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I’ve returned to vanilla Debian as of late and it’s refreshing. My gripes are the guided installer always insisting I need a swap partition and no sudo out of the box, but those are easy enough to overcome.

It’s nice to see only a handful of processes running on a new setup.
Meet Bernard Baumohl, WSJ Survey’s Most Accurate Economic Forecaster in 2018
Actually, numerous studies have shown that restaurants that offer wifi spend a surprising amount of time assisting customers with logging in, and the average sit time skyrockets when people are checking email instead of consulting the menu. If these aren't designated cyber cafes we're talking about, it could be good for business. On the other hand, the situation described here would drive me crazy and I would be fantasizing about picking locks and climbing on rooftops trying to find the evil little device.
@OP: Remember to post in the official thread that will be crated in January 1st.
Because every year there's some turnover, so your senior IC has a shot at getting some reports. Meanwhile, the incentive for upper management to promote a senior IC to super-senior IC or fellow or whatever is slight.
> Because most European universities are crap compared to American ones.

That's probably true if you compare the average European university to the handful of elite American one's, but it's even more true when you compare the average American University to those same elites (even if you exclude all the unaccredited and for-profit schools, which really drag the American quality standards down.)
I read your blog a ton back in the day! Good to see that you're still around. Whenever people start talking about introverts vs extroverts I still think "it's only a model!"
What are your thoughts on the near Canyon Bridge acquisition and Trump block?
I would hazard to say that in most realistic cases, causes' influence over the summary effect is described approximately by the power law. Hence the 80/20 principle.

Corollary 1: you can simplify your model of reality by dropping some of the weaker effects, and replacing a host of them by a simple constant. You can even just look at the single most important factor and ignore the rest when making estimates.

Corollary 2: You should always remember that your simplified model is simplified, and realize how much it is simplified. You should expect complexity of detail, and be ready to let go of the neat and simple view if you want a more correct view.
No IC is going around making a million dollars for creating internal tools. If he's making a million it's for something else - he's a founder, he was acquihired, he is related to the founder, etc.
This is really a lovely thread. In general I loathe working at large companies and try to avoid it, but this really changes my perception of Shopify. The fact is that people who say they work 80 hours don't really do it. If they ever do it it's a rare event in the totality of their labor.
Code smells if a change works with one lockfile but not another generated around the same time. The utility of a lockfile increases with the age of the file.

We expect lockfiles to change when we update it add dependencies. If a pull request cannot build with a lockfile generated when it is merged then that change should not be merged.
“uninstall ubuntu” makes things easy enough and its just two words. I actually consider it sage advice, not even cynical. Its very unacceptable behavior.
Joint health is the connection, consider the unique knee injuries that tend to result from distance running. Dancing displays the range of motion in place so your mate can judge you with out having to run.

There's a lot of overlap, consider these factors that relate to dancing and hunting: timing aspect combined with shifting weight and body position, arm/leg coordination, underlying percussion track 60-140 bpm (the range of a heart beat), percussion generally broken down into 4 part segments corresponding with heart pumping.

So it seems like to be good at dancing (or long distance hunting) you have a good sense of timing over a long period, are aware of your heart beat, and most importantly no debilitating ankle, hip, knee, or foot injuries.

That should make a clear case for how dancing could have evolved culturally as a metric for hunting ability rather than genetically.
“Go small, go simple, go now” - Larry Pardey
If it's a choice, that is fine. If it's an assumed baseline that management leverages to squeeze ever more "productivity" out of people without compensating them for it, then its not.

If the latter, I guarantee you will have just as much regret looking back years later. The 'voluntary' part is the gray area that most seem to talk around.
I love how the very next article is titled "The 8086 - An Architecture for the Future"

I love reading old computer magazines and the archive.org collection is amazing. One interesting thing about doing that is that it provides a first hand account of what a lot of the people that worked in the industry thought the future of computing would be like. It is fascinating to compare that view with how it turned out.

I wonder what people 30 years from now with think when they read HN archives?
We converted our excel wiz to do R. She will never return to excel for advanced stuff. The simple stuff could be done with lobte office (except for excel sheets that come from outside).
The short answer is that because different or new isn't always better.

Modern materials like composites have pluses and minuses compared to metal or wood. One of the huge minuses is repairability and structural strength for long spans.

Solar power for propulsion works for small vehicles, but not well for larger ones where energy density is important. Or on cloudy days and at night.

In the boating world weight is less of an issue, but in aviation composites often end up weighing more than aluminum, especially in the first batch. They also have temperature issues over about 300 mph, compared to Mach 2+ for aluminum.

It sounds like this boat restoration was ill-advised, but that really depends on their long-term goals.
>Financially, it was a foolish decision, which cost us at least double the original estimates. But being in a syndicate has meant sharing the losses and the workload.

Two good lessons. (1) Restorations are almost always far more expensive than just buying a similar boat that has been well maintained. (2) Group boat ownership is often a good idea, you can share the finances and no one actually ends up using the boat as often as they think they will.
> The "adverts" are benign. Right now it says to check out microk8s and also to look at livepatch.

My distro shouldn't be advertising to me. Call me "old school" but this has no place in Linux. Also, if you're in a position of trusted compute then you don't want this sort of information leaving your network.

> Also if you're in the position to care about motd, you're going to have the skill to change it yourself.

Yeah - and I feel I shouldn't have to add it to my images/recipes/whatever to fix this. I use Linux for a lot of reasons, and some of the most important ones are that it doesn't advertise to me and/or leak data. This is telemetry and it's unacceptable.
Ask HN: Balancing my ego/beliefs against company's
I recently started a job as a full stack software developer in the midwest, after years of freelancing and being entrepreneurial.

The company I work for is a small firm. They have the expectations of a traditional company, whereas I am heavily influenced by SV lifestyle and thinking. Ex: everyone shows up at 9, leaves at 5, where I don't really care for timeliness (I don't interface with clients, and don't have colleagues dependent on my presence). My priority is the quality and timeliness of my work.

This has lead to minor frictions where my manager has mentioned that my lateness "sets a bad example" and asked that I show at 9. Fair enough; but as someone who sees themselves as hard working and independent, being told what to do bothers me.

My non-tech friends do not give me much sympathy; they are used to treating work as a necessary evil, and their expectations of their employers are as such.

It is my desire to not become an arrogant, entitled brat. How do I balance my personal beliefs about work with the company's? The work itself is fine, the colleagues are fine, its just these little cultural things. I am lucky enough to be able to walk away if I need to, but I feel that is the ultimate brat move.
I probably wouldn’t feel great (and I wouldn’t post negatively either), but who’s running the business and receiving money and who is spending money? Paying money to get blasted would be a new low yet being a business and getting blasted is kinda a time-honored situation. This actually is kinda aligned with what I’m talking about because the bad owners don't realize they’re running a business when they rent their property, and their problems are caused by not caring about what businesses have to care about, which is reputation and value of name.

But yeah overall agreed, esp. about who has the time & energy to go ballistic about these things and the long realization that this is why hotels are a much better place to spend money.
Stochastic Processes and the Mathematics of Finance [pdf]
It is so peculiar that anyone believes the United States possesses a "far left" as a force in politics. This requires one to ignore political science and ideology, not to mention the practical politics of the rest of the world, and simply place people on a continuum and draw a line near some perceived median.
I'm not passing judgement. But I know from observation, and TFA confirms, that in most other ports they use shore power, so I suspect that it is unusually inconvenient or the laws are weaker than CA or AK. Cruise lines do watch costs and some were avoiding Antarctica just because Ushuaia was charging more (compared to today) for the special fuel required for Antarctica.
The far left in the United States mostly doesn't exist.

The corporatist center-left has given up on meaningful economic policy change and mostly just panders on abortion, gay marriage, and gender identity.
> There’s nobody making you choose to stop being an IC

There kind of is, though. If you’re lucky, once you hit mid-40, you’re with a company that will be able to keep you on/stay in business for the next 20 years until you retire, because job hunting as a middle-aged “IC”/non-managerial is… unpleasant. I’ve been involved in several hiring committees where (managerial) types would look at a resume and say, “this guy’s been doing this for twenty years and he’s still ‘just a programmer’? Ugh, next”.
Can't speak to marrying the rich girl, but the 'I want a pony' can be dealt within some situations. Start by finding them a local ranch they can work on and learn horse care lessons from. Work with them on how they will pay for it and what they will have to sacrifice to make the lesson fees (being realistic in the extent they are expected to pay for it compared to something like piano lessons). Generally two or three weeks of cleaning horse poo from hooves will be enough to squash any pony dreams while teaching them a lesson on dipping their toe in the water and trying something out before jumping in.

If they happen to really like it, you can increase their involvement proportional to how much they are willing to sacrifice to support it. This won't work for everyone, but it shows working towards a goal and maybe they get to the point where they are willing to sacrifice other enjoyments in life to be able to stable a pony at a local ranch.

Regardless if they bail or stick with it, valuable life lessons are to be learned. I did this with my niece for a year and she discovered that she really loved horses even to the point of enjoying cleaning them, but also was too afraid of them (after seeing another girl get injured by a spooked horse).
A giant red star is acting weird and scientists think it may be about to explode
I don’t understand the math you’re giving here.
To be fair to PG, perhaps, someone else shared his post on HN so he didn't break any rules. On a different note, I guess in the age of Facebook, it's not possible for tech to remain silent on politics whether we like it or not.
True. It's not the US per se, it's the processed food (crap) industry and the work lifestyle (no time to cook).
There's a lot more information and photos here:
https://www.motor1.com/news/390036/turkey-togg-csuv-ev-autom...

> Customers can choose from two different lithium-ion battery setups. The smaller option promises 186 miles while the larger pack should crack 300 miles per charge.

> TOGG says the rear-drive model can hit 62 miles per hour in 7.6 seconds. The dual-motor SUV will do the deed in 4.8 seconds.
90 degree parking requires wider drive aisles because more of the forward/reverse turning radius is required...all of it.
Tons of people out there "can't join any tribe" because their belief systems are sufficiently different than those of people around them, and the way this is written suggests that it's almost a novel idea to Paul Graham.

Has anyone cornered him and beaten him up for having moderate beliefs?

And having beliefs across the political spectrum hardly makes him novel. I'm probably a classic left leaning liberal. I'm in favor of universal healthcare. But I don't think gun control will solve all our problems, I'm okay with lower corporate taxes, but believe in greater wealth distribution. I think identity politics has gone too far. But I refuse to vote for Republicans because to an elect a Republican means to give more power to their voting bloc, and I don't like their policies.

Do I need to invent a special term for myself? No. I'm a complicated individual. Everyone else is one, too. It's easy to assume you're the only one thinking for yourself, but it's more likely that you just fail to understand others are as complicated as you are.

Also, I do believe he was implying that while his beliefs fall across the spectrum, they generally tend towards the center.
Yep to be clear I think Standard Oil and Dutch East India company did a lot of bad things. And that's part of the point... If you are saying Elon Musk is impressive just because he started four companies that are worth a lot of money that means nothing. There are better ways to judge a CEO, and better ways to build a company, and that's what the Shopify CEO was saying in his Twitter thread.
Ah good catch. I must have picked it up while skimming, but it also seems kind of obvious.
Portions of Apple News are curated, not the entire thing.
This isn't even an idealist "purists" thing - this is a "I don't want my distro leaking telemetry" thing.
One behavioral difference I've found in myself vs. my wife is that I always look for what was wrong with my decision after the fact and she always looks for the win in hers. The reality is that you have to spend time thinking about both to truly learn from the exercise, but focusing on what went right definitely improves confidence.

Another thing that a decade of painstakingly quantified decision making has taught me is that the metric details often don't actually matter that much and rarely lead you to a satisfying choice. My most recent example is the purchase of a Bosch dishwasher. I did quite a bit of looking and landed on one of the higher end series that did very well across the board in reviews. I hate it. The dishes come out with this weird sweaty feel to them, the racks suck, and the user interface is beyond horrendous (something that a week stay in a rental property confirmed is common to all Bosch appliances).

So I'm slowly working my way out of it, but I'm almost 50. Wish I would have had better constitution about this out of the gate.
They're different! Sorry if I made you feel gross, why is it gross? Need medicine or something? Aww
> open hardware is precisely as trustworthy as closed hardware

Nice work but the conclusion is absolutely unwarranted:

Security is all about mitigating risk. With closed hardware, as much as software, it becomes much easier to implement backdoors but also hide who did it and when.

Unsurprising, a lot of closed source comes with spyware functions - look at the phone "app market".

By all means an FPGA is better than trusting a SoC, but this does not mean that all hardware is the same.

Management Engine is a good counterexample.
Docuwiki is great. I would also like to throw in mkdocs into this documentation mix, with the mkdoc-material plugin. It does require python to generate the static site files for the documentation, but the actual documentation site are just static files that can be served by Nginx. Also mkdocs has a really wonderful development server that allows you to see the changes you are making after each time you save the file. Looks really nice and modern too.
What's the farmstead discount?
They've also distributed security notices through the MOTD. I find it useful.
Some others in this space:

- flAWS (flaws.cloud / flaws2.cloud) by Scott Piper

- CloudGoat (https://rhinosecuritylabs.com/aws/cloudgoat-vulnerable-desig...) by Rhino Security Labs
Fully autonomous robots are not yet completely brought into regular usage. So I think there is no need to worry much about it.
> I agree that the "trades" meme is merely a "grass is greener" perspective

Nah, it's a meme being pushed with organized campaigns that take lots of money: it's an attempt to manipulate the labor pool to bring wages down in certain fields by increasing competition for jobs and increasing return to capital.

Of course, so is the similarly heavily promoted “train everyone to code” push.
"the far right and far left are roughly equally wrong"

To me, at least, it seems that the left is less consistent than the right. But I have to admit, I don't have much to do with the right movement.

The left is a bunch of groups who mostly dislike each other to some degree, because they have the feeling the other group will be seen as part of their own group and work against them.

Communists, anarchists, anti-imperialists, anti-germans. The only thing they have in common is that they all despise like the misanthropic tendencies of the right.
Can you elaborate on the loophole? Like create a 1 person LLC, and then buy the property as a business expense?
Updated Technology
The updated version of PubMed uses Solr, an open-source enterprise search system, for document indexing, and MongoDB for storage and retrieval (see Figure 4). In addition to its scalability and reliability, Solr also provides many powerful out-of-the-box search functionalities, such as wildcards (â€˜*â€™), groupings, and joins. For example, unlike the current production PubMed, the updated version does not limit the number of variants for wildcards. The MongoDB storage solution provides default data replication between different data centers, which ensures redundancy. The updated PubMed runs on a modern cloud architecture that provides scalability and a reliable backup environment.

The updated PubMed uses the Django Web framework on the front-end, making use of the latest web technologies and standards.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma19/ma19_pubmed_updat...
Maybe if Netflix had movies and TV shows that I actually want to watch, then I would stay up to watch them. Its become a recurring joke that every time I think "Hey this movie looks good, I'll check if its on Netflix", the movie has never once been available for streaming. This actually happened this weekend. I searched for 4 different movies, and in the "titles similar to {#4}" was one I was interested in so I watched it. I keep forgetting to cancel because I use Netflix so little now.
IME, the thumbs don't do anything. The only way to have a real affect on your news feed is to block channels.

For example, I follow the Chicago Sun-Times. And every day Apple News shows me the Sun-Times horoscope. And every day I give it a thumb's down. Every. Single. Day.

400+ thumbs later, it still shows up every day.
Wow I’m so tired of this breathless deifying of Elon Musk. I don’t understand why people continue to talk about his personal life instead of the innovations he brings to business; there might be things to learn about how Musk does business, but you have to wade through this inane sheen of worship by his followers to get any of that information. According to many, he is the greatest man that ever lived, but if you read most takes, it seems to be simply because he smoked a joint with Joe Rogan that one time. There has to be more to him than ROCKETS, ZOOM ZOOM CARS, FLAMETHROWERS!!!!!
Of course. It's rarely, if ever, impossible to make a perfect ban on an online services. You just make it sufficiently difficult. Requiring some real hard identification information if a user trips your "maybe" filter is enough effort for the 99.9% case.
Agreed. Showing a teenager how much they will make with the career their interested in and then figuring out how much they might afford in student loans is pretty easy to roughly estimate. It’s what should be taught in schools and banks should have limits as well.

But banks and universities don’t wait those things, because it’d jeopardize the easy money.
I agree and regarding 3) would you put most startup founders into this bucket? In reading Peter Thiel Zero to One I was struck by his point that real power law focus in a startup means you're doing something new, thus "The Search" is a required first step even if it's not your first rodeo.
New systems should implement WebAuthn rather than U2F.
Interesting to see so many new entrants to the car manufacturing market. I guess internal combustion manufacturing was so dominated by the big boys in US-DE-JP that no one really had the muscle/margins to get into the fight at that point. From what I've gleamed, electric motors are a lot simpler (less moving parts).
Open-source data storage is full of gaps compared to its commercial/bespoke brethren. To give just one example, consider multi-tenancy/QoS. Very few OSS distributed filesystems or object stores even seem to have heard of the concept, and those few barely scratch the surface.
Intel would have been able to drive the market into Itanium, since x64 would not exist.
Goal posts move in every direction. 20 years ago moderates like the Clintons saw gay marriage as extreme. Yet Hillary and Bernie are Marxists today.

Pre-Obama right like Limbaugh always called moderates confused liberals, while the left saw moderates as strong union states voting for Reagan and the WTO.
What systems do you come in contact with? What sort of responsibilities do you have on your job site? Anything critical?

And look you dont need to answer those questions either, but take it from me, that kind of thinking and attitude will tank a business and eventually compromise or overburden IT, who will just jail-firewall Machines running that kind of code because its impossible to reign-in in a militerized zone such as a company with over, say, 150+ employees, let alone anything major.

Please reconsider/rethink.
The people who moved in later were also more disadvantaged than the people who moved in from 1960s who benefited from discriminatory housing policies.
It sounds like career path for designers has some similarities with software engineers. I think software engineering can potentially offer a much wider and deeper set of opportunities.

Still, in practice, these growth opportunities can seem far less common than yet another senior full-stack dev position. If you want to work with scale, there's Google, Amazon, etc., but most companies don't really need to engineer for scalability and high availability. They just need to ship some CRUD features yesterday.

At some point, it's worth considering whether it's worth the costs to keep pushing up in career for more interesting work, more money, more status, whatever.
I'm from Turkey, this is just a show for always upcoming elections. Best engineers in Turkey already left the ship, and the remaining is looking for a way out