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Solar isn’t expensive any more. Prices have fallen so much it’s now one of the cheapest forms of electricity — the kind of thing someone living in a shanty town might want to install to replace a sooty diesel generator or an easily broken kerosene lamp.

And if nobody does anything, in a generation the main export will be refugees.
competition.
These older threads list some blog aggregation websites, dev.to seems popular lately. Personally I subscribe to a couple of language specific https://cooperpress.com/publications/#newsletters newsletters.

"Ask HN: What are your favourite developer blogs?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15154903

"Ask HN: What are some good technology blogs to follow?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13849430
At a cost of $45 billion. Or, 6% of the US defense budget. Good for Germany.
> The United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) reported on Jan 6th 2020: "The Desert Locust situation remains extremely serious in the Horn of Africa where it threatens pastures and crops in Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya. Numerous swarms have formed in eastern Ethiopia and adjacent areas of northern Somalia. A number of large immature swarms moved south in the Ogaden of eastern Ethiopia and adjacent areas of central Somalia and reached southern Somalia, southeast Ethiopia and, on 28 December, northeast Kenya." The FAO warns a dangerous situation arises at the Horn of Africa and on both sides of the Red Sea.

Thinking on the opposite direction, wouldn't it be interesting to have unmanned drones to eliminate locusts with ballistic impacts?
And for that I am quite thankful that it is so widely used.
It’s kind of surprising that anyone who works for these services for more than one day keeps working in these conditions. If you made $50 in one day and spent $40 in gas, why work again? Does Doordash pay more initially to “get them hooked?”

It’s definitely predatory practices of people who don’t understand that, after a day of work, you should have more money than what you spent.
You can retract it. He just did it. You can take down any webpage under your control. I could delete this comment later if I like. You could delete yours. etc.
well, did dig up this:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6016850/

Though, I've had my neck cracked several times now, so a little late to be doing research. There seems to be a suggestion in that paper that perhaps these injuries are a result of a chiropractor aggravating an already weakened/injured artery. I remember hearing a story of someone having a stroke after cracking their own neck :O
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It’s no longer “his” code.
Methane is a powerful short term GHG, but long term only the CO2 left by decayed methane is relevant. Forest fires etc are completely temporary, contemporary trees are not geologically sequestered.
> has profited immensely from other peoples work

Have they? how much $$$ profit did they make?

You aren't paying for shit and yet you think they are making a profit and you are entitled to professional support? Wise up.
So I can apply to Microsoft with a @icloud.com email account? Cool!
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Exactly. The open source community is far from homogenous, and people who engage in it (maintainers, packagers, 
leechers
 users, etc.) tend to have wildly different expectations that vary from person to person. I’m sure RMS, some Contributor Covenant wielder and I won’t ever agree on a set of assumptions.

Moreover, companies present themselves as “active, dependable project”s then go belly up all the time. Not sure why hobby projects should be held to a higher standard.
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It seems as of late that there has been a number of comments on this site that are not of proper caliber for this site and embrace anti-intellectual ideas (i.e. socialism, psudeo-science, bad faith arguing against scientific research). Should there be more barriers put into place in attempt to maintain high quality discussion on HN?
Brave stopped supporting Android 4.x as well, see https://community.brave.com/t/installing-brave-on-android-wi.... The last version that supported 4.4 was 1.3.2, they're at 1.6.3 now for Android 5.0+.
Could you have said the same thing about going to space many decades ago? Yet, with hindsight, we can see going to space had a huge return on investment.
Breaking down some possible factors:

1. Rich people spending their way to better health by purchasing healthcare services

2. Rich people spending their way to better health by purchasing healthy food, gym memberships, and expensive healthy habits

3. Rich people having higher conscientiousness, and this pushing them toward healthier habits regardless of expense.

4. The same genetic makeup that makes you rich also makes you healthy.

5. Being healthy throughout your life allows you to become wealthy more easily, by letting you work harder with less fatigue.

My estimation is that your healthy years come before lots of lifestyle interventions (drugs,surgeries, etc)- they are the years that your healthcare consumption is more or less moot. So I think factors 2,3, and 5 dominate here.
> It really seems that in earlier years, when resources were limited, people really used their ingenuity far better than today.

Nowadays we would just NPM install a few gigabytes of shit (and some backdoors & malware for good measure) and call it a day!
The PVS-Studio Team couldn't get past the source code of this game: https://www.viva64.com/en/b/0707/
It was much deeper than that. While you're partially correct, that people not paying back their loans is what ultimate set off the collapse, the reason for it was the straight greed, and manipulation of the repackaged junk sub-prime mortgages by the banks. Collateralized Debt Obligations, and even worse CDO-Squared, bundled up complete crap, and sold them off with triple-A ratings. When the mortgagor failed to pay, those CDOs were finally downgraded and became worthless, losing banks hundreds of billions. Predatory practices on homeowners, and bank greed.
Yes, it is planted in several botanical gardens and other places, and work is being done on propagating it.

What we avoided is having a situation like what happened with the golden fuchsia (Deppea splendens) in the 1980s, where it becomes extinct in the wild and only exists in botanical gardens.
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The people "you" elected and the people they appointed are all doing their jobs and everything is going to be Oh Kay™

...ever since I was too young to vote. Now I'm a little unhappy about the Hanford Site and about tetraethyl lead, for example. I know that has nothing to do with satellites.
We can, but..

- incumbent taxis are also predatory services that abuse drivers, arguably worse than Uber/Lyft - and they're a shitty rider experience in many many ways.

- hotels are OK but rarely provide kitchens, let alone friendly hosts who bake you killer banana bread (yesterday's stay)

- delivery from individual restaurants is rarely available at all, and thus you're going to call a Postmates/etc to help pickup. Delivery is all-but-required when feeding a large group, e.g. work function.
Yes, is very similar to a glass water landing in float planes. For a number of reasons the glideslope is unreliable below minimums anyway.

The legality doesn't matter much if you are doing it in an emergency (say unforcast fog shutting down all runways within the aircraft's remaining range).
Simply put, I don't think the engagement is there with the entire genre of "brain training" games. They don't feel like "play" in the same way that one could easily slip into Stardew Valley and lose hours at a sitting. Forcing oneself to interact for 30 minutes a day is not feasible. Even if the benefits were are as palpable as actual exercise.

Contrast with the "Math AR" tool GeoGebra. The interface is not perfect yet. But it does give a glimpse at what a truly interactive geometry lesson would look like. As well as a medium that invites life-long learning ;)

https://www.geogebra.org/
Right, but existing boring machine manufacturers don't have an infinite money pile to burn through, so they can't afford to try all the things that TBC will be allowed to try simply because Silicon Valley will afford them a bottomless pit of cash (until the next recession).
> I could delete this comment later if I like.

Now you can’t.
I believe we should not demand free work from people only because they were nice enough to push their code on GitHub and let stranger use it for free.

I work in open source as well at both day job and for "fun" but I fix the issue that I want and if people want something from me as author of whatever, there is going to be a money talk.
Looks like you haven't lived in a city like Dallas. Public transport is a joke (which I did resort to when I finally run out of food; will take me half a day to do groceries and I need to come back home and shower). Cabs will take thirty minutes to come to your home and will charge outrageous amounts (4x what Uber used to charge initially).

When I say I'd just sit at home I wasn't joking. I and many friends (mostly women) would just not do shit most of the time and just watch TV instead. Hell I'd go years without visiting my cousin in Plano (a suburb) because commuting there is a multi day ordeal (I need to start from their home at 5 pm if I needed to use public transport).

Did I and others just exploit Ubers unreasonably cheap prices? Yes. Did it improbe our lives measurably? Also yes. If you were lucky enough to live in New York or some city like that power to you but not every place was blessed.
There's a forest of them in the National Arboretum in Canberra: https://www.nationalarboretum.act.gov.au/living-collection/t...
Hate to break it to you: it is that cheap. I an looking at a $99 Intel Compute Stick driving a build of the enterprise FR software I write, connected to a $21 ELP IP camera. Total cost of hardware is less than $150, and the software is of course expensive. There is no reason a button or embedded-in-a-screw camera would not work just fine. Pandora's Box is open kids, and it is not closing.
> It's a personal project.

If you create an organization on GitHub for a project that is meant to remain personal, this kinda sends a wrong signal.

Blaming some users for being rude and entitled, and then deleting an open source repo out of spite... it's a bit hard to feel sympathy for the guy here.
Alas, a point is 0-dimensional.

(I deserve downvotes for this!)
Yes but they seldom know /which/ ads are successfully the source and barring coupon codes and immediate click theough direct purchases most customers will be repelled by constant irrelevant to them probing about where they saw the ads first.

Advertisers technically only need to sell to those with a sustainable revenue stream and/or a sustainable stream of new customers who cannot indefinitely sustain advertised.

The odds are low but it is entirely possible for a very successful advertiser to be successful on pure "superstition" wrongly attributing the sales to them. Ironically the reverse is also possible where a successful advertiser is wrongly believed to not be doing anything and their prior boosts mere coincidences.

The Pokemon "Press B to boost catch chance" urban legend was widely believed for instance until discredited by data mining and testing as people saw a pattern not truly there.
> known eugenicist who wants to reduce the population of the world

I suspect in a generation or two the fear of eugenics will be seen as quaint, because we'll all be editing our genes to improve them. I also don't see anything wrong with the idea of reducing the population, I mean, birth control is seen as a fundamental right pretty much everywhere, and every extra mouth to feed has an impact, no matter how much we refine our technology.
Yes, the "nothing is worth doing while there are poor people anywhere in the world" argument.

We can work on environmental issues and poverty.
In some cases, people value the flexibility. In other cases, there aren’t a lot of better options for people.

> it’s definitely predatory practices of people who don’t understand that

I find it hard to believe that after so many gig economy apps have been scrutinized over this, they simply don’t understand. Some of them have to understand, and just don’t care, because they’re trying to cash in on their equity.
He held the door open for a lot of people. Some people spit at him as they walked through. He doesn't want to hold the door open any more, he's done it enough. He didn't sign up to be a doorman for life.
>> Prove it.

Actix was written in rust. Rust is OS. qed.

Quote from Rich's gist.

>> I'm sure you know better about the one true way to write software. But kindly don't burn the community down on your way out, with self-serving proclamations.

The actix author could just have walked away, no harm done, push one button "Archive", go outside and enjoy the sun.

Instead they choose to throw a tantrum, write a pamphlet and nuke everything.

Entitlement goes both ways.
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As a counter, do you want to buy a brand new Tesla made with "100% recycled parts from former cars!"?
Well put. I’d add on to your metaphor: slamming the door on someone is quite different than just not holding it open anymore. The second is totally acceptable; the first is impolite.
Do more pair programming(preferably with him) and avoid having that issue at code review.

Bring that issue up with your direct supervisor on 1 on 1s, if you have them.

Is that just happening with you?

Is he really just his own preferences, or something widely accepted, but you are fed up with him?

I'd ask myself multiple questions and try to understand why does he do that, and also try to show some empathy and try to onboard more people on it. Work isn't only about coding, but also social relationships and navigating politics. You can learn a lot by facing the problem.
Because humans love them some Faustian bargain.
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> The actix author almost certainly (unless they deploy their own kernel)

... or use Windows / MacOS / Solaris / any other commercial OS he paid for...

> by engaging in open source you engage in a social contract

You heck. You simply allow other people to use your work as they see fit. That's it. The only contract is the license, and the license is very explicit in denying the existence of any other tie, explicit or implicit.
Absolutely not. You can get professional (but not necessarily timely) support from me for multiple projects I maintain on GitHub, for free.

For many people, their personal interest in open source is writing code for fun and showing it off. For others, it's making a product that people can rely on. The second one is my motivation; don't take that away from me.
Perhaps. And that's what, in my opinion, people should actively engage in learning.

Perhaps somebody should build a chat-bot which would insult you in various ways and you are to just look at that and respond calmly (while being mindful of your feelings and avoiding feeling bad). That might suit for a risk-free exercise. And as I have mentioned, anonymous image boards are a useful experience too.

BTW I've seen a number of movies about the military where a sergeant would shower the recruits with humiliating insults - perhaps that's the purpose of the act.

Whatever, I can recommend "the fourth way" book by Peter D. Ouspensky to whoever feels interested in developing their capacity to deal with negative emotions rationally and doesn't mind a humble bit of mystical speaking (there is some + it is not really scientific as a whole yet I find it quite rational and, well, amazing). It has helped me a lot.
And then Apple went and borked Preview by rewriting it post-Mavericks. Used to keep a VM just for it. Not sure why they decided to "fix" something that wasn't broken but to this day Preview lacks a lot of functionality it once had.

Just a bit of an aside. I'm still somewhat bitter about it :-p
Judge for yourself: https://web.archive.org/web/20200116203731/https://github.co...
I reread the article. What's super distorted is how they're calculating expenses. Sure the IRS will let you deduct 58c per mile, but that doesn't mean that's what it actually costs. Unless you're stupid, you use an intelligent car like a used Corolla or Fit for a job like this. Maybe a nicely used Prius. A sensible driver would incur expenses of about 20c per mile.

So that means their estimate of expenses is about 200% higher than what it should be. Since they don't really provide sufficient data to recalculate their estimates, it's hard to say exactly what effect this might have on their conclusions, but it probably changes them significantly.
Sorry, maybe I'm missing something, but everything we know about urban planning is that large high capacity vehicles doing fixed routes are way more efficient than individual point to point travel. Cars aren't as efficient as busses, busses aren't as efficient as trains. Or to put it another way - using your logic everyone should just be flying in private jets.
You could have just given it to a needy person yourself.
You basically can. The cost of free stuff like this is "be nice to the guy giving it to you" or at least don't be actively abusive about it. If the community won't pay that price, expect it to evaporate.
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That's not an open source project any of us maintain.

Also, there are expectations for both sides of a professional interaction. My employer buys various fancy networking equipment for lots of money and we absolutely wouldn't expect an answer for that question.
Right, and he can do that and that would be totally fine. People stop maintaining projects all the time. But by going out of his way to antagonize people (many of whom aren’t even the people who “spit” at him) he’s just not being very nice.
There is no reason philanthropy cannot be used to tackle multiple issues at once. I'm not sure there is a lot value in deriding one cause over another. We need to address both issues.
Now I consider your message a puzzle and am curious about what awesome life lesson have you hidden in it. I am going to re-read it over and over again :-)
Macroorganizational dick measuring isn't an automatic outcome of the needs pyramid at all. Far more wars have been fought to distract from domestic problems than because there were no other problems left unsolved.

> One of the big reason I like computers and software is that it seemed to be borne out of genuine interest

A genuine interest in artillery trajectories and cryptoanalysis? I don't think so.
It seems to be dead: "Error establishing a database connection"
I only skimmed the post, but referring to the blackbox approach with some blockchain as trustless clock:

Given the black box was created when block X was the current one and is defined to release the key some N days later, so ca. (N * 144) blocks later, if the bitcoin blockchain with a block time of 10 minutes is used.

Wouldn't an attacker be able to create an isolated network using the existing blockchain up to block X, push the difficulty in this "new" network artificially down and create the amount of required blocks much faster than the actual bitcoin network.

Once the chain is calculated up to a specific point, the blackbox program can be executed in the emulated network and will release the key before the actual deadline.

Am I missing something or is this conceptually broken?
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It's probably ok but you could look at the source data and be more specific, averages and base indexes can play tricks on the visualization. From the video:

https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gisstemp

Data source NASA GISS, GISTEMP Land-Ocean Temprature Index (LOTI), ERSSTv5, 12000km square smoothing.

Average of monthly temprature anaomolies. GISTEMP base period 1951-1980.
> if I see you approaching a door, I am under no obligation to open it just because I'm physically able to, but if I open a door for you, I'd better hold it until you're finished walking through, or I'm a jerk. By holding the door open, I've made an implicit promise that I'm not going to close it on you.

This reminds me of an incident years ago. I was on a city bus, very full of people, and we were just about to leave a stop. There's a woman maybe 150 feet away running towards the bus. The driver sees her running and re-opens the door, waiting. Inconvenience to all of us on the bus, but hey, she's running.

The woman, seeing the bus has waited for her, stops running and starts slowly walking instead.

Driver sighs, closes the door, drives away.

I'm not sure what the moral lesson I take from it is, but mainly "if I go out of my way to help you, don't take advantage of my generosity". Maybe that partially applies to situations like this one. Or maybe just "don't annoy transit operators". That's a good one too.
> Large amounts of open source projects which seem to ego-driven (i.e. done not to provide genuine improvement, but done for amusement and promotion of the author).

While that kind of thing does happen, many of the participants in older active projects seem to be driven by a genuine desire to improve things for our fellow people.
Could anyone explain how to use this for whatsapp chat ? my output always this

Cannot infer own-name from less than {min_conversations} conversations. Please provide your username manually with the --own-name argument.')
Exception: Cannot infer own-name from less than 2 conversations. Please provide your username manually with the --own-name argument.
This is something of a distraction from the total surveillance currently provided by everyone carrying a mobile phone. As I read people's concerns, a good majority of the concerns also apply to mobile phone tracking, yet that completely globally operational and in place system is ignored?
I don't see why.

Anyone that cared already has their local repository copy.

After all that is what DVCS are all about
I moved from US to Australia and then Canada. Canada is almost the same as US with consumer rights, customer service, citizen rights etc which is that's it's almost non existent.

Australia is one of the best countries imo. Minimum wage with penalty can be up to as high as $100 per hour ( yes $100) and starts around $25+
The issue is that their roadmap has the stable version being replaced automatically in early 2020 with one that doesn't support extensions (full support of which is late 2020), unless you pause updates on your mobile device and had an unsecured browser.

So that means for at least most of 2020, I won't have the option for the browser experience I like and will have to go use brave mobile or something.

As someone who wants to avoid a Chromium hegemony, this is pretty disappointing. I would like to support Mozilla on mobile, but they'll leave me no options to do so.
The comments here re. "why before addons" is because the marketing-speak (tm) blog post leaves everyone with the impression that this new version is just about to replace the existing FF for Android that does support uBlockOrigin.

And as many comments here indicate (and I am with those who feel this way), for a huge swath of FF for Android users, the ability to have uBlockOrigin is the critical reason why they have FF for Android installed in the first place.

As in, if there is no uBlockOrigin, there is no remaining compelling reason to run FF for Android. This is a failure of the mozilla marketing droids to understand their customers.
Just walk away then, no need to set the door on fire.
Agree 100% with the maintainer, read some of the comments on /r/rust and on Github, I haven't seen a more rude sanctimonious community in my 12 years programming. Holy shit!

Rustaceans my ass! From now on Rudeaceans.
Illegal. At least where and when I drove for Uber. And there were plenty of local government inspectors posing as passengers trying to catch these sorts of shenanigans.
Partial rollout. They started doing these fugly icons months ago for selected users.