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VPNs also have a notion of identity. You don't join the network just because you know the IP address of the VPN server.
This article surprised me by how biased and bad it is.

And although it claims the "myth" started in 2015, I started to hear about this (and I am from Brazil, not US even) around 2005 or so.

I finished college around 2009, and know from personal experience, that the "politicians" the article is against, are saying the truth, I ended college with huge debts, didn't got any decent jobs, and right now I work in a field not related to what I learned in college, I finished paying the loans only last year, and will finally marry this year, and will live in a tiny cramped apartment with my wife, with no vehicle.

The friends I had at high school, the ones that went to college, are in similar situations... But the ones that went to trade school, all of them own their own house, are married with kids, own multiple vehicles...

So I have no idea where the idea that this stuff is a "myth" came from.

And I am sorry of how much I belittled a friend in high school, when he said he would not go to college, and go learn welding and how to operate CNC machines... Back then all "adults" convinced me he was going to be low class and poor, and that I should aim to enter a pretigious university. That guy while I was still in college, had bought the motorcycle of his dreams. When I finished college, he was paying for his house. When I was strugglign to find jobs, in part because everyone wanted experience instead of education, and thus I was 5 years older with zero experience compared to my competitors (either 18 year old guys with lots of energy, or people same age as me, that skipped college but had 5 years of experience on the job), he was complaining of how many job offers he had to turn down...
Somatotypes are pseudoscience.
py2exe and anything else that uses Joachim Bauch's memory loader is loading DLLs in a broken fashion that is bound to bite you sooner or later, assuming it works in the first place.

Reimplementing - in a buggy incompatible way - the Windows loader (which is what that code is doing) from scratch, is a gross hack and should not be used to build anything that's meant to be reliable.

Note that pyinstaller and cx_freeze do not suffer from these issues. Do not use py2exe.
This is a sore spot for me, someone sending an IM with a quick "Got a minute?", which pulls me out of my thought zone. And once I answer back, I have no idea how long it is going to take for them to tell me what their issue is (could be 30 seconds, or a couple minutes -- I've often waited for 10 minutes, then got up to go for a meeting, and they get upset when I don't answer).

I'd much rather them just tell me what problem they are having up front, so I cat least give them an answer and get back to work.
They are not the same thing. Manure is animal poop. Sewage sludge is the output of our sewers. Despite our best efforts to filter this, there is a lot more than poop in there. Heavy metals, drugs, etc.
the max dosage you can get over the counter is 99mg

This is an FDA limit on potassium chloride supplements. Too much potassium can cause heart rhythm problems and cardiac arrest.

Some organizations propose 3500 to 4500mg as a daily potassium intake, and 98% of people do not eat this much potassium, and unless you are living on beans and beats you probably aren’t. Yet there isn’t a huge “get more potassium” movement. I wonder if those targets need reassessment.
For what it's worth, I totally agree. Without artificial fertilizer, half the world would starve. I don't think that kind of process makes sense within the context of capitalism, though. One obvious driver in the downward nutritional trend is the fact that faster-growing, larger, longer-lasting vegetables are better products, even if they taste worse and do less for the body. The problem with products is they're optimized for sale, not for use. Adding in extra nutrients is unlikely to improve the product, since it would increase costs.
Only for manufacturers and resellers, from what I read. If it's for domestic use and not resale, then you shouldn't have to pay the tariff to import the item.

Problem is - once the tariffs on the electronic components and other similar items went into effect, Chinese vendors - even those selling to individuals - raised their prices.

Still - it's cheaper for me as a hobbyist to buy these parts from China, than it is from anywhere else here in the United States. Sometimes, for certain parts, you can get it cheaper from Mouser or Digi-key, but that's really rare, and usually limited to fairly "new on the market" parts (those introduced in the last 10-15 years). But anything older (ie - PDIP 5 volt TTL/CMOS variant ICs - for instance), it's cheaper to go to China (usually, they aren't even available via major parts suppliers anyhow) - or if you're lucky, you can find it surplus domestically.

So even if it now adds an extra $5.00 for shipping an epacket from China - the parts, components, modules, motors, whatever - are still going to be much, much cheaper than the USA version (in most cases, unobtanium anyhow).

All these changes have done - at least with electronics - is make it more expensive for hobbyists; small manufacturers will get a break on the shipping (at least competition-wise - in theory - because they'll still be paying the same, maybe a little less - and China will be paying more), but they still have the tariffs working against them (because they can't buy their parts here in the USA cheaper than what they can get them for from China - even with tariffs and shipping costs).

The only ones who might "win" here are larger manufacturers - but I'm not sure how many of those we really have (in the electronics realm - that is, who make Arduinos here in the USA besides maybe Adafruit and SparkFun?) - but I doubt even they will "win".

I really think this is going to end up being a net overall loss for the USA, that it will do nothing to stimulate manufacturing, and that shipments from China will hardly slow at all.

It's crazy in my view - it's like none of our lawmakers have stepped foot in Shenzhen, where there are litteral multi-story buildings where vendors sell nothing but LEDs, where if you need a particular screw purchased or specially made, you can walk a block or two and find a manufacturer and it can probably be pumped out by the end of the day. It is literally a city for hi-tech manufacturing, supply, design, tooling, you-name-it-you-can-get-it-there-and-cheap. A maker/hobbyist/hacker's fantasy dream 24/7 technology store city-sized.

They can't seem to understand that if you wanted to have any hope of replicating what China is doing, you'd have to literally build something (with ports) the size of Los Angeles that does almost nothing but design and manufacture cutting edge technology and parts 24/7 - using everything from people who live in the factories to lights-out robotic systems.

In other words, it ain't ever happening here - never.
I mean the company is named analytics inc., it’s not like they’re hiding it
If the soil has been depleted of nutrients like magnesium, I'd bet that practices which largely shun fertilizers are going to exacerbate any problem in this regard.
I pivoted a couple of years ago from SE to DevOps, and the latter has been far more complex in my experience.

Probably most importantly, my experience on DevOps has been a bit like hurried product management and software engineering work--I have to identify problems and opportunities to improve software development efficiency, uptime, etc and find/build technologies that solve those problems, and all of these technology choices are really complicated because they are interdependent. How you structure your CI/CD pipeline depends a lot on your orchestration platform (and vice versa). It also depends on whether you use micro services or a monolith, and whether your platform is mono/bi-lingual or fully multilingual. And unlike product management or software engineering, you have to deliver value in a much tighter timeframe (you don't get to spend a year building out a solution with budget and resources for user testing, QA, etc). Further, if you think the frontend web stack is changing fast, the DevOps world will make your head spin!

Regarding YAML, it's just the (currently popular) interface; it doesn't say anything about the amount of complexity. It was originally YAML/JSON because everyone thought it would be super simple configuration, but virtually every infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tool is moving away from YAML to something more powerful.

AWS has CloudFormation which began as JSON/YAML with features hacked on to support things like referencing other nodes in the document, defining and calling functions and macros, evaluating conditionals, looking up values in maps, etc. Now they're building the Cloud Development Kit (CDK) to let developers write IaC in languages like Python and TypeScript, because even the extensions to CloudFormation are insufficient (no ability to pass around parameters, pass structured data, perform computations, etc).

I don't use Terraform, but I understand HCL started out a lot like YAML but is also becoming increasingly powerful with each release.

Helm also started with YAML but is adding in Lua.

The argument that DevOps is easier than SE because it's just using tools created by SEs is silly on its face. First of all, those tools were _implemented_ by SEs but created by much larger teams, including product managers. Secondly, "SEs" are also just using tools created by SEs--compilers, interpreters, VMs, build tools, etc. Not to mention all of the tools and processes built and/or assembled by DevOps engineers.
Because submitters are lazy and HN only has two admins/moderators who can correct the link.
This happened due to extermination of soil life through modern farming practices of heavy tilling, fertilizing and monoculture crops. Dead soil is more susceptible to erosion and requires ever increasing amounts of synthetic fertilizer to grow anything. More soil has been lost from the US than the amount of food that has been produced. Soil fertility can be returned to historical levels by changing farming practices to make living soil. The benefits of treating the soil as a living organism include increased fertility, water infiltration, moisture retention, and nutrient availability as well as decreasing or eliminating synthetic fertilizer requirements.

https://theweek.com/articles/554677/america-running-soil

This is a long video but it has completely changed my home gardening practices.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUmIdq0D6-A
VCs fund the schools.

The schools finance the ISAs. The same way a lending startup isn't lending out its VC dollars, it gets other dollars to finance the COGS.

Pretty basic finance, really, and shouldn't surprise anyone. Also doesn't change anything - if students don't get hired you go out of business.
Thanks for the interesting comparison.

I can imagine the folks who make plywood and pressure treat wood could just add another process and make a new in-demand product.
So we can freely kill people who haven't seen light?
A new kind of image search
Norwegian culture is very different to US culture with this sort of thing at many levels. If a Norwegian public body declares an emergency it means there is a problem.

Some examples... There isn't really a blame culture here. People can fuck up massively and face no serious consequences. There isn't really the same aversion to risk. Sick people are told by their doctors to get some exercise and lose weight before the doctors reach for drugs. It would seem alien to an American in many ways.
It'd be cool to see a comparison of common top-grade "organic produce" compared with produce from a farmers market and that grown from someone's own backyard. Granted, with a measure of time from harvest to measurement of mineral content.
Gab is a far right platform that moderates away anything left of Rush Limbaugh. They were upset that Reddit banned some really terrible and often times illegal acts from their platform. So they moved to their own platform. Their community is very open to fringe talk, hate speech as a form of free speech, and doxxing. A link for reference but far from the only instance.

https://news.yahoo.com/federal-judge-sentence-far-extremist-...
It’s fine, we’ll make up for it with microplastics
"increasing sugars and starches increases weight far better than any mineral count"

No, increasing bioavailable silica content (like potassium silicate addition) increases weight far more than any starch or sugar could possibly do.
For food at least I think it may be somewhat amenable to some of the newer fingerprinting techniques (e.g. using DNA microarrays). I've been wondering why origin/content/quality validation for food based on actual biological science doesn't exist for years. I did biochemistry for undergrad, and some of those labs could be done in the average RV kitchen, and others could be packaged into test kits.
Show HN: Splitstream.net an app that lets you watch multiple twitch streams
> that cause direct harm to itself for the greater good of other countries?

That's not what he said. "unilaterally benefits us." This agreement greatly benefited the US which is why we were in it this long.
I used to run an organic farm experimenting with hydroponics and I did a ton of research on this.

What I found, organic does not mean healthier. In fact, a larger percentage of food related illnesses are reported for organic foods than foods without the organic label, which itself is controversial and misleading. This is largely due to the types of fertilizer used. Animal waste is used to fertilize organic foods. Yes, that is a fact. Organic foods can also use BT pesticides, which are the same chemicals in GMO crops where the BT is produced inside the plant.

The nutritional content also depends on many factors, including what types of fertilizers are used. Are those fertilizers available to be absorbed by the plant. It also varies by variety. Some plants, especially strawberries are better grown outside in the soil than in hydroponics. That was a rare case. I also read many studies on nutritional content of plants grown hydroponically vs organically and some studies found some varieties were more nutritional when grown organically, others when grown hydroponically.

The reality is, the industry is so competitive and the studies are funded by folks with an agenda, so the data leaves me skeptical on both sides.

Only 17 elements are required to grow a plant and these elements can be provided entirely through hydroponics. From my research, hydroponic vegetables, for the most part, are actually healthier for people to consume than organic vegetables according to the science, but there is a stigma that since hydroponics is produced by science and technology and the industrial farming complex that it is worse for our bodies.

The research indicates though that hydroponic plants can more easily absorb nutrients, they are healthier and better able to resist fungus and insects, so not only are they more nutritious, but they don't need fungicides, pesticides or herbicides to be sprayed on them. Plus, plants can actually absorb salmonella and other bacteria into the plant from composted manure, which even when washed can still infect the human gut.
It's hard to beat the Pixelon launch party.

Someone should really make a movie on that one.
Well I mean that's not really a real question, is it? You've specifically phrased it so that only a macbook would be acceptable.

But if you're at all serious, the Xiomi probook is pretty good. It doesn't have a retina display but non-retina displays work better with linux so I actually prefer that for a linux laptop. It also has an nvidia-optimus gpu setup, which is a big improvement.

Everything works out of the box on linux.

Of course if you're married to mac OS you're married to mac OS.
Whether you're sleeping or awake, can you do anything about an accident while you're riding in the bus?
Ok. Here in Australia it's not like that. It's mostly years of arse-kissing, doing research projects and volunteering your time. It's not meant to find the smartest, but the most dedicated to that speciality, and to take advantage of the candidate for as many years as possible. I like the US's method better and wish we would adopt it.

Also, you're basing "most knowledgeable" on how they did in 1 test a decade ago in medical school? I'd say a general physician (and also many specialist physicians) is usually more knowledgeable since they learn about all body systems and deal with them all daily. This is what I notice anecdotally, but I don't have evidence to back it up. I also think it doesn't really matter.
In fighting game terminology via David Sirlin, this is also called "yomi".
In the 90's and 00's I was responsible for maybe 20-30 servers, now I am responsible for somewhere around the 2000 mark..
While "oh but you can't do that, that's not Infrastructure as Code!" sounds lame, and your co-worker should learn to be a better communicator, things need to be reproducible when working with more complex systems and that calls for more rigorous review practices.
Please consider this: It's our pagers that go off at 3am when your code fails..
You're describing humanism. We'd probably end up looking a lot like an ant colony. Unfortunately, as a non-hivemind species, it is unlikely that we will ever have that level of cohesion.
But the core idea involves why imaginary exponentiation means a rotation in the complex plane! If you don't have that part, you're not talking about i at all, you're just teaching the concept of rotation, with the same symbols as are used in complex math.

You would have the exact same explanation if you were teaching about rotation unconnected to imaginary numbers or exponentiation at all!
Apple Disputes Goldman Sachs Report Claiming Free Apple TV+ Will Impact Earnings
Video explaining how an Automatic piano player works
Am author.

> chef/puppet/etc ... put just your pubkeys somewhere (S3, eg) ...

Yea, cool, and now you have a second authentication system that you have to manually administer to onboard and offboard people. And you have permanent long-lived single-factor credentials on a bunch of (possibly unmanaged) endpoints, that are easy to exfiltrate, and are a common target for attackers if a laptop is lost/stolen/compromised.

You haven't addressed host name reuse or host rekeying which, again, are real operational problems.

And somehow running and administering chef/puppet/etc or this S3 bucket is easier than running a simple certificate signing service connected to SSO that requires basically zero maintenance once it's setup? Argumentative, at best.

> Next problem is that openssh-style certs do not support cert chains ... recover from compromise.

Since only hopeless organizations don't have config management, we can solve this there. SSH PKI is simple and doesn't have intermediates. But you can configure multiple roots. To rotate or revoke a compromised private key you'd simply deploy a new root using cert management and issue new certificates. In a non-emergency situation you can slowly roll certificates by having two trusted roots for a transitional period while everyone gets new certs.

> You have to secure the CA!

You have to secure your configuration management that's deploying public keys everywhere and your authorized keys files on every host! Pubkey distribution has a bigger attack surface area and the same exact compromise consequences as a CA. This is not even a contest.

> You have to properly authorize signing requests!

You have to authorize requests to deploy public keys!

There are tools for this. What's the hard part here? Verifying an OIDC identity token? Mapping a token subject to an SSH principal?

Worst case, you could keep whatever crappy manual process you have for authorizing public key distribution and issue a certificate instead.

> These things fall into the realm of hard.

Ok, I guess? This is all relative. It's easier than pubkey authentication at any non-trivial scale. There's a difference between something being hard vs. being unfamiliar.
Yes, the title is rather poor. From reading the post, it seems what he really means is: "Mental Context Switches are Really Expensive". That's far less exciting, and probably also kind of obvious to most knowledge workers.
There is also the so-called "delta wood" (resin-wood multi-ply veneer) that was used in some of the WW2 fighters' airframes.
I was always under the impression that the UPU rules were (1) originally intended for letter-mail, not "stuff", and (2) originally intended to reduce USPS' last-mile delivery costs in other countries (which had to be negotiated country-by-country before).

If I live in America and my mother lives in some far-flung country, the idea is that we should be able to send each other letters at a cost that is proportional to typical incomes in our nations.

Both e-mail and e-commerce totally turned this on its head -- letter volumes went down, and we started buying things from China (as opposed to making things and sending them there). I agree that something needs to change, but I'm worried that the end result is other countries will just stop accepting Americans' mail.

It's worth noting that China is maybe #80 in GDP per capita?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8GXw6IQJgY
Work is an investment the economy.

Hell, raising kids and taking care of disabled/elderly people is an investment in the economy too. Those folks and their caretakers are consumers just as much as you and me.

Why does there need to be a privileged reward to invest? Everyone and their dog knows if you keep your money stuffed in your mattress it’ll lose value over time from inflation, and who doesn’t want to have a nest egg to retire on? Nobody needs an additional incentive to invest their capital beyond the bare bones basics of personal finance.
The enforcer's problem is that they might inadvertently make it worthwhile for unfavorable things to happen to the enforcer, such as:

- Making it more profitable for the company to just leave your market completely, underservicing everyone there immediately

- Creating an actual monopoly with costlier and poorer service when the policed company exits the market (either from leaving or being dissolved - the latter not applying to Google in this case)

- Creating an incentive to actually challenge the authority in court. Exponentially raising the cost for enforcement and not guaranteeing any favorable outcome.

- And as a corollary to the court, the challenge of authority can result in all the enforcement tools being declared invalid, including the charter for the enforcement agency itself! Resulting in a big public sector layoff and void in enforcement capability.
The title is pretty click-baity and I don't necessarily agree with the conclusion. The author raises a lot of good points about large systems being subject to corruption.

However, I think the internet is self-regulating. Eventually, users will choose new products, companies, and services that align with their values.

I think we're at the tail end of the first phase of internet mega-corporations. In the past 15 years we've learned a lot about how people interact on the internet, and how it's rife for abuse and misinformation. We've created systems that negatively influence the quality of our lives and relationships.

I don't believe that this is necessarily the status quo. There's certainly momentum and money on the side of existing incumbents, but I think the public is slowly catching on to their negative effects on society.

I'm actively working on what I think is the "second-generation" of social networking and I hope users will eventually vote with their dollars and time.
It's twice the price of a flight, and with planes you can pick between 3 major airports in SFBA and 5 in LA, which are probably closer to the locations you're really going between.
> I find the aversion to ... control inherently suspicious.

Interesting. Could you please expand on that? Personally, I find the desire to control inherently suspicious.