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> I broke the sentence apart by points, and responded to each separately.

No, you didn't. The sentence was one point, and your "response" to the first half of the sentence is only seems like a response if you ignore the second half of the sentence. I'm not going to dignify this silliness: you quoted me out of context, and have yet to respond to what I actually said in context.

> My point is that if you think "what we need is more democracy" you're going to be very disappointed in the results.

That wasn't remotely clear from your previous post, but it's pretty easy to show that you have no basis for saying that.

1. I don't buy that this is the most democratic point in US history.

2. The US certainly is not the best example of a democracy, and better examples of democracy have gotten better results.
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Just because attention is unwelcome does not necessarily mean it’s unwarranted
I also use open source Matomo [1] self-hosted with a simple LEMP stack but there is also a hosted option [2].

[1]: https://matomo.org/docs/installation "Installing Matomo On-Premise"

[2]: https://matomo.org/pricing/ "Matomo Pricing"
Latin was dead long before it stopped being used in written works. It died when it stopped being spoken and stopped changing.

I don't know if Fortran would be considered dead by the "no longer adapting" definition, but that it's still in use isn't proof it's alive.
Did you mean pb7, the poster you responded to, when you wrote "Your original argument"?
Tightly packed grids don't help because the generation vs consumption disparity is across hundreds or thousands of miles. HVDC and Ultra HVAC sounds nice on paper, but the reasons the industry doesn't use them today are numerous.

Again, the grid needs to provide 100% capacity 99.95% of the time. Renewables simply cannot handle that without massive storage that is still only theoretical - and often infeasible.

Pumped hydro is a great example of a theoretical storage concept that would only work in a small number of places, and yet still would be a major undertaking with large losses in efficiency.

These are just pie-in-the-sky ideas, or flat out unrealistic.
The site times out, YC has struck.

It says it is contacting openstreetmaps, but the global mapping community is called openstreetmap (no 's').
She objects to EV's because they keep working longer?
Saw this last night, completely agree. Everyone should watch it
Can I play Pac-Man on it?
Interesting. This runs on KISS Linux. https://getkiss.org/

Linux has become so versatile and powerful, but I miss the days of simple OS’s. I used to be a Unix OS architect and would study kernel code professionally while working on virtual memory systems, distributed file systems, and so forth. Linux has gotten so big now that I don’t think I’d have the energy to dive into the kernel code anymore.

The KISS Linux distro looks interesting because of it’s extreme focus on simplicity.
> Plenty of people who aren't doctors can make doctor money now. Just look at tech.

> Plenty

Plenty of tech folks make north of six-figures and often do better than most, but neurosurgeons make $800k, and plenty of mid-level medical types can pull $300K+. I personally know a dentist making "in the ballpark of 400" (his words) in the Washington DC 'burbs.

There are certainly IT/CS gigs paying north of $600K -- they're discussed all the time here on HN -- but those don't really exist outside of SV and maybe a handful of other areas, and generally require a pedigree that, while not a Med School, are still fairly non-trivial.

Your ITT-Tech trained Active Directory Admin isn't going to make anything near GP or Dermatologist money -- most tech, even with real degrees and certs, wont.
Several Roman emperors banned silk dresses because the silk trade was draining all the gold coinage out of the Imperial economy.
Fjällräven is relying on wax that you need to reapply seasonally.
I did get a patch some time ago which was really well-written. Almost all pull requests to serious Fortran projects (mostly OpenBLAS) get merged in. I wrote about it here: https://medium.com/@mapmeld/fortran-culture-on-github-a257dd...
Ask HN: How to Blend 'Minimalism/Low-Tech/Degrowth' with Software Development?
Hi HN,

I've been working as a software developer for quite some time now, mostly in Web/React/Node.Js and SQL. I also have a few side projects that are mechanical engineering and close to production.

Lately, I feel like I'm at a crossroads and would like your input.

1) Minimalism, Low-Tech and Degrowth values are really important for me (for multiple reasons), I consider them core values.
2) My strength are creating physical products and websites for clients whose core values are the antithesis of mines.

Basically, I have a hard time blending my strength with my core values, which gets me very demotivated.
I've refused job offer in various areas already (publicity, finance, chemical), but I can't seem to find one that ticks all the boxes.

Have you felt a similar way before? How did you manage?

What are some company/sector that would be more inline with my values (I don't mind to pivot)?

Thanks for you help!
> Just hold a rifle next to your fellow citizen for a bit

But, importantly, next to a random smattering of citizens from diverse locations, not next to a bunch of dudes from your neighborhood.

Xenophobia usually doesn't survive exposure to the xenos.

> The Chinese have a team. We don't have one.

We're a confederation of states. That legacy has really, really had a lasting impact. But IMO, after the outcome of the civil war, we should have formalized that we were one nation first and foremost, and that our states were nothing but administrative subdivisions. But that opinion is on much shakier footing than some of my other opinions, so don't ask me to defend it. :-)
> The 737NG is out of production

No they're still rolling off the line for the military Poseidon and Wedgetail programs
Mozilla has their issues, but please don't undermine the good they are managing to squeeze out between the head-scratchers.

Whatever else I might say about Mozilla as an organization, the people who are part of it have their hearts in the right place. The ethical messaging is sincere.

I actually passed on an offer from Palantir when I went to work for Mozilla in 2010 (I left in 2015) and I never once doubted I made the right choice. With those two options I'd absolutely do it again, Mozilla management issues notwithstanding.
If you want to volunteer for a project, just contact a project manager (through email or something) declaring the number of hours you're able to donate and your skills. They'll usually give you a good direction to start.

Drive-by commits are time-consuming to maintain. I don't see why maintainers even deal with them.
There is! We do Aether Pro (https://aether.app), which is like Front, but focused on internal collaboration for engineering and product teams. We’ve found that it reduces the distraction overhead of engineering teams by quite a wide margin, because it removes a lot of pressure from Slack.

In our case what seems to be happening to people who use Aether Pro is that the important bits of discussion that needs to be preserved go into Aether with its email-like structured threads, and Slack becomes more of a water-cooler talk kind of space, which you can now safely check out from.

It personally removed lots of noise from our Riot instance which we use instead of Slack, for what its worth. Most of the work can happen without being mutexed into a Slack channel now. In the end, whatever makes your engineers more productive is what works.
The issue is that the historical arguments lean toward using oil - we know that our ancestors used cooking oils and lards for greasing and survived with it, there may be quite legitimate questions about the ability to scale that approach up to our current population but I think it's reasonable to put the burden of proof on Teflon to guarantee it's no worse for humans, the environment and our plumbing than lard and oil... this also logically extends to exotic oils like avocado oil and palm oil. I think our cavalier attitude toward food additives is proven to be an incorrect stance by the utterly massive obesity crisis in America - there literally couldn't be a clearer sign that we're doing something seriously wrong. In the defense of Teflon there's nothing that directly signals it's chemicals on cookware and most research is pointing toward sugars, but it's an ongoing problem we all recognize and are not fixing.
That's probably true. However the US government should really be putting more effort into protecting its own residents at home, in terms of the most likely actual threats. Calling all forms of terror "terror", regardless of the color of the culprit, is probably a good first step.
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It sounds like you get it, but comparing a city to a state is misleading, especially for cities with a huge metro area that contains a lot of the prosperity. St. Louis County's median income is $35k (61% of NYC avg), and Jackson County (main part of Kansas City) is $26k (46% of NYC).

The county median incomes NYC counties: Manhattan (New York County) is $67k, Brooklyn (Kings) is $25k, Queens is $26k, Bronx is $18k, and Staten Island (Richmond County) is $32k.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_counties...
What a fantastic verse. I have never read this author.
1) I disagree. I believe Mozilla is right, and engineers should consider the ethical implications of the things they're asked to build. This argument would be valid even if made by Mark Zuckerberg himself.
Here is one evil engineer's perspective to consider.

I spent the first two years out of college working for a (non-FAANG) very morally bankrupt company. It was interesting work but the ethics of the product kind of weighed on me. I left to join a very-early stage startup who's mission seemed much better and I could comfortably say was at least ethically neutral, but probably well into the good side of most people's ethical spectrum (I also thought the tech was super interesting too).

A year or so in and I became exhausted there. I felt super unproductive at work because the org felt so resistant to processes and had a very team-of-one cowboy coder mentality towards most projects. The culture felt empty because almost everyone was remote and being so close to the founders made me detest what I saw as their narcissistic qualities, and a lack of product traction was demoralizing. A trip to the dentist revealed that my blood pressure was higher than normal, especially for my age.

I jumped when my previous company gave me the opportunity to pursue a career change that I badly wanted but would not have been able to get anywhere else (I really felt I had a knack for people managing and making eng teams successful, but the former employer was the only place that would be willing to take a risk on a new manager with my level of technical experience). I am so much happier now and have actually noticed a measurable decrease in morning blood pressure readings that I started taking during my previous, more-ethical job.

Do I consider myself a shitty person because of the work I do? Sure. I don't know what the right answer is though, because I'm much happier now and I struggle to optimize for anything other than myself and those I'm closest to.
This model does depend on the idea that most homeowners think that public transit will bring poor people and/or crime and thus would lower property values. There are lots of examples of homeowners blocking transit and then complaining about traffic.

There's a lot of evidence for this in the '70s; this was super tied up with wanting an ethnically and economically homogeneous neighborhood. it explains a lot about where VTA goes (and why we have VTA in the south bay and not BART) The evidence for this is not as strong now.
> If you want to buy a house for yourself to live in, you might be purchasing a vanishingly-small set of "living-rights" shares from a conglomerate. You won't have to pay for your hot water heater, but you won't have the right to repair or fix it yourself.

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness -- that's all you get. For everything else, you gotta pay.
They haven't provide proof that it is effective.
Well I guess she would know since she allegedly raised a sexual predator herself...
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/meg-whitman-son-gr...
If you want to get technical you'd also have to give credit for how much you're saving a month by not renting. That'll be a grand or two a month you're not having to spend while you live in your investment.
Yes, exactly - sorry I didn't clarify. There were folks out there who created stripped down versions of Systems32 classes, so you had a basic skeleton running.

Maybe I should write a progam like that, just for the fun of it. It still works nowadays. I might even get away with FreePascal. I'll give it a try. :)
1) Bullshit. 2) And the waste of time typing all of that? I’d rather just not.
China needs to crackdown on the ridiculous open air weird animal markets, and have people stop sleeping with their goddamned poultry. Seafood, fine -- no one's breathing in fish feces, getting some squid diseases. But birds, reptiles, weird shit like that running around contaminating the air people are breathing. I've seen it firsthand. Please, enough already.

It's demonstrably hurting their own interests at this point, after 3 recent outbreaks of world news-worthy diseases originating in such circumstances.
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A 16-bit space is not at all simplified, it's far more complex. Because of that, it is a terrible choice. It's a much more difficult memory model to learn in. In a flat 32-bit address space, a pointer is a pointer and it just works. It's much easier to conceptualize and learn on. Have you ever programmed for a bank switched memory computer? It's a nightmare. It's extra mental gymnastics pushed on the developer that have been irrelevant for a long time.

I don't think your example is a valid comparison. It's more like do you think all teenagers need to learn to drive a horse driven carriage before they learn on a modern car?
The Polestar 1 was a hybrid, the Polestar 2 is pure electric. They have some of their own stores, but I believe these are purely retail. They might be serviced in Volvo dealerships at the moment, I don’t know.
I've had a number of S76 laptops... and at the time I had them, they were the best bang for your buck on guts, however the cases for their older models were a bit chintzy. Out of (4) of the exact same laptops from S76, (3) of them had screws internally fall out and rattle around the case. Also, they changed the interface between the mobo and the screen between purchases, so one machine that had a bad mobo, and one machine that had a cracked screen couldnt be harvested for parts between them :-(

Their support was superb, but I havent tried that out in a long while...

However - I would still use them in the future...

But, My next purchase for a linux/windows dual boot machine is going to be the Lenovo Y545 -- It has all the guts I would need on both platforms and the price is fantastic. I checked out the case at Costco the other day and it feels solid. ($999 at costco)
Let me charge the beam like in R-Type for more damage!
These mechanisms allow a program to drastically limit the amount of damage it could do if it's subverted by bad/malicious inputs (or something goes wrong because the program itself has bugs..)

Imagine a program that connects to a host over the Internet. And someone malicious is in control of that host. If that malicious host manages to take control of the connecting program by exploiting a vulnerability in it, it still doesn't gain full access to your local machine, only to the limited subset of functionality that the connecting program has pledged. :)
I've given up on using a CMS for my personal website
You could also let the free market create dense housing.
I have never seen an ethics course that actually answers useful questions and changes the behaviors of the those who take them. In the real world anyway being ethical is often a hinderance, and somebody else will be brought in to do the project (I have no moral issues with auto-shooting AI-targeting drones, if anything the world has a lot of bad guys[1] who needs to be dead with no civilian casualties[2]).

Also remember, no good dead goes unpunished.

[1]: as a minimum this would be the leadership of all countries that opposes freedom by jailing or killing members or leaders of the opposition.

[2]: a seal team took out ISIS leader, but he still managed to blow his suicide vest and killed 3 of his kids.
Tabloids and opinion pieces in deeply partisan papers are what they are, but they aren't at all reliable for establishing truth.

Sadly, many Pythons got old, lost their edge, and wound up wealthy entitled out-of-touch conservative old men - their complaints reflect their own shortcomings more than anything else.

Terry Jones was one of the exceptions, which makes his loss all the sadder.
I meant your comment:

>Let's be fair: you're going to be very limited in terms of the type of web site you can make with this approach compared with a PHP app via web server

Which translates to me that you have the impression that JS is limited in usage, which it simply isn't.

Things like webrtc and other node, changed the way JS can be used and for the things it can be used.
It does though, if you mix near and far pointers, you are going to be getting crashes. Pointer equality and comparison are non-trivial. Whereas on a modern 32-bit CPU you don't have any such distinction.
I'm fairly certain that the parent meant to say that the original criticism of Mozilla did not make any statement about whether the content of Mozilla's proselytizing is right or wrong.
No way we could get 2 seats in our small 1-Series. While it's fine for my wife when in the passenger seat with the child seat behind her, the drivers seat would be far to forward if we were try to and fit one behind me.
I was thinking along the lines of alternating between a distributed pickup and concentrated drop off and concentrated pickup and distributed drop off. That is, you use these for last mile travel at either end of a commute artery.

Given there are many different bus/rail stops along a route (and many routes for buses), there's a relatively small geographic area to pick up in and drop of to when the other side of the trip is bus/rail. So you might have an automated van drive through an area and make a quick 4-6 pickups in a few block area, drive to a bus stop or rail station, drop those people off, and pick up 4-8 people for drop-off in close geographic proximity. Rinse and repeat.

The point doesn't have to be that they solve the last mile by replacing current mass transit, but by supplementing it in a way that allows for people that were far enough away that it was hard to use previously now have an easy and cheap way to do so, because you've expanded the coverage area of mass transit stations.
Safaricom is good at sales and marketing in East Africa, not at innovation from inside of the company. They do use some clever partners though at times, and the combination can be pretty good. They've obviously taken M-pesa and grown it into a mature product - listening to their clients, but primarily from a sales channel.
I've actually been avoiding TurboTax for about 3 years now. Mostly due to dissatisfaction with their lobbying policy.
Plaid like open banking platform Tink raises €90M at a valuation of €415M
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22108262
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Mirrors are passive and solid state, except for spinning mercury mirrors which are spinning and in the liquid state.
I think mortgages as a concept are bad, and do more harm than good to the people who need to take them. I think gradually banning mortgages, by increasing the minimum required percentage of house price required to start a mortgage all the way to 100% (when you can't really take a mortage), will be a good thing.

The way house investors view mortgages is as a very cheap leverage. So investing in housing will always be fundamentally skewed, because every single person can so easily get cheap leveraged investment in a house, so housing as an investment can perform much more poorly compared to other investment as still beat them by far because of the mortgage. This is so skewed up that a house now has an extra value: as a 'token' to get a cheap loan. This extra value is paid by everyone buying a house.

The way the average family looking to buy a house is completely different: they are looking to compete in the housing market with other families with similar financial abilities, to purchase a house. When you offer all sides of the competition the ability to enter a cheap loan, the side that doesn't take the loan loses the house. But if all sides didn't have the possibility to take a loan and pay more for the house, they would all pay less. Allowing buyers to take mortgages sets them off in a prisoner dilemma against every other buyers, and they all come out losing. If you outlaw mortgages, everyone interested in the house itself wins.

Moreover, once you have lured a family into strangulating themselves with a mortgage, they are now prone to financial stress that will cause them to take loans with much worse terms than a mortgage, therefore nullifying all the possible gains they had from taking the cheap loan. So while investors fully benefit from the cheap credit of the mortgage, families often follow up with mistakes and bad loans which, in total, make the mortgage costly loan.

The more you think about it, the more you should realize the winners from the concept of mortgages are real estate companies, investors and banks, and the biggest losers are the average family which are forced to take it from the Nash Equilibrium of a prisoners dilemma.

Moreover, if mortgages didn't exist, overall spending across the economy would rise, which will be a good thing.
It's pretty cool mate. Gonna make a wallpaper with it.
Non-native speaker here, so.. thanks for the input! I appreciate that. :)
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My naive understanding of these common service VPNs is they provide privacy (when properly configured) from a physical network. Otherwise they aren't much different than an IPS. Once on the other end, everyone still know who you are. They don't provide privacy on the internet.
Ok, then I guess we can all agree Mozilla are big stinky baddies and also that this is good advice.
You are correct. I had 1000000000 as a trillion. Scientific notation is a much better way to calculate things. At 30mm that is a big enough layer that a geologist could see it in the rock record, if it looked different enough.
After they get rid of all their lunches, lockers, libraries, laboratories, music programs, theater programs, shop programs, and athletic programs. Also after finding a landlord willing to comingle enterprise tenants with hundreds of loud children, and superimposing a school zone over an office building through regulatory alchemy.
Nobody has claimed that Mozilla's argument is invalid just because Mozilla are hypocrites for making it. People are expressing displeasure over Mozilla's hypocrisy, which is a valid issue, orthogonal to the merits of their proselytizing.

Edit: Sorry if I come across as belaboring, I hadn't read your other post. :)
> Student Loans. You need to make as much money as a doctor to afford housing. So did everyone become a doctor in the past 10 years?

Only in a handful of cities.
Absolutely. The baseline would be renting and doing something else with the down payment. In a lot of cases, principle, interest, insurance and taxes are a wash with rent (obviously there are exceptions).
I'd like to have a COBOL one. COBOL on Cogs is too "micro" for me.
Try a smaller city. This rendered almost immediately for me: https://anvaka.github.io/city-roads/?q=La%20Plata%2C%20Argen...
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