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Ask HN: Floor Plan Mapping Software
I’m not looking for something that can map via my phone or use my TrueDepth (or whatever it’s called) camera to scan a room. I just want to create a boring 2D (maybe 3D) floor plan of my house and wanted to see what suggestions you all had.

I don’t care about price <$20 and I’d like the final output to be as flexible/portable as possible so I can make updates to it or re-use it later. So open source is perfect if it uses an open format but I’m not worried about paying some money to do this right.

My initial reason for wanting a floor plan is for planning where to put furniture (new house) but I would also like to do stuff like document various smart/IoT devices, WiFi AP’s, etc.
> What's good about having small bubbles as links instead of clear list of albums?

The idea is to spatially cluster related categories of image together, I believe.
The daily structure of work life allows one to avoid facing some questions that otherwise arise. Financial independence forces one to explore how one wishes to spend one's time when the work constraints are eliminated. This can be a very exciting, fruitful and rewarding endeavour. I highly recommend it.
Your previous answer seems to presume that there are groups of people to whom other groups of people are ancestors, and the first have special rights over anything that happens to the artifacts/remains of the second, I was trying to break down how you think about that. Eg. how do you identify the first and second groups unambiguously, and what sort of rights and limits apply.
My guess is that, in general, tiling is less useful in windows because fewer things are command line driven. I'm not saying none, just that in the linux world it is a lot more useful to a lot more people. So there is probably very little demand on the windows side.
Same here on a late 2013 bog standard 21" iMac
See, I'm the opposite. Even without the screen time or stimulation, I will fall dead asleep at 10pm, and no matter what, will wake up promptly at 4am.

I feel like there really are people who have different needs.
GitOps, or Why the Future Has No Dashboards
That depends on your memory usage. There is an awkward range (32GB - 48GB) where the increase in heap size does not give you a proportional increase in available memory because of the doubling of references. That is where you're better off running multiple instances. But for heaps bigger than 48GB running a single jvm is more efficient.
We Fell for Clean Eating
I see a terrifying problem with this approach. It's like the Microsoft strategy of EEE. They exterminate Firefox - the last non-chromium browser. And if it's become a tendency, we will wallow in monobrowser culture dark age again.

It's not obvious for everyone, but Google started to byte FF. I just can't use google search in Firefox properly, they force me to train their artificial intelligence on each search. Google sites are not locked to chrome-based browsers yet, but they work significantly worse, especially youtube on a mediocre machine.

But in reality, Firefox is the much faster browser. I develop very large webgl web assembly unity game (30Mb of code), and Firefox handles with such burden much better, than chrome.

It's like opera crush. To be compatible with the web, they forced to be compatible with chrome bugs and hacks. After a long time mimicking to a Chrome-based browser, they surrendered to darkness and joined the swarm.

Now the last standing browser is under attack of the giant corporation. If we will not protest, they just swallow us and put onto the glossy walled garden.
My guess it is dumped back into the sea which will cause a seriously high salt concentrations close to the dumping site. However it’s net effect on salivation levels in the oceans overall will be neutral since all the fresh water produced will likely end up back in the sea.
I can relate to this, although I to do this only on a very moderate level. As a side note, despite the technological advances of the last years, you can meet quite a lot of collectors in private direct connect hubs these days.
Anyone Else Falling Apart or Is It Just Me?
Most of the people that I hear complaining about it are old people and by that I mean people who are retired and time only tells them if it's the time for their favorite TV drama or medicine. IMHO daylight saving time helps both mentally (less gloomy dark winter) and energy-wise.
Fairly portable and future-proof, and very easy to compile (just collect dependencies; you need to really go out of your way to compile and "link" Java applications wrong)
It wasn't a point, more a clarification that this area is not quite on the same level of tourism as someone living with it in Western Europe, Thailand, etc. I was adding real world experience that it's not just social-media-is-the-new-guide-book, but that tourism authorities are actively pushing it too.

(Can't edit my earlier comment, but the italics were from an asterisk/footnote rather than intended emphasis.)
At the end of the day we will all eventually die & at some point the heat death of the universe itself will arrive - surely rendering anything anyone ever did "pointless"...

But that doesn't matter - meaning is subjective & you make your own. If something is meaningful to you it's not pointless.
Is the BBC writing more clickbait headlines than ever? continue reading to find out more!

Ignoring the headline. This seems to be mostly beneficial to the lenders more than anyone else. The risk of a non-payments and financial issues is much higher and repossessions will be higher.

> Even if four people's names are on a mortgage, if one or more stop paying, the mortgage lender has the right to demand full repayments from whoever they can reach, he explains.

You only have to consider divorce rates to see the maligned incentives. Can someone more knowledgeable than me on the subject of mortgages explain if repossession is more valuable to the lender than someone paying off their debt? Intuitively it feels like repossession is worth more on a long enough time scale but would be interested in insights from someone else.
Analysing Git Logs. Of Linux Kernel Authors, Fridays and Batman
My favorite thing as a parent is telling other parents that kids are a joy.

They are (after the first 10 months are over). But for that first 6-10 months, oh sweet fuck is it miserable. I honestly don't remember anything from that time period other than exhaustion. And you can see it on new parents faces. That blank, almost ptsd stare.

It's hilarious.
Ask your boss if you can come to the office hour later in winter time.
24/192 Music Downloads and why they make no sense (2012)
A good way to test wheather you’ve gotten enough sleep is to play a game of online chess. I make way more mistakes when I’ve slept less than optimal amounts.
That's because the website was changed after that comment was made, to fix this issue.
When will WebRTC 1.0 be available?
Yeah, I wouldn’t ever do it. Living with friends was fun for a while, but at the end of the day I was very happy to be able to just move out after about two and a half years and just sign my spot on the lease off to somebody else.
Living somewhere different is wholely different character from racing from photo op to photo op and never leaving the mulinational corporate bubble of popular destination amenities.
I read this comment as "You can't do this as a scrappy one-person startup," not "You must raise VC." Bootstrapping by using $2-5MM you / your cofounders have (from previous ventures, happening to be rich, etc.) would work fine.

Many startups and entrepreneurs can work great with minimal capital, both in Europe and outside Europe. The claim of this comment was this is the wrong business to be in if that's your goal (and I think that claim is intended to apply equally well in Europe).
AI could be one of the most disruptive technologies in history
Maybe the future is kids figuring out that they don't need to live in the city. It's the city's fault if they want to push potential employees out.
It's not an age thing. Wealth people in fancy hotels are more of a disruption, as the tourism economy displaces the local culture.
If you're so sure that the grandparent comment is relevant, then please tell us exactly which messages you agree are from people with absolutely mind-bogglingly huge egos even larger than Eric S Raymond's? I haven't noticed anyone making any appeals to their own authority as arrogant as claiming to be the most famous programmer in the world. Are you saying that it takes a huge ego to point out ESR's long track record of making flawed arguments, and quote the many patently false, self-aggrandizing, racist and sexist things he's said in the past, or that there's something wrong with pointing out racism instead of silently condoning it?
It really seems like the GLOBAL SOCIALIST LEFT ( Democrats) want to remove everything that is good , positive and supports FREEDOM

and ruin, infect and destroy everything they get into via "Diversity" "quotas" "feminism" or just out right admitting they are socialist traitors
Oh man, that poor guy didn't make it:

https://www.deseretnews.com/article/705347362/Man-trapped-in...
I feel like the time scales don't matter as much as the aggregate repossessions. If the aggregate is high, it's worse for lenders. Reposessing a home is not good for the lender if they can't sell it on the open market for a price close to the previous price. If repossessions go up, demand drops, and the market collapses.
I enjoyed this book. I personally did not find it condescending. Additionally, the implementation of a Forth interpreter in this book is the best introduction to Forth I've seen (even after years spent playing with Forth and reading one or two books on Forth). But I don't recommend this book as an introduction to (Common) Lisp.

I recommend this order:

1. Practical Common Lisp

2. On Lisp (kind of a big jump, so maybe check out ANSI Common Lisp)

3. Let over Lambda

4. Lisp in Small Pieces (especially if you want to implement a Scheme or Common Lisp)

With Common Lisp the Language (Guy Steele) and ANSI Common Lisp (Paul Graham) somewhere in the mix.

These are all excellent books and must-reads for anyone interested in programming languages and/or the Lisp family.
Wow, what a contrast to this study of 36 people. Personally I feel that it's a bunch of placebo but a bunch of people I know swear by it.

Nevertheless it's much harder to convince people to do what's more efficient compared to what _feels_ better when it comes to sleep. I for one feel much better if I wake up 7am sharp every day but it doesn't not feel that way naturally.
I have a theory that by oversleeping too much your body goes into sort of hibernation mode and wants to preserve energy to the end of the world. On the other by sleeping little and having strict schedule you enter a type of primal survival mode, similar to if you were sleeping outside on savannah, which keeps you alert even with minimum sleep.

I had and have the problem that if I don't put alarm on, I will oversleep and my day gets kind of ruined. So for me I always have to set an alarm and if I feel tired and have nothing on morning I'll maybe bump it by an hour. For me the best sleep schedule is going to bed by 12-2 and waking up between 8:00-9:30. This way if I occasionally stay up till 3-5 my sleep rhythm won't be completely ruined.

I have experimented with various different tricks and styles, recently after a long vacation in different timezone allowed me to completely transform my sleep rhythm. After I came back I woke up automatically 6:00 sharp without any alarm, and I went to sleep 22-23 which was quite bizarre. Sadly though I enjoy late evenings much more than early mornings so even if I went to sleep 0:30 I'd wake up at 6, very tired, which led me to sleep longer and in the end ruining the rhythm.

But what I've found out is, that you want to wake up exactly during the light sleep cycle as that's when you feel no tiredness at all waking up. If you try waking up during REM or deep sleep it will feel like pulling teeth. For me the best time is somewhere around 8 if I go to sleep by 1-2 which counts up as ~7 hours. Should probably track it better but yeah. Also I bought wake-up light alarm clock which is interesting but I don't know yet has it actually an effect.

Although I have to say following an exact schedule is probably the best solution sleep-wise. Decide a time when you have to be at bed and an exact time when you have to wake up, no matter what. I think doing this during my vacation is what caused it to be so ingrained in my body that I was able to wake up at 6 without any alarm.
Adi Shamir couldn't get US visa to attend RSA Conference named for him
Thanks for sharing the article! I think it would make a good addition to my WeeklyRobotics[1] series. Would you mind if I reshare it there?

[1] http://weeklyrobotics.com/
ParaSail: A Pointer-Free Pervasively-Parallel Language [pdf]
Using stickers to enable privacy for kids on PopJam
> I was talking about writing programs in languages with 'advanced type systems', as opposed to dynamically typed languages; and that I've not seen compelling evidence to back up common claims like "dynamic languages are faster to program in".

Well I strongly agree with that if you meant strongly statically type programming languages. I think they're a good sweet spot and I'd pick them over dynamic languages even for small projects.

The reason I went down the route of software verification is you said "In fact, my experience with "advanced type systems" (e.g. Agda, Idris and Coq)". Wouldn't OCaml or Haskell have been better examples? Why use Agda, Idris and Coq at all if you're not going to prove advanced program properties?

I would say Coq is used solely for software verification with the help of dependent types, while Agda and Idris are an attempt to make software verification with dependent types more palatable. I'm not sure why you'd use them over OCaml or Haskell if you weren't going to use types that were more advanced.

> It's harder to do non-structural recursion, where the recursive call isn't acting directly on part of the argument, e.g. the greatest common divisor algorithm:

How often are you really doing non-structural recursion though? It's exceptionally rare to write complex loops like a GCD algorithm was my point. Either way, I agree an escape hatch for proving properties can be a practical solution.
I have heard about graphene being some kind of holy water in the last decade quite a few times. Sadly, it seems only possible to recreate amazing results lab wise.
I think it's honestly more of just a meaningless statement (at least in the US). Sort of like when someone greets you with 'how are you?' and everyone just says 'great' or something like that.

It's just words to most people, I think.
Homoiconicity, Macro System, Battle Tested
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: Asteroids Harder to Destroy Than Previously Thought
> For the first two choices one loses commutativity which means that code then suddenly has to have previously cared about it (or it will do the wrong thing)

Since this is a new operator, that shouldn’t be an issue.

I think losing commutivity is okay. After all, d1.update(d2) != d2.update(d1) if keys conflict.
> I'm leaning more towards stacked micro-houses, aka micro condos, as the "future of housing" in urban centers.

This is already a thing, it's called coffin cubicles or cage homes: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2017/jun/07/boxed...

What I'm trying to say is: No, you should not lean towards this. You should lean towards jobs and opportunities spreading out over the country. To appeal to the HN population, instead of thinking in the binary thought of "SF (or some other tech hub) or fully remote!", consider another option: opening up smaller offices. Bring work where housing is affordable.
As others have stated, this is irrelevant.

There are plenty of ways to get cars with gasoline engines to catch fire, and any attempts to sue every other manufacturer over the poor work of shade-tree mechanics is already something that has been dealt with for decades.

Moreover there are other manufacturers that are long as annoying to deal with as Tesla, particularly exotics -- they're just that, annoying -- that do things by the book, no worse than any certified manufacturer mechanic.

Hell, some independents are invaluable. My personal mechanic has had to have video calls with Porsche Classic (in Stuttgart) to tell them how Porsche badly did work (at great expense) on cars like the 959, that he then had to do right, because Porsche's official Classic restoration shop effed it up. He's functionally restoring lost knowledge at Porsche because the domain knowledge of those cars was lost -- and you'll find independent mechanics for Ferrari, Lamborghini, Aston Martin, McLaren, etc. that are also equally invaluable to keep classics running and dead reliable, and helping the manufacturers out by providing training, and ensuring there's a (very profitable) customer base with an interest for the old metal.

I buy and repair/flip lots of popular used commodity cars -- including hybrids -- as a hobby. Hybrids are increasingly popular for me because there's demand, and most mechanics haven't bothered with them yet, so it's a pretty easy $1800 - $2500 to turn around a Prius that needed a rebuilt battery from a reliable battery re-manufacturer that stands by 6-year warranties on their battery packs.

I've met Rich a few times at car shows. He's not a knucklehead, and Teslas aren't rocket surgery. Those battery packs are a different beast than the 40-50kg packs in a hybrid, but if you can remove a rear subframe with the engine, transaxle and rear suspension from a mid-or-rear engine sports car with a 6-to-12 cylinder, you're ready for a Tesla battery pack replacement.
Or you can watch documentaries to learn about foreign cultures.
But anyone can do that. The true marks of a refined and worldly character are taking expensive trips to foreign resorts that only better people can afford.
I've spent significant stretches of my life sleeping 4.5-6 hours/night on weeknights, and then 8-10 hours on weekends. It works just fine. I do drink a ton of coffee, but I'm quite alert even before my first one at 9AM, and capable of doing exercise/engaging in focused activity with zero difficulty. If I don't sleep enough on weekends though (like I have to set the alarm) I start getting jumpy and anxious though.
Do you have any credible sources that say wildlife is affected in any way by daylight savings?
>Another thing to think about is how many times have I heard of stories where a mechanic or oil change tech forgets to tighten something, oil or fuel leaks, drips onto the hot exhaust manifold and starts an engine fire... while driving.

The properties that make engine oil last thousands of miles without breaking down in the conditions you find inside an engine also make it very hard to ignite if not mixed with something more flammable (trust me, I've tried, it won't stay lit on its own). Fluid based vehicle fires are usually the result of transmission fluid or power steering fluid which are more flammable. Fuel based fires are pretty rare (for how flammable gasoline is) because safety standards all but require OEMs to over-build the fuel systems. Also due to the nature of engine designs (you kind of need the exhaust ports on the head so the manifold goes somewhere therabouts) it's quite rare to have a situation where it's possible for an engine oil leak to reach exhaust system parts in any appreciable volume. Remember, if you're losing that much oil the car will likely stop for other reasons long before it catches fire.
That article is about creating a marketplace rather than a "support" type of setup that Patreon has. From a financial & compliance POV it's quite different because it's not a payment for a specific product.
A network of friends is to insecure to finance a long term commitment. Banks exist for a purpose.

But in Germany for example, Landesbanks and Sparkasses offer friendly terms to people.
Personally I'd settle for a future without annoying propriety control panels. I can see the value of Config as Code for reproduciblity, consistency and ease of use.

I don't see myself giving up on dashboards any time soon, though I'd rather cook my own from standard ELKish data than use a bunch of different services with their own. But I think that's pretty normal these days.
Lets also try and spread working times from (mostly) 9-5 to 6-2, 7-3, 8-4, 9-5 and 10-6 so we can solve the traffic congestion problem, all while enabling people to work when they work best.
Good point. Is this percentage a known number or is there a name for the threshold in the lingo? Like a number they would actually want repossessions to be maintained at as it maintains gaining property while the market is effected as little as possible?
Not being able to click through the images quickly gave me temporal space to think. Slowing down and appreciating the amazing things the images depict. The teamwork, engineering, bravery that went into making the images boggled my mind once I stopped seeing them as just more lolcats. It made me conscious of the clickclickclick way I ordinarily view images. It made me uncomfortable with the way I treat the world. What more could I ask than to have my mental habits questioned and my awe of the universe brought fore.
Ask HN: What is the best setup to work remotely with GUI on Linux?
In the past I tried a couple of setups using different protocols (VNC / RDP) with varying server / client software but was never really satisfied. Since this is a common problem, I am sure that some people here on HN have a well tested configuration for this and might be willing to give some advice.

Scenario I am interested in:
* Server machine runs graphical applications (potentially GPU / OpenGL intensive)
* Client can connect via SSH and is supposed to see graphical application (full desktop or just application)

Thanks for any recommendation!
In excited about 1k brains and in general biological research to inform AI! But I don't understand why folks doing serious work on the biological/artificial boundary push claims about which mechanisms are "necessary" to produce intelligent machines.

Hasn't our own progress towards understanding biological intelligence been a series of theories that supplant and reinterpret another? Don't we frequently find new biological mechanisms for information storage and computation that run parallel to presumed dominant paradigms in impactful way? Why need a discovery to be necessary rather than useful or inspirational? I don't think it's common for hard science communities to describe results in terms of what is required, as opposed to what's possible.
Don't they only need to sell it for the amount of outstanding debt? That is in part why standard loans require 20% down
It doesn't really work for them either; a mortgage is a 30 year commitment. Do you really want to have such a commitment for 30 years with the people you now consider to be your friends? This seems to heavily bet on both people's incomes increasing and the housing prices to increase, which seems to work out alright in the current economic climate (just not in the UK, ironically enough), but it's not a guarantee and not something you want to bet your future on.
I didn't mean a clone of Patreon or anything like that. On the tech side, it's quite different, but on financial side it's similar, so the easiest way to ask about it was to refer to Patreon as the most widely known service with this type of setup.
The article mentions incense too.
I recommend you try the extension "Auto Tab Discard":
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/auto-tab-disc...

It uses the native tab discard method to automatically reduce memory usage of inactive tabs. This way you can have lots of tabs without slowing the browser down.

For other extensions I use: https://galambo.wordpress.com/2018/12/25/firefox-extensions-...
> 2. On Macros
I have heard about On-Lisp. Is this the same reference?
Automate single mesh multi-clusters with the Istio operator
+1. I'm closing on a house soon. 1000 square feet for less than $150,000, in the South Hills area of Pittsburgh.