation approaches. Honestly it’s not that different from a dollar, it’s just something that I haven’t seen anyone testing it.
Somewhat interesting article on secret sharing being used to store Hardware private keys https://medium.com/@markstar/backup-your-trezor-ledger-using...
Plenty of opinions?? God forbid!

Maybe what we need is fewer ex-presidents willing to at most give milquetoast read-between-the-lines statements of vague disapproval at the systematic undermining of our institutions and values.
> If rivers have rights does it also has responsibility and culpability?

I think that question is key to understanding what rights are and how they function in the constitution of a polity.

Animals, rivers, etc. don't interact with us in the way other humans do. There may be analogous aspects to that interaction, so we can recognize that we have a responsibility to keep rivers clean, but that's an obligation on our part, not a "right" that the river has.
> Should they be imprisoned?

No, because other animals don't have mental capacity to truly understand the consequences of their action.

That said, I've never really seen a consistent argument against _protecting_ prey animals from lions (and letting lions die out).
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Oh, I guess that's why I've been seeing TLS errors on eBay description pages…
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Yes , it’s a danger to look out for . Definitely try to balance it out with tech meet ups and other activities if you don’t see yourself doing anything else in life as a job —— for me , now when people issue dumb statements lik ‘I cant imagine how they’re do that!!!’ I take it literally like it’s code world and explain to them how .... “jeez man it’s just an expresaion, you know what I mean!” Brain can’t help it. The more of whatever we do influences us and each year it’s harder to change paths as we grow firmer in our habits
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I have the same problem! I’m considering publishing my pseudonym projects on medium and if they ever get mainstream acceptance then I can ‘merge’ my identities with a blogpost and name change on the account
We need better constructs for this. Alexithymia is typically defined entirely in terms of whether someone can identify emotions, regardless of the underlying failure mode. In particular, some clinicians seem to think that everyone has the same baseline interoceptive experience and that any problem with identifying emotions is therefore purely a problem of attention or vocabulary.
At any rate we can agree that the point has been made. It's not like you need some external factor (prove that the reason for this is the fact that Japan is an island, or any other thing.)

China doesn't need to be "drier" to make the Chinese wheelbarrow we're reading about more useful, with the idea that the wheelbarrow difference can be explained in full by the presence of mud in the west.

You don't need any difference like that. It can just be a cultural map of adoption, with no real reason for it.
Probably just running exec(input) in whatever language the lambda is in
Maven modules are a bit of a mess, it's a set of packages but a package can be split into different Maven modules.

I agree with the GP that go package/module are similar to Java package/module
They are just functions - but Node lets you run external scripts. The relevant bit of source (you can view it all with cat index.js) is:

```
const result = childProcess.execSync(event.body.command).toString();
console.log(result);
var response = {result: result};
context.done(null, response);
```

So it's not really a shell itself, but every time you send a command on the website it runs it, returns you the response, and the website adds that response to its shell GUI.
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Don't these still exist? When did they do away with them?
Especially considering medicine has a long history of being co-opted by money.

There was a time when doctors were paid to push cigarettes by cigarette companies.

https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/throwback-thursday-wh...

And of course in recent times, pharma was able to convince doctors to push addictive painkillers to patients.

A healthy skepticism is a good thing in science.
Having opinions about things doesn't mean one isn't "ex-presidential". Of course he has opinions about things, and has decided to voice them. What makes someone "presidential" (or ex-"presidential") is the way one conducts themselves and voices their opinions. Not the lack of opinions nor the lack of voicing them.
What if it’s HR at some crazy cool company where devs would find your humor funny but HR person slams you down before paaaing through their gates
It might help if you added some information to the page explaining what it is, etc. otherwise you likely won’t have many signups.
The "drowning is silent and discreet" fact isn't very relevant here - no one was drowning, they were just at risk of tiring out and starting to drown in the near future. A flotation device delivered by drone would have to get quite lucky to help someone who was already drowning, while here the woman involved helps position the flotation device.
What about TV addiction, video game addiction, addiction to foods laden with high fructose corn syrup, or an other number of “addictions”? Point here is anything can have a good effect or negative effect. Everyone on HN has an addiction to talking negatively about things people have built or are building. Very rarely is anyone speaking about the good that results from what people are working on. People have and will always gravitate towards staking self worth on social-acceptance regardless of the communication channel. Whether it is their family, friends, classmates, colleagues and interaction happens over IM, email, in school cafeterias, locker rooms, people are looking for social acceptance and depending on how that goes there is a good or bad experience with it. Nothing new here nor does Facebook have anything to do with it. Facebook exposes you to more people and it doesn’t inherently do anything to you either negatively or positively. For every negative article there are hundreds of examples of good that comes from it. (My 2 cents)
Lol the hdd is connected with a flex cable? Why isn't the SATA port soldered to the board?

Good god
Either you or I don't understand. Of course Git is a decentralized VCS but how would you make use of a software module without offering a repo on some server? As someone remarked in answer to another of your comments: Github is centralized as well - but it's doesn't specialize in offering versioned binary artifacts for ease use in a software project.
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As I didn't know the meaning of "undertow", I looked at wikipedia, it says this :

>>> In contrast to undertow, rip currents are responsible for the great majority of drownings close to beaches. When a swimmer enters a rip current, it starts to carry the person offshore. If the swimmer understands how to deal with this situation, he or she can easily exit the rip current by swimming at right angles to the flow, in other words swimming parallel to the shore, or by simply treading water or floating.
At first glance this looks pretty cool. I’ll definitely give it a try for something that could’ve otherwise been bash. Thanks :)
As somebody linked further up - there are companies already working on the air-on-the-seafloor idea:

http://theliquidgrid.com/2016/12/27/marine-energy-storage/
A job site, I applied. It was posted by a third-party recruiter. Pretty much how I've found all my jobs. I'm not very good at networking or the good-ol boy network. I find them through job boards.
> Uber already does this by increasing fares when it detects a phone battery is dying.

Holy crap, everything I read about Uber just makes it seem worse and worse.
About five years ago, I released a tiny open-source project (my first one) of about 10 lines. I kept building on it, for personal use and for the fun of it. Eventually it got to be quite full-featured and attracted a sizeable user base.

Since then, all my client work comes from businesses that use it. So, by sheer luck I'd found some kind of product-market fit, with no marketing. It's an on-going story though, I'd like to develop it more as a business in itself, with other related products.

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This is a fascinating thread, by the way. It's been a learning experience just to read everyone's stories.
Ever updated a year old apple product? It will run like dogshit. Sold my iPad 3 because it was unusable with iOS 7.
I don’t understanding the distinction you’re making. Most package managers I’ve used can point at mirrors. Even NPM can point at arbitrary local git branches, file paths, and remote locations. So “centralization: bad, git: good” seems like an irrelevant point.
I'm not so sure, a Skinner Box is designed to condition its occupants. Facebook cultivates a user's thirst for validation from other users. On a much, much smaller scale, Hacker News does it with the point system. That's not surprising, everybody is going for engagement. I disagree that every obsessed Facebook user is innately hooked on approval from others. Facebook pays the big bucks, has hundreds if not thousands of employees focused on this specific goal.
The big hang up I remember having was the desire for a bit more into stubbing out when and where AJAX belongs. I felt like I still had a gap between the dummy application's data handling and how I'd be hitting my server side APIs when I needed them.

I'm a mostly backend programmer and i remember when i was done with the book thinking "ok i can shoe horn my ajax calls into this but I don't feel confident this is how I'm supposed to." ultimately I got set straight on IRC and discord.

I do enjoy your writing style and your blog posts though, and honestly did find your book helpful.
How long until someone hatches a plan to harvest all the fruit and sell it at a supermarket?
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There are many languages that make it explicitly difficult to pull directly from master. Nodejs packages are near impossible to install directly from a repository, you always have to go through npmjs.com. Haskell too (before stack became widespread), but even now most people install packages from hackage/stackage, where packages are strongly versioned.
I loved the quip about the presidential cooler that they use to store leftovers.

President Carter is the kind of down-to-earth person I would want to hang out with, while at the same time using his position to build thousands of homes and fight river blindness and give vaccines to millions of people.

I wonder if another person like him will ever ascend to lead the United States.
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Whatever may be the contribution of actors in addition doesn't invalidate the results though. Whatever environment forms around the scientist may lead to a streak of great works. The streak remains.
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It could also be a Situationist action which aims to transform Peter Thiel’s money into absurdist poetry. It’s hard to tell for sure.
This is pretty silly. But then the article is also really silly. Psychopaths are not superheroes. They don't have magical powers. And, believe it or not, they are absolutely not narcissists who need stimulation from other people.

In simplest terms psychopaths are people who do not "get" the particularity of human relationships. To a psychopath, relationships are always and everywhere abstract conceptual power relations. They don't get jealous (but they can fake jealousy), they don't fall in love (but they can fake love) and when people leave their lives it's more like losing money on a bad investment then, you know, losing one's best friend or lover. This is not magical or antisocial or deviant. Psychopaths are just everyday people who never really miss other people. They are just as stupid and irrational as everybody else but in different ways.

There is an argument here to be made here that just as society is welcoming of people who fall in love at the drop of a dime it should also be welcoming of people who can't fall in love. It's the sort of thing, like homosexuality, that people might think is a big deal but is really not and eventually will just be sort of normalized.
https://benlauwens.github.io/ThinkJulia.jl/latest/book.html

Introduction to Julia - By Jane Herriman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYW2J2WWkj8

Quick view of Julia in one program: https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/julia/

Working with data using Julia - https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2017/10/comprehensive-t...

Rest of Julia tutorials in one-place: https://julialang.org/learning/
I mean it's not just one system, but the idea is what I just said.

The classical example is if you have a bunch of magnetic moments in a magnetic field and they do not interact with each other: then stuffing energy into the system requires aligning them against the magnetic field, and this makes the state more ordered. The problem is that these moments are generally in thermal contact with some apparatus that keeps them in place or vibrational degrees of freedom of their centers of mass or so. But you can get this thing to happen in magnetic resonance setups.

Negative temperature states pop up in a lot of strange places, the two that I know more closely are that lasing has this property of "as I dump more energy into the system I get more bosons in the lasing state" and Onsager in 1949 published a little article called “Statistical Hydrodynamics” which sort of went viral for the time, it points out that there is a way to view the instability of turbulent systems as due to negative temperature regimes of the vortices in those systems.
Nice! Also available as an audiobook on Hoopla through the library for free. Just downloaded it.
(Repost from the first version of the question)

bit OT but regular swimming has done wonders for my back pains. It developed my abs / lumbar belt as well as back and shoulder muscles. The swimming movements (crawl / backstroke) also tend to stretch and generally unkink muscles and vertebrae. When I stretch after swimming, I literally feel my spine popping back into place (I.e., swimming relaxes the relevant muscles enough that I can undo the damages of a sedentary job and carrying a toddler in my arms every day). I don’t know if this would help directly with neck pains but it would definitely improve posture, so probably an indirect positive effect.
>"When we stop demonizing mental illness, it's easy to see those traits in ourselves, but the difference is in how intensely those traits negatively affect our lives."

Are all mental traits that affect our lives negatively mental illness? I think it's quite a leap to say that just because you have negative effect in your life from a mental perspective/problem/limitation/etc... doesn't mean it's "illness" that requires a cure.

Sometimes it really is "just get over it", if not, then every person I know needs emergency therapy and drugs right now cause they are all ill.

If you want to say it's a matter of degree, sure, a valid a argument, but who lets who decide what the degree is? What if the person that says "pull yourself out of it" was affected many hundreds of times worse than the person hearing that advice? Now is degrees a purely personal and relative matter?

How many people have heard stories of spoiled rich brats scream bloody murder and acted like they were dying because they didn't get the exact color they wanted in their designer luggage? (replace in the nouns for different scenarios)

And conversely, the poor child with nothing, is happy and grateful just to have a little more food at mealtime? "Just get over it" _is_ the answer to the rich brat who wants to wallow when you put it in perspective of others. But from their own perspective, it's the end of the world. (lots of personal experience seeing both sides of this issue)
I believe in funding affirmative action but yes it is expensive, the university accepts the students into the school and covers much of the cost of their housing and tuition. The actual cost isn't $60,000 per year like the sticker price says, but it is certainly around $8,000-12,000 in operational costs.
Twitter. I hearted a listing from my (now) boss because I liked the company and thought the listing looked great. Wasn't really looking for a new job, but things worked out that way, and it has been fantastic.
What direction do you think “linked” implies?

I find no bias in this language. To me, this reads as suggesting mere correlation.
I second getting your vision checked, you wouldn’t believe the mechanical strain you can unconsciously put on your body to correct bad eyesight.
When deer don't have predators (of whatever species) they overpopulate and die of starvation or of running in front of vehicles.

I'm not convinced that dying of starvation is better than a sudden death. The vehicle accidents harm humans as well as the deer. The hungry deer damage crops and gardens.

I think the overpopulation also causes the spread of parasites (ticks etc.) which carry disease.
My "click" was the realization that, in complex interactive applications, we, as programmers, should not impose our often incorrect notions of how the users will interact with the application. In fact, I was quite surprised how differently people do that.
Why would you share screenshots of death threats? That's like taking a screenshot of a picture of animal abuse that was posted on Facebook and reposting it. Of course it will get you blocked.
harder to use. by inaturalist may hold some data either.
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