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There's definitely an appeal to engineers in building your own house from scratch. As an example, I built an 8x12' shed (details here: https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY/comments/2kof5x/i_built_an_8x12... ) several years back. All it took was a few months' worth of weekends and a few trips with a borrowed full-size pickup and I had it together. Obviously you'd put more effort than that into making a house (you need insulation, utilities, and more interior construction and layout), but the point is, it's all within your grasp. And it was nice working with my hands for a change given that during the work week all I'm engineering is software.

And at 96 sqft, that's well within the range of the homes being discussed in the article. If I were doing it to live in rather than as a shed, I'd build a 12x16 or a 16x16, for 192 or 256 sqft. 16' is the maximum length of dimensional lumber you can typically find at a hardware store, so the advantage there is that the house has structural members extending the entire length of the house, which means it's super sturdy. 8' and 12' are also common lengths of dimensional lumber, hence the size of my shed. Also no surprise that the height is simply 8' (uncut lumber) minus the height of the floor.
Yes Europe, I think it's pretty common around here not to overwork. I've had 3 jobs and all were similar. Do your work, no one checks your hours as long as you are not obviously underworking and on occasions you will have to stay a couple hours more just to make sure the servers don't die.
Speaking for myself, the free trial will always win. If I've paid, that means they have my credit card number, and it can be hell getting some companies to stop charging. Of course, that means I only go with free trials that don't require a credit card number. I know why companies do the things they do, but I don't care, I'm not going to get sucked into a lengthy, multi-call game to get them to stop charging my credit card.
I don't think so. Rather, typical zoning codes in the US don't really allow for permanent tiny homes, so they usually have to be built on trailers in order to be legal.
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Why one has to be an informed citizen? Why one has to vote? Why one has to always protest? Why one has to always support something?

> We’re afraid to ask ourselves deep and meaningful questions.

Noise and news are an incentive for people to play this left-right, right-wrong game you described in your comment.
Haha, you are on a technology forum, the topics might well be forward thinking :-)
That wont work for long. Phone makers are already adding built in "beauty" filters that can't be turned off. [1]

[1] https://www.diyphotography.net/iphone-xs-camera-forces-beaut...
I see you're downvoted, so I upvoted you, though it might not be enough.
Because it's lazy to just assume newspapers are always wrong about everything. If we don't assume newspapers are always wrong about everything, we can assume they are sometimes wrong about some things and sometimes right about other things. That makes reading the news a fact finding mission. Discerning the truth from fiction is just part of life.
How much are you willing to pay per post to post on HN? Because that's what you're basically asking for. If you force companies to vet every single post a user makes and they have to take responsibility for it, then they'll have a rather substantial monetary value attached to each post you make.
The difference between our two stories is that one is about your property and one is about your right to exist. Surely you see that these are not equivalent. One is telling someone "I don't want you here, so go back home to be murdered by the warlords you fled" and the other is "give me some of your money otherwise carry on".

>The thing is that, yes, wanting to reduce the amount of immigrants (for example) is a mainstream political stance.

We were talking about refugees, not immigrants.
Multiple things.

If the needle is good and the record is new the LP has a better theoretical dynamic range - new record is important here as each time you play the record you physically wear it, so after a few playing it will not be as good. This is the only one that is inherently better.

LPs are sold to "audiophiles", and often have a different mix. The CD will often be compressed until there is very little dynamic range. Even when the record is worn it can still be much better just because the mix on the CD wasn't good in the first place. This is the biggest advantage to LPs, but it should not be overlooked as it applies often.
The purpose of UUIDs is to guarantee uniqueness without coordination within the system of computers over long enough time and within the certain rate of generating them. Hence all the timestamps and node identifiers in them, coordination on which already happened. If it doesn't guarantee uniqueness for your use case - you should change the algorithm to make sure that it does, otherwise there is no point having them if you still have to do coordination to avoid collisions.
Married but no kids (yet). We are both urban professionals. I work 10-7, and more if needed after dinner at home. She works 8-7 but cannot do her job from home. I workout 2x during the week and 1x during the weekend.

My trick is to never work weekends. I work as hard as possible during the week then try not to work at all on the weekends. The key is to get into a routine where you don't burn out. Life is a marathon, not a sprint. Find what works for you for the longterm. People in their early 20's who think they can keep 80 hour weeks up forever are naive (I used to be that way). Make time to socialize and maintain friendships.

Mental and physical health are essential. Eat healthy, exercise, don't push yourself too hard for too long.
Lazarus amazes me as a free and opensource software project. So much hard work and dedication. Congrats!
Nope. The V4 RFC does specify and recommend a method for generating UUIDs that uses randomness, but it also provides other methods, and explicitly warns against relying on the UUID being random:

"Do not assume that UUIDs are hard to guess; they should not be used as security capabilities (identifiers whose mere possession grants access), for example."
Ah. Well, that's fine. They can go somewhere else and renounce citizenship, then huff and puff when they start having difficulties getting the money out of the businesses and property they left behind, and getting the knobbly, nail-studded end of the mercantilists' stick.

Your argument rests on the presumption that the economy needs super-rich people to be performant, when corporations and governments have already solved the problem of collaborative concentration of capital. If they leave, and the economy somehow fails to collapse, they have shown the lie behind rich folks as "job creators".

Economies are run by the people who do the work. Sitting on ass and writing checks serves to weed out some of the worst ideas, and shuffling financial instruments serves to lubricate the gears of the economic machine, but should the rich ever go on strike, they will immediately lose all their leverage as the economy restructures itself to work without them. At worst, they can just get replaced by newly-minted rich people.
3. You need a tie-breaker between your product and your competitor's.
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There's a difference between reading unbiased news from reputable sources for the facts, and getting takes on news from talking heads.
The thing is the majority of what humans consume is so structured [tv procedurals, romance/SF/fantasy novels, superhero comics, news, etc, ad nauseam] is so tightly structured you don't even need an AI to generate it, even just a markov generator will do it most of the time (someone had a project that generated quotes indistinguishable from 50 Shades of Grey). They'd already written screenplays on computers at MIT in the 60s. But even the high-end isn't saved; if Burroughs were alive today and in his 20s-30s, he'd probably being using computers for a modern generated 'cut-up' technique. Really, Dada was just ahead of the curve by a century.
Wait, what? So delivered doesn’t mean delivered... who thought this was acceptable UX?
That was IE only though.
Not sure, but I imagine that colleges and universities and the non-profit sector are probably less prone to age discrimination.
> Given that a (conservative) estimate of 75% of entertainment stories and 50 to 80% of news and business stories emanate from public relations

She doesn't cite any sources to back up those figures. Do you have any available?
I think it's more that our standards of living were artificially inflated for the past 100 - 150 years.

A person doesn't actually need that much room to live comfortably. Particularly if you make use of public spaces and the outdoors.
I work a bit more than 9 hours a day, but am lucky to have disconnected working hours. I catch up on movies and reading while doing business development meetings (and making sure that I don't write private information in places it could be compromised), come home early, spend time with family and then do a few hours of focus time after dinner when the kids are asleep.
Vox's Future Perfect podcast did a good episode on this, too: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2018/11/14/18091698/futur...
Easily disproven statement by looking at real stats [1], where most western european countries are ahead of the US. If you're suggesting those immigrants are not "poor", consider the Syrian crisis, Germany and Sweden were by far the largest takers of syrian refugees in the west, while the US hardly took any syrians at all. In fact, I read somewhere that Sweden in 2015 was the largest taker of refugees per capita from non-neighboring countries EVER.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_net_migra...
It amounts to the same thing, so this is more about psychology than anything else. It's like the difference between a discount for X and a surcharge for !X.

I feel like you'd have to A/B test your particular market to really know for sure.
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Quite. :) The initial wording is alright, but I couldn't help but notice the ironic internal contradiction.
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> Whether or not the rules in the App Store are "capricious" is widely debated, but it's probably safe to say that they're coming out looking pretty good vis a vis malware and end-user experience as a result.

Apple's walled garden certainly has its benefits. It's like a benevolent dictatorship, that is occasionally heavy-handed and is not always consistent.

> People who dislike Apple love to say things like this, but I've never really seen anything that qualifies. Is Apple stuff more expensive? Yes. But you tend to get more for your money.

For accessories? There is literally no reason for Apple to put DRM on their lightning connector interface other than to lock out unlicensed accessories and charge exorbitant prices for Apple replacements. Even something simply like an A/C adapter for an iPad is like $40. You really aren't getting more for your money in that case.

Apple's hardware is usually excellent and worth the price of admission. My Macbooks were the best computers I've ever owned.
While the new ones benefit from lighter materials construction, the Nikons at least have vibration reduction built into their lenses rather than sensor also autofocus [in the lens] adds weight vs mechanical. So, on the one hand materials are getting lighter, on the other hand they've added tech which has added weight.
Southern California drivers certainly aren't terrible, and if that's a reputation they carry among outsiders it's probably because they're more aggressive (efficient) and leave less space than those from parts of the country where real traffic doesn't exist.
> protected by law (no bullshit "unlimited vacation" policy can take it away).

I've worked at two places who had this policy and it was remarkable how many people just burned themselves out by NOT taking a single day of vacation. There was always pressure from management to NOT take vacation, then you add in pressure from your co-workers to continually work late, push to get projects done on time, all at the cost of your sanity and physical well being.

My thought has always been if you're going to join a company who has an "unlimited vacation" policy, it's probably a good indication there's an expectation you're going to work yourself into the ground, then burn out and will need an extended amount of time to get yourself right.

If a company champions this policy during an interview, it's a huge red flag for me.
No, it's actually related to the ease of use and correctness.
By design, Git lacks two fundamental properties that would make working with repositories much easier:

1. Git merge is not associative. This results in cases where Alice and Bob work together, Bob pulls Alice's work, and her lines get merged into places she's never seen (blocks of text newly introduced by Bob).

2. More importantly, Git is not commutative. This means that cherry-picking and rebasing are complex operations that change commits' ids. This forces Git users to branch (an extra step that needs to be done before starting to write), but more painfully, it sometimes forces them to do multiple steps of rebasing before being able to merge what they want, or to solve the same conflict again and again after an unlucky cherry-picking.

Of course, all this could maybe be prevented by stricter planning and a more vertical organisation. But this is not how many people write code in 2019. Continuous delivery, for instance, means that teams no longer know long in advance what they are going to over the course of the project. Also, the best developers don't work in vertical teams where they get continuously told what to work on.
While I travel for BD meetings * not during them :-)
In Europe, this is very common to overwork. I am french and everybody that did not stay after 5pm was considered as "underperforming" and blamed for it. In the USA (at least after working in 3 companies in different states), if you stay after 5pm, it means you might not be able to complete your job in the allocated time and therefore, might be "underperforming". This is a simplification but this is the overall sentiment I have from both sides of the Atlantic.
More like a gentrified log cabin if you ask me... nearly everyone used to live in places about this size. Having a huge home for everyone and their dog is a rather modern development, and often people don't even use most of the space in their house, or don't use it well anyhow. I personally would want more space, but it's an interesting development in culture.
Surprised that HN has this sort of myopia in tech history. Are things really different this time? Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, Bell, IBM, Microsoft, AOL Time Warner. Cries for antitrust action are often a bellwether for organic disruption. A lot of the discussion here is about how to "organically" break the trust via regulatory changes such as repealing CFAA, more scrutiny around acquisitions, etc.

It's not possible to understand the first order effects (let alone second and above) of regulation. Doing so without using the mighty/crude hammer of antitrust would presume that one knew how to organically disrupt these companies. "Oh! If only other people were to prevent Google from making all of these acquisitions we would have more competition in search!" "If only small companies could build 'third-party apps' legally!" Once you substitute out the ever-wise HN commenter with a member of our legislature does the absurdity of these statements become clear. Can we at least have the humility to say that we don't know how to disrupt these companies? There is already a massive profit incentive in the form of the net profits to be competed for. The answer to the question "How do you beat Google?" is for the market to answer.

Before trying to come up with a regulatory solution, it's worth stepping back and realizing that if you knew exactly how to beat Google, you'd hopefully try and do it.
Is the one you're referencing the google groups bbs group one? [1] Doesn't seem particularly active.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mil-oss
I can understand the benefits of building tiny houses in spaces that wouldn't accommodate larger buildings (such as as accessory dwelling units [ADUs] in traditional single-family neighborhoods). But I don't understand the benefits of building clusters of them: why not build a standard apartment building instead? Construction costs will be cheaper, and shared walls reduce heating/cooling costs.
This assumes that poor people don't put in time, have valuable skills, make smart choices, or do complex work.

It also assumes that they had the choices better than the position they have.

There's also another assumption that the protections social safety nets completely eliminate incentive to put in effort. GP didn't say they moved to a nonexistant land where everyone is paid the exact same.
Perhaps you wouldn't have had the same opportunities without a degree in Europe but have you considered the possibility that had you been in Europe it also would have been significantly more affordable and easier to get a degree given your situation?

Universal healthcare, for example, might have allowed your mental health issues to be addressed sooner. And even if they were addressed some people just need more time to complete their education. My sister really struggled with college due to her anxiety and depression and a four-year plan just wasn't going to work for her situation. Unfortunately, college is so expensive there is a lot of pressure to finish as soon as possible. Like you, she dropped out. Now she's in the most difficult situation: the burden of the student loans without the benefit of the piece of paper.

That doesn't happen in Europe. The affordability of university in Europe allows people who need a bit more time to figure things out or to work through their own personal struggles to actually complete the program. And even if someone drops out they aren't left with an unmanageable amount of debt that will follow them for the rest of their life.

The "safety nets" in Europe allow young 20-somethings the flexibility to figure things out for themselves without completely screwing up their future financially. I think we really underestimate the value of that flexibility for a young person in the United States.
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My side project is a local news outlet for two small cities near me. They are small enough cities that I am the only game in town when it comes to digital media, the only competitor is the local newspaper who has no online presence. Plenty of our stories are actual news articles talking about local politics and new businesses/restaurants and local interest type stuff, all written by humans.

But filling in the gaps is plenty of machine-generated content. One of our big draws is the event calendar, and fortunately events give me enough data to feed an AI that I've developed. There is enough structured data and the information is so routine that this system can churn out several articles per day that sounds hand-written and every article sounds custom tailored to the business and the event itself. This fills in the routine work of keeping content flowing in between the stuff that takes a lot longer to research and write, and makes it viable for us (one full time employee and one part time employee) to run two popular small-town news websites where otherwise no one would even bother trying.

This is also a great case where classical AI is still relevant to modern problems. Neural networks just are not good at writing English in a way that humans would enjoy reading. At some point I plan on packaging it up and doing a Show HN, but for the time being, this article is spot on. Machine-generated news content breathes whole new life into an area that's increasingly hard to turn a profit.
Europe, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, 25 days of paid vacation plus bank holidays.
Scanning at 5300 dpi or 156 megapixels doesn't mean you have that much resolving power (I can scan a negative taken with a cheap lens at any resolution I want but that doesn't mean I magically get massive resolving power out of my crappy camera and lens).

When scanning traditional film you generally want to scan at significantly above the resolving power to capture all the grain structure and other analog characteristics of the film medium.

The easiest way to measure your resolving power is to print a black and white pinwheel - a large number of alternating black and white pie slices around a circle (more pie wedges is better). Pull your camera back and take a photo. Zoom into the pixels of the photo looking for the point near the center where the black and white regions stop being black and white and turn into a gray. Measure the diameter of the gray circle and use the diameter to compute the circumference (measure in pixels, then use the info about your sensor or scanner to convert from pixels to mm). Count the number of black pie slices and divide by the circumference to get your resolution. For extra fun try opening up one of your lenses to its maximum aperture and then compare the results to the same lens stopped down to f/16 or something like that - it's much easier to make a lens that performs well at a small apertures than large ones, and zoom lenses are harder to design well than fixed focal length prime lenses.

To get really trippy, just look at the pinwheel with your eye, and you can use the same technique to measure the angular resolving power of your eye (using your distance from the chart to measure the diameter in angular degrees rather than in mm).
I don't think anyone's suggesting everyone get the same portion. I just think that if you work 40 hours (or 35, or whatever we determine is "fulltime"), you should be able to support you and your dependents without going bankrupt if you get cancer.
This is exactly what is happening right now. I'm a software developer for the Dutch government and I pay about €40.000 per year in income tax.

My neighbor has the same lifestyle as me. Same apartment, type of clothing, food and sports. And she even drives a car, I don't. Yet I am gone for work for about 50 hours per week and she lives on the income tax I pay. She doesn't even try to have a job because she is happy with her lifestyle living on welfare, the same lifestyle I have to work 40 hours a week for.

I don't hate her, we have a great relationship but it does create a separation between the two groups.
I might be mistaken about this, but a lot of the ones where it says that the letter kerning is wrong, looks to me like it’s the letter spacing that is wrong.

Kerning being a specific adjustment between two letters and letter spacing being the general distance between the letters.

Nevertheless a fun little quiz, but I think it needs some improvement to not be so full of essentially arbitrary design decisions. Also, to not promote dark patterns.
I want to mention that ENet (http://enet.bespin.org/) did this a decade ago and mostly ignored.
8 Hrs max at the office, 5 days a week. Rest is mostly family and sleep.

I cut down personal projects to a minimum after reading "Why we sleep", and it helps with overall well-being.

Commuting via Bike is also a big health-win for me. One hour on most work-days (sometimes the temperature or other circumstances require the car).
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No. The closest was in 1999, when the Commission lead by Jacques Santer dropped out voluntarily before the Parliament forced them to go.
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