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Ask HN: Am I welcome here?
Hi HN,

I finally got around to reading some of ESR's writing and I feel sad and disappointed. I know that there are many people in the world with strong, negative feelings about people like me, but I didn't realize how interwoven those ideas are with the other communities that I interact with.

So, my question: am I welcome here?

It's tempting to write off these sorts of questions as being irrational or over-emotional; to say that facts don't care about your feelings. But of course, they do[0]. These issues are deeply cyclic, the way that we talk about them and the conclusions we draw feed back into the issues themselves.

I'm not trying to make any sort of moral judgement here - to say that anyone should change their opinions or the way in which they express them. But I'm coming, painfully, to understand why tech communities can feel so intimidating. And I know that, if I set my talent and passion aside and leave tech, I'll be seen by some as another example of how [X people] can't hack-it in the tech world.

Maybe you think you know better than I do what it's like to be me. You don't. You don't know me. But I wish you did. I'd love to get a drink with you and geek-out about dependent types and AI policy and the semantic web.

I know that HN isn't the place for political posts, but I hope that I can share my feelings about something that is both personal and relevant to this community without making a political statement. If there are others who have asked this same question, or have found an answer, I'd love to hear your thoughts. Cheers/

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias
Optimal in using bits, but possibly at a loss of performance (it needs to subtracts two numbers to extract string length)

(possibly because a) my observation that It needs an extra operation may be incorrect (I didn’t count all the binary ops in both algorithms) and b) I have no idea whether that makes any significant difference on modern hardware)

If there is loss of performance, it might be enough to offset the loss of ability to do SSO on strings of length 23 (how common are those? I would guess less than one in every million strings has that length)

Also, severely nitpicking: C++03 doesn’t say anything about the time complexity of c_str (https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/124784), so in that version of the language, we can do a tiny bit better, and use the wasted bits in the last byte to store a 24th character of the string, if that character wouldn’t make us decode the last byte as a valid string length.

C++11 said c_str must be constant time, so that wouldn’t work there anymore.
Facebook is still adding ~100M registered users a quarter- that's no small feat.
Housing in some cities = SoV (Store of Value) for foreigners... NYC, Miami, etc.

Nothing to do with investment, all about getting money out of dubious places in the world. Anonymous LLC and Done.

Imagine if they plowed all those dollars into Bitcoin instead.
But the purpose of such saving is to prolong the consumption in the future.
Spending money on basic necessities like housing, food, electricity, water, health care etc. is still consumption. Also note that retirement can still contain some money for extra widgets and other fun stuff - just less than the average consumer.
Thank you! I’m a little hair on fire at the moment but if you want to claim your unique username, please reach out to me (I’m not sure if I have a way of reaching out to you through Patreon) and I’ll issue it.
It is entirely possible for a kid to learn to read by 3 or 3.5 years old, if parents are obsessive about it. In the long run life isn’t a race, and the kids who don’t learn to read until they are 6 catch up fine. But small children are quite capable if you push them.

I wouldn’t recommend it, but if you got your kid reading picture books all day for three years from ages 3–5, you could plausibly get to 10,000. Picture books are pretty short.

However, it sounds like this isn’t a literal 10,000 books. The New York Times story says the kid’s “CV” lists the 408 books he has read this year. So probably <1000 as a lifetime total.
Open an incognito window and google for the article's title. It works every time.
FreeBSD has Capsicum, but from what I’ve heard the Chromium upstream has been reluctant to integrate the patches, so they rotted.

Which is kind of weird, given they (Google) have their own port of Capsicum to Linux. Oh well.
Yes. I understand why prop 13 was passed, it was in a time of high inflation, and the increased valuations meant that property taxes had a huge impact, especially on retired people with fixed incomes.

But all the downstream effects of that have made rather large distortions in the housing market.
Maybe increased tax sources can help address some of the transportation issue?
Agriculture is producing food without the ecosystem.
Executive distance, would be my guess.
> People, including professors, understandably react poorly to other people trying to end their careers.

Ironic given that this is the primary power of being a thesis advisor.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18370446
shudder This is the closest I've come to identifying with the Mitt Romney quote "Corporations are people, my friend." I recognize corporations are a collective entity comprised of people and people have free speech rights. I'm trying to figure out for myself where the boundaries of those rights are, since a collective naturally has more power to impact others than an individual, simply because it takes less individual energy for a collective action than it does for an individual action of the same magnitude.

I have to meditate on this. Anyone have thoughts to share on this to help me find clarity?
Was Architect Philip Johnson a Nazi Spy?
Ah, I see. I wasn't using VS (which is why I found the wildcard trick). It seems like VS was the issue then, and one of the reasons donet core has a better experience is because it's much less bound to VS.
They'll regret most Chinese investments, there's already a major backlash against the Chinese style "investment." You think China is doing this for Africa's good? China is enslaving them with a signature.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-07-10/china-...

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2009-08/05/content_853264...

NSA, if they haven't bugged them already, they already bought the IT staff with money. Third world countries are NSA's dream countries.
Similar with FreeBSD (use geli for encryption) and I believe ext4 read support works now.
Indeed. In the US, infrastructure like roads is heavily subsidized.

This is my go-to article to share:

https://momentummag.com/free-rider-myth/

From TFA:
What if I told you that by driving a car you become a freeloader, a drain on the economy? That people who bicycle instead are subsidizing a road system that they are largely not welcome on? In order to break even on the cost of roads and pay for every driver who uses them each year, we would need 54% of commuters using a bicycle as their sole means of transportation.
"Yay for the wonderful "comma vee" extension that meant this didn't work on anything but Unix and even there some tools choked on it. Same for RCS and CVS ..."

RCS and CVS use "filename,v". SCCS uses "s.filename".
- Unlocked: https://swappa.com/buy/samsung-galaxy-s9-g960u1-unlocked?con...

$600 looks to be the most reasonable price for a sealed new unlocked Galaxy S9 [in the US]. The lower priced 'new' copies on Swappa look open-box, which are likely not new, but a refurb/return, or someone selling their used device as new. Most of the new copies on Swappa are apparently open-box units, as are most of the new units on Ebay. Definitely hard pass there.

Best Buy has new copies for $700 - that'd probably be the... best buy. Maybe you can find a like-new refurb for $500, but it seems like a sealed actual new copy will be harder to find for that price.

So like $150-250 saved by choosing Samsung, and probably getting a superior package in most ways. Google has reduced the warranty period in the US of the newest waves of Pixels by 1 year, so really they aren't offering a ton of value for that high price.
I guess the same as with support for, say, NTFS, plus less incentive to work on it, since it’s less popular.
As long as my boat is afloat, I care not about yours.

If the US fails, I will sail my boat elsewhere.

We created the scenario these people are reacting to

Worry not, we will not run out of people willing to impoverish themselves buying baubles
Seems like a good default. I was expecting tons of comments telling me that it had to stay at .5 K for various arcane reasons.
I don't think that humanity will survive a collapse of the current civilisation. First, we don't have the knowledge to go back to a pre-civilisation culture anymore. And second; we don't have the habitat to go pre-civilsation hunter/gatherer anymore.

It's pretty much make or break for humanity.

(As an aside: we've pretty much exhausted the easily available fossil energy sources, so no re-starting a civilsation on the glowing embers of knowledge and wisdom hidden in deep bunkers. Nobody's going to read that, ever.)
> As a longer term strategy, we are moving to kill the use of passwords as the single authentication mechanism, and enforcing multi-factor authentication as the default everywhere.

My thought on this is replace 'password manager' with input 'authentication device' and that needs to sit between the computer and the input device (touch screen, keypad, key board, mouse). Meaning the users password shouldn't be authenticated by the remote server or the users computer, instead by a hardened device that also authenticates the users input.
A lot of the simplification and rationalization that was the initial selling point for the tax bill somehow got traded in for large tax decreases for the wealthiest before it was signed. In my generous moments I think that they really did intend simplification and were simply bowled over by the other interests.

In my less generous moments I notice that they keep saying that they are doing A, and instead do B. Again and again.
It's flagged because readers chose to flag it. We can't assume their intentions.

I flagged it because I don't want Reddit-style discussion (which inevitably happens on submissions like this) on Hacker News. There are many other outlets where content like this can be posted and discussed.
It's mainly used as a backend by stuff like Frama-C and SPARK. They, esp SPARK, do get used in industry. I stay submitting that stuff on Lobste.rs so click the formalmethods tag if interested. Here's a list of Why3 stuff:

https://lobste.rs/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=nickpsecurity+why3...

Here's SPARK in action:

http://mstl.atl.calpoly.edu/~bklofas/Presentations/Developer...
(Senior moment: reading the title in the front page, mixing up taxonomists with taxidermists and wondering why that should be contentious ;-)

Amusing, but it's not really surprising that people who are attracted to that sort of thing would get stroppy about sloppy work. Actually, organized armies on opposing sides of some contentious bone would not be far-fetched ...

Reminds me of a book about musical invective I've lost somewhere.
I agree - but anybody who ever built anything would tell you it’s a tradeoff. Yes, I could get metrics through the server logs. But I’m just one single guy that built this thing. I don’t have the resources to build a privacy sensitive tool and a privacy sensitive page view reporter that tells me how many people visited a page, so I can improve it. One challenge at a time.
Impeach: call into question the integrity or validity

Seems perfectly appropriate usage to me.
Yes, that title was baity and misleading, so we've changed it to a more representative phrase from the article. A photo caption, actually; it's surprising how often those make better titles.
The cross platform matrix client nheko is no longer maintained
The plan to destroy the middle class was very successful. But no more.
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I have a Pixel 1 and neither the Pixel 2 nor the Pixel 3 are a compelling upgrade for the price. I'm worried that Pixel 4 will be also be mediocre, but I'll be forced to upgrade anyway because Google will start to drop support for Pixel 1.
Demand for Metro-convenient housing is enormous. Builders are having trouble keeping up.
I am not sure I agree with your insistence on using the word rational. What is rational depends entirely on the perspective of the agent observing and is not a useful assumption, in my opinion.

I want to touch on what you said about lobbies and give you my take on it.

The characteristics of successful lobbies have three key properties. Within any dispute/issue the most important quality that determines influence of a group/cause is organisation. An organised faction will always triumph over the disorganised masses. Then, the second most important factor is possession of any tactical advantages to advance their goal over their adversaries. These can be anything from superior methods to a willingness to do things that the other side is not. The last, and least important, is the size of the group. Each factor is meaningless without the preceding one.

As a consequence, I would agree that other groups would 'win' in this case. But they wouldn't actually need to win, they would just need engage in dirty tactics such as proliferation of fake news, muddying public discourse, bribe political officials, etc. Humanity would face the greatest difficulty dealing with the lengths that special interests are willing to go to to wield undue influence and stagnate progress.

However, I do not share your abject and defeatist view. I concede that humanity is facing a battle in the trenches to ensure the health of our ecosystems. We all must take responsibility for what is coming because to do nothing is to allow bad actors to get away with being shitheads. Given that the survival of our species and many others on Earth is at stake this should not be acceptable to any one with a shred of empathy to possible future generations.
Maps in Augmented Reality with JavaScript on any mobile device in web browser
Yes. We changed it; see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18372058.
ARP. To Ethernet address resolution, and no further.
Living extremely frugally doesn’t equate to doing “nothing.” If we’re going to start passing judgment, pinning happiness to consumerism seems like a pretty garbage life to me.
Surprised that this article didn't mention that Copenhagen used to be a car-clogged city with lots of pollution. Over 30 years ago a decision was made to focus on bicycles as a way to improve quality of life. There was even a government organization dedicated to improving quality of life. So policy and government matter, and really do impact our lives.

I read an entire book about this topic, but I've forgotten the name.
I would guess compiler writers have data that indicates that the advantage “longer strings can be stored using SSO” beats the disadvantage “every short string is longer”.

It also means accessing the capacity field doesn’t involve accessing another cache line, but I can’t think of situations where that matters, as every time code needs to access capacity, the CPU will soon do something with the pointed to object (if only to free it. Or are there real-world allocators that don’t look at memory ‘near’ to-be-freed objects?)
This is actually a problem in AA, it's called "13th Stepping."
This paradox is caused by confusing numbers with reality. I have two major criticisms that the Wikipedia article does not list:

1) Firstly, the paradox assumes that maximising total output is an unmitigated good. This is clearly not so - imagine a world where everyone saved outrageously and pared down their lifestyle so much that we needed to move from a from 2 day standard weekend to a 3 day standard weekend.

This would have "catastrophic" consequences economically because you lose 20% (1 day in 5) of your economic output, but now everyone has increased their leisure time by 50% (2 days to 3 days per weekend). This is not an objectively bad outcome. I mean, empirically most people don't choose it, but if most people did choose it is not like suffering increases.

2) Someone has defined it such that savings means spending on things that don't cause demand. I don't buy that, because to me "savings" would include, say, investing for retirement by building capital. Eg, maybe a massive great research and development lab for old-people-drugs. That is going to set me up for the future, so I call it savings, but if savings reduces output I assume to an economist it is classified as normal economic consumption.
Nope, it isn't. You're still dependent on the fertile soil, on nematodes and fungi, on insects and arthropods. You fool yourself when you think that all these square kilometers of dry and dead dust will yield anything at all when there's no ecosystem around to renew the dehydrated husk of soil we leave when we're done.

Google for 'arable soil loss' and read a bit about it, please.
> strong, negative feelings about people like me

You haven't said anything about yourself. What is it about you that some people have strong negative feelings about?
The whole Facebook friendship stuff is a disaster.
HN isn't the place for self-reflection but if someone else or an article raises a topic that you have a discussion provoking opinion of, feel free to comment.
Not sure for why you’re getting downvoted, but I think your point (which I would agree with) is that if large majorities were to act in this way, that system would be sustainable for nobody. The reason why FIRE works in this way is that people are piggybacking on a consumption culture to reap the benefits of compounding interest on stocks, without personally contributing to it. You’re not going to see avg 8% gains in index funds in a world where wealth is hoarded, and FIRE isn’t going to work without that high compounding rate.

This is one of the things that bugs me about the FIRE “movement”. it’s a great hack for the people doing it, but it can’t become a mainstream system without breaking.
What do you mean regarding the full stack comment?
The short and simple answer is, Denmark is its own culture bubble and has a large amount of money in the treasury to throw at projects like this.

Articles like this really make me wonder if the the Guardian is becoming out of touch with the general public.
With writing like this that fails to comprehend that every city is unique and nuanced in its problems and how it solves them.

I love Copenhagen and its culture, but its cycling concepts and other road rules wouldn't translate well in the UK.

Is this just clickbait trash?
I've fixed Fontconfig error by properly capitalizing DOCTYPE and SYSTEM and using double quotes:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
You can probably do it for a while. But, there is some sort of long term mental reserve that is depleted as we work. You would deplete these reserves more rapidly and need to take a major vacation much sooner than if you had one job. The quality of your work would suffer at the second job as there are also reserves that are depleted daily and restored during sleep.

In one sense you would be abusing the tools of your profession. There is a common admonition that "A craftsman does not abuse his tools".

You must make your own decision, but I would never do it.
There is a “web” link on this article. If you click it, you’ll find a search engine link to the article which will give you access
Maybe the Scooter Revolution will result in new and better cycle/scooter infrastructure everywhere.
What’s the Best Way to Protect Smart Devices Against Hackers?
Compartmentalized computing with CLIP OS
Income needed to qualify for a mortgage and buy a house in US cities
How many examples of the extreme ends of a spectrum have you heard? Of course not everyone is Iron Mountain.
So these are the white collar knowledge jobs of the future?
It's a neat book, and I like how it covers everything from the B2B fork to the ThemeForest GPL license fiasco.

That said, I do also kinda wish it'd started/finished a few years later, since the Rest API and Gutenberg would have made for interesting chapters. The former because of how it decoupled the front end from the dashboard, and the latter because of the various controversies surrounding it and how the quest for a new post editor ended up receiving a huge amount of backlash and even one full fork.

That would have made for an interesting ending. The book would describe WordPress beginning with a fork, and it'd end describing how Automattic's actions with Gutenberg may lead history to repeat once more.
If you're into Semantic Web, you're welcome here in my eyes!

More seriously, esr doesn't speak for everybody in the "hacker community" even to the extent that there is one, cohesive "hacker community" to talk about. And he definitely doesn't speak for HN or everybody here. And I say this as somebody who does respect a portion (but not all) of what esr has to say.

Beyond that... you don't say what you mean by "people like me", but by and large, the answer is "yes, you are welcome here". Most HN posters are most interested in someone's intellectual contribution than any other features about that person that are the kinds of things that people often show bias around (eg, sexual orientation, religion, gender, skin color, ethnicity, etc).

OTOH, realize that HN culture is not big on coddling people, or showing people special attention or deference either. And some people here can be blunt, arguably even rude at times. So if you're very thin-skinned and take offense easily, then you may well find yourself feeling uncomfortable at times. But to a first approximation, we can say that it won't be because of your (sexual orientation, religion, gender, skin color, ethnicity, ...).
Racket exists since 1995
You are installing a program you downloaded off the internet.

The --dangerous is there to make you think about that for a moment as(or if you're lucky, before) you install.
Other than the biggest costs—housing, food, transportation and perhaps healthcare—I doubt people that FIREd have withdrawn 100% from inconspicuous consumption. They just focus that consumption on more necessities than frivolities.
Pay them.
Ironically they called their SW "Vapor"(ware) and here we are seeing it crashing under load
【Release XXL-JOB v2.0.0】A lightweight distributed task scheduling framework
I understand your point and you are right. There is a difference between theory and practice - in practice, it is Chrome.
Oh, I'd actually found this approach searching a while back.

It frames all Markov Chain Monte Carlo as a variation of slice sample. I like it because it makes the process fairly simple but I have tried to implement it yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slice_sampling
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TLDR All databases corrupt data, and mongodb is reasonably performant, and also easier to scale than most.

I have had instances of data corruption in production servers with both OracleSQL and MySQL. Several sql databases take forever to fix bugs (e.g. the crappy handshake in MySQL took 5y to get fixed).

MongoDB is actually the best database I have ever used in production, in question of both performance AND scalability. So I call your bluff there, no data, no fact.
> if everyone switches away from Android

Very little risk of that. Our owners also want phones, and for the moment do not mind sharing the brand/models with the 10 or 20% who can afford, and know enough to choose, it.