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I found myself disagreeing with almost every point. Entertaining only happens a handful of times a year? What?

Furthermore designing for it is wasteful? Why must it be?

It’s an acoustic nightmare to have one big room that everyone can talk to in?

Open floor plan housing makes smaller spaces feel larger by allowing all the rooms to be the living room or dining room as need be. It allows me to afford a place that feels larger but is smaller. And that alone is a killer feature in a City.
Hosting things under microsoft.com is bad for security. One xss attack anywhere on the domain can steal cookies for the whole domain.

As a web developer, I only want to build to the security level my site needs, not the security needed for Microsoft logins.
Ask HN: What to Do with All the Trash?
All the waste. Do you ever think about it?
How to take this stuff and make something great again
Ask HN: How did you implement GDPR compliant Global Log Collection system?
Hello Guys,

I am running hundreds of servers across the globe. Right now all these servers are pushing the data to centralized ELK cluster. I want to make a regional log collection system. Like all EU servers should send all logs to the EU cluster likewise for Japan servers.

Maintaining ELK clusters per region can be a pain and paying a huge amount to AWS Elastic Search Service is not a good idea.

Do you guys have some better suggestions? Any tools or best practices I should follow for this project?
Some people are making money off of it. It may be frivolous or vacuous or derided, but someone is willing to pay for the phenomenon and “platforms” are making money of this belief as well.
I believe the article is confusing chutzpah for overconfidence. Most wealthy high - class people are business owners. If you can't project confidence to the point of being overconfident, you can't be attracting people, investments for your next venture. Look at the entrepreneur class vs the salaried class? Wealthy people teach their kids to be supremely confident, while poor people teach their kids to be doubting Thomases!
You can only live in one house. You can invest in as many houses as you want.
I'm on a Pixel 3. It's just solid red - no faint logo.
Interesting. Three hours ago someone in our Ops team shared a link to "Open Distro for Elasticsearch" [1] and it's also featured on the AWS console login page.

Is this a very rushed reaction to it? Or is this related? I would really love to have a clarification of what's happening in that space.

[1] https://opendistro.github.io/for-elasticsearch/
And have properly set up colour management working, which on Windows is close to zero percent probability.

This also ignores the shortcuts that Chrome and other browsers have taken on their road to colour management.
Too little too late? Trying to charge for TLS was a very poor move and it's made me not trust ElasticSearch...
This may in fact be the right answer. Which is sad if true.

Unless he tried AWS first and got nowhere. Then Techcrunch would be a reasonable place to go.
The Emotional Engineer
I'm not the first to admit it, but I am an emotional engineer.

In an industry where many engineers are protrayed as heads down, headphones on, keyboard clacking individuals...sometimes I find it hard to navigate the emotions of the day to day.

College and studying on your own will teach you the ins and out of writing code and having proper syntax, but it does not teach communication or human interaction.

Sometimes it seems like simple interactions don't even phase my coworkers, but to me the emotions hit hard.

Like that time I spent weeks on code and met with my manager all for my manager to say "cool. Did you grab your next jira card?" I invested days on days and poured my heart into this code and my manager communicates as if he could care less.

Or the other time when I helped fix my coworkers code, made a pr for it, and upon review the only thing my coworker had to say was how the white space is messed up. Not even a thank you for assisting with the code.

I hope for future engineers that someone creates a resource to help teach engineers how to navigate their emotions and communications.

Is it just me? Have others observed this at their companies and careers?
Did he join the Seventh Day Adventists?
>It was surprising to me how much money was spent on the Glass program yet how little was spent on the folks who would actually be coming up with the app ecosystem.

You can say that about pretty much every google product. Stevey's Platform Rant[0] is still as relevant as it was years ago.

[0] https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611
It doesn't say the google play version is free, it says it's DRM free
I've just came back from a road trip in the US, and what struck me compared to Europe is that people didn't have luxurious cars (apart from a bunch of asian kids cruising Yellowstone in obnoxious sport cars). Big SUV were commonplace, but I didn't see as many people showing off luxurious cars as I do in Europe. I don't really know if there is any truth from this subjective observation but it made me thinking. It goes against the common stereotype saying that it's totally fine to boast one's wealth in the US, whereas Europeans are more shy regarding money matters. This isn't my experience.
Technology is the only way. Even slightly curbing economic activity to decrease emissions will not be politically popular enough to be implemented (see: yellow vest protests). Additionally global coordination is required meaning a system where individual countries can cheat to get economic gains will fail.
Check chrome://gpu
I wonder how databases deal with this. I imagine there's the appropriate LC_COLLATE, but would it have an impact on performance?
Yes, but it's always been true. The houses in 1930s, 1950s, and 1990s were also built where land was available, further out from city centers, so this hasn't changed, and doesn't explain why price/sq ft is going down.
> “Wow, if I had that car people would think I’m cool.”

I would think "if I had that car, people may think I'm a bragging asshole, not sure I want that kind of attention".
No not really, but I wasn't saying it did.
But even doctors, whose job is literally to keep track of these drug thingies, have gotten things wrong. See the opioid crisis + Oxycontin.

What hope do laypeople have when even the specialists with over 10-years of high-class training get these things wrong on a nationwide level?

Before the Oxycotin news, I thought Purdue was just "that chicken company" at the grocery store (Yeah, I'm ignorant. But that's the fact, at least I know I'm ignorant). I don't have the time to figure out which brand-names to trust or what not to trust.

My doctor gave me a "Tomed mandibular advancement device". I don't even know what a mandibular is. My only hope is to trust the doctor and hope it fixes my problem. I've never heard of "Tomed" before.

How the hell am I, as a customer, supposed to build a relationship with a brand, when I only buy one or two of their products per lifetime? How am I supposed to do market-research, and figure who their competitors are? If I buy a competing product, what assurances do I have that it works as well as the one my doctor gave me?

Look, I trust that the engineers are trying to build devices that improve my life. I trust my doctor is trying to improve my life. I trust my insurance company is trying to save (themselves and me) the most money. But I recognize that there are systemic flaws in the US Healthcare system, and something isn't exactly working right.

In any case, the "brand" system being proposed in this topic is clearly not a solution. Not only is it NOT working right now, I have my doubts that it would ever work under our current system. I'm just too ignorant about the companies who make medical devices and drugs, and I've got the freaking internet in my pocket to research things instantly. That's not the problem, it takes more than 5 minutes, or even an hour, of googling to review peer-reviewed journals and figure out which devices, techniques, or drugs are effective.

Ultimately, I'm going to trust my doctor and insurance company. Its all I got. I'm not going to be trusting my life to brands of which I've never used before. Its incredibly rare for me to buy any form of medical device in general, I simply don't have a relationship to any medical brand what so ever.
It reads to me like "ball's in your court, I'm happy to talk but I'm done chasing".

Being proactive and contacting people over and over is fine for a while if you're "hustling" but eventually it just becomes spam, you sound desperate, and you'll be hurting rather than helping your chances.

Also, if you feel your proposition is good enough and you don't get the response you were after, then move on and focus on getting your pitch to the right people.
Confirmation bias here, but I find this fascinating. I'm Canadian living in the US, and see these overconfident people who are incompetent in the industry and it drives me banana, but across several previous jobs (again, in the US), everyone seemed completely oblivious to it and thought these people were awesome (they were absolutely not).

In one case, I watched a high executive tank a company into the ground (provably, with numbers to back it up that it was as a direct result of their own decisions) and got promoted 3 times for it. Eventually left their job and took an even higher position at another, bigger company.

No one seems to notice this. Its insane.
Of course a serious nuclear incident may cause a reversion to fossil fuels. That may not be rational but that is human nature. Not much you can do about that.

So the worse case of nuclear power is actually global warming caused by fossil fuels. And an eye watering San up bill that has opportunity costs for decades.
Opendistro was announced by AWS a few weeks ago. It’s their fork of ES with security features and some of the XPack functionality included.
Any time someone from Phoenix posts their new deck, there will always be someone chiding the shallow footings. ("Frost will destroy that in 3 years, hurr, durr.")

When a new home addition in Los Angeles is featured, you get the Brick Mafia laughing about how we use wood frame construction ("You yankees use cheap stuff"). Never mind that earthquakes favor the bendy sticks over the brittle blocks.

Huge swaths of code are tied to local weather and common disaster scenarios. Florida really likes their hurricane ties, California loves their Simpson ties, in New England you need to dig down 4 feet to install a birdbath!

Other large discrepancies just come from different attitudes toward methods. Like mechanical vents for plumbing (where the vent goes to an interior check valve instead of up through the roof). Some places allow it, others prohibit it. I don't know why exactly, or who is "right".

But the point is: if The Code is someone's only objection to a construction technique, then I don't think it's a valid objection. They need to say why the technique or omission is wrong or dangerous.
Yes, and we still use computers how they were originally marketed too . In all seriousness though, see you in a year when this is dead again. Google hasn’t made a single hardware device that has actually stood the test of even a small amount of time yet. One could argue Home mini is the closest thing they have, but it’s still so early for smart speakers. We’ll see.
Perhaps you are doing an excellent job? The best project managers I have had played Starcraft all day and left us developers alone so that we could work. Only meetings when there were problems, none of those "daily checkups."

"I literally have zero stress and I’m so happy every day."

And therefore you want to change your job? If I were you I would stop moonlighting during lunch breaks because that is probably in breach of your employment contract and grounds for dismissal.
It may be that a lot of the issues do not represent any especially egregious failing of any generation, but rather structural changes. The post-war exponential growth that fed unprecedented wealth generation simply could not continue, it has run its course. So while it is tempting to look back a generation or two and see how they had it much easier in a lot of ways, if you look back just a little bit further, it's easy to feel pretty damn lucky to be living today.
If I read this right, this is good for Assange?
I think the fundamental component is house prices. Our ancestors had much cheaper housing as a multiple of the median wage, and could mostly afford to buy based on the paid labor of the father alone.

Those same ancestors are still sticking around, living in those houses, and demanding tribute in the form of medicare and welfare payments (2/3rds of the federal budget).

I'm only saying this to spark and extend discussion: but a society in which Euthanasia is mandatory at age 80, with housing and monetary resources freed up for younger generations, is likely to be a happier and better place to live.

Alternatively we greatly limit immigration (including cross-border) - to only the most skilled and intelligent immigrants - and we create some kind of huge carrot/stick to get older people out of big houses and into smaller, managed apartments. A comprehensive land value tax, with discounts for families with children under 16, could solve this.
Beto O'Rourke? The Ancient Order of Hibernians would like a word with you.
I didn't mean single binary either.

I meant, that systemd solves some category of problems, that other tools didn't solve, didn't intend to solve and didn't even care for what the problems are. For distribution maintainers, systemd was something to welcome, that did address their problems.

So yes, there is no replacement (the requirement for it being drop-in only places the bar higher), because there's nothing else that scratches the same itch.
There are a number of IP rights which have dubious value, century long copyright is one, software patents are another. They do benefit the Americans because they were the first movers in terms of Hollywood and the software industry, but these rights do nothing to advance innovation, yet the United States continues to push them on other countries via trade treaties.
> We were on the brink of environmental collapse as CFCs were destroying the ozone layer

I'd probably be ridiculed by most of the younger crowd here for my views on global warming, I mean climate change, but as someone who distinctly remembers the nonstop warnings of the Ozone Layer - we're all gonna die - I just don't put much energy into worrying about the latest issues related to the environment.

Part of me knows that I'm probably underestimating the actual problem, but I've been hearing warnings for years that never amounted to anything.

I wonder if this is why the boomers, who were literally practicing nuclear bomb safety in school (much like school shootings now) and have had another few decades of dire warnings that never materialized, are even more unlikely to care about the environment or much else about which the younger generations are so fearful.
lol yatches really made me lol. I wish it weren't a typo and what we called pretentious people with yachts.
Without a location these numbers are useless. I assume they are all Seattle/SF. Comparing to what someone would make in a chicago suburb is not apples to apples.
I mean, sure, I like those luxuries. I also get panic attacks when driving in stressful situations and more than moderate traffic. Not wanting to cause a crack-up rules out a commute into an urban area from an only marginally cheaper suburban area. (I've tried it before.) And fully-remote work is uncomfortable, socially isolating, and completely impossible for my girlfriend due to the urban-localized nature of her career, which makes living further out impractical.

I've tried living elsewhere; this wasn't my first choice and I'm very lucky to be able to afford it. Perhaps all this makes this urban liberal some kind of snowflake, but that's all right with me.
Here's the NIHR blog: https://www.nihr.ac.uk/blogs/does-how-we-detect-the-spread-o...

And here's the paper: https://www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/programmes/hta/106801...

These are worth reading, they're in more detail than the submitted site. I recommend NIHR because they're usually short and very readable.
So if I had just asked 'can you explain what you mean' you would have given me an explanation about how you appreciate the way of life in Boston, etc. I was more interested in the fact that -- across the country -- places similar to Boston (i.e., large, rich cities) seem to all be having the very problem you are calling out (high home prices). I was interested in an explanation of how you thus justify liking the politics (which in my mind are intrinsically linked to the high home prices) while simultaneously decrying its effects. Without asking my direct question, I don't see how I could have mandated this level of introspection.

Your response now seems to indicate that the main reason you want to stay in Boston is your family, which I get wholeheartedly. But your claim was that you appreciated the politics, which doesn't make any sense to me still, because in my mind, the way of life you idealize (and I'll admit I like it too) sounds like it leads to expensive home prices.
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No, you are not the only one here :-)

Yeah, sometimes I am really pissed off because many people just try to find issues in my PR. They don't care for the rest of the work. I would suggest you talk to your manager about this topic. You need a better environment and which is fine.
"Influencer" is a polite euphemism for "Narcissist".
Coincidentally, I put up a new chapter in my in-progress book last night that contains a long aside with my thoughts on this paper:

http://craftinginterpreters.com/jumping-back-and-forth.html#...

Overall, I find it pretty disappointing. It lacks the rigor that Dijkstra himself argued so strongly for and may have stifled actual useful language research.
A keyboard is also a 3D interface with one dimension constrained. I have to be able to move my hand past the keyboard without accidentally inputting data. You can see the problems of this kind when you have a large touch screen and people try to gesture at it while talking and end up accidentally changing something.

Look at machine rooms in submarines or control rooms for power plants or tv studios. Different tasks are in different locations sure, but the inputs are constrained to an area near the arc defined by the fingers at a comfortable distance from the shoulder. For really good reasons.
Semi-related: Many SV companies have been involved in illegal wage-suppression-fixing recently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...

> The defendants are Adobe, Apple Inc., Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, Lucasfilm and eBay.
What are you asking for? The world has changed drastically, culture and preferences have changed drastically, and new technological tools make the job and economic landscape entirely different than earlier. That's not Baby Boomers' fault. Are you really going to blame them for not predicting the future well enough? Baby boomers aren't forcing young folks to like living in cities more than suburbs. They're not maliciously causing robots and computers to be more reliable than humans at menial repetitive tasks. They're not forcing young folks to want to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on mediocre private universities when reasonably priced state universities exist (and a world of knowledge for self-teaching is available through the internet). And even the global warming thing, our current prosperity--and don't kid yourself, America is pretty freaking prosperous--strongly depended on us exploiting cheap and reliable energy for decades. And it's that prosperity which gives us the bandwidth and resources to think "hey, let's do something about this, either find a way to avoid or prepare or cope".

Yes, it would have been nice if everyone in the previous generation had a crystal ball and selfless motives. But that is not something we are due as a right, nor is it something anyone should reasonably hold against them. They didn't blow up the world, and made it better in better in a bunch of ways, and maybe a bit worse in some ways. On net, that's still like a B+ or higher in my book.
It doesn't matter how easy it is, but putting even a tiny barrier makes it that much harder.

Cellphones are dual use technology you can't ban them, and while it's hard to band esp8266's not to mention every other microcontroller / SBC with WiFi it's a sure as a hell a lot more easier to do than cellphones.

Also if you are caught with a cellphones in say the tribal regions of afghanistan heck even if you are caught with a truck of them it's much harder to prove that this is for IED's than people.

So you are replacing a very easily sourced item with plausible deniability with an item that needs to be specifically imported.

You also then replace the interface between both the radio trigger and the bomb and the person who would detonate it and the bomb.

The first part now requires understanding of microcontrollers and a PC to program them now even if you say that most bomb makers could learn that or already know how to make it it's still puts some restrictions on it.

You also now need a computer which you didn't need before.

And as the bomb can no longer be activated by a simple phonecall which can be made anywhere in the world and from any phone you also need to build a dedicated transmitter.

This reduces the plausible deniability of the person who would in the end trigger the bomb, introduces another point of failure which can't be replaced in the field by asking the local shisha shop for a phone call and can introduce another signature of the bomb maker into the equation which can make apprehension more likely.

While I'm sure considering just how many bomb makers are engineers, many of which were educated by western universities they could figure out how to turn a raspberry pi into a trigger, but it's still going to be harder to do than with a cellphone so fewer bombs would be made, fewer bombs might detonate and in the end adding this additional complexity and items that are ironically easier to track than cellphones in say the tribal regions of pakistan or the iraqi desert would result in more bomb makers getting caught.

I still remember that when the iPhone was announced we were joking that this would be the end of IEDs if every phone in the world would become a $1000 (i don't remember the figure we used) smartphone it would cost too much to make these and as the battery would last you half a day on standby and the reception sucks balls you couldn't count on it for shit.
At some point we also joked about Nokia should just market their "can use me as a brick in a case of emergency" phones directly to terrorists to get out of their financial troubles.

But jokes aside it wouldn't surprise me if at this point if half of the early to mid 2000's Nokia phones ever made turned up eventually in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq.
the -d suffix is traditionally for service daemons. SystemD is not a service daemon.

Lowercase is a UNIX convention. SystemD does not have a UNIX approach.

Since SystemD is not a Unix service daemon it shouldn't be spelled "systemd" to prevent confusion.
That, and the trips to the design centers. I find no enjoyment watching the homeowners browse through different color swatches and light fixture designs.
You'll just get more JavaScript piled on as managers insist on having X monetization feature deployed.
Ask HN: What motivates you to do your best work, and work hardest?
What are the circumstances under which you give the most, work the hardest, put in your best and strive for the most awesome outcome?
http://www.drawdown.org/solutions-summary-by-rank
Good catch and an important distinction.

Some background here:

https://devclass.com/2019/03/12/aws-launches-elasticsearch-d...