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Been in the industry for 20+ years and never once have I seen anything remotely resembling what this manifesto describes. I've seen several attempts to go in this approximate direction, though, each ending in a disaster because what's described there calls for a drastic, "be all end all" over-design that either doesn't do anything useful at all (example: "zero code"), or is so complicated that nobody can figure out how to use it (example: one of the distributed systems frameworks I worked on at Google - very general, reusable and modular, but you'd need a PhD to even understand it conceptually).

This seems to be written by someone who doesn't really know what they're talking about, but would like to "help" by "writing". Reminds me of this scene from "The Fifth Element": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYHO7FRsQAA

It's akin to looking down into a shaft of a coal mine and suggesting that miners should breathe fresh air and stay above ground, because what they currently do is not good for their health.
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But in a Malleable System, the user becomes a developer or something closer to a developer.

The links in the principles give more details: https://malleable.systems/mission/#4-retain-ownership-and-co...

For this principle, it says:

>> "A fundamental problem of today’s software ecosystem is that we do not own or control the software that runs on our devices. In addition, much of the actual processing logic has been passed off to remote systems in the cloud, so only the inputs and outputs are observable."

>> "We must ensure that malleable software approaches allow the customisations and personal workflows you create to be owned and used as you see fit. If an approach relies on some amount of remote functionality (perhaps to assist with pulling apart an application or service), we must ensure there’s a clear path for anyone interested to keep those dependencies alive so that their workflows are not disturbed if the remote service were to shut down."

>> "This has many parallels with the ongoing movement towards data ownership, which is gaining popular awareness. Although the data ownership movement typically focuses on identity and social data, the programs and customisations that authors create are personal creative expressions. Authors must retain ownership of their data, programs, and customisations just as anyone would expect to have control over a book they wrote or art they created."

The first paragraph definitely matches up with your point that the user should be in control of their computing environment. However the third paragraph certainly seems like copyright and licensing are implied.
Earth temperature and vegetation biomass readings are done by an army of earth facing satellites checking the entirety of the earth daily using a variety of different sensors and techniques.

https://climate.nasa.gov/nasa_science/missions/?category=31
Exactly how we think plants work now, but without terms like "photosynthesis", "mycorrhizae", "absorption", etc.

Seed + dirt, sun, and water = plant.
Should is likely the key word in that statement. You will note how many and public violations of the law get a slap on the wrist that in practice amounts to a little more than the cost of doing business ( Equifax, Wells Fargo, Uber come to mind ). Regular people watch this and each time it happens trust in the basic institutions tasked with making the playing field equal gets drained a little further.

As for the point about big business performing better than other American institutions, I would like to point out that it is big business does happen to have rather good representation in our government; definitely better than most citizens do. Of course they do better. It would be weird if they did not.

As for the resiliency, I can't get help, but to chuckle, in 2008 tons of big businesses were begging for a bailout. This time around BA and few other big players are not above asking for the same. How resilient are they really?

I can give you your point about tech sector ( though an argument could be made the main reason they seem somewhat is immune is shifting the employment cost to the employee -- ie. gig economy ).

Big business is not the problem in itself, but pretending it does not have inordinate amount of impact is silly. Its growth, especially if it is causing undesirable changes, should and must be curtailed. Otherwise the best thing you can compare it to is cancer.
Just saw you can have a non login version. Thanks for pointing this out. Will add more features soon
Does Homebrew not do this for you? You can install pretty much any popular app use cask installs. If Homebrew works for you, you can use a Brewfile similar to a Gemfile or package.json to handle adding and removing apps from your system?
That doesn't sound like a true story. If they had a legal agreement to pay him unbound commissions the CFO can't just change it after the fact whether or not the salesperson would be the highest paid employee. (Fun fact: at most B2B companies, the sales teams are the highest paid employees outside of the C-suite executives.)
That doc and the language itself reads like a parody of obscure functional programming languages with obtuse syntax and semantics.

Keywords are RUNES and RUNES have CHILDREN, CHILDREN can be RUNES and the programs chains the RUNES until there are no CHILDREN. Functions are GATES and tuples are CELLS and you run programs as GENERATORS from your SHIP's DOJO.
> When's the last time you tried. I don't remember if I've run FreeBSD on it, but I have a cheap board with an AMD APU that's run NetBSD within the last year.

It's been two or three years since I last bothered. While FreeBSD's support for the board might be better there's no real upside for me to even try installing it. The router box has been happily running in a closet for years. Best case scenario is it does exactly what it does now with minimal effort on my part. It's not worth the effort.

This is my common refrain whenever I think about using FreeBSD for a project. I'll most likely end up with some set of things I need to fix or debug. Each problem then saps my time, motivation, and patience. It's an order of magnitude easier to just use Linux and save my energy for interesting parts of a project.
I'm also in Argentina. Do you use a service or provider for this? How do you turn your DAI into cash? Thanks for your insight!
The tagging system is something I'm really missing from my internet searches, whether I want to organize short term or long term.
(!) This!

First, big props for shipping stuff that people use.

Second, I've [1] often compared 90% of what we do in software development to being highly trained baristas. Granted, this buys me little love from engineers & even less from Starbucks.

To the point -- I think it's time we rise up & start to use more powerful tooling.

Tooling that:

1) Lowers the barrier for who can author software (really, web-based interfaces that help us get stuff done, the way we want to accomplish a task)

2) Doesn't introduce more chaos (disparate data spread across 10 SaaS products, death by 1,000 spreadsheets by email or in Google drive, no centralized/secure/managed storage, etc)

3) Emphasizes that a superb user experience is table stakes for such tooling.

Thoughts?

--

[1] founder of https://mintdata.com here, so just a tad biased, take the above with a few pounds/kilograms of salt.

[2] oblib -- DM me, we're happy to give you free access if you'd like -- the above wording just warms our collective hearts.
Define Agoraphobia: fear of public and isolated places
We'd kill them before they could fill the niche.
Sex jokes aside. . .

How do you encounter 'a few cougars'? I've only ever run into them as single animals. They're very solitary.
not exact match, but there's this:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/346010/Besiege/
That's fair, though I'm talking to you more than to anyone else.
The amount of old PC hardware that this thing emulates is nothing short of absolutely amazing... old VGA cards, old network cards, old sound cards, the list goes on and on. You'll find old favorites like SoundBlaster and NE2000, but also some very esoteric things, like PC-BIOSes for PC's that you never knew existed...

Also, apparently can run Windows NT and XP...
Not a killing. Only 25% of Mexico's oil production was hedged. So we're still losing ton of money on the other 75%, since oil is one of the main revenues of the Mexican goverment.

It's just insurance so when the prices crash the country doesn't go with it. Since no insurance company in the world can insure even a small govt, the only way to go for it is with financial instruments.

We rather lose a bit of money during the good times and not get wiped during the bad times.

It also seems Hacienda is quite decent at reading the markets from the article, I didn't know as much.
Isn't that an orthogonal concern?

There's nothing technical to prevent Firefox Send from using a native client instead of a web page. The client could have the same trust model as everything else on your system, while still embedding the key into the final URL or link you share with other users.

It wouldn't even need to be complicated -- a wrapper around libsodium that pushed encrypted data to a couple of REST endpoints would do the job.
I'm fairly confident many advertisers don't have a clue about the effectiveness of their ad spend. This isn't helped by all the dark patterns in the Adwords control panel, every new option they introduce is defaulted in their favour.
> I don't get the obsession with nuclear, it does not make sense on an economical, political and environmental level.

I have a rather simple suggestion to resolve that. Ban fossil fuels for large scale power plants and heating plants.

Under those conditions, if nuclear is more expensive, political nightmare and economical worse than the alternative then don't use nuclear. If on the other hand people just want to use renewable when its in optimal weather conditions and then use fossil fuels because a stable energy grid is more important than the ban on burning fossil fuels, then no. At that point I rather people build that expensive, political nightmare, and waste producing nuclear plant.

As the old green movement slogan went. Keep the coal in the ground. Stop the pipeline. The sun is setting on the oil industry. It time to Get out of the Combustion Engine.

The obsession with fossil fuels has run its course. Nuclear has problems but if that is the cost we have to pay in order to ban fossil fuels than I will happily pay it. I don't demand anything more than that, but I won't settle for less either. It is criminal that enlighten countries who talk large about the current climate crisis also build fresh new fossil fueled power plants as energy demands goes up. Just like nations created a treaty against blowing up nukes in the atmosphere, there need to be one against turning the planet into a desert just because its cheap and can be done with minimum political consequences.
Ethereum DApps: How to Listen for Events
Show HN: Backburner – Bookmark specific parts of a webpage with screenshots
as of this morning, using LA Times numbers:

23K infections / 40M people in CA = 0.058% infection rate

682 deaths / 40M = 0.0017% death rate

yet neither of those percentages are listed. both rates have crested, yet there's no chart or graph emphasizing that. no curve showing high and low expectations of either rate modeled into the future.

most of the deaths have one or more co-morbidities, which means that a harsh flu or bacterial pneumonia would likely be roughly as deadly to them. no indications of that either. this kind of news could actually help people grasp the real risks rather than simply inducing anxiety and panic.

flu pandemics are preventable via the same collective measures, potentially saving 40K lives a year in the US, yet we don't get hysterical about collective action every winter.

media attention being understandable is different from it being reasonable.
Hm.. when talking about the inherent meaning of a word (and whether there is such a thing) I might make reference to denotation vs. connotation, but I'm not prepared to dig into the semantics here.

I would say that my experience with regard to the use of the word "normie" is indeed different from yours.

Regardless, on a site called Hacker News, in an era where "geek" has a neutral or even slightly positive connotation (despite it's history and origins) I think the default should be to assess how an author actually uses a word, rather than how it often used in broader society.
Zero communication is unfeasible. They can communicate public and express investment intentions through that.
The goal of a park (particularly the valley) is to allow as many people as possible to see and appreciate it. There are hundreds of thousands of square miles of empty wilderness in the Sierra (including in Yosemite) , with much of it similar in scale to Yosemite.

Your story is a good example for one of the goals of parks, but you seem to have missed the point. If you've never been to the Yosemite after living in CA for a few years, then you likely wouldn't expend a lot of effort to see wild places in nature. Thus, Yosemite is a perfect place for you to see and appreciate since it is spectacular and relatively accessible.

With your newfound appreciation, you now can advocate for the preservation and protection of wild places – though preferably not in the sense that you want to prevent others from having your experience, and rather in the sense that you should want to advocate for the protection of undeveloped wilderness.
I think you have that other way around
I work on a team that's mostly offshore in India. One of them remarked that they went to multiple stores and couldn't find any vegetables. Like many Indians, my coworker is a vegetarian. That's just an anecdote, but I worry things are going to get bad there.

There's locust swarms in Africa, and it's potentially heading towards China. I expect there to be widespread food shortages in the coming weeks/months. I'm not sure about how life will be here in the US. We're rich, we're a net food exporter, etc. as long as the processing and other supply chain parts keep mostly working I think we'll be okay-ish. You might not get the exact product you want, but you probably won't face starvation. But in many poor countries in Africa and Asia, I think it's about to get really, really bad.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/locust-outbreak-africa-congo

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-locusts/china-urges...
Red-tailed hawks are pretty prolific at hunting squirrels in urban areas. There are even pairs nesting in Central Park in NY and subsisting almost entirely on squirrels. Peregrine Falcons also hunt pigeons in Urban areas and again there are dozens of pairs nesting in the NY City metro area. Predators generally tend to find an equilibrium with their prey animals in an area, so they're not going to completely eliminate their prey.
> Pickup/delivery options are a total failure across the board at all grocery stores right now.

While we've had to do a couple in person runs to try to hit the limited stock items tp, paper towels, and—when the problems actually included hoarding early on rather than just the supply-chain issues later—milk, we've had pretty good luck with instacart except during the first week of the CA shelter-in-place order.

OTOH, I know people less than 100 miles away that are having very different experiences.

I suspect this is all highly variable from place to place and week to week.

> IMHO the grocery stores should be prioritizing staff to filling delivery orders, then pickup.

Where it's even entirely within the same company, staff aren't entirely fungible between delivery and other functions. And where it's not, that's even more true.
kinda looks like a rebirth of google App Inventor/Blockly?
Chapoly depends on a reliable per-message CSPRNG. CBC wants randomness too, of course, but the failure mode under randomness hiccups isn't "coughs up keys". If you have a system working with CBC+HMAC, what's the advantage to shouldering that additional risk?

In a new design, I'd recommend Chapoly too. But this isn't a new design. Changing things has cost.
8086tiny: A free PC XT-compatible virtual machine/emulator written in C
For client debugging I usually just use the network inspector or Charles (https://www.charlesproxy.com/). But I guess this might be useful for server to server API call debugging
Just 'donating to creators' works in cultures where asking for donations and giving donations is alright. There are cultures (most developing nations in Asia) where openly asking for donations is frowned upon, and donating to non-charitable organizations isn't considered normal either because most people don't have the disposable income to just give away.

Buying things for daily needs, and advertising for them is still normal.

Unless you're willing to turn Youtube into a 'Developed western countries only thing'(which already exists - it's called Youtube premium), advertising is a better option.
The Virtues of a Second Screen (2006)
A garbage collector is not inherently incompatible with a low-latency database. I was generally very happy with the performance of Go's garbage collector enough to have built Prometheus, the time series database, on it back in 2012, when the collector was considerably more naive.

https://blog.golang.org/ismmkeynote
wow this is awesome
OPEC, oil nations agree to an unprecedented production cut
The FDA maintains it is within the administration's purview to regulate tests--including laboratory-developed tests, or LDTs--although the current state is that the FDA often elects to exercise its discretion to permit LDTs sans regulation-as-medical-device provided the lab adheres to CLIA and has any required accreditation in order.

Dietary supplements are more or less unregulated, as long as they don't claim to diagnose or treat a disease. This is not exactly a great situation for consumers. Also, the current administration has taken sort of a "safety over efficacy" tack, but I don't know, therapeutic failure seems pretty bad, so maybe there isn't that much meaningful difference between the two.

Back to the testing concept, if not for the FDA to come down on operations like Theranos, then who?
The forum post he linked to where he announced DustMite says it's inspired by Tigris Delta and lists some advantages:

https://forum.dlang.org/post/op.vvsvhh1ptuzx1w@cybershadow.m...
Using the Law of Attraction for Joy, Relationships, Money and Success
Splunk is insanely good. To the point that people forget that other tools exist, or that it makes sense to build specialized solutions when needed.

So people start running anything — from dashboards to analytics — from Splunk alone. Their ability to combine and extract data from almost anything in very small amounts of time is unparalleled IMO.
When looking for explanations to a mystery, the best debugging method is to look at edge-cases. You eliminate all unimportant noisy data and begin to focus on the data that at least has the potential to cause the mystery. Ideally that data doesn’t change. Ideally it is a constant signal within the noise. Some underlying and unchanging constant.

The speed of light has always struck me as one of the more constant, arbitrary, and yet vital pieces of data we know about our universe. Suitable for debugging whatever kind of reality is is that we find ourselves inhabiting.
I'm not positive, but I think Stratechery might have an employee now? I vaguely recall Ben mentioning something along those lines in his yearly "how things are going" report.
This one is also pretty fascinating - https://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Deep_cell
Another reason I like to start with buy: It makes scope creep a lot harder. You have a specific feature set, and it lets you do certain things, and not others. You may eventually find there are certain things it has that you can't live without, at which point you may still have to build, but that's offset by the fact that you'll probably also discover there are features you only thought you needed.

By contrast, whenever I've been on a project where the company went straight to building their own, it ended up being a quagmire of scope creep, and the development team would end up stuck on an endless treadmill of implementing features that stakeholders vehemently insist on, but never actually use.

Even for dev tooling and libraries. Some of the worst piles of technical debt I've encountered happened when some rockstar decided that they knew better than everyone else, and dived straight into building what they thought would be a better mouse trap. It's not that the in-house option isn't any more or less likely to solve the problem well (no comment), so much as that the in-house option is going to end up being more deeply tangled with the rest of the codebase. So you're stuck with it, because, even if it doesn't turn out to be all it's cracked up to be, migrating away from it may be next to impossible. Homegrown ORMs seem to always turn out this way.

The one exception is when you know that a quick-and-dirty DIY solution will be cheaper and easier, because it needs to do only one specific thing while the off-the-shelf option has to take on a bunch of extra complexity in order to be general enough for everyone's needs. But even there, I'm only likely to trust that argument if it's being made by someone who's been burned by the complexities of the off-the-shelf solution in the past, and who has a proven track record of obeying the KISS principle.
Fair question. Relative to the Urbit community I am probably a "normie" in the sense that I am neither a user of Urbit nor do I have a deep understanding of what Urbit is (though I do have a general idea).

Let's just say that my reaction to this article title was "Oh, this could be helpful to me!" and I was rather shocked at the negative reaction in the comments.
Microsoft Word, every single time I have to produce a document in which there is a lot of content. Edit a table, it screws up the image legends, which in turn screws up the table of contents. Fix the table of contents, and the something else in the document breaks. I curse my existence every time I have to use anything from microsoft in my job. Having done consulting for many clients across a myriad of environments and configs, whenever anything microsoft was involved, it was a given that any task would take at least double the time and require more resources.
Using MS Word however is the thing, that almost every time, drives very close to jumping out of window.
Sounded like a business executive pitching for higher rates.

Buy local. There aren't any less animals being born or heading to the butcher. Farmers around here are even skipping the middleman and selling directly. Eggs, grains, milk, and vegetables can also be obtained from nearly the source. If they can't, blame your local and state government for injecting needless regulations.
The Recurse Center (formerly Hacker School) has among their social rules one that discourages "Well-Actually's". Quite pleasant.

> A well-actually happens when someone says something that's almost - but not entirely - correct, and you say, "well, actually…" and then give a minor correction. This is especially annoying when the correction has no bearing on the actual conversation. This doesn't mean the Recurse Center isn't about truth-seeking or that we don't care about being precise. Almost all well-actually's in our experience are about grandstanding, not truth-seeking. (Thanks to Miguel de Icaza for originally coining the term "well-actually.")

https://www.recurse.com/manual
just signed up.. didn't realize u have to pay, but it's super cheap i guess
> develop a container runtime that would allow a Kubernetes node to run pods that specify Nix expressions directly in the image field

https://github.com/google/nixery

I'm the author of this, and here is a talk about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOI9H4oeXqA
And, annoyingly, a lot of google searches for "gitbook xyz" just turn up the new cloud-hosted gitbook subscription service. You have to go through archive.org or similar to read the documentation for the original.