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Guix/shepherd is a pretty unusual approach to a system, and in some ways an polar opposite of systemd.

The systemd defines declarative configuration formats, include dirs, strict rules and so on to limit what startup scripts can do, and to keep system bootable. You can install many third-party software, and be pretty sure that when you say "stop", it stops; and when you say "status" you will get its status. The cost of that is that some things are non-trivial or require extra steps.

Shepherd, on the other hand, fully trusts user. There are no safeties -- your config file is basically a lisp program running in PID 1. It is up to every programs' author to implement boot logic properly -- an infinite loop can render your system unbootable, and if "stop" command leaves stray processes around.. well, you can fix it yourself.

The only safety Guix provides is an ability to roll back the system to the previous state, so if your latest changes rendered system unbootable, you can undo them.
Thanks for checking it out!

I nearly have SSL automated with Letsencrypt. TLS will be terminated at the ec2 instance and proxy traffic over the ssh tunnel to the local host just as it does now. There may be an option in the future proxy 443 traffic directly to localhost and allow you to deal with SSL termination in your app, but that option isn't scoped yet.

I agree about the warning. I'm re-writing the cli to pure javascript and the cli ui will get some improvements including a warning by default and a --no-interactive flag option if you want to auto-approve changes.
Sign of the times
When I was in elementary school probably a decade ago we all had to take a math placement test (not the standardized test, a different one) to determine what math class we'd be in middle school.

Tons of privilege-this and that (this is normal in the bay area, pretty sure a lot more schools have similar systems) but at the end of the day kids (like me) studied extremely hard for these placement tests.
Imagine a rumor going around in Whatsapp.

Lets say it violates free speech laws and is liable to be sued and the one who sues is sure to win.

Lets say he sues and wins.

It still doesn't matter. Rumor about the lawsuit and the falsehood of the original content is already old news. And is not as quickly spreading as the original rumor.

The perpetrators of the original rumor win the war to influence, in-spite of free speech protections.

Free speech protections and laws mean nothing and are toothless in face of modern mass media tech.

Compare it to the old days, of the news being said on TV or Radio or in a Newspaper. They too can spread wild rumors but have definite and impactful backlash.

That negative feedback mechanism is lacking in platforms like FB and Whatsapp.
This happens in America; the difference is that there is an expectation that parental means play a role in success (both in the way the system is oriented and on the part of parents themselves). Most, though not all, of the time, those with clear and high aptitude are "tracked" into gifted programs and magnet schools (though the efficacy varies based on local conditions, re: school funding models in the US). For those with moderate or middling aptitude, it's up to the parents to support and advocate for their child; there is an ostensible cut-off, but it's blurred by the degree of access to tutors or coaches and by the parents' savvy with navigating qualification procedures (often including places where subjectivity can sneak in, like interviews). This, of course, favors the children of wealthy and well-educated parents.

This runs through to post-secondary education. America's college admissions system is legendarily rife with corruption, even into its basic structure; you think it starts there?
Yes, basically it's sort of a filter to get the people who coast mostly out. Free college means everybody goes to college for bad reasons, or no reason at all, just because everybody else does. I mean, some people openly told me they joined the CS program because they wanted to avoid the draft - a total waste of education.

So, for example the first ~2.5 years (out of 5.5) of my CS degree were mostly about some pretty brutal math units, each with an exam. There was also other stuff from entry level CS to physics to some token humanity courses but that was easy for most.
If you were inclined/smart/persistent enough to master the math (or, sadly, as some did that being Russia - not sure how prevalent that was in the USSR - bribe your way when you failed), you could continue to the easier more fun later years where you actually studied some CS. A considerable number of people transferred or dropped out.
These customers are usually top billing and are just indicators of going upmarket. They’re also probably hitting problems loads of your users are hitting and simply dropping out of the funnel from.

“Fire your users” is a thing, but at one point you gotta actually have things work
This is hacker news. Under each article you see people being surprised why companies have employees. Common knowledge is that all you need is to write some code and you can start earning billions!
>Are you saying that in Russia, since the education was free that the goal of the textbooks was to make it hard to want to stay in school, if so, to me, seems like it’s unlikely,

in publicly funded systems students cost money, so there's an incentive to control cost. In privately-funded systems, students make money (in particular with universal loans), so everyone's a paying customer and nobody turns those away.

Germany has roughly half the university graduation rate compared to the US, and this is the same reason why the US gives you 8 late-stage cancer treatments and the NHS gives you 2, or why sometimes you don't get the super expensive medicine you want.
> It may take sacrificing the normal living room/TV/kitchen/common area

Because the best way to avoid losing your mind is to completely eliminate the only relaxation space in your home, yes?
Yes! I was about to say something similar about China as well. In China, and maybe other former Communist countries as well, kids with talents or what seems like talents are identified very early on and only those with such aptitudes are given the resources and put on a track to nurture those talents. Same thing with sports too! My guess is that China probably borrowed a lot from the USSR in their programs and philosophy.

I went to a top university in the US and there were definitely kids who arrived being much more advanced in certain areas such as mathematics than the rest of us. Maybe it is not as regimented in the US but there are definitely highly talented kids who take much more advanced STEM classes than the average student.
I grew up just a short distance north of Spillville, Iowa. Even in those days, the town was very Czech. In Dvorak's time, it was as Czech as San Francisco's China Town was Chinese. In Dvorak's day, the brewer delivered a bucket of beer to your front door every morning, as was custom in the old country. (Somebody start that business in Sunnyvale :)

Spillville and Protivin were so Czech even when I was in school that I had bilingual classmates, because their grandparents spoke mostly Czech, still. And I can tell you this.... when you are a substitute teacher for a 2nd-grade class where one third of the kids have vowel-challenged names, oh the misery. Before you are half-way done taking attendance you will have suffered so much derisive laughter for the mispronounced names that you will have lost control of the classroom for the rest of the day.

Anyway, Dvorak felt very much at home in Spillville. During his day, Czech was the language of main street and the neighborhood.
The same could be said of students. Universities are made or broken by their recruitment, coaching/professors, administrators, and facilities. Sports may be slightly more volatile, but I doubt it’s nearly as much as people assume.
> dedicated stay-at-home path via the National Guard

I thought last decade that dedicated stay-at-home path meant you ended up in Iraq or Afghanistan. In other words not so stay-at-home.
The very point of 1-1 sessions is to start with an awareness of your existing knowledge background (set theory or not?) and to aim for real mastery in the most effective way. Unfortunately 1-1 sessions don't scale, while at least khan academy does.
Perhaps people were not spending it, so over time, its value dropped all the way to zero?
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I think they mean "as easy as possible," in the sense of Einstein(?;) - 'An explanation should be as easy as /possible/, but not easier;' or something like that. - (?)

I and all this ^ might be wrong, though.
What are you going to do, work on your back?
Don't you think being left alone to search for intermediate knowledge teaches us a lot?
I agree intermediate-level resources are rare but that has helped me in growing as a software developer. On the contrary, if straightforward information were made available, then you would never grow.

-Just my thoughts.
Old school Corelle is the best ceramics you could get. I have 40+ year old Corelle plates and bowls in the cabinets right now. Used daily and dropped hundreds of times over the years.
22 hours ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22932423
Heavily downvoted.
you are operating within the scope of a single country, eliminating all cases within that country would not be a stopping rule https://timenational.com/
Hello from Kendallville.
Probably but are laws real without enforcement?

I have seen few people getting beaten up badly and two dying due to mob killing them with law enforcement involved for speaking against "religious stuff" and a politician.

Just a recent thing that got some attention - https://twitter.com/ShefVaidya/status/1251818372343439361?s=...

But I assure you, this happens way more in small towns and villages.
Ambani owns jack shit. These kind of low denominator strawmans do not lead to a healthy discussion. Please keep it to yourself or go to a community that welcomes it.
Django is fine, if a little heavy but it will provide a good restful API.
For the app - I'd really recommend dipping into Flutter. The language is simple, tooling is great and you can get up and building rapidly.
Bill Leahy and Tom Conte are god damn treasures to this world. I love them both.
Honestly, $600k/month for 300 knowledge workers is horrible revenue if growth and margin aren't on the right track. This is more like a "20-30 pretty decent consultants in a second-tier American city" number.
Interesting. Reminds me I have an MVME machine or two and an SH4 running older (7.x maybe) NetBSD that I should upgrade since 9.0 apparently supports them.
My bad. It was the meat locker that closed down. I worked there in highschool. The Bily Clocks Museum is still open.
Documentation doesn’t take 300 employees either.

Pretty sure onlyfans is basically run by one guy out of London and maybe a handful of contractor support staff for essentially the same business.
non paywalled link - https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/facebook-...
I will definitely give this a try. Also found the shout out to Peaceful Cuisine on your homepage amusing given that I have lost hours of time watching that channel.
'Fields' or 'fields' or both, I laughed out loud. Mathematicians might find this quite funny.
Poor will always seek temporary security and relief over long term damage and starvation - me
Although that makes sense as to why they may cut, none of that addresses the two statements the grandparent quoted, though.

They wrote in a blog post in March that patrons are not leaving the platform, and then at the same time they apparently reported that they were in fact leaving.

Which is it?
Any idea what they are measuring against? For example avg. income or accolades of graduates.
> like all old CD-ROM’s they are not quite ‘ISO CD9660’ enough so they don’t mount on Windows 10, or OS X.

Not sure what the issue was here, I was able to mount the file just fine on my Windows 10 machine
Presumably, the same thing that will happen to those who freed prisoners that went on to cause deaths outside (e.g. [0]), i.e. nothing.

[0]: https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/14/us/man-released-jail-coronavi...
The best definition for "super low" that I can come up with is "bitrates at which x264-encoded content becomes hilariously unwatchable."

I will try to be more specific. Youtube uses x264 to encode videos at a certain bitrate. Were you to encode the same video with libaom (AV1) at the same bitrate, the quality difference would probably be noticeable to a casual viewer. If you were to cut the bitrate in half and run the same comparison, the quality difference would be extremely noticeable to a casual viewer.
Show HN: Lockdown project- Job board to find out who is hiring during COVID19
Sigh. I wish I was paid. I fall into the category of what Ambani would call useful idiots.
Patreon became successful mostly because of the girls charging money for their nudes. Then they've started to ban these girls because they wanted a clean platform. Guess what, these girls have now moved to onlyfans and they won't come back. Patreon has lost the money bringing members thinking that failed musicians/youtubers would bring them the big bucks.
I think he/she is being very patient with people who don't seem to have a good understanding of the law they're citing.
Armchair economists and their deluded takes like this comment are sometimes the highlight of my day. Thank you for this.
I was going to post the quote about them not stopping to think if they should, but then I actually clicked the link. Wow, that brought back a lot of nostalgia. I haven't even used Windows in 15+ years, but I now realize that I still have a fondness for the interface of my youth ;-)
It's not an equivalent of buying. It's an equivalent of receiving it and paying taxes on it immediately right with the stock, or with your cash if you so choose.

If your particular letter of FAANG currently outperforms the market ("S&P 500" index, etc), I see no incentive to immediately sell it and reinvest into something else. Of course you can sell and reinvest if you see an even better investment opportunity, but most of the employees don't, they are engineers, not experienced stock traders.
I think the supposition is that Canada also has a volunteer army, but does not spend as much on recruitment. I am not sure if that is true or not, but anecdotally it feels like there is at least 10x the amount of military recruitment ads in the US as there are in Canada.
Clojure, Implemented Atop Rust
Yes, and actually Soviet/Russian education system has it roots in classic German one where Spießrutenlaufen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_the_gauntlet) was a great educational tool (see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birching#/media/File:Koerperst...).
FWIW I’m pretty sure OnlyFans is run by one guy out of London. Maybe has a handful of contracted employees for engineering and support. Basically the same business. Not sure what the payment volume comparison is but must be hundreds of millions a year, at least.
Creative idea! There are no branches or closures, but the language does allows loops and recursion. These have non-zero cyclomatic complexity. A loop with either 0 or 1 runs is basically an if statement.
Previously (2015): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10538384

Previously previously (2011): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2099431
Would someone mind providing texts that particularly exemplify the Soviet style?
Occasionally I fantasize about painting the front door to my house in International Klein Blue. The binder of true IKB seems to be a polyvinyl acetate, so I wonder how well it would hold up for a semi-enclosed exterior application. Anyone have any idea?

(The next question, of course, would then be sourcing that quantity of paint....)
Yeah, past a certain point you realize how shallow degrees are, as they're merely an organization's approval that you studied something and demonstrated some level of aptitude of it.

Which is to say, you don't need a degree to study/learn things.

Though that approval is helpful in opening doors to employment when you're young, it again is not needed when your history of experience, abilities, and work can do the same later in your career...
You cannot count on prisons to accurately report on deaths. Even in normal times they blatantly misrepresent causes of death.
Its a metabase visualization thing...
It was pre-9/11, no? The world was a different place.
In my high school year in international school(in germany) I've seen many students from diverse backgrounds. I could see balanced number of students taught from their own origin: US, asian or international school itself.

One thing I remember until now is that students from US kept using the phrase 'plug-it-in' whenever they substitute values into quadratic formula. Overusing that term made me laugh about their attitude towards math because it felt as if they didn't really care what's inside that magic formula that pops the answer out.

It felt so 'american' because I felt the same attitude when they treat computer programs:

'I don't give a shit about what's going on. Some smart asian kid will make me a magic machine that I just need to plug in the numbers and prints the answer, while I focus on making varsity football team next year.'

You can downvote me for my racism though. All excuse I can make is that they also laughed when I told them how their attitude towards math sounded like.
> I don't know why X needs N people

This statement can be made about almost any company in the US right now. There is some serious systemic risk in the surreal number of people working whose jobs do not matter at all.

Even for productive software engineers, think back on how many projects in your career really shipped, how many of those then made any money, and then how many of those companies are still thriving. For me nearly all of the work in my career has amounted to surprisingly little and I have always been on the front lines of creating products in my roles.

So why are there so many people at every company that don't really create value? What does it mean when an economy depends on those people being employeed, well paid and consuming goods?
Wish I could get pip running. That'd be nice.
> a person who literally is the Government in India

Out of the loop: can you clarify what you mean by this?
Mind-boggling that they are intellectual but idiots (IYI's in Taleb's terminology) still making the "but car accidents kill more people and we don't shutdown" argument.

Car accidents are not contagious and multiplicative. This simple point bears repeating and explanation. If I get in a car accident and then go home there is almost zero risk of me starting a contagion of multiple car accidents among my family, co-workers and community. Just repeat this over and over again to folks. Car accidents are not contagious and multiplicative. Car accidents are not contagious and multiplicative. Car accidents are not contagious and multiplicative.

"The common flu is as ..." argument. Common flu is contagious and multiplicative but nowhere near as fatal. We are looking at 60,000+ covid-19 deaths with a near shutdown across the US. That death toll is near the high-end of a bad flu season. Just imagine what it would look like with business as usual.
Why is that relevant to the discussion? The GP doesn't even mention anything about others. You are the one saying, literally, "Soviet body builders only used free weights and a pull-up bar. You don’t need anything but that to get big muscles." which is patently false (when we talk about "body builder level" big) and then you get defensive when you are called out on it?
There are good reasons why formal texts are important but I can’t agree more that this is not a good way to teach math if there is nothing else available. But you also need to learn how to read these texts at the end because this is the way mathematicians communicate to each other ;)

Re 1-1: the biggest advantage is that students can rediscover things. It’s one experience to read or listen to a proof, and it is completely different experience when you discover it yourself with small hints from the teacher.
It also reimplements all of those things itself from scratch because their priority is on cross-platform parity, not efficiency.

Every time I see someone working on a FF bug I’m cc’d on, I marvel at how many files they have to touch to get anything done. One key binding missing, because they’re not using the system text field? Hundreds of lines of diffs, spread across a dozen source files.
Me, not really. We were using the Razer laptops at work, but they had some frustrating QC issues on the bigger 15" and 17" models. I had a coworker that liked her Razer Blade but do know what you are getting, it is pretty underpowered.

Personally, I can deal with reasonably under-powered, I still have a desktop when I need and I'm mostly proprietary engine technology that doesn't need as many resources as say an artist or designer who spends most of their day fully in-game content.

I do a lot of rendering work so I have an eGPU (Razor Core) and the integrated Intel GPUs aren't so bad anymore.

So, having said that I have the most recent XPS 13 2-in-1 as my primary machine, it's for sure a compromise in power, but it does most of what I need it to, and I often RDP into the desktop when it's not.

I choose the 2-in-1 because it was the first 13" laptop that I could find that had 32GB of memory and met all my other criteria (USB-C charged, etc) I understand the non 2-in-1 model now has a 32GB configuration so I'd consider that for sure.

Compilation is my largest frustration at this point really, but I'm playing with various remote/distrusted build options to speed up that workflow.
There is zero guarantee as National Guard that you won’t be deployed. You can be activated at the state or federal level anytime.

Source: I’m an active duty Army veteran and have extended family in a guard unit that’s currently deployed OCONUS.
What is a real pandemic threat? COVID-19 + Ebola/HIV?
I was at a consumer facing startup where about 70% of employees were in-house customer support representatives, so even though a product may appear simple, it can have a lot of non-programmer employees.
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Friends and I were discussing this last night on jitsi. We think that instead of throwing employees to the wolves at a time when getting a job is going to be difficult, many employees would accept equivalent pay cuts to help weather the storm.

In fact I know one company that did just this, with 100 employees. The staff chose a 10% indefinite pay cut over 10% reduction in head count.

Sacking people at this time is awful, and any company who has cash in the bank has options other than bankrupting some of their employees.

I don’t care if Patreon had planned this before Covid-19. There are alternatives. These are dark times and companies who sack their employees as a first resort are part of the problem.
- They've crippled the indian telecom industry by driving out many competitors through their anti-competitive behaviour of offering FREE services for nearly a year under the guise of "testing" their network. They were aided in this by the government who ignored the protests from the other players.

- Then they offered services for very LOW prices.

- Once the competitors were driven out, they've RAISED prices. And are now lobbying with the government to reduce inter-connection charges and to stop "Free" calls which their remaining competitors are still offering.

- They are also extremely INVASIVE in collecting data on you through their services, apps, and even deep packet inspection of your secure connections. They are also suspected of creating shadow profiles and trying to link it to real profiles by data from their other businesses (e.g. Reliance Retail stores) and also through data they purchase from data brokers.

- They lobbied AGAINST NET-NEUTRALITY and tried to offer Facebook services for free, but luckily for us failed.

- I can bet that Facebook and Jio will now SHARE DATA and use each others service more. Goodbye privacy. For ever.