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What this startup is proposing to do to help alleviate the SF housing crisis is probably unsustainable, and probably won't pass NIMBY scrutiny there. And it will revert to the property owner in 30 years, after which it will be landfill. But it's interesting how they propose to handle the legal stuff.
Nationalists are on the rise, backed by billionaire oligarchs
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You need some integer to make 53 bits though...
That is just a side effect of having a large user base.
It has been authorized. The deal works like this: Petapixel pays nothing and the links in the footnotes hopefully drives some traffic to the photographer's site and social media. In this game Petapixel is the influencer that asks for free ice cream in exchange for an Instagram post. Blog spam 2.0.

I don't see why one wouldn't want to link the source and at the same time support the writer directly instead of hoping a fraction of the readers will find and follow the links in the footnotes on Petapixel.
According to Elon Musk next week we will see 200m hops. Exciting stuff!!
Interesting project, I’ll be checking this out soon.

I’ve been experimenting with several gui libraries in Rust lately and so far the GTK3 bindings seem to be the most promising for building native GUIs in Rust.

With native I mean GTK/Qt style fast/performant widgets that do not necessarily use platform-specific widgets.

This project seems to use GTK as one of its backends. I’m curious to see how the multiple backends architecture will influence the library design as GTK, html and TUI are vastly different.
We have hate crime laws in the UK under which you can get arrested for making statements which are grossly offensive towards someone's ethnicity, creed etc... . That's vastly different from arresting people for criticising the government.
I agree it mostly a British thing, but I say it was their land. Never in history has territory been invaded and capture and then partially given back to the people with special rights like it has in North America. I think native Indians should just be Canadian and that's it, none of this special rights seclusion bullshit. I never did get why we did it? I feel like it's not even helping or what most want, is it just a bad compromise at this point?
I wonder if they have tried charging 30 Euros for "pick your own lavender"?
I met a guy once that told me that he never decided beforehand which song to play and that way would be less stressed. He was a pretty good pianist. More than 10 years later, I almost only perform original pieces or improvisational pieces and if I perform often enough, I find that I have way less anxiety with performing.
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Sounds like we have a lot in common ;)

All my meals are already home-cooked (and, in the summer, mostly home-grown), and I exercise for 30 mins 5 days a week (plus extra physical work in the garden at weekends). I'm fit enough. The extra couple of hours I'd need a week to build muscle are better spent doing something else, IMO
Entering a market isn't for the faint-hearted. I got interested in buying turn-key online businesses last week. This way someone else gets to bear the risk of bringing a product to market and you can just focus on cashing checks and helping it grow.
As someone who is similar to your description, my honest advice is to set a date in the future where you evaluate whether you actually like this role. Think about what your plan is if you don’t like it (can you step down or will you have to move companies?). Don’t get trapped in it for years because you don’t want to give up... if you’re not that interested in people and talking, this role will probably make you miserable.
There are just too many arse holes using Twitter. It's a haven for trolls.
Well it looked as if it is a hotpot of various things that could go wrong.
Because in software there is no sense of craftsmanship. Design or principles or abstraction are dirty words. Just get it done attitude pervades programmers.
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Referenced commentator here: I'm totaly new to Rust, but I'll definitely check it out !
What is the alternative though? Realistically.
I used to volunteer at a heritage railway in Northern Ireland. We had several old restored trains and we went to great lengths to make the station areas look authentically old. Naturally photographers loved it.

Most photographers were Okay and respected the rules, but some some just refused and couldn't handle being called out. For example one rule was do not get in train cabs, unless by prior arrangement - which involved doing a safety briefing etc. Still some photographers just did their own thing. Some would jump on to the footplates of in service steam locomotives to get their shot, that was dangerous but they didn't care. I was driving a diesel railcar and had a passenger bang on the cab door so he could take shots from within the cab. He kept banging for about 10 minutes until we got back to the station and was then had a go at me for refusing him access.

Another strict rule was no tripods on the platforms. It was dangerous as they created a tripping hazard and just ruined the atmosphere for other visitors. But come a sunny day or special event the forest of tripods would be out in force.

And the worst of all was the ones who would walk off the end of platforms and setup alongside the railway line. Most wouldn't even bother to wear a hi-viz vest either. Completely dangerous, but they didn't care they just wanted their special shot.

These weren't just our rules, many were in place because of laws and insurance requirements. We didn't want accidents, nor did we want a few visitors to ruin the atmosphere for others. But when we called called out such people we often got abuse, which would then be followed up by long rants about how unaccommodating we were in various photography and railway forums.

The thing is we would allow photographers to access cabs, use tripods and go alongside the line - so long as they arranged it with us first. And during special events we would often have an hour set aside specifically for photographers to go to town. But for some that wasn't enough.

For a lot of heritage railways in the UK and Ireland the misbehavior of some photographers has got so bad they have a blanket ban on cameras with remediable lenses.
> When crave something I always wonder how it is different vs a cocaine addict craving cocaine.

Lately, I've been trying to give myself plenty of boredom time. I still fail at it a lot, but I try to do most things with purpose now: I don't listen to music just because, for example, instead I decide I want to listen to music and then sit down to do just that. I feel I enjoy it a lot more this way! I also don't idly listen while travelling or walking anymore. I go for walks almost every day now and I enjoy the quiet as much as the exercise. I also try not to idly read stuff online (especially on my phone). I definitely still fail at this, but slowly I'm improving. Its better to spend half an hour bored than mindlessly reading stuff. There's been plenty of articles here about how boredom is good for your brain, after all.

Having said that, I do find it very difficult to do work that isn't mentally stimulating.

> On a short-term basis, stress is a good motivator to some.

When I was in my early twenties, I worked very very well under stress. Having a lot of pressure pushed me harder and I got a lot done in a short space of time. As I get older, though, I find that the stress bleeds over to the rest of my life and I'm less able to just shrug it off or channel it to get work done, so now too much stress slows me down instead, and seems to negatively effect my life and health in other ways instead. A small bit of stress is fine, of course, but chronic stress is, I believe, very unhealthy.

Anecdotally, I had a ton of health issues a few years ago that I believe (and the doctors said its possible when I asked about it) that they were all a side effect of my few years as a startup founder. Again, anecdotally, I've known other startup founders (including my current boss) who have had probably-stress-induced health problems. Its an aspect of startups people rarely talk about or warn you about.
discriminating on the basis of race is banned separately. This would probably be addressed by the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment, not free speech under the first.
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It may appear odd to many people but its reality that when discusses and make strategies to find niche products, they are actually promoting a strategy of "playing safe" or "follow the crowd strategy. For instance, your business decides to aim a promising established product category, but for selling purpose, you choose a specific narrow band of products. In addition, you procure its raw material from the same supplier as your rivals, but you make innovative changes while marketing this product to your niche that earns you success.

The other method of identifying "niche products" is by getting ahead of your competitors by discovering a specific demand that is unique and special in the society and is under-supplied. As soon as the special demand is identified, you can start searching out the supplies that can cater to this demand. The supplies can be searched in ways not followed by the majority.

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Well, now they are conCERNed
Can’t have been that bad... At least he was wearing pants!
Because the water would need to be separated from the sand grains. The "water" in the sand is very little: it's more akin to damp sand we're talking about, or in the "wettest" case mud.

Drying that would require a lot of area, effort, and sun, or some type of oven. Any method of making sand drier costs orders of magnitutde more than the sand itself.
Some time ago I had a long period of intense stress. It is amazing how much it changes your mind and body.

Muscles contract causing all kinds of insuline problems, your hormones become a mess, and all this is raising stress levels more because you don't know what is going on in your body.

And then an anxiety disorder is right around the corner.

And when everything is ok again your brain produces stress hormones when you hear a sound that would trigger you earlier or just a smell or a color.

I think this is the most difficult part to get back to normal:

The brain brings you in stress mode for no obvious reason. Then you have to reason about it so the stress goes away and you will slowly reset your brain.

But I doubt the paths in the brain will ever go away. It will be like a overgrown path in the end but it is still there.
These projects always stop (or make no useful progress) at the really difficult/tedious work of abstracting cocoa and win32 API.
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There are a number of problems with this story:

1. Farmers are using chemicals in bulk, they pick them up in 110-240 gallon containers that include a meter and a pump which are then returned to the dealership. The number of 2.5 gallon containers of old has been greatly reduced

2. He talks about finer and finer sprays. But there is a huge problem with that and it's drift. Drift over on a neighbors crops too often and your insurance carrier will cancel you.

3. I am not certain of the percentage but a fairly large percentage of pesticides are applied by commercial pesticide applicators, often part of a fertilizer company or grain elevator. These commercial applicators must be certified and are held to much higher standards than farmers.

4. He also talks about a positive and a negative charge or what is called electrostatic spraying. This has been around a fairly long while. It's had some success applying fungicides but not that much for other uses.

5. Lastly he speaks about what he calls vertical farming. People have been building these vertical farms for a number of years. I've yet to see the numbers work out so they can make a profit. It's often a high value crop like fruit or vegetables. For example tomatoes out of season where people in an East coast city are willing to pay 2-3x as much at say a Whole Foods. Funny but you never see a follow up story on these farms.
I was expecting some kind of "has a stroke, suddenly forgets the connection of piano keys to music notes" story. Thankfully the real story was less anxiety-inducing :)
If you lived in the forests of, say, Thailand there's a good chance you'd die from Dengue Fever or Malaria. Good ol' nature, looking out for the humans.
If you want a cultural difference vs America to point a finger at: low ambitions. Even the most talented don't necessarily shy away from modest markets that could never buy them their own private island. Industrial machines is a high value market, but the total growth potential isn't so big.

With a typical European medium business (this is really not limited to Germany at all), if it achieves exceptional success in its particular field, chances are that it won't try too hard to leverage that success for growing aggressively into other fields, eventually losing focus on their core business. High specialization like Kern is achieved by sticking to what you do best and trying to get even better at it, not by trying to become a billionaire. Americans, by comparison, would be more prone to handing over the core business to the management equivalent of a maintenance coder and moving on to the next bigger opportunity.
>It seems like the US has become what the USSR was

What a ridiculous overreaction. You're basically arguing that companies should be able to profit from other countries annexing foreign territories without any regard for international law.
So there were spiderwebs on the bedroom ceiling? I let spiders be in my bathroom but I can't stand the sight of their webs in my bedroom. Was that not a problem for her or you?
IIRC the repair/replace cycles of the body including the skin are affected by sleep patterns, because of different hormone levels and other changes between wake & sleep states, which might indirectly be why your skin suffers from stress (because we know stress can significantly affect patterns and effectiveness of sleep). The immune system can be affected also.

I get mild eczema and sometimes have periods of insomnia, I've noticed not sleeping enough for a few days to be something that often seems linked to a break-out of raw itchy patches.

Also rubbing is often a subconscious "tick" while stressed, so you may be putting extra strain on the skin that way too?
> I don't see why one wouldn't want to link the source and at the same time support the writer directly instead of hoping a fraction of the readers will find and follow the links in the footnotes on Petapixel.

Isn't that between the author and Petapixel? The author seems to have granted permission to reproduce his work there.
Ask HN: Moving to US from the UK?
I am interested in moving to the US from the UK (given all the Brexit shenanigans). I have a UK and an EU passport and I am able to transfer to the US office of my current company fairly quickly.

My question is, once in the US what would the situation be regarding changing jobs and visa security? Is it easier to get a new job once in the US when I decide to, or is it the same struggle as getting an H1B visa?
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Thanks, I'll read this.
Growth isn't strictly monetary and needs to be self-driven. I know there's not a snowball's chance in hell I'll ever get promoted at my current company, hell if they offer me a promotion I'll very probably turn them down. I work for a consulting firm, and the last thing I want my role to be is babysitting resources.

But I'm sharp, and I focus on getting sharper every single day. I don't have 'pre-' conversations about what could potentially happen, I simply solve the problems the organization has. If the company recognizes it great, if not you'll look around one day a few months after I leave and lament, "man things were so much better when we had Vince around."
I'm a tech manager too and my experience mirrors yours. Most of the time I don't even have to reply, but some times a single message from me can help move things forward. Cannot imagine not being in touch via phone during vacation.
Pretty good website. But why Atom ? A plain text editor would work just as well and would be even easier.

I am not sure I agree that developing for the web is hard. In fact because it is so easy JavaScript is so popular right now.
I'll bet everything I have that they wouldn't have anywhere near the capability they now have in $currentyear after stuxnet.

From what we know the US was doing everything possible to be restrained about this stuff, keep it on the downlow as is the way, and history has shown they were very much right. It's insane what's happened in the aftermath.

We created a monster. We really did. It's clear to anyone watching.
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Escape the scripter mentality if reliability matters (2011)
This the closest we have so far to an answer to the point raised in the IETF 105 Technical Plenary a few days ago.

Encrypting everything means that IoT devices represent an unknown threat - your "smart" TV connects to Sourceforge and downloads... something every week. What for? Your "smart" thermostat calls the IP of the vendor, maybe to get firmware updates, but it also calls the Disney corporation - what for? You can't snoop any of this because it's using encryption with pinned keys, so MITM doesn't work. Obviously hardcore reverse engineering is possible, but it's extremely expensive. So in practice it won't get done.

But, if we can popularize a safe option, we can just flag all the unsafe approaches that are popular today. We can teach vendors that this is a bad idea and they shouldn't do it, and (cross fingers) it might go away, like X-ray shoe sizing.
Does artwork become more or less valuable when the artist is discovered to be a mass murderer?

Does artwork become more or less valuable when the artist accused of sexual assault?

Social values may surprise you, because they are inconsistent. And that is before dealing with cross cultural issues, western vs. asian or capitalist vs. socialist.
What???This is totally incoherent.

Yes that's exactly how it works. Joe can ask for whatever price he wants and if he doesn't get that price then he has to keep holding the asset.

An individual asking an unfair price for stock they own would not hold up the sale of other shares in the company in most (all?) cases unless they are the primary stake holder
How good one looks with his head shaved depends a lot of the shape of your head, your ears and nose and your facial hair.

If you have big ears, there's no way you won't benefit of a full head of hair. The more perfect or circular your head, the more shaving will suit you.

Furthermore, you can play with your beard because its rare to find a clean shaved guy that looks good without one. But if you don't grow enough facial hair or have holes in it... You're out of luck.

My conclusion is shaving will help some, but it's no golden bullet.
Can someone tell us what advantages Rust offers over other recent languages like Swift?
> The entire idea that losing your hair is bad is socially constructed by the mass media and advertising industry to sell you these expensive crap treatments

Are you sure about that? Because virtually every historical epic with an attractive hero makes sure to mention the hero's full head of hair.

Or maybe Homer was just trying to sell hair care products
I’m not talking about funding, I’m more referring to just because the market is big, doesn’t mean that GCP can take advantage of it. Amazon has first mover advantage and Microsoft is entrenched in the Enterprise. Just going by the old adage of “No one ever got fired for buying IBM”, AWS is the safe reputations choice because “everyone” uses AWS and Azure is safe because enterprise companies have decades of trusting Microsoft.
One of the comments on this site is just the perfect description for this phenomenon:

<<Addicted to the release of dopamine when someone likes their photographs, these "fauxtographers" will do anything to get another shot of that dopamine. This is not photography, this is social masturbation.>>
> I'm not sure why WiFi has to send

AirDrop operates on both Bluetooth and WiFi
Relevant quote from the video:

The reporter asked Gene Roddenberry "It doesn't make any sense, you've got a bald actor playing this part. Surely by the 24th century they would have found a cure for male-pattern baldness?" and Gene Roddenberry said "No, by the 24th century no-one will care."
That's the case since at least 2016. Back then, when Amazon shares were around 1k USD I had the theory that at least 800 USD came from AWS and the rest came from Amazon's retail business. Made sense back than because before AWS took of shares stood around 200 USD if I remember correctly.

Not sure what that says about Amazon in 2019, so.
I would imagine it all depends on where you are in your romantic life. If you're 35 and happily married, I doubt you would fret way too much about balding.

But if you're 25 and right in the middle of your dating life, balding is a handicap
I guess you wouldn't pay $499K for a $1M/$0 flip

No. But the discussion here is about shares. And they are not $499k a piece.

We are discussing if the share price of a company that publishes numbers in line with expectations should go up.
Thank you so much for such a detailed reply -- I would definitely be interested in reading your article! My email is in my bio.

I definitely agree with the insight that having options can reduce the feeling of stress, and that's a great way to articulate that point -- a hobby project with options to take a break and do something else versus a work scenario where you have no choice but to push forward and often times money or reputation is on the line.

The analogy with physical exercise is a great point and hopefully a helpful way to think about mental exertion as well. In the context of avoiding chronic stress, I wonder how an average 9-5 software job compares to the physical equivalent. For example, if you have a job where you are on your feet all day but mostly just walking around (maybe like a park ranger), resting that night & resuming the job the next day is usually enough. But you probably couldn't play in the NFL 5 days a week & would need more rest in between than just a good night's sleep.

So if we look at a software engineer's week, is it more like the park ranger or the NFL player? I assume most knowledge workers don't exert 100% of their mental energy all day long, so maybe it's somewhere in between a park ranger and an NFL player. Perhaps after a particular taxing day, knowledge workers should think about that exertion more like an NFL game and might need a full day or two to recuperate. I guess work schedules sometimes make this kind of rest schedule tough to do in practice.

It could be worth trying to monitor exertion levels so that it stays in the zone of temporary stress and doesn't become chronic stress, which is when it becomes really harmful as you've pointed out.

I appreciate all of your insight & I plan to do a bit more research on some of the topics you've mentioned here.
Isn't this abstraction already done (at least partly) by gtk ? (Or are you thinking of another level of abstraction - otherwise gtk would be enough ?)