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Parallel to consulting/freelancing, I am doing 1-2 attempts in a year to start some meaningful business.

Stack is:
NixOS, because, despite the learning curve and all the quirks, at the end I love having all the infrastructure configs in one folder (so I never forget that I have an obscure cron job somewhere).

Clojure/ClojureScript, because I am good at Clojure (this is what I do on freelancing side)

For simple services that's always a Datomic on MariaDB (with a replication server) and a backend. Servers run on Hetzner ($2-$5 instances are fine, with replication I need two) Backups on S3.
He did not win a Nobel prize, as there is no such thing for economics. However he won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
It’s just not a loop.

Jihadists aren’t in a loop. That’s a myth. Jihad is real to them, and they are attacking non believers.

The stated motivation for the 9/11 attacks were the presence of U.S. airbases in Saudi Arabia. Not revenge for some past hurt or attack.

Why does everyone presume that what they say isn’t what they mean?
I eventually took pity and signed up. Kidding, I signed up because it's a very simple, no fuss, useful service, and I'm getting a lot of use out of it, so thanks.
Frontend: Quasar / viewjs

Backend: Go / Postgres / Elasticsearch

Infrastructure: Google Cloud / GKE
Is it really? You're fighting by instilling fear in the enemy and mostly killing civilians.

But also, the US should be held accountable for its actions.
Sustainable batteries represent best prospect for meeting Paris climate goals
on a personal level i'd suggest if possible to have a garden ,or if possible in your area and you don't have a garden buy a garden plot somewhere. this is really helpful if you make it nice for insects and birds. this is someting generally low cost, but does take time and effort.

in my area if you don't have a garden you can get a plot for about 100-200 euros a year. so thats dirt cheap to make a bit of impact.

cleaning in your area / natural areas is also good. walking around with a bag and collecting plastics and other trash left by people which might impact the local wildlife / environment.

those are generally things that do cost time, but not a lot of money, i'm all for activities in your life opposed to just trying to solve it by throwing money at it.

like a silent personal protest :) it's highly effective. for example in my parents garden there are a multitude of bird families who come there every season to live or in passing on their migrations. additionally we see a lot more butterflies and bees again since they started selecting the right type of plans and flowers for the local species.

on the other comment, i don't think 'overpopulation' is a problem. just how the population behaves. but i suppose that's a matter of opinion formed by where you live. i don't live in a huge city, so that might skew opinions on that matter a bit.

another idea is giving free workshops to people how to live consciously and environment friendly. a lot of people would like to do this kind of things ,but don't have the know how to do it. an hour or two with the right content of workshop can totally convert someone to living more environment friendly the rest of their lives. they will also give those insights to their childrent, propagating the effect.

all in all its more a mindset problem than anything. people are not conscious of this problem, which keeps it in place.

if you really want to throw money at it. try funding and helping researchers / students working on renewable / cleaner living solutions. in most countries there's some university or research group focusing on this topic. they could always use some money if you have some to 'burn' ;). 2500$ a month can get them a bunch of research equipment and buy them time to spend with that equipment to research. some people don't even earn that much, so you could fund someone to spend all of their time on this topic.
>Wind is most active at night.

No it isn't! Wind speed goes down at night! Wind is also highly variable across seasons and across years. Wind and solar do not complement one another very well (though, geography permitting, they may - see Texas).

>the bullshit idea that we need to allow everyone to use all of the electricity that they want at any time needs to go die in a fire.

This is your problem. You're expecting that our energy use will go down and align with what solar and wind can do. This isn't going to happen. The population is growing. Energy use is growing faster than population is growing. Third-world has still decades of growth to go. Energy use will go up. Accept that, and internalize it.

Maybe if we had no options I would be amenable to hoping for lower energy use, but we have nuclear technology that can scale to our needs, is carbon-free, and has tiny land-use. All the alternatives have major downsides. Biofuels require thousands of acres of corn or whatever. Wind is terrible for birds, requires building high-tech machines (equivalent of jet-engines) with a lot of moving parts, needing lots of maintenance. Solar has huge land-use requirements. Both wind and solar contain rare earth elements which need huge mines to extract and we're not even sure we have enough of those to meet demand if everyone switches to those technologies.

Meanwhile, there's nuclear. All ready for a major renaissance, and people who purport to care about fossil fuel emissions are still spreading FUD about it.
It sounds like you judge people by the consequences of their actions rather than their intentions. I tend to agree with that way of thinking but many people do the opposite and believe intentions are the morally superior way of judging good and bad.

The trouble with judging by actions is it makes everybody bad, including the judge! I suspect that's why people don't like it. Since nearly everyone believes their own intentions are good, judging by intentions preserves their own sense of goodness even if they contribute to a few killings by accident/negligence.
Another way of approaching this could be to look into what you can do without money. As a wealthy person, it makes sense to think that money is the only way to DO something or to make a change.

But how about this:

- Work less (no transportation needed, less power needed)

- Go out for a walk in a park, meadows, forest etc.

- Explore and discover nature and realize how much benefit it already gives you (apart from oxygen, food etc.)

- Inspire other people to take a walk

This could stress the importance of nature for well-being to others. Making it more easy for them to make a eco-friendly decision.
- The Elasticsearch DSL is obscure on good days and makes absolutely no sense on others.

- Matplotlib - both the object-oriented api and pyplot - I need to look up the same things over and over again

- More generally - any Python/R function that has only (args, kwargs) or (...) as parameters in its documentation
Workers’ Comp Benefits: How Much Is a Limb Worth?
What I find shocking about your comment is that your points 1-3 can obviously be true and very often are - and if you don't believe they can be true, then you couldn't possibly understand why terrorism exists in the first place.

The devil is always in the detail, but generally speaking terrorists are violent combatants who pursue certain political goals, but don't have a regular army, and at some point in their life unfortunately accepted the idea that it is legitimate to intentionally harm or kill civilians to reach those goals. Accepting this horrible idea is what makes them terrorists.
Not sure wounding vs. killing was the big differentiator. As tptacek mentions, any non-trivial rifle-calibre hit is incapacitating. What determines whether the victim dies immediately or has a chance to survive depends on where it hits.

The big things, as you mention, was that real life engagement ranges were considerably shorter, so you could sacrifice long-range performance and gain lighter weight (allowing the soldier to carry more rounds) and making the thing somewhat controllable on full auto for close-quarter fighting.

The Germans figured this out, and towards the end of WWII they fielded the "Sturmgewehr 44 (Stg 44)". This fired a shortened version of their standard rifle calibre round (7.92mm). The Soviets did the same with their Ak-47 family. The price of keeping the full rifle caliber but slow round (around 700 m/s muzzle velocity) was poor ballistics and armor penetration.

Later on the US went to the other extreme with a very small caliber firing at higher than usual rifle muzzle velocity (almost 1000 m/s).

Ironically there was research going back all the way to pre-WWII times suggesting the "optimal" infantry caliber would be somewhere in the 6-7mm range with muzzle velocity in the "standard" range for rifles (around 800-900 m/s).
I'm considering doing so as well (after having read https://nadiaeghbal.com/microgrants) with a small personal fund first, that I will consider to open to friends & family later. France context.

However I'm wondering about the efficiency, that will start as an experiment first.

Not many different targets than yours, but my hunch starts with funding & following up in their development _local_, identified young students projects/studies working on energy, water, food, environment & politics.

The benefit is that:

* they're already aware of the situation,
* they'll see support from people for that area specifically
(both financial and moral, and networking),
* they'll have far better energy & networking & ideas & initiative to spread this further,
* I can spread funding to more different people at first
(funding with a significant impact is easier to reach toward students).
I agree that Payment Intents is a lot more complicated than Charges - it's like a snowball effect where a small amount of extra complexity in an underlying API (SCA) gets exaggerated into ever more complexity with each API that added on top of it.

By the time it gets to our implementation it's horrible and occasionally (2% of the time?) we get a payment attempt that the client has handled and submitted to our server but isn't in succeeded state. We temporarily fix this by redirecting them back to the payment page but this time in 'Charges' mode. Which seems to work about 50% of the time
I wonder how much of this complexity is necessary - inevitable given SCA - and how much is because of Stripe's desire to support DD / bank-based payment methods in one integration. I guess we will see if, once SCA becomes widespread, other payment processors have simpler integrations...

Speaking of SCA, I really don't understand the motivation - it's not like higher fraud rates were hurting consumers, since those costs were borne by the merchants. My suspicion is that it is in the interest of card-alternatives like Sofort to add some friction to card payments, after all if every customer has to visit their bank for authentication anyway, why bother with a card payment at all?

That said, it is infuriating that after wasting all that time re-developing, SCA doesn't seem to have gone live at all. It reminds me of GDPR - the law abiding god-fearing types spend weeks worrying about compliance, disrupting their business; whereas the cowboys just take no notice - and get away with it.

It seems to be how the EU rolls: sweeping changes with terrifying penalties and sudden deadlines followed by minimal or selective enforcement.
Genuine question: if the motivation for this bombing was not political or ideological, what was it then?
The huge advantage of moving anywhere else is that it opens up the option of living in considerably nicer places while keeping a reasonable commute.
I've seen rolling deployment using plain distribution upgrade happily working on larger fleets than that, but that's borderline uncivilized.
> I just use the simplest and most boring things that work. Most of my software is written in Haskell…

As simple as possible, but not simpler!
Interesting that the article mentions GDPR, and then launches into behaviours that are forbidden by GDPR

> But how could it be cheaper? well here is where it starts to get interesting. The second professional could, for example, employ a cheaper way to get your ID sent to them, maybe it gets sent via a third party. Another way to cut costs is advertising, they could get your consent to use your drinking habits for marketing purposes. Now we can just replace “shopkeeper” with “online porn publisher”.
Swift.

Making libraries and apps for Apple stuff. Mostly open-source, but I have some closed-source stuff on the stove, as well.

It seems to make me a bit of an outlier, but I enjoy the work.

Success? More will be revealed...
> 3) write code that is obvious to the person who wrote it (at least for a few months), but being CODE is tougher for people to unpack.

One could have a decent debate about much of what you say. This is the only one where I utterly object. The Haskell code I write is far easier to come back to months later than the Python code I write.
Interslavic: How a Made-Up Slavic Language Made It to the Big Screen
It's pretty crazy to write an essay like that when you don't know the language.

I know I wouldn't be impressed if someone who doesn't speak Lithuanian wrote an essay like that on Lithuanian culture/language/literature.
As an individual, I have done 3 things:

1. Invest in renewable businesses (ethical+biological/natural food & clothing : Loom, bioburger, etc.)

2. I get my power from a business that finances as much green energy as I consume (e.g. Total Spring, ekWateur, Engie).

3. I buy locally-sourced groceries from the local store

And also, happy coincidence, I can walk to work.
Microsoft Frontpage + java script snippet websites + Geocities. /s
I would say:
- go vegan
- learn permaculture/similar to grow some of your own food
- invest in tree planting/greening initiatives
GitHub provides an action which might be the one you're looking for: https://github.com/actions/setup-dotnet

If you set a specific version, it can use a cached image and is a lot faster than a complete install.

Also have a look at their other `setup-*` actions for similar installations of Node, Python, Go...
This measures "wealth", not income. You can be in the top 1% of earners, but if you save nothing, you can still have a net worth of $0.

Apparently, the median Ukrainian has only $40 to their name, by whatever means they measure wealth. However, Ukraine has compulsory socialized retirement funds. Minimum wage is $160/month.

The median US-American supposedly has 60,000$ to their name, which must be mostly due to IRAs.
Mass shootings, school design, and the architecture of resignation
PAAS (Pity As A Service) is a very amenable business model. I think I'd find it a natural fit if I could be arsed to actually build something.
I think there have been many unsuccessful attempts to simply treat data storage as entries in a relational database. The most well known one was WinFS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS
It's a great post; I love ML, I've spent many years trying to get value out of it, and sometimes succeeding. But folks are applying without any of the checks and balances that are needed to produce real value in a sustained way.

Two reasons : 1 - it's harder to do this vs. optimise the behooozas out of a dataset and throw the best one over the wall (and this is often done in good heart complete with a whole gamut of "standard practice" which are in-fact information leak from test to train like checking what features are informative on the test set before doing training) 2... folks don't know better, and best practice is sparsely documented or taught. This is because there are almost no practitioners turned teachers in comp sci. I'm not running down the great people who do great work pushing the field, they are my betters, but the next generation are being mislead into thinking that the skills they are picking up in their ML classes are going to keep them gainfully employed in the long term.
I don't have a link handy but I remember someone asking for cached builds on Twitter and Nat Friedman responding that they were working on it!

EDIT: Found it! https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1164210683979812869 Looks like it is landing on November 13.
It's just a different way of calculating property taxes. Most countries use the theoretical resale value of your property.
There is an abundance of sand away from the construction sites but transportation is too expensive so regional suppliers are preferred.
I'm building https://airloom.xyz at the moment, its an heirloom tracker. This is for university, tech stack was all determined by me but this is a group project, that being said I think it qualifies to be on here since it is most likely much smaller of a project given it's for one university subject.

Elastic Beanstalk with ELB and EC2 autoscaling running Node.js backend

React for SPA

Cognito for user management/auth

Github for source control

CodePipeline for CI and deployments

Cloudfront with lambda@edge for SPA

Cloudinary for media hosting

RDS for database

LogRocket for frontend error capturing

Sentry for backend error capturing

Lambda to write a new user to RDS after confirmation trigger from cognito.
It's simply a fairer way of taxation. Suppose that you own a house that you rent out and live in another house for rent. Then you obviously have to pay taxes on rental income. If you live in a house that you own, you don't have to pay taxes in most countries, although your financial situation is basically the same.
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If EasyOS is specifically for containers, I do not see a container image at the LXC/LXD repository at https://us.images.linuxcontainers.org/

Even Kali Linux has a container image at https://us.images.linuxcontainers.org/

edit: If anyone at EasyOS wants to add a container image, see as an example the PR for Kali, https://github.com/lxc/distrobuilder/pull/179
Also, on that same chart, the US ranks #5 on mean wealth, and the numbers are way higher than in the linked article. Clearly this is highly dependent on how you measure.
I think terrorism is killing random members of a population to scare the others into some political or ideological change. It wouldn't count if it was targeted at fighters and civilians got killed by accident.
It’s the same in the Netherlands.
Instead of counting how much you earn from your capital, the tax administration estimates that you earn about 5% and taxes you on that (about 30% iirc).

But hey, if you make above their estimation, you don’t pay extra. But if you don’t invest, you still pay...

I really like how simple it makes the tax calculation (at least when you know how to value your assets).
No umlaute - can't use it. Looks nice though.
Meanwhile, PayPal’s CSV transaction export feature is still underdocumented and shows that an account’s transaction history is not immutable: https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/65917/calculating-...
The effective altruism movement should be worth checking out. They're focused on finding the most cost-effective options for charitable giving.

They mainly target other cause areas in which they expect marginal donations to do more good, but their general approach is very useful to understand even if you have a narrower goal.

There is general information about the approach here: https://www.effectivealtruism.org/

And an analysis of climate change in particular here: https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/research/other-causes/climat...

https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/post/2013/11/less-burn-for-y... evaluates a few specific charities that attempt to reduce greenhouse gases.
> Obviously, composition over inheritance strives a bit against one of the original key concepts of OOP - which is inheritance.

I don't understand why people keep pushing this idea of OOP as requiring classes and inheritance, when it very much does not.

Also, it's really easy to say that FP is better than OOP, or the other way around, when people keep comparing their favourite with a straw-manned version of the other.
French court rules country's Steam users can resell their games
Why not?

Technology has consequences that are ethical issues because it has influence on the lives of real people.

If you create a technology that is used to abuse other people(like facebook spying or manipulating masses or the military invading other countries), you are responsible for it.

The quality of HN improves if the human side of technology and science is openly discussed.

If a drone kills 30 people it is not "porn". It is a very serious matter.

Would you call it outrage porn if those 30 people were from your family?
The US "knowingly harbored" nazi war criminals.
If you upgrade your reminders on your iPhone with iOS 13, your iPad and Mac using the same iCloud account can’t access your reminders until iPadOS and macOS 10.15 Catalina are available.

You gotta love Applespeak. "Earlier versions" means all available versions.
I deal with low power microcontrollers. They keep using less and less power while running faster.

Old Z80 based board I first worked on drew 1A at 5V, so 5W. Put your hand on it, it's nice a warm. Current board I'm dicking with draws 8ma at 3V or 0.024W. 200 times less power. But it's 50 to 100 times faster.
I Was Caroline Calloway
I have a short text on kubernetes operators. https://github.com/MoserMichael/cstuff/releases/download/kbo... learning this stuff got me something of an overview of what is going on there.
Maybe look into investing in triodos bank or something similar.

A lot of the changes that need to happen are quite costly and realistically unless you are a millionaire there isn't a lot you can do to fund a solar or wind farm on your own. But by investing in an ethical bank with a focus on renewable energy you can pool money with other like minded investors to fund these projects.

Another option is a p2p lending platform like abundance
https://www.abundanceinvestment.com/investments

But bare in mind these are pretty risky investments.

You could also make steps to reduce your own carbon footprint e.g purchasing solar panels or something similar. Or if you have access to a renewable energy provider or a provider with a green tariff consider switching.

Finally aside from money, investing your time in your local government to make it clear you think they should be doing more is potentially more impactful. Especially if you are based in the US.
If I may be slightly off-topic, I have a similar question I still haven't found a satisfying answer to:

What's the best way to spend my work time towards climate efforts? (i.e: I have useful professional skills, how can I help in a serious way?)

For example, is there anything like a job board focus on companies/organizations/scientist labs/other structures working on stuff related to climate change? As a software engineer, I would greatly prefer to work for a group that has some positive impact on the situation, and I would expect that there is a demand for better tools, platforms, etc that can help research or whatever is the important thing to do.
Is that an actual Facebook office? Chairs and tables that look like a Walmart closeout sale (for garden furniture)?
Predictable.
Collective action is probably much more meaningful than individual action. So spporting candidates that are serious about implementing policies like a carbon tax or eliminating exsisting economic incentives for fossil fuels is probably the most effective way to spend. That said, personally it has felt much more gratifying to stop using a car and take up biking and public transportation.
You can already build a gun with entirely legal machine shop tools - like the brit Philip Luty's submachine gun [1]

Luty was arrested with the gun and ammunition and -quelle surprise - jailed for possession of an illegal gun.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIhGCRIQnCA
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