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> do you think it also is the case with companies like RedHat?

Not the op, but yes, both "Corporations are not humans" and "Corporation's acts are driven by profits" also applies to RedHat and other publicly traded companies.
I think this is related to two distinct philosophies, namely what I guess you could call the "Basecamp" philosophy and everybody else (the more popular one in the world today).

One thing that is undeniable is that a bootstrap will always leave you in control at the end of the day. You could argue then that as the author says the customers are your "bosses" but I think it is a good idea to listen to your customers, but that's just me. I think a product should not be made for the potential profit it could amass but to fill a need for these users, listening to them feels like the next logical step to take (and most companies, even tremendously giant ones, still fail to do this I feel like).

Even more important than that is that it might not be the next unicorn, but that is absolutely fine for some people. They just want enough to feed themselves and their families while having a sane work life/rhythm of say 4-5 hours a day once you get it rolling.

I feel like the author used to somewhat adhere to this moto but somewhere along the way got lost and is now simply after the money for the sake of it. I might be making a deductive stretch here but it's what reading this post felt like...
Also assumes less than 10% voluntary high-quality leavers, which is a big weakness of the strategy. (Because it is likely true for almost all firms who cannot afford Netflix-level compensation.)
You gain more valuable experiences. It looks better on your resume.
2 hours per day and 66 pickups. I feel I've been curbing my usage a lot since Screen Time got added to the iPad/iPhone. Mainly Slack, Messages, Feedly and Safari.
It gets messy. As are all startups to one extent or another. You ride out the highs and lows and keep moving forwards. I wasn't trying to say that going the VC route is necessarily easier or better (I hope I made that clear), just that there are different upsides and downsides to each, one isn't objectively better than the other.

More on the messy parts: https://www.amazon.com/Messy-Middle-Finding-Through-Hardest/...
> openssl genrsa -des3 ...

It's really time to lay DES to rest.
You aren't used to hearing about "standing up" new servers?
I think Fortnite is just a bad example. It's one of the few games where you don't feel at a complete disadvantage when you choose not to spend money on it.
>Just give me a damn phone that I can call a car or text friends on, I don't want to or need to spend hours consuming media on a giant shiny screen. But if I get a giant shiny screen foisted on me, I know it's going to happen.

Giant screens aren't being foisted on you, you go to the store and pay for them. You could buy a featurephone if you wanted.
Skype is a shell of its former self, everybody has moved over to facebook or discord. The few friends I have who did still use Skype as of a few months ago have migrated to Wire. I only know one person that uses it now and they only use it because they still have a real phone number attached to it.
Or standup comedians requiring people to lock their phones in neoprene bags before a show. I was at a Dave Chapelle show last year where he did this, and his surprise guest after the show was Kendrick Lamar. It was actually jarring to be at a concert for the first time in a decade where there were no phones up, and people just focused on the performance.
> the number of parentheses is just mind boggling

There aren't actually more parens in a Lisp program than a program written in a C-like syntax (which is really an algol-like syntax). They just stand out more for two reasons:

1. There is less punctuation in general, so the parens are more obvious. Instead of f(x, y, z) you write (f x y z). Without the commas, the parens stand out because that's all that is left.

2. There is only one kind of parens in Lisp whereas C-like languages use at least three: (), [], and {}, so that makes any particular kind of paren less prominent.
Screens are fine. But wasting time is not. My middle schooler is allowed unlimited screen time for ebooks, video editing, photoshop, and writing (other than messaging). youtube and social media is rationed.
Interfacing with the Java client using Scala
It’s set in 1983. “Common LISP The Language” was published in 1984.

(The ANSI standard was 1994. Still nowhere near 20 years).
Agree to disagree; to write lisp one must know how to read it.

The threading macro is great, but the GP one-liner tells me more about lisp.
> I want to make web output of the same calibre as the PDF output.

This to me is the unsolved problem. Interpreting a LaTeX file on the web is probably not a crazy problem -- heck, worst case scenario recompile the entire LaTeX compiler into WASM or something.

But, typesetting on the web is really hard and browser capabilities that I know of are just not up to snuff, to the point that conventional wisdom is you pretty much never justify text on the web, ever, because it won't ever look good. So generic solutions to that problem are something I'd be interested in.

The secondary problem past that is to make justified text look good while still being responsive :) But even just for fixed column widths it's something that I'd love to see.

Props, it looks like a very cool project.
As foreseen by Looker (1981), written and directed by Michael Crichton.
But no one else is mass producing EV's. VW is just starting to talk about building a gigafactory. Everyone is doing a lot of talking, but they are all years behind Tesla. And even if they stop talking and start doing, they'll need to build a more compelling product than Tesla. That will be very very difficult. Tesla FTW.
They do get spied on.

Source: my 13 year old little brother was recently expelled for YouTube videos on his personal google account. As if he had committed a crime. Its asinine.
Gitlab is a smaller company with a smaller userbase. You could argue they are a much more obvious takeover target for the Oracle / IBM / Google's wanting to compete more with Microsoft to own the developer experience.
That's not entirely true these days.

I have a ADALM-PLUTO sdr that can do duplex from 70MHz-6GHz. Only 5mW (7dBm) Tx.

But there is a Gnu Radio gr-gsm and gr-lte plugins to make your own client (cell phone) and server (tower). There was also a nice talk at DerbyCon that went further in what you need to do to handle tower ops.
I wonder how things changed - surely the model isn't capturing all the factors. Perhaps the function itself changed?
WHY I STOPPED USING SNAPSHOT TESTING WITH JEST
YouTube Kids horrifies me. I feel like a curation approach to "kid-approved" programming would be much better method than YouTube Kids. And when you think about it, that's how traditional TV programming worked. Seems like a good model, given how much of an impact media has on child development.
Multi-tasking it is not but task-switching it is with a heavy penalty for the context switch.

In other words, the sum of the task-switching is much less than focus on a singular task.
Blame elasticsearch for that :)
The problem is that he plays like he has nothing to lose.

He has a vision and a plan and he is willing to put everything on the line and sacrifice it all in the pursuit of that objective. He's a problem solver. He's not scared of being unpredictable. He's creative as fuck. He will do whatever he has to do to achieve his vision.

He didn't make his plan haphazardly or on a whim. He made it having observed millions of other people play this game and seeing how the market reacted to their playbooks. He developed his own playbook based on what he's seen win and lose thousands of times in the past 50 years.

If anyone thinks he didn't study every other car manufacturer intensely before he decided he could do a better job, they're foolish. Musk is an intelligent man. He doesn't go off half cocked just because he's an arrogant fucker (although, I'm not arguing that he isn't), he sees a path that nobody else is seeing and he's steering his companies along that path to greatness and profit by changing the world for the better.

"It’s one of the characteristics of a leader that he not doubt for one moment the capacity of the people he’s leading to realize whatever he’s dreaming." - Benjamin Zander

You cannot fight and win with someone like that. That's the kind of mentality that will either change the world for the better or destroy it. You'd better hope he's on your side.
It will probably not get you there, but for TCO electric you really should factor in fuel costs. Even if I think the study is somewhat optimistic (and as far as I see it is talking about new cars, not used cars), it's clear that it's a major factor:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/dec/01/electric...
I think there's a lot more out there than Civ in the "formative/educational" market. My literal favorite game of all time is KSP, not just for the amazing gameplay but for what it's taught me. Similarly, semi popular but niche games like Farming Simulator and the other "%s Simulator 20%u" games have a lot of meaningful content. I'd argue even ArmA and similar games are educational in some capacity. Also, Portal because I just have to mention it.

That said, I don't know where I'd go with Fortnite, Overwatch, the COD lineup, and the rest of the mega titles. You could maybe make an argument for some of them maybe but I don't know what that would look like. They're fun games but mostly seem pretty devoid of anything inspiring or intellectually challenging.

Then there's the ugly... Mobile games categorically seem awful.

Edit: Also, kids should be encouraged to mod games. I think you'll probably find more than a few people who are here right now because they found out how to mess with game files to change what they see on the screen, in effect, the ultimate power and learning experience.
Check out the light phone 2 or the KY-01L, both phone looks pretty awesome. the light phone 2 being just call, text, and the KY-01L having a web browser (though it looks so bad I probably wouldn't use it)

Also both those phones have e-ink displays.
> I don't think books and TV (on a mass scale anyway) caused kids to have less sex and skyrocket their depression and suicide rates.

Um, do we know that? Especially about TV?
googling it it looks like some of that pseudoscience "cleansing" shit
Thank you for saying this. The amount of moral judgment wrapped up in technology use reveals more about the judges than the judges.
Ask HN: How to prepare laptop for 7 years old kid?
I want to prepare laptop for my 7 years old daughter.

- OS should be linux based
- Only applications available: Anki, LibreOffice, some email client. No root privileges. Other applications like Firefox etc. not installed or blocked
- Tux games available only Saturday 0800-1200

I was thinking about installing Ubuntu then creating separate user with limited access to each application as described [1]. And then some systemd script adding user to game group only during defined period of time - the same way as [1].

Is there any better way to do that?

Any other suggestions regarding the topic?

[1] https://askubuntu.com/questions/8149/how-can-i-restrict-program-access-to-other-users
Rust is another favorite of mine, and with Rust you also get efficiency besides correctness and reusability.

I wish Rust would have gone with an ML syntax though, in particular the Hindley-Milner type signatures allow me to reason better about code reusability, the "fn" and braces just adds noise to me, too much Haskell I guess.
Looking around nearly all adults are addicted - looking at phones whenever they can. The issue is should children wait before they get addicted or get hooked in early.
Both the HLL (Algebird) and TDigest implementations we're using have a simple way to serialize a compressed representation. So basically just reading the row, merging the value currently stored, and writing the merged value back.

Depending on how many times you will write to the row, you could avoid having to do a merge on write by using APPEND_IF_FITS and just merging the byte arrays when you read.

It's nice that FDB gives you so much low level flexibility, you can do whatever you feel fits your use case.
Depends on the style of HDR; if you want that post-appocolyptic look vs a just a well exposed shadows and protected highlights look. Shooting ETTR will allow for the shadows to get extra exposure while using the highlight recoverability of a RAW file to protect the highlight. Each camera sensor is different, so you have to practice with your camera to see how much you can push the exposure before unrecoverable clipping occurs. Obviously, the camera’s preview will looked overexposed, so people you show it to will think you’re crazy.
Actually, the box is either 4 or 10, but just a quibble.

I do not care that Tesla shipped more battery personally. Just got sucked into the analogy here.
I am not referring to Bill and Melinda Gates. I am referring to the broad problem.

I am not denying human relationships are nuanced. I am proposing a very simple rule, one that many companies already have on the books, because a) the deep ambiguity is managerially untractable, and b) as we see in many examples including this article, more nuanced rules are easily interpreted to let powerful men off the hook.

I am not implying women have no agency. There's nothing in this rule about men and women, or even about straight relationships. If you are inferring that women have no agency, maybe that's you.
Why AREN'T certain games subject to the same regulations as slot machines?

I can answer for the US:
Games aren’t subject to regulation because for the past few decades one party has made it their goal to destroy regulatory power to allow the wealthy to enrich themselves.

One party in the US has been completely captured by billionaires and corporations. This started in the 1970s around the time the Koches founded the Koch Institute (now Cato), and the Scaife, Bradley, Olin, and other rich families started using big money to influenfe politics. Continued through Reagan, his tax cuts and regulatory rollbacks (including rolling back Fairness Doctrine which allowed Limbaugh to fill the airwaves with propaganda). Then Gingrich, then Murdoch who kicked off Fox News. Now the US has one party that is a coalition of billionaires for funding and white identity politics for votes— and the only thing that party cares about is the wealth of their billionaire donors.

We’re not going to have any regulations to protect people until we fix US politics and media.

(Good read on the history by respected historian:
https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/50/divided-we-stand/ )
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I read that it isn't a sunlight issue, but an overall brightness issue. If that is true, reading on a bright screen might be better than reading a book.
> links to a .ru website

Have fun with that.
Have you considered that the kind of parents that raise such children re the kind of kids to put them into waldorf schools, not that waldorf schools do something special.
Just want to say how fantastic Common Sense Media is, and what a great resource it provides for parents trying to be intentional about all of this. Thank you for what you and your team do!

(And, to parents here who aren't familiar with their movie reviews and other resources, check them out: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/ )
3. Lisps optimize tail calls, leading to easier and more efficient recursion. This does tend to increase depth of code.

4. The lisp punctuation style closes all levels on a single line, where most C code guidelines close one level per line. This leads to a "thick" chunk of close parens that students of lisp find harder to read at first.
I've been using the simple HTML mode myself for the past few weeks. Much quicker and nicer, and refreshingly antiquated! Reminds me of my old Mindspring webmail.

The new interface worked reasonably well for me on my work PC, but not on my home PC (which is admittedly out of date). Clicking a new message would cause the "Loading..." label to pop up and never go away. The message wouldn't load unless I did a full Ctrl+F5 reload of the page.

I missed some of the automatic categorization of messages in the new interface, but now think seeing things is one big list is clearer. And labels still work to see subsets.
Well, the obvious answer is that the effects are small enough to be very difficult to reveal with simple studies
The typograghy of TeX is hard to sneer at. Even more, it's stability. Knuth's insistence on stability of feature and focus on core requirements is definitely a lost art in the modern world.

Could someone make something that was more aesthetically pleasing for the typist? Likely. Though, most of the added structures of LaTeX are often not needed for casual documents. Which is why it was oddly refreshing to read some of the core source of Knuth's books.
Epic games, makers of Fortnite, raise $1.25B
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That's correct -- it's adults too. And the odds are against the average person. But I must point out it's not just data scientists we are up against -- it's psychologists, psychiatrists and medical doctors, addiction experts, experts in gaming theory, etc. All are employed in order to help make software and devices more "compelling". Remember when they used to ask how "sticky" is the app? Careful timing of rewards, the use of color and sound, a/b testing on phrasing, email&text reminders, alerts, etc all work to keep you clicking like a trained circus animal.

Look, these people are not working to protect you. They're working to create addictions and deepen existing ones. Frankly I think the medical types should lose their licenses for violation of the Hippocratic Oath: "First, do no harm" indeed. Making devices and software more ADDICTIVE, deliberately creating and encouraging mental illness (addiction) is a disgraceful violation of this oath.

This is an open secret in the video game world, to the point that some COUNTRIES are banning things like 'loot boxes' because they are naked gambling.

The problem began when users became the product being sold. Now the companies feel that they have a right to your mind and eyes, and are not above fostering or even creating clinical addiction to ensure they have access.
Clicking on the link, I expected to discover a watershed moment akin to AI beating a human at Chess or Go. Alas, since contract review is not an adversarial process, no human lawyers were "beaten". A less click-baity headline would be: AI slightly more efficient at issue-spotting contracts than lawyers.
I think you are overegenralizing applicability of Neural Architecture Search etc. and cherry picking individual examples. There is an enormous gap between what gets published in academia with what’s actually useful.

E.g. Compute wars have only intensified with TPUs and FPGA. sure for training you might be okay with few 1080ti but good luck building any reliable, cheap and low latency service that uses DNNs. Similarly big data for academia is few terabytes but real Big data is Petabytes of street level imagery, Videos/Audio etc.
I think it is so over the top that it meant to be understood as a (biting) half joke. Nobody in tech talks like that in real life.
A lot of the Azure documentation has been in GitHub for ages - made me wonder if MS viewed them as an acquisition target more than a year ago.
Been there. Done that. Before any agile methodologies were popularlised.
Hi HN,

I'm Dan from Geofable. We're building a tool for telling stories with spatial data using interactive map-based infographics.

Our team has built geospatial software for the US Government for the past decade, and we've seen the same problems come up over and over: existing map-making tools are expensive, hard to use, and often don't make good looking maps. In order to make maps that do look good, agencies end up hiring entire teams of GIS experts, programmers, and graphic designers.

Geofable is a new tool with the goal of making it easier for people to build visualizations with their spatial data without being an expert. We're currently in beta, and would love your feedback. Thanks!
How bad were the videos?
There's also a historical componenent in all of this. Modern languages have adopted many features from the old Lisps that were quite unique back then. The same is true with the ML language family: between the two, ML and Lisp seeded a new generation of languages that are, on average, much more powerful than the languages in common use in the 1970s and 80s. (Smalltalk deserves a special mention, but it came later.)

I'm still fond of Lisp, but languages like Python, D, Nim (and increasingly, Rust) offer a lot of the Lisp affordances that I really valued -- in particular, easy compile-time metaprogramming. The biggest missing bits are Lisp's deeply integrated REPL-driven programming, and the use of program images -- which have many drawbacks but also some benefits.

IMO, everyone should write and maintain a medium-sized program in a modern Lisp (SBCL, CCL) at least once, just to get an appreciation for how different the programming / debugging experience is. So many well-integrated tools at your disposal, even at runtime.
There are some prominent projects on GitLab already. Also once the apple gets rotten, people will move. Remember SourceForge?

Seriously it only takes a bunch of high profile projects and people to drive a migration.

In other words Microsoft has to play nice.
I'm not just talking about kids, I'm talking about adults too.

Smartphones absolutely add a lot of convenience and value. But, in my opinion, most of that value doesn't come from having deliberately addictive media consumption available at your fingertips at half a second's notice. Yet that's what phones are being optimized for.

Does calling an Uber need a 6" screen? Or voice navigation instructions in my car? Shooting photos and videos? GPS tracking my runs?

Most of the things that bigger screens enable are things that I'm trying to minimize, so making these big inviting smartphone screens is no longer adding value to my life. But that's the only phone Apple will sell me. No, it's probably not as bad as opiates. But "not as bad as opiates" is a pretty low bar to set for "should I be OK with this?"

The new Palm small phone thing is a nice idea, except that it's a companion accessory to go with a bigger phone. So close: https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/10/25/18022382/...

What I really want is a small phone like that to go with an iPad. With a full size tablet, carrying it and sitting down to use it two handed are enough of a barrier that I can't absentmindedly find myself sucked into a reddit hole.

Maybe that's Apple's plan to sort this out. Make next year's iPhone Max Plus so big that you have to carry it around in your backpack and can't make a habit of staring at it all the time.
Agreed. This striving towards binary classification is so flawed from any broader perspective.

I, too, just learned that I'm a narcissist.

I had to squint quite a bit at the diagnostic list there, and sort of wedge my own psychological dispositions creatively into the qualifications list there but then yeah -- snap (and crap!) -- I'm a narcissist.

Oh, but if I use just a little more nuanced application of thought, then suddenly I'm not a narcissist. Or at least in a safer position on the linear spectrum that is assumed in this kind of "scientific" categorization.

Which is really quite absurd as you have pointed out.
Chinese authorities nab fugitive in a crowd of 50k thanks to AI