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> And quite frankly, I don't care. I don't think kernel development should be "easy".

Ah yes, the tried-and-true arrogant neckbeard stance that so defined unix interfaces for decades: If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.

But we've already proven that good UX is a good thing. In fact, UX has been so front and center for so long on HN, I'm rather surprised that people still cling to the old ways.
At Salesforce, one of the ways we measured influence was by the amount of internal social network activity an individual accumulated... posts, likes, replies, etc. In nearly all cases, the higher ups had the most influence.
It's simply too early. The product cycle is probably going to be very similar to smartphones. Two decades with lots of prototypes but negligible market impact (Apple Newton, PalmPilot, HTC P Series). Followed by a decade of rapid expansion when all the desired features can finally be implemented (like in the iPhone). We are probably still in the Newton decade.
I think it's worse when you're lacking confidence to begin with.

My hair started thinning when I was around 20 and kept thinning till I was about 30. Now it seems to be in a steady state of horse-shoe pattern.

I think it was worse for me when it began, as I started picturing all kind of terrible fates for me. I was obsessed with my hair density and wanted to kill myself. Now that I'm being bald and more mature and self-confident I'm not even sure I'd want to go back to having to do my hair again. And women don't seem to care at all. I'm still surprised by that, but the experiences I make every day make me wish I had lost all of my hair from one day to the next, just to get it over with.

Also, I don't want to romantisize going bald, but I think it rounded out my character.
Gut bacteria are key to the pathways for making serotonin and melatonin, but he figured out that his sleep improved after he stopped taking the specific probiotic intended to increase the microbes.
Nothing like Rick Steves and Bob Ross episodes to take the edge of a day.
You either are or you aren't using mathematical functions as the basic building block of your program. What you're listing is either FP with additional features, which is still FP, or features of FP used in OO. FP is paradigm, which is more about how you structure your program and how you think about solving problems.
Weird fact: For the last ~10 years I have always watched Rick Steves' show while doing laundry (sorting and folding). The two are now inextricably linked in my head (thinking about folding socks makes me think about Barcelona), but I really look forward to doing laundry.
In my experience influence is earned using much of what you outline. Lovely blog post.
This could have saved me endlessly fumbling through my phrase book(s) when traveling 20+ years ago. I thought I was going to be arrested when taking photos of a bank early on a Sunday morning in Luxembourgh.
It seems to me these days that job titles are more an indicator of time-served rather than technical abilities in many organisations in addition to a method of retaining staff.

I recently observed a company move from 'everyone is the same title' to specific jnr, snr, distinguished engineer titles. The primary reasons for this was to create a framework for salaries and provide a defined track for 'progressing' as the organisation got bigger.

But if you think about it - it really comes down to a method of retaining staff and salary banding, I have yet to see any organisations where the titles of engineers defines their abilities, all engineers have the same say.
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> the devices that shake the trackers just right

I just duct tape mine to my dog while we play fetch.
I occasionally teach a course in informal logic, basically the construction & deconstruction of arguments and rhetorical devices. The principle of charity is the single most fundamental rule of reading/interpreting an argument in order to have productive discussions on a topic and not get bogged down in misunderstandings, accidental straw men rebuttals, etc. Everything else, from identifying the primary claim and dissecting the supporting evidence to actually rebutting the argument, flaws, fallacies etc., that all comes after.
Yes, exactly. Every robot from these companies I'd seen were underwhelming and nothing I would have spent money on. A robot that could do my laundry I'd pay $2000 for.
Do you provide a list of publishers or share estimated volume numbers?
Law is not so simple. There are many layers, from The law itself, to judicial rulings and precedent, followed by enforcement and decisions on how to deal with conflicting situations between all of the above.
Genuine question related to riscv: what is the value of a standard when a majority of it is part of optional extensions? Doesn't that make riscv a ton of distinct standards, marketed as one?

RV32I is nothing close to RV64IMAFDQCPBS. It seems like all the fragmentation standards are made to avoid packaged up as a "standard" to make sure everything under the sun can use risc-v.

(see also usb-c)
I suspect this is to avoid warping on a large board. They probably used hatching to match the amount of copper on the top and bottom of the board.
> The internet existed before advertising and it could continue to exist without it.

It would, but it would be much harder to find content, because the major search engines pretty much only show corporate content marketing pieces that are written specifically to rank well in search results.

The other day, I was looking for some essays or blog posts about a particular TV show. The first 5 pages on Google were all variations of "10 things you didn't know", "this moment made our jaws drop", "How working in an office is like [completely dissimilar situation in the show]".

The only way I was able to actually find a human-written post (completely different style from a conversion-focused copy writer's post) was when I was searching for a screencap from the show on Google images. It's easy to distinguish user-captured images from corporate, licensed images, so clicking on the source link showed me a beautifully written, hilariously annotated season review on a cheap blogspot domain. That reminded me of the early Internet, when the writing felt much more personal and relatable.
If the cause is cultural, then it's not inherent and is tractable to change through education and is not an obstacle to rehabilitation. It's just a behaviour, not an innate trait.
And as far as I can tell, none if those nuclear reactors have been leaking radioactive material. The fact that close to a dozen nuclear power plants have been sent to the bottom of the ocean and have maintained their integrity is testament to just how safe nuclear power is when implemented correctly.
The Boing accidents showed that technological progress doesn't help in minimizing errors, as there's always a higher incentive of minimizing costs in the implementation, even if the plan is safe. A very important thing we can do is to limit the possible worst case scenario.
Debuggers are to debugging what IDEs are to programming: they make you so much more productive that as a professional programmer, forfeiting that productivity is literally leaving money on the table. Something you can afford to do if the project is a hobby project (which Linux still more or less is to Linus), but when you have actual customers -- no way.

The quality and integration of the debugger alone made Visual Studio head and shoulders above most development tools for other environments.
In my experience, sometime's SDE Manager == Distinguished Engineer.

That said - the few DE's I've gotten to work that I most appreciated were particularly invasive when dealing with management. That is, they would weigh in and use their influence to ensure the team wasn't pulled in too many directions. Sometimes this occurred even when they weren't explicitly asked.

Your most experienced engineers can be a good reminder for management that they're asking too much whether it's breadth or depth.
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Most homeless have mental issues. Minnesota has a good welfare system. However the cold in MN means that those who generally don't trust government (meaning that they will run away from any help the government tries to give unless restrained in an often inhuman way) either freeze to death or make their way south. Thus the poor in MN have a house of some sort. There are a few who migrate north for the summer and back south for winter.

No amount of safety net helps when your mental illness makes escaping the notice of the safety net a priority. It is a hard problem and I don't think anyone has a good solution.
Thank you. ^ that's the lawyerish definition I was referring to ^
>"But this homeless encampment off a Hollywood freeway ramp is often littered with needles and trash, and soaked in urine. Rats occasionally scamper through, and Millar fears the consequences."

Great place to live, clearly a community you would want to put down some roots.
My kids get confused when I refer to my 3d printer as a robot. Heck, even the 2d paper printer is a robot. In that respect, I do have some very useful robots. I would very much like a robot that could do household chores though, like laundry.
> A story of conscience

I'm surprised you see this. I see it differently. Excuse my language, but I see a horse-shit sandwich. Have you read any Noam Chomsky? This is a great example of 'Manufacturing Consent' - through these feel good propaganda manufactured stories. Yes, I do think he believed his struggle was holy and justified. Yes, I am aware that this sounds harsh.

For an honest confrontation with our very real Global North shadow watch this: https://vimeo.com/242569435
Which is why an early part of the discussion, before the engagement starts, what the architecture of the application is and what technology it is built out of and where it is hosted.
Is this embedded in the same process, or just within the same unit?

Aside: would an embeddable redis be a useful thing for apps and other isolated devices?
Welcome to the wild world of consulting! I hope you enjoy your stay, it's the only way to live in my opinion.

What's helped me in my freelancing/consulting journey more than anything else has been building one on one relationships (aka, networking). The more people you know who know what you do, the more opportunities you'll have come your way. Some call it Luck Surface Area.

Join a paid online community of other consultants. Go to meetups around your city. If someone wants to learn programming take them out for coffee. Go to networking events. Give talks in public. Anything that will introduce you to other humans. Then keep track of all of them in a CRM. Follow up with people and provide as much value to them as you can. Participate in Hacker News (this post is increasing the number of people you might meet!). Put it on your Github/Twitter/Website etc.

Ways I've gotten gigs lately:

* Person from my online freelancer community I'd talk with multiple times was working on a project and they needed help, brought me on, now I'm getting more work from that client.

* Someone from college I hadn't talked to in 8 years saw my LinkedIn profile and contacted me about a project for their company.

* Someone saw a comment on HN about my work and reached out to me.

* College student wanted advice on freelancing, I took them out for coffee, 3 months later "I decided not to freelance but I found a client, do you want them?"

* Sitting in a coworking space and person I met yesterday and told about my business says, "I'm getting a full time job, want this client?"

None of these have had to really come from direct "selling" and all of them came to me which in my experience makes it way better since they already want and trust you. I don't even feel like I'm all that good at promoting myself, but I have work because I talk to people.

Happy to chat about this further if you want, my email's in my profile. Best of luck in your consulting!
PHP is very fast. The tooling is great, and it's very easy to get started. VSCode with the right extensions makes PHP development fun.
Even one of those tasks would probably be enough for people to consider adopting robots. People started to have telephones back when you could only do voice calls with them. Then, the tasks that mobile phones could do expanded, first to PDAs then to the iPhone in the smartphone age.
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There are loads of people who would be perfectly happy to live in an SRO. They've been outlawed by people who either want to run off the riff-raff or just don't understand housing.
It's completely standard. If you encrypt the password in the browser, potential hackers have access to the encryption code which makes it useless.

Check the network tab in dev-tools when logging in to hn for example and you'll see your password in the request body :)
It's fairly common for large media sites to use multiple ad vendors. WaPo isn't unique here.
It's pretty hard sometimes.
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I appreciate Rick Steves and always enjoyed his shows.

But reading recent posts on HN about how tourists are ruining Europe (and other places) makes me wonder if his message has become obsolete.

After all, air travel contributes to climate change. And I for one do not relish jumping on the QM2 - which surely burns fossil fuels - to spend two weeks (one week each way) traversing the Atlantic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Queen_Mary_2

Cheap airfares contribute to overtourism. Just ask Dubrovnik.

AirBnB has priced locals out of their own housing markets. Just ask Venice.

That said, I hope he continues doing his thing.
I see where you’re coming from. I think a great deal of mental illness is social and environment. We did not evolve to live in the circumstances of developed societies. So absolutely if we could change environment and social factors that would help a lot.

But just take depression for example. Let’s say Bob goes to a psychiatrist with depression. Bob recently lost his job and his girlfriend left him. He has every reason to be depressed. He would probably feel a lot better if he had a job he likes and wasn’t so alone. The problem is he’s too depressed to look for a job or to go out and meet new people, the things that would help his depression. This is where I think psychiatry can be helpful; some people just need something to break them out of their depression for long enough to be able to make the social/environmental changes in their life that will help them in the long run. Therapy alone may be enough for some people but not for everyone.
Good point - that's 100% my bad. I wish I could retract my comment, but I don't think there's a way; I appreciate your insight.
I'm not disgusted by the poor. Im disgusted by disgusting people. People who make little to no effort to improve their circumstances, people who trash their community, people who EXPECT a handout.
Yeah, I don't know. I've built three software products with Haskell, and yet, they all have state.

It just happens to be the cheapest and most reliable tech I've come across to run my businesses on.
I currently live in an SRO. It has real walls. It has real plumbing. I have internet access and electricity 24/7. There is a kitchen down the hall and I am allowed to cook in my unit, though you have to supply your own means to cook, such as a microwave or hot plate.

To my mind, SROs work just fine. They weren't always perceived the way they are currently. Our current American expectations for space, a full kitchen, etc etc etc is not the historical norm.

It isn't even the norm from around the world. In Japan, which has much more affordable housing than the US, from what I gather, it's common to room with other people in a two room rental where one room is a bathroom with only a sink and toilet and the other room is where everyone sleeps. Japan has public bathhouses. They related differently to various things than we do.

From what I gather, ovens are an oddity in Japanese kitchens. They typically have a wok and maybe stove top, I'm not sure. They usually don't have an oven.

When I got divorced, the two and three bedroom apartments I inhabited with my two sons had fully outfitted American-style kitchens. We often kept sodas in the fridge, not because we needed them cold, but because the fridge was too big for our needs. If we didn't keep something extra in it to keep it full, the milk would spoil because it didn't stay cold enough.

I don't think our standard American housing expectations are currently serving us well in a number of metrics. Our expectations are rooted in the assumption of a four or five person household consisting of a stay-at-home mom, two or three minor children and a breadwinner father. It was dreamed up in the 1950s post WW2. In the years since, our demographics have diversified and such families are much less common while single young adults, childless couples and single parents have become more common.

I have also seen on TV shows that when you house hunt in Japan, they tell you the time it takes to walk to the nearest public transit station, not the time it takes to drive various places. I have heard a lot of good things about how Japan handles housing. They seem to generally do a much, much better job than the US.
> They managed to fracture enough rock to generate energy contained in a mag-5.4 earthquake.

No, they managed to fracture enough rock to destablize the system and allow the fault to slip and release the energy it had built up over decades.

In effect, this pulled the trigger. The energy was in the action, which was cocked by the earth.
I remember reading about the Anadigm FPAAs, but I don't recall finding anyone who sold them.

The Cypress pSOC series is fairly similar (programmable analog blocks mated to a Cortex-M microcontroller core) and easier to find on sale. I'd argue that it's also more useful in modern mixed-signal designs.
How Twitter's algorithm is amplifying extreme political rhetoric
I really want to see an introspective, single-user, programming-centric, graphical operating system that isn’t dumbed down to the lowest common denominator. A new ISA seems like a great opportunity to ditch the current models of computing for something more Genera-esque, since we now can produce commodity hardware that is powerful enough to achieve good performance at reasonable prices.
And I understand that, most people that I meet have jobs. A lot doing marketing, social media, copywriting, language teaching.

I'm using my savings to bootstrap my idea currently. This side gig I've picked up is a bit of a distraction.

If I stayed at home and continued to live as I was my runway would've been 3-4 months.
The incentives are all wrong. For profit prisons "growth" model relies on growing the prisoner population. If they manage costs better and, more importantly, produce better outcomes, then we should look to shifting more of our prisoners there. To date, I haven't seen any such data.
> use all the deposits for fractional reserve banking

They already do, and it's supposed to be limited per law, it's called the leverage ratio.
Sorry, I didn't mean to suggest that only explosives can trigger an avalanche, obviously that is not true. Lots of natural and human activities can trigger an avalanche, shouting and even very loud soundwaves are simply not one of them. More here if you're interested: https://utahavalanchecenter.org/avalanche-problem-toolbox
I'm not the author, but from my perspective: Yes. Dramatically. Non-lexical lifetimes eliminated the most common cases where the compiler was just wrong.

Of course you still need to think about lifetimes, and sometimes warp your program around them. However, it is now much less common for that thinking to arrive at "The compiler is wrong; how can I convince it of that?"
It wasn't really 3D, you couldn't look up or down at all in the original doom I think and in the later games you could, but it got all horribly distorted, as the engine couldn't actually show the scene from different perspective.
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> OK, that's basically a static method in C#. Is that wrong?

Yes, that is wrong. Static methods don't have access to object state, but they can still access mutable state (e.g., static data members) and invoke other side effects, so its results can depend on things other than the arguments.

> > Functional programming, therefore, is programming so as to avoid these side effects wherever possible.

> So functional programming should never handle state?

“Wherever possible” is not the same as “everywhere”.

> Do you just move that logic into another framework (Angular, React, etc)?

No, though pure languages generally do something loosely similar; Haskell programs, can be viewed (in one interpretation of values in the IO monad) as having a main function that produces an imperative program as the output, which by convention the runtime executes.
Was there a similar causality between Puna Geothermal and the vigorous lava vent popping up next to it that was entertaining us last year, extending Big Island of Hawai'i by a large chunk, covering whole Kapoho Bay?
Wrong. You can buy a product and still be a product.
Interesting speculation that the 22-degree offset in the two AoA sensor readings in the Lion Air crash corresponds closely with a "bit flip" error in the digital representation of the value.
You're just committing to the bad abstraction again. Driving drunk is worse than speeding by exactly the amount that it increases the probability that you hurt someone. Which in that case is a lot, and so the fine should be proportionally a lot higher.

"You can't bring them back" isn't any less true for someone who kills someone driving 65MPH in a 55MPH zone -- or 55MPH in a 55MPH zone. The only difference is the probability, which is a difference in quantity rather than kind.

> No amount of money can bring them back.

Neither can it bring back the person hit by a bus because the government didn't have that money to spend fixing a bad intersection. Should we really let two families lose loved ones to that intersection when they could be saved with the money that not deterring a risk taker generates, even if that risk ultimately kills one person? What about the family who lost someone but the compensation allowed the survivors to live somewhere safer or afford better medical treatment and that saved someone else?

What you really want to be arguing is that we should never be trading money for lives. Everyone viscerally feels kind of that way. But that doesn't work. There is always a marginal safety improvement that would save additional lives in exchange for additional money. Any time you choose a smaller number of lives over a larger amount of money, what you're really doing is choosing a smaller number of lives over a larger number of lives.