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> Then you can create hardware and software that let people host their own media and backup their own devices, instead of handing it over to giant corporations with government backdoors.

Actually low upload bandwidth makes it harder to give 3rd parties data :P

Question, does AT&T fiber do fiber all the way to the home? Because I know one of my family members has their fiber offering, but they have serious bandwidth issues around normally busy hours - suggesting even with fiber they're over provisioned.
Purism: https://librem.one/
> * Github had a stronger association with open source than Bitbucket (dunno why though). Maybe it all came down to marketing. <-- there's a startup lesson

Maybe because it was bought by Atlassian.
Women managers are particularly encouraged to phrase their orders in soft terms like "Could you please...?" because otherwise we may be see as harsh, demanding, and the unforgivable "acting like a man". Some of us struggle with this. A lot.
Before I started working remotely there were 5-10 people who biked to work daily
This makes the "problem" employee more expensive than his peers.

This is generally why we have things like the ADA.
Well played!

In the TV show "What we do in the shadows" this is called an energy vampire. (you suck out other energy) Also a great show.
Yes, thank you. A mindset which thinks that documentation is wasted due to a need to constantly update, is cousin to the mindset which thinks that software, once written, is a purchased asset which needs no further attention nor maintenance.
Amazon Could Transform the Tiny House Movement
Maybe I'm missing it, but these still sound like variations on the theme of "my office is lousy so working from home is relatively nicer".

An hour commute is just nuts. According to statistics I found, that's more than double the average. I've worked at places with a 5 minute commute, and they're great. I realize not everyone has infinite flexibility in where they live, but a workplace would have to be pretty amazing in every other way to make me spend an hour every day getting there.

I've worked at places that had a garden or park right outside, and it's terrific to go out there and think. Why don't all knowledge worker offices have this? When I look at what the big tech companies are building, it's certainly not that they can't afford a garden.

We used to know this. Do an image search for "university campus" (those other places where people sit around and think) and you'll see buildings in a sea of grass and trees. Yet do an image search for "company campus" and it's all steel and glass, with greenery only to fill in the small useless spaces between the parking lot and the building.

What good is a workplace for thinkers, if it doesn't include good places for thinking?
It's like driving a car. You rarely drive at the fastest speed or highest engine torque, but in some situations you need to be able to accelerate quickly.

I'm sure on average I don't use even one third of my bandwidth, but it sure gets fully used when streaming a 50GB file from a Plex server or downloading an Xcode update.
Yes, sorry, that's what I meant: the TV show. Thanks for pointing that out.

At one point they use CGI to show off Coriolis force on the asteroid, and I took that to be a kind of message from the show, "We know about this stuff but it's too expensive to do all day every day, so here's some science "fan service"." Like I said, I respect them for it. :-)
FWIW, iTunes now sells DRM free music. It seems like the third option that Jobs suggested prevailed.
> It doesn't seem fair, especially since the 'abnormal' people are expected to bear their discomfort in silence

The key to manipulation is to always make the other person feel like the abnormal one.
>Basic security precautions for non-profits and journalists in the United States, early 2019.

Those are recommendations for a specific group of highly targeted individuals in specific situations. It's not "basic security", it's "basic security for people who have such damaging information on certain subjects that they may be killed for it".

For the general population, TouchID and FaceID are more secure than the most common alternative (which tends to be no passcode at all) and secure enough that common criminals aren't going to bother with it.

Stopping nation-states from intercepting your data and using it as a flimsy basis for your murder isn't something an average person needs to worry about on a day to day basis.
I'm pretty much 100% on board with GNU, FSF, etc, but I absolutely despise the "crapp store" stuff. Once in a while, fine, but almost every talk, article and software title has some kind of jab like that. "GNU" itself is an example. It's very childish and I think it's RMSs fault for setting the precedence from the beginning and doing it so much since. I wish he'd stop doing it and start actively discouraging it.
> I gotta say, I'm surprised that this needed to be explained to the manager. If someone asks a worker whether they want to do something and the worker say "no", the manager's instinct is to panic and escalate before trying to clarify anything?

It's possible those attempts were left out of the story for narrative reasons - it is, like you said, a good example for the article. But let's pretend they weren't and that is how it actually went down: The manager is human and will not navigate every given situation optimally. Hopefully organizations will become increasingly aware of this over time and continuously improve the methodology for selecting and training future managers.
Are We Heading to Digital Disenfranchisement of Indigenous Peoples?
> Plus codes are not street addresses.

One of the main use cases for plus codes is to be a street address in places for which street addresses are challenging.

To put it another way - we almost always use co-ordinates to help us find a particular physical object (peak of mountain, end of runway, house on street). Co-ordinates that shift with tectonic movement are most useful for that.
It would be a classic Apple move to do that, though, further reinforcing the codependent relationship vendors have had with Apple for decades.
As someone who has worked from home for over 2 years now, I have found the best way to counteract loneliness for me is to have weekly scheduled time with friends to play board games, hop on and play games at night with friends, and to sometimes go sit in a crowded coffee shop. I have also been remote calling some other friends at work to just shoot the shit, and work on our separate things while in a call. Between those things, it usually sates my need for social interactions. As a side thought, I have noticed that creating a dedicated work space as apposed to working from the sofa or any other place in the house has helped reduce the amount of loneliness or isolation I feel for some reason.

That being said, sometimes I do still find myself feeling a tad lonely at times and is something I still am figuring out the best ways to manage. I still believe that the benefits of remote work still vastly outweigh a typical office job and it would be very hard for me to give up my current situation.
I don't think they've ever claimed to be. They're clearly biased towards systems build using free software.
> 1. if we always had them. Probably not, I can't remember seeing that many in my childhood

Growing up in Austria we regularly got shots for tick-borne encephalitis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tick-borne_encephalitis). Ticks not only existed but have been known to be problematic for quite some time.
This is already happening. Earlier migrations could be hand-waved away as being due to politics and war, but the current migration crisis in North America is absolutely due to climate change.

The chain of events appears to be climate change -> political instability -> war -> migration -> more political instability.
It's funny, because that question "How are you?" is never really phrased that way when I talk to friends and family, because I already know what's going on in their life, so I ask specific questions like "How's that promotion at work going?" or "Are you feeling better since that last sickness?". Same goes when they ask me about something.

The only people who ask me that question in that specific way are strangers, mostly during solicitation calls or any other calls where they have to read from a script.

As per your suggestion, next time I get a marketing call, I might just start delving into the details of my life for 10 minutes, explaining exactly just "how I am" :P
%s/electric cars/personal electric vehicles/g. Cars are too inefficient. Right now our "power goes out for two weeks" contingency is the solar-paneled RV and a Honda generator. Neither the panels nor the generator can charge the car in a reasonable amount of time. The RV solar panels can charge the scooter (or electric bicycles) in the same amount of time as house AC (big inverter in the RV). It won't get you to the mountains to your remote cabin (that's what the RV is for <g>), but it's enough to get around town if need be, and can do so indefinitely.

On a related note, as I've researched solar panels for the house, it came as a surprise to me that by default grid-tied solar won't keep the lights on when the power goes out (nothing to sync to). So if one goes that route, don't forget the batteries and inverter.
Well, it's Krugman. Government spending and Fed money printing are his two magic cures for everything that ails the economy. (Note that his column at least used to be titled "The Conscience of a Liberal". He's writing primarily as a liberal, not as an economist.)

Under current conditions, though, he could in fact be right. But there are two problems with government borrowing. First, while there may be very good things to spend the money on, instead the spending decisions are going to be made by Congress, politically rather than economically. That's a recipe for a bunch of wasteful spending, with perhaps some good things done as well, but the good things are almost a result of chance.

Second, Congress may be right to decide to spend money now, but the time comes when it is no longer time to borrow and spend. Will Congress stop when it's time to stop? History does not lead to optimism here.

This time may in fact be different. But it's different a lot less often than people say it is, especially people who say "it's different" in order to throw away rules that keep them from doing what they want.
Privacy implications aside, we're actually not talking about a human being. We're talking about a(n) (abnormal) cluster of non-critical cells in a human. You and I shed millions of these (all-be-it normal) cells everyday, in the form of skin flakes and hair. Similar if your skin is pierced, causing a bleed. Semen if male, mucosal tissue if female (and possibly the egg), feces, urine, all contain human cells. This isn't robbery.
My 1st manager was a tool, was pretty degrading with language toward me, etc. I realize
now it was partially my fault, and also the guy just coded all day and wasnt necessarily
all that bad of a guy, he just was horrible at communication and managing someone coming
out of school with minimal real world dev experience.
Gas sales are (almost) a loss leader to get people in the door to buy snacks, drinks, smokes, and lottery tickets. Mattheij's generator had enough juice to run the pumps, registers, and half the freezers. How does the cost of installing and provisioning a generator compare to the cost of a few days of zero sales?
> population landscape is rapidly shifting from Rural => Urban

Perhaps percentage wise, but the overall population in America is going up as well. As a result, rural areas aren't really declining, the population increase is simply mostly happening in the urban areas.

The rural area I live in is, instead, growing significantly (a rural definition of significantly) as people age out of urban areas and use the millions from their property sales in CA to purchase a summer home here.
> Running sales, just generates more impulse purchases and consumerism

You probably didn't hear of their "Don't buy this jacket" campaign: https://www.patagonia.com/blog/2011/11/dont-buy-this-jacket-... They also promote buying used items through their WornWear program.

If people didn't buy from Pata, they'd probably be giving their money to TNF or Columbia or some other company that is far worse for the environment. None of the others are certified B corporations. I'm glad it exists as a better option, even if it's not perfectly zero impact.
As it should have been, I'd argue. This is a low-quality flamebait submission that I feel has no place on Hacker News.
I love the fact the chandrayaan uses earths gravity for most of its journey. This is simply amazing idea of saving energy and realying alot on maths. That's incredible achivement over thousands of kms.
Airbnb and hotels are just for two different purposes. When I’m traveling for business and need a quick in and out in a downtown location, hotels win. When I’m looking for a place for 6 friends to stay together on vacation, a hotel just doesn’t come close to offering that. I’ve never, ever had a bad Airbnb experience, though I don’t doubt it happens at the low end of the market where these apartments seemed like they existed.
This is mostly an artifact, I think, of the fact that people are obsessed with the question "what do you do?" within the narrow framing of a commercial job.

And everyone is expected to be working all the time otherwise they must be in trouble somehow, despite the fact that at least 50% of people in Western countries earn enough to not need to do that.

I've had periods, I suppose you would call them 'sabbatical', in which I've mostly just mucked around. Learned a new language. Fiddled around with IoT stuff. Done some travelling. Read a lot. Just enjoy life.

During that period, what am I? I'm just a guy. Historically I did software development for work. In the future I'll probably do the same. But that identity of full time employment just doesn't exist.

I generally joke and say I'm retired or that I'm an open source developer or whatever else. But of course that's different coming from someone who won't be hitting government retirement ages for a few decades.
I collect erotica, as art as well as those expressed in words. I also enjoy porn sometimes. The difference between erotica and porn is that one is an expression of deeply held emotion and the other is commerce.
Hackable systems would be very useful to gangs and organized crime. They could stay a few steps ahead of law enforcement. They could also know when you are not home or where all the latch-key kids are. Would the companies running these systems be liable for damages, or is that too hard to prove?
Investing in crumbling infrastructure wouldn't be 'live beyond your means'.
"And I fear my neighbors much more than my food spoiling."

In my personal experience, catastrophes tend to bring out the best in people.
Absolutely, part of my journey is to start asking for other people to come halfway. I bend over backwards to try to think about other people and be considerate and thoughtful because it doesn't come automatically, but it seems like a lot of neurotypical folks are unwilling or unable to do the same in reverse.

Frankly I've been a lot happier since I stopped being quite so unobtrusive and easy to get along with.
States to launch antitrust investigation into big tech companies, reports say
Interesting, would like to hear more about why that is?
Consider the option of open office two days and WFH three other days. I’d find that better than commuting 3 hours round trip through traffic for 5 days.
>several of which are used just to calculate the "your branch is ahead of origin/your-branch-name by N commits" value.

That one at least is fixed now, by having an option to disable it.

https://github.com/git/git/blob/v2.23.0/Documentation/config...
There is a huge difference between retiring and retiring healthy. Both of my parents retired due to medical reasons and are not as mobile as they once were, they have confided in me that retirement is extremely boring and if it wasnt for church and living so close to family (same apartment complex) they would have nothing to do.

I'd love to see more programs that pair retirees with young people to tackle local problems, there is a clear trend regarding increasing lonlieness among young adults and retirement age folks.
"Next version" meaning iOS 13? Or the version after (presumably iOS 14)?
Some anecdata:

I spend a decent amount of time in a small (~3k) town in the American west that's the largest place for about two hours in any direction. It has one grocery store. Prices and selection in this (non-chain) store are genuinely appalling. Fresh fruit and veg is expensive and generally low in quality. As a result, nobody but the occasional out-of-towner fisherman buys it, so there's no incentive to stock more/better stuff. It's kinda like a slightly scaled up version of the basket of brown bananas in the bodega: a desultory corner of the store where there's visible dust on the apples.

What do many folks buy instead? TV dinners. Lots of them. It's not uncommon to see a cart in the checkout line that's nothing but about twenty TV dinners, cheap beer and maybe a loaf or two of wonder bread. Not everyone lives like that, but it's common enough that it's rare for me to leave that store without feeling kinda sad.

So, yeah, food deserts aren't just an urban problem.

n.b. on reflection, a partial counterexample: the Walmart in the nearest larger (~20k) town, despite having more produce and similar goodies on offer, also does a very brisk trade in TV dinners. Access to nutrition is probably relevant, but there's got to also be broader cultural/economic/wellness issues at play.
> this seems like a (base-14?) encoding of geocodes

It's a Base-20 encoding of lat/long.
Many people need more than just their immediate family. Neighbors are a terrible source of social interaction. Where I am, our neighbors refuse to interact with us except to complain about something like noise or street parking.

Been to a park during the day? It's nanny's and mom's. How many are going to be like, "yeah, random dude approaching me and trying to chat me up. Great!" Most are sketched out unless you got a kid with you. I've been in this situation and they look at you very weirdly. (How desperate must you be to go to a park to chat with moms?)

Lunch requires friends who also can do such a thing. I go out to lunch with coworkers very often.

You can invite anyone who isn't working or can work remotely with you. Sure, I did do this for a bit. I'd drive 30 minutes away to see my friend and we'd work remotely together about once a week. But then I was actually going further than my commute to work! Hah!

And so can anyone with a non remote job.

You can have the quiet and isolation while not working remotely. It's just that it's not valued in many workplaces anymore.

BTW, I don't get how people think that working remotely means isolation and quiet?? When I worked remotely, there were plenty of days where I had to take tons of long Skype calls, had to chat endlessly with people over IM, and then send more emails on top of it. I barely got any "work" done and didn't get to focus because everything required my attention.

Isolation and quiet is more than an environment. It includes details around a culture around workplace communication styles and how much you prioritize immediate responses.
It's almost impossible for westerners to conceive of living in a society without a strong and independent judicial system and without being able to vote for their political leaders.

Westerners in general deeply value their political voice and freedoms.

And since the Chinese government doesn't value these at all, then you can't blame us for thinking that the Chinese government does very few things right.
Ask HN: Will upgrading make any difference for development with JavaScript?
The majority of projects I work with use Webpack + babel or typescript or whatever. Basically there's some chain of tools and transformations, which update the browser when I do any change.

On many of them the development is quite slow, so for example if I make a change in a file, then I have to wait like 4-5 seconds (an sometimes it can be worse) until I see the update in the browser...

Anyway, my question is is it because the tools are slow or is my laptop is slow. In particular which parameters should help speeding this up. Is it RAM? SSD disk? CPU?

P.S.: My working horse is early-2015 macbook pro 13 inches. I would happily upgrade to the fastest beast out there if I had a guarantee that it will speed up my flow significantly
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Desktop Linux systems often feature some kind of automount capability so you can just plug in an external drive and have it work. Windows and macOS provide similar facilities. Per the article, is this actually insecure? Will plugging in a corrupt/maliciously modified ext4-formatted drive on an automount Linux system enable kernel compromise? If so, why is it that this is generally OK on Windows/macOS (barring silly things like autostart viruses)?
You are basically saying that I don't have a right to preserve my wealth for the time period I see fit and that the government (I consider the central banks to be part of the gov) should enforce that by manipulating interest rates.

What's next? Prohibit ownership of precious metals (again)?
Germany's infrastructure is "shamefully neglected"? Compared to what?

(I'm in the US, so maybe my standards are too low...)
It’s to keep a loose connection with distant people and organize private events and find out about non-personal events and happenings.

Just because the people you added on facebook filled it with bullshit, doesn’t mean it’s like that for everyone.

I’d love to get away from them, but I have yet to find a workable alternative.
D.B. Cooper: How a thief jumped out of a plane and vanished into thin air