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As an accidental moderate myself, it does take courage. You don't belong on the right or the left. I'm too liberal for conservatives, and too conservative for liberals. I'm not even part of my parent's political or religious tribe. An accidental moderate means being tribeless.

It doesn't surprise me that those kinds of people would be more impressive, since anyone who describes themselves as right or left, democrat or republican, liberal or conservative, inherits their opinions instead of choosing them one-by-one on the basis of merits. I mean accidental moderates are pretty much the only adults in the room, and everyone else are child-like in their beliefs. Why should it surprise anyone that the adults accomplish more impressive things?

EDIT I should add that I think everyone is really some level of accidental moderate, because there are not too many pure ideologues and not too many pure free-thinkers out there. But I think it is fair to say that the average person on the street is mostly not free-thinking about tribal things like politics or religion. And I'm sure I'm not fully-free thinking either.
Uh, school is more than education, specially in art, and more about connections.

For 40k I would consider three years abroad. I think this would cover cost in a good university in Europe. This would give invaluable experience living abroad, give top class education and probably be within budget.
This political perspective is completely incoherent. Democrats have shifted rightward since WWII, along with every other political group in the country. Former Democrats who become Republicans because they feel the party has shifted out from under them are creating excuses to mask their own changing opinions.
I wish companies would pay some attention to RSS. It's viewed as somehow less than important than social media. But it's the only solution of its kind.
Not anymore. It was removed in stretch, I think. The reason is that systemd won't let you into single-user mode if the root password is unset.

edit: If, after installing, you install sudo and manually disable the root password, you won't be able to boot to the rescue or emergency targets; a valid root password is now required by default.

If you want them to work without a password, like classic "single-user mode", you can edit both the rescue and emergency unit files, and add the --force flag to sulogin.
A device for consumption can have a simplified UI compared with a device for production.
You're not sure there's not a big difference between organising protests, and hitting building with airplanes or commiting bombing that killed thousands of people?

Really?
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Im sure that a bunch of nerds (me included) would be able to add whatever sensors needed to upgrade their diy weather stations and upload the feeds somewhere
I think we're gonna have to agree to disagree on that. I've found that locking a file from any changes entirely almost always causes more problems than it ostensibly solves, and is a massive impediment to productivity on any team larger than a single person. The vast majority of the time it's entirely unnecessary anyway.
Your article is really interesting! I did not know about Aspera before reading it.

I did not have any idea that changing protocol will have this amount of benefit in data transmission. Also amused that no one have not solved it in Open Source world.
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(Upvoted on the assumption that you're trying to educate people about the right's tactics rather than actually advancing this position - unfortunately a lot of people genuinely believe this, even upthread, so it's hard to tell from short comments.)

((And meanwhile, Alinsky's playbook did actually work wonders for the Tea Party.))
Siri does too now, but you can’t set a non-Apple default. Have to specify “give me directions using google maps” each time.

https://ww.9to5mac.com/2019/09/19/google-maps-waze-siri/
Privacy issues in webassembly should not be any harder to detect than minified JS. It doesn't really change the calculus.
I understand the concept of intentional moderate as he explains it, but I honestly have never met anyone who formulates their beliefs that way, who deliberately tries to find a middle point on the spectrum regardless of the specific details. Of course that could be my social circle, which is why it would be a lot more constructive if Graham had given a bit of concrete example on this. Especially given that just about everyone on any side of the political landscape will assert that they do in fact think about each issue independently. I doubt many people would say, "I believe this because it's a conservative belief and I am conservative so I must believe it". No, they will say, and believe, that they have formed their own opinions, and they just happen to align pretty much exclusively with conservative (or liberal) ideology.
Can you give a better example of what you mean? There are plenty of multi-tenancy file systems. Do you mean QoS by user or over the network?
I don't really trust any of these microcontroller designs, but the comment I replied to, on a thread about Flash protection, said that the designs weren't trustworthy because they used Dual_EC. I'm wondering if there's some direct connection between Dual_EC and storage protection. It's clear to me how Dual_EC compromises cryptographic protocol handshakes, where its output, which can be decrypted to reveal RNG state, is exposed to attackers.
People are not compensated to their value, they are compensated to their rarity. A lot of people can (in theory) teach elementary aged kids, a lot fewer folks can architect skyscrapers or perform brain surgery.
Because they're blowing insane amounts of money fueling unsustainable growth to satisfy their investors. This requires burning cash on user acquisition and hiring thousands of engineers to solve problems that they didn't need to have.

Craiglist is handling as much traffic as all of them with around 50 employees.
I am upset, and I do use ubuntu, and I am reconsidering that.

It isn't about politics nor economics. It's about privacy and control. That is linked with Linux for a lot of users. And Linux users have a pretty good situation in regard to this.

But it is starting to erode and if allowed can only get worse.

It is unacceptable and the fact that canonical don't realize this is why I'm thinking of alternatives.

Especially considering the use case. Either they haven't got a clue, or they are testing the waters. Does not look good any way you look at it.
Not anymore, you are required to set a root password now. See my other comment.
In context:

> Accidental moderates end up in the middle, on average, because they make up their own minds about each question, and the far right and far left are roughly equally wrong.

I disagree as well, but it could be revised to:

> and the [accidental moderate believes that] far right and far left are roughly equally wrong.

This would make the definition somewhat more sensible, though I'd still disagree with it.

I wasn't able to turn up demographics for the site, so I can't outright disagree with you on the political leanings of HN, but I'm curious to know what they are.
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I think it's possible but probably not sustainable. Nick Winters did a 120-hour programming/game-dev workweek and filmed it so you could see if he was cheating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0qlr22cF14

HN discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6760685

I'm also open to the possibility that might be a very small percentage of people who could do it and that I might just not be one of them.

I'm also open to the possibility that I've been conditioned to expect 40 hour work weeks and that's why I may not be able to do much more. Apparently it's common for students in China to attend school for 12 hours a day. Perhaps if I'd been raised in a similar environment it would be easier to focus for longer?
Did they communicate this reason to you? That seems like a ridiculous requirement. Especially for engineers.
> Apple Maps is still pretty far behind Google Maps.

Depends where you are, the Apple version of street view is far superior to Google’s.
lol, so do mine. I wouldn't suggest this as an actual quoting method, needless to say. More of a thought experiment around what elements we'd need in a well-designed quoting method.
An art education is very different from a design education, though they are very often separate tracks at the same institution.

IME, the people that wanted to go to art school, weren't interested in what is taught design school, and vice versa.
It's a little frustrating how difficult it is for the HN community (taken overall) to understand that their preferences aren't universal. I think there's a really interesting conversation to be had here about intentional or unintentional dark patterns, and where the line is between filling the user's needs and steering their activity for the company's benefit. But it's muddled by the fact that half the conversation is "I have this specific preference and Netflix is obviously evil or incompetent for not adhering to it, other users be damned".

(To be clear, this isn't direct criticism of the GP comment, which is high-quality overall)
This article about how Microsoft Access won't die got me thinking about creating an open source alternative. I just retired and am looking for a project. I also have a history with msft that might be helpful.

https://medium.com/young-coder/microsoft-access-the-zombie-d...
Anywhere other than a few major cities?
WebAssembly Hub is a place to share and consume WebAssembly Envoy extensions
Something like Cabinet Vision also too niche? Don't think there are really any serious open source contenders in that space.
"benefits of minimally restricted availability of weapons"? Seriously? There are over 2000 laws on firearm ownership over the US. It like there is a new law every time there is a shooting. In Maryland, if I want to purchase pistol, I have to take a course (min 8 hrs), pass a test, prove marksmanship ability, get fingerprinted, and pass a background investigation. This, to qualify for an HQL - Handgun Qualifying License. This is usually $150 or more for the training, plus $45 for the license, plus $55 for the fingerprinting. Then I can select handguns approved by the state of MD, which are on a list. Then I can order or purchase one from a licensed dealer, or an individual. Then I fill out additional paperwork, and another background check. BTW, if I have been convicted of a misdemeanor which might have a possible sentence of 2 years I'd be disqualified. MD laws are written such that almost any misdemeanor COULD cost you 2 years. When the firearm arrives, there is a 7 business day waiting period before you can claim it. Of course you have to pay for the firearm, so figure $350-$500 for a reliable firearm which hopefully will not jam when used in self-defense. At this point, you've spent $600-$1000 dollars to purchase a handgun. And you can only use it at a gunrange (public or private) or in your home for self-defense. You cannot carry it in your pocket. You cannot carry it in your car except to and from a gun range. and you can't carry it loaded then. This is what legal firearms owers go thru.
Gang-bangers in downtown Baltimore or St Louis... not so much.
There really needs to be an always ask next to don’t ask again.
'too much order, too little justice' is never a conclusion that is made by the people in charge
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Well, you'll have a two-hundred line IAM policy and a half-dozen API calls encoded into a script, but once you have that script its just one step! All you do is run the script!
In this context, dd and /usr/bin/dd are not the same thing. While this alias "fix" might stop you from accidentally executing it in a Trojan script, it wont work if the path is included.
I think it was Consolas and the Lucius vim theme.
> so many new entrants to the car manufacturing market

Electric cars are easier to make than modern ICE vehicles.
Yes, I was really hoping to get something other that AHK. SharpKeys is much more stable to the point of where it pretty much "just works". It doesn't need a daemon running in the background.
Typically you won't be driving (or riding in) a car for up to a year non-stop (without so much as a fuel stop), either; I feel like that offsets the quantity of trips to at least some extent.
Or Vimari, the Safari port.

https://github.com/televator-apps/vimari
For many degrees, there could simply be some sort of national board exam (or a series of them), administered by a testing center (like Prometric).
Students can study on their own then pay to present the exams. Since the best lectures and material can be obtained cheaply or for free (Khan, Coursera, etc), "college" debt would be massively reduced.
I don't speak for degrees that truly require lab work, like STEM.
I apologise in advance for being super-pedantic here but it's "wreaks" (meaning "spreads/imposes") rather than "wrecks" (meaning "destroys").
I can say I've done a few 72 - 96 hour stretches of near total wakefulness (power naps of 20-40 minutes as possible, food and caffeine available nearly any time) but there's definitely a feeling of disconnect, being separate from the senses and just floating inside my own head toward the end of those.

We're talking full up tactical exercises in the military, and a couple of critical repair scenarios here and there since.

A couple of days of near total downtime is a minimum to reset from that kind of effort, and 'normal' work for at least a week or two if possible.
Sometimes fancy art school is worth it, though. My sister decided to go to CalArts and stomach the high tuition costs. She dropped out two years later after receiving a job offer from Sony Pictures, and Netflix ended up headhunting her a few months later. Now she's debt-free and making a comfortable living, all from the connections and internships she got from CalArts. Sometimes, a name brand school is worth it compared to a cheap school "with a great art program".
>Also if you're in the position to care about motd, you're going to have the skill to change it yourself.

This is an elitist view which implies that if someone doesn't understand something, they aren't affected by it.
And more importantly, FPTP doesn't allow for middle ground. If you are in the middle, you can't get elected, because neither party would nominate you.

I'm not sure that's true, at least in the UK, when one of the established two parties moves to the centre ground they tend to win. Moving away from the centre ground is how they lose.
All yachts are fixer-uppers, even (especially, sometimes) new from the factory.

Source: former owner of Hunter, Hylas & others.
The article is about a sailboat. A real yacht is powered by two engines. :)
As with all advice, some people are on the other end of the spectrum and need the exact opposite advice.

You may be indecisive because you truly don't know enough about the options and need to do your research to make an informed decision. Don't overdo it, just do enough. How much is enough is not easy to say in general.
When did Ubuntu start doing that with their motd?
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R said that they will bring back working class jobs and give them something to be proud of. R also said that they will limit low skill immigration which will help reduce competition for working class jobs. R said that they will reduce taxes for working class people (and they even increased taxes for better paid workers, so it is not like they just reduced it overall).

All of these are typical leftist talking points, Democrats just left those votes on the table and R just swooped in and took them.
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I personally think that as the are cohort that finished school with the dot com crash then followed up crushed under the weight of the housing crash, start to send kids to college, there will be a general reckoning.

While my wife and I are doing well financially and professionally at the moment, these events have made us distrustful of the current economic model of low taxes and high wealth, which I am practically certain leads to these hours of economic malaise. We had our first at a relatively young age, and the realities of our wealth and savings are not as good as the author of this piece... We only have one salary, which is a particularly huge benefit.

Regardless, one can only hope we decide that a well educated populace is such an improvement to general welfare that we don't continually stuck the costs of raising children on the parents alone. I know that there are tax benefits, but those are a joke.
If there's a real, useful OSS alternative to Access then let me know. Otherwise you might be onto something!
You are more likely to trip, fall into a ditch or puddle and drown than be shot. So you can lament your perceived need for body armor, or forgo walking in exceptionally high crime areas.
I don't think so. Capitalism is what drives politics in the United States, the degree to which big businesses dictate the course the country charts is unparalleled. Everything revolves around the large companies that pollute and externalize where ever they can, all in the name of profits.

Essentially the United States just removed a bunch of stuff that is embarrassing to corporate interests, in order to allow them to pollute some more but this time without any accountability.
True, the topic of AOC runs through my post, but that's not what it's about. It's about the change in the position of the average/median Democratic politician.

And I'd say the change has happened at least somewhat in the Democratic leadership - in many of the presidential candidates, even if not in the House and Senate leadership.

And I'd argue that this change was going on before, but you didn't see it, because of Obama. He, in one person, was the face of the Democratic party, and that hid what was going on underneath. As you say, Obama was not on the left, and because he was the public symbol of the party, it was easy to not see the left growing.

Was Obama to the left of Clinton? I could accept "no" as the answer. But was the median Democratic politician during Obama to the left of the median Democratic politician during Clinton? To me, it appears that the answer is "yes".

I don't think that abandoning the working class is something that just happened in the last 2-4 years. I could even argue that it happened under Clinton, but he had the political savvy to hide it. It was probably there, and growing, under Obama. It became glaringly apparent under Hillary, when she had no interest in even talking about the working class, and Trump did. That's what changed in the last 2-4 (let's call it 3) years - Trump stole what the Democrats thought was "their" issue, so solidly "theirs" that it didn't even need to be mentioned.
I've generally found most people don't generally care at all until they or someone they care about is impacted, then their care is largely dictated by the nature of the impact with existing political views only being partially factored in. One reason why getting to know members of a minority group can stop a person from being inherently biased against that group.
There are a lot of folks out on the water in "ugly" boats that are not costing the arm&leg but safe and a lot of fun. Get a 100 foot boat, that is a boat that looks great from 100 feet away. Sailing is totally possible for anyone, do all the maintenance yourself, also a really good idea to deeply know every line and turnbuckle when out in the ocean days from a mechanic.

OMG they bought a wood boat, the only way to keep a wood boat is to start a foundation or be a billionaire.
I think the simplest way is to just pick a side project to work on. You have full control over what you create. I always encourage my team to do this if they have the time.

I have done it myself to learn new things.
There is a post today about alternatives to antibiotics [1.]

I read a recent article [2.] about the state of the antibiotics companies. It was interesting and revealed how over-prescription, fear of over-prescription, and market economics have governed the fate of promising new drugs. Melinta Therapeutics, the company for this post's article, is another antibiotics company that is filing for bankruptcy.

[1.] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21886708

[2.] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/25/health/antibiotics-new-re...
Yep. I wonder if there’s been a bunch of research on the topic and it really boils down to us just being written versus visual learners, or if it has to do with something like age-bias - maybe because YouTube wasn’t really a thing yet when I was a teen I never caught the bug. I’ve noticed it seems like kids these days love watching YouTube videos to learn stuff I would never watch videos on, like programming.
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It just can't be the case that this kind of content, which would never ordinarily survive on the front page if written by someone else, has a place here simply because Paul Graham wrote it. I say this as a moderate, of the accidental variety, myself! But if this would get shot down if it appeared in The Atlantic or The New Republic --- and it would, and should --- it shouldn't get a pass just because Harj Taggar and Patrick Collison reviewed it.
Beyond the telemetry there isn’t a move to have OS wide ads is there?

What’s your Linux of choice?
Ask HN: Looking for someone to collaborate on side project with
Ideally you're an experienced UI/UX designer, product designer, or business development type, with something you want to build in mind.
You might just have an idea, or maybe you already have a rough first draft. SaaS is strongly preferred.

I want to help you develop this idea as a partner or as a contractor, whichever works best for the both of us.

I'm a software engineer with several years of experience. You can check out my blog at https://ponyfoo.com to learn more about me, read some of my articles, find out about my open-source work, conference talks I gave, or to check out the books I wrote (O'Reilly, Manning).
I'm remote and my time zone is UTC -3.

You can leave a reply here or write me an email at hackernews@ponyfoo.com
Capitalism does encourage it though.
Or you could help fix up Libreoffice Base which badly needs some love
@paxys - Not sure what purpose you're referring to. Sure, purchasing them would defeat the purpose of making your own business card, but not the traditional purpose of having a business card that's cool & which doesn't immediately get tossed in the garbage after you give it out.

I imagine these aren't for sale, but I'm just throwing it out there that I would prly buy them if they were.
Not sure if I’d pay $180/year for a static page with my phone number on it.
I get your argument and I appreciate it. But the nature of those low hanging fruit are more complicated today. For example, you can't just recreate Twitter, Facebook, Reddit today in your home with a couple of friends with no solid experience. You similarly can't start most successful SaaS ideas that were started in 2010-2014. Most successful YouTubers started their channels around 2008-2011. This was a time when you could make a very successful venture relying on the viral marketing by social media and Google search. Nowadays, this is over. You can go and try this same hippie way for starting a small business today but your chances of success are 1000x lower. The internet is much bigger, and it's much more centralized and concentrated and the competition is much more harsher.
Of course. They want the 1950s, not as they were, but as they imagine them. In the same way, the liberals want, say, Sweden, not as it is, but as they imagine it.
I would have suggested a Swiss Army knife, but I cut my finger good when I was 6.
Hillary Clinton is a Marxist in the "I never read Marx and have no idea what Marxism is, but I'll slap the label on everything I don't like" sense.

See also: The GOP is apparently communist, now.