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The era of the endless rent strike
Isn't that one command on FreeBSD?

chdir z && daemon -u y -o blah.log x

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=daemon
If you are on Comcast and you use a lot of data and you have a plan that is at least 300 Mbps, then it might be worth renting their modem so your can sign up for xFi Advantage.

xFi advantage is an add-on service that provides some extra features, but is only available if you rent their "xFi Advanced Gateway". These include some sort of extra security and some sort of WiFi assessment tool, which probably no one here would care about. But also included is unlimited data.

You can add unlimited data to any Comcast plan for $50/month, but xFi Advantage is $15-25/month (it seems to vary by location) plus ~$13/month for the gateway rental, so it is a net savings.

In my area, you have to be on at least a 300 Mbps plan to add xFi Advantage, but that may vary by location.
Ya boy is lucky he found a partner back in squallage in early 2010s. Since then my life has been much better. This quarantine has been crap , but without my wife and daughter it would be lonely as fuck. Granted, sometimes i wish i had some alone time , but i love having my buds around me all day. Feeling bad for my sister who is alone on west coast in a small house apartment by herself.
That's a good point about there being meaningful differences across different communities. It probably has to do with what it is that defined the community in the first place, which tends also to be what holds it together. I think you're on shakier ground here, though:

> I'd rather see people seriously discuss the groupthink of those communities

It's difficult to discuss that seriously because there's so little objective basis for the claims people make about it. Perceptions vary wildly, and the claims tend to be grand and dramatic. If you hear enough of them, it becomes unmistakeable that they're not really about HN; for one thing, they're so contradictory.
Grant for the Web announces first call for proposals
Rarely; it usually profits either both or neither.
Thanks for the insight on Matt Levine's work. Here's [0] an article I found that I found pretty compelling, in case others are seeking a starting point.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-10-23/how-do...
The xfinity hotspot is a completely separate network from yours. It has its own IP range, and it's own cable-speed configuration.

It's as if your neighbor also had WiFi running.
People need to place more effort on maintaining factual reputation. If someone spews bullshit once, they are on probation. If they do it twice, I don't listen to them anymore. I would really like to have this automated and work automatically throughout the web. If a reporter changes newspapers, or I'm viewing them on a different platform, it should just put a big red X through the article or something to let me know that I've found them untrustworthy.

The problem is that not enough people do this, but if you are unconstrained by the truth, you can say things that are much more superficially interesting. This drives engagement, so you will be signal-boosted by social media platforms. All of the comments of people debunking you only add to the engagement, so these articles are the bread and butter of the social media profit machine.
I'm GenX, went to college in the late 80's, in state tuition in TX was $2000 per semester as I recall. I knew people who worked a part time 20 hours/week job that paid $8 an hour. (graveyard shift sorting boxes at a local shipping company). I knew many others who did some program where they worked at the college and made $5 an hour IIRC). I was a grader/TA/proctor for the first year engineering course and made the princely sum of about $10/hr but there was a lower cap on weekly hours which I don't recall exactly. I want to say it worked out to 10 hours/week on average so about $100 a week. For two semesters of about 18 weeks of work (10 hours a week) I could make $3600. But you had to be a junior or senior so this job could only be done for 2 years.

Not sure what sources you want to see. The fact is tuition now is mind bogglingly more than when I went. Or, tuition is outrageously jacked up now compared to the past.

Here's a link from the Houston Chronicle showing tuition over the years for TX:

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/The-c...

For 1990 it shows average tuition, room, board was about $6500 for a YEAR, for TX state schools.

Maybe you couldn't earn every penny you needed while also attending as a student, but it sure was a hell of a lot easier to get 50% of the way there than it is now. If you needed financial aid to bridge the gap you weren't facing painful debt for decades. If you only had to borrow half of what you needed, you could leave college with a loan of $13000 to pay off. That's a cheap car.
I would love an erlang implementation where there can be many versions of the code in memory, where you could re-order the message pattern matching at runtime, where you can specify arguments to functions in terms of a map, specify the args and the types of that map specification, and have it compile into numbered argument, that way you don't have to add update many many functions to add another argument.
Didn't check others, but envoy I'm 100% sure is in C++
I don't think there's a legal interest rate that's as bad as paying $150 annually to rent a $100 router, that's basically 150% interest.

So regardless how bad your credit rating and interest rate are, it's overwhelmingly worth putting a router onto your credit card.
Even if it doesn't die, customer support will claim that any problems with the internet, are with your router. That's how they keep me paying for the rental.
but his similarly skilled native born co-worker, probably found his footing in a decent job. The privileges of citizenship. And I don't say that in a sarcastic way.
Good stuff. Thanks.

Very quick response, because I will go back and read all the linked plans more thoroughly.

I want more of Center for American Progress's "Step #6: Targeted, gradual lifting of restrictions", done more concretely.

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/healthcare/news/2020...

Apologies, because I'm way more arm wavy than pedantic, so always struggle to explain myself:

I expect:

Concrete targets with concrete numbers, to be revised as necessary. Repeating from above "Downward trend for X days."

Explicit preconditions and assumptions. Like "3 day supply surplus of PPE, with excess mfg capacity to allow ramp up." and "Sufficient testing (per capita) with X hours turnaround with < X false negatives."

Automatic actions, consequences when targets & thresholds are reached. Like "Restore social isolation if trends are flat or increasing for X days."

Initially, best guess for targets and thresholds are just fine, then iterate as we mature.

PS- CAP omitted temperature screenings, which I currently think must be part of the overall strategy.
I agree that on the surface it seems like a pretty sad indicator of deeper societal issues.

But I can see it being very helpful for children with various social disorders like autism. I don't have personal experience with this, but what I hear from parents with children who have such issues, is that they try to socialize their kids, but at best other children distance themselves from them, at worst they get bullied and pushed away. There's a chicken and egg problem there. I think a robot that is infinitely patient, reinforces healthy interactions, and provides a level of emotional support can definitely help in jump starting positive behavior.

But at the same time, it has to be very accurate and perceptive in its interactions, otherwise it's obviously not a human, and might impede development in other ways.
I haven't switched from Python to Go, but I program heavily in both languages and can offer an additional point here:

Go makes it easy to produce binaries for any target platform that execute without requiring a working Go installation.

This ease of packaging makes Go my default language when I'm writing developer tooling - for example, if I know that team-mates are going to have to run tools that I write but I don't want to make assumptions about their development environments.

There is one caveat: This only works well if you avoid platform-specific functionality (e.g. syscall package) and CGO.
Oil and renewables don't overlap perfectly competitively. Renewables are pure electricity, oil is a portable power source. Some oil is burned for power, but only when other energy sources (Coal, renewables, natural gas) are unavailable. You might have a gas generator to back up a solar panel, but you are never going to replace a solar panel with a generator.

The cost to extract shale oil is roughly $40/ barrel. Oil sands are similarly expensive to extract. If oil were to stay at a low enough price for a prolonged period, shale oil and tar sands operations would cease production entirely, limiting supply and increasing the prices.

At $40 per barrel, oil is not economical to produce electricity, but remains viable as a vehicle fuel.

It's almost entirely reversed. As more and more vehicles become electric (and less expensive to operate), demand for oil declines.
On the one hand its super convenient to have the ISP router. They can reboot it remotely and troubleshoot. On the other hand its fully locked down, I cant even change DNS. I don't pay for renting the router, but if it was an unreasonable amount I would move.
>Google is a direct competitor

I think that people over estimate potential damages of being your competitors customer. Google is not going anywhere, with or without this contract, and if they want to make an investment in video conferencing, they already have more than enough capital & resources to do that.

Staying away from GCP purely because it is under google would be a crazy decision
The cloud providers are optimized for the corporate datacenter use case: internal applications that talk to each other and employees. That stuff is harder to do with traditional web hosts, which are built around each server being exposed to the internet and until recently had no answer to VPC. The kinds of websites that could easily be hosted on the likes of Linode and DigitalOcean still ought to be.
Lonely and stressed people are the best consumers and communities of family and friends generally don't need much from a state.
That is my exact observation as well, whenever I go to use and examine a piece of narrow and self-contained piece of Open Source software I'm not surprised to find the good ones are often written in Go. Some things that come to mind are Hashicorp Nomad, nsqd, InfluxDB/Telegraf, restic, etc.

I think the common thread here, and what separates this from internal tools a la "Amazon is 90% Java" is that these tools are Open Source from the beginning and want to encourage community contribution as much as possible. I don't like using go myself, but even I can't deny that if you're running an Open Source project and would like to encourage contributions from people of different levels of involvement and general programming proficiency, go is one of your safest bets.
> All of us should be regularly lobbying our lawmakers to make student loans dischargeable by bankruptcy,

I thought so too. This always made me so angry. Last time I posted a rant about that here someone urged me to read the REPAYE Act, and it completely changed my mind.

Under REPAYE, students get income based repayment, even down to $0 payments if you're anywhere near poverty level. After a certain number of years of repayment, the government just pays off your entire balance.

This solves the same problems bankruptcy is designed to solve without ruining people's credit. It also prevents doctors from declaring bankruptcy right after medschool -- I'm honestly unsure whether that was a real or just anecdotal problem, but income based repayment for a fixed term seems like a better way to let people escape debt while still expecting them to pay what they can.
Oracle entering a consumer market would be great way to screw themselves. One can dream.
I don't usually use a modem-router combo because they inevitably crap out in weird ways. What I usually do is buy a cable modem, then wire it into a pfSense firewall, and pull one or more wireless access points off of that. It's easy to troubleshoot and I never have problems with it. The setup I have now covers a quarter acre with a single access point.

Comcast has gotten a lot better about supporting customer equipment. They maintain a "supported device list" and as long as you buy something off that list they'll help you. Granted if you're buying your own device you should be prepared to do some minimal troubleshooting like using ping and looking at LEDs.

I once came home from a business trip to no internet. When I called Comcast I explained the troubleshooting steps I took and what the modem was reporting. They sent a tech out in 2 days to tone the line. When they couldn't get a good tone they sent a level 2 tech out to replace the line. Turns out someone had put a screw through a cable chase when they were re-siding the building while i was away.
National Television System by Committee*

*Committee stands for National Television System Committee
Seems pretty pollyannaish to think we're heading into post-scarcity anything, for anyone. Where is that idea even coming from? Or is "post-scarcity" just a nice way of saying "massive social stratification built on the exploitation of an effectively permanent underclass"?
Those languages use three value logic?
Yep, financialisation black hole. Cratering living standards, partially hidden by printing ever bigger numbers next to people's house prices and ignoring that they have no retirement savings.

Many of the "industries" beloved by this site are showing they are only viable on top of a backbone of "real" jobs like industry and manufacturing.

No N95 mask manufacturers, but we can write how sad we are about this on facebook. And the media won't tell us the root cause, so nothing is learned.
Well this ticks all the boxes. I'm from Alberta, worked in oil and gas there for a while and was the Chief Engineer for a Google Lunar Xprize team (one of the relatively successful ones that is still around). Now still working there in aerospace, and some of our customers are coincidentally working with us as they are diversifying away from oil and gas.

Tar Sands is one of the most expensive and damaging ways to produce oil, yet Alberta is still clinging on and propping up the industry, even a decade after the Middle East players, with much more abundant resources and cheaper production, started to diversify.

A sensible plan is to shift energy production to renewables and save oil to make plastic later. Maybe develop oil sands technology at a slow pace
jeez, that's how much I pay in Europe for like 7 months of 150Mb internet including renting router

also the rental fee is like 2-3$ per month, I don't think I could buy similar router for 36$ and even for 72$ if I have decided to change ISP would be much more than retail price

I don't think the problem you have is the rental fee.
how is this comparable? SSL is secure transport - if you leave you mongoDB wide open people will just as happily steal your data over SSL. The problem was never MITM attacks on in-flight data.
There's multiple levels of experience. Someone can get really good at the technical solutions without learning what the human problems are and how to solve them.

For example, someone might dismiss IDEs as being unnecessary because technically the same job can be done without them by a superior human being, so the solution is to just be a superior human being.

Or as another example, someone could completely dismiss syntax highlighting as being useless for the superior, implying that the solution to the problem syntax highlighting solves is to just also become a superior human being.

There are multiple layers to any solution, and if one of them is missing, the others are kind of shaken out of balance.
I appreciate this perspective. So many people have no sympathy towards young people, who have been told their whole life that college is the path success.
Thanks for the link, checking it out now :)
The book ships with Julia examples, but most of the algorithms are available in cvxpy [1], scipy.optimize [2] and matlab optimization toolboxes [3].

[1] https://www.cvxpy.org/

[2] https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/tutorial/optimize...

[3] https://www.mathworks.com/products/optimization.html
I don't know what italy and spain did, but when i say mostly voluntary, I really don't mean completely voluntary. the bay area has shut down bars and entertainment venues, and food service has no sit down service. Everything else has basically voluntary compliance - notwithstanding possible bad behaviors in neighborhoods I don't pass through anymore, there aren't cops going around arresting people for not obeying personal space distancing (though you could probably get in trouble, at least post facto via lawsuit, if someone found out your open air office was filled to the brim with employees).
Thanks, to me it means a lot that somebody out there perceives my work as something of positive :-). Live long and prosper.
SamsungAI Uses WiFi Signals to Generate Consistent In-HomeUser Localization Data
Yea it's bewildering. Even the science community on twitter seems to being eating itself alive. It's like people have lost the capacity to engage in discourse without immediately questioning motives and allegiances.
I didn't say flavored cigarettes, I said cigarettes. While cigarettes are legal, discussion of any vaping regulation is irrelevant.
Implement a privacy-preserving exposure notification system
> 2) There are a shit-ton more well paying technical jobs that need coders than just software developer roles, expand your horizons.

For sure, I was a "GeoData Manager" at an oil company for a year. The job didn't have programming as a requirement, but I used Python to do my job, and I became super, super productive. After learning a lot about geometry and mapping, I could do a day's work in under an hour. It paid alright for the area, and I didn't have any other experience. I think there's a lot of analyst roles out there that someone with some programming experience could knock out of the park if they don't mind writing a lot of code to read/write Excel spreadsheets, or scrape data from the web, or do any number tasks like that.
Epidemiologists also talk to economists and other healthcare professionals, and are considerably more likely to be familiar with studies on short and long term health impacts of economic downturns, stress induced by disruption, cancellation of non-critical medical appointments etc than the average smart layman...

Not to mention the fact the core competency of an epidemiologist is statistical analysis and predicting human behaviour with mathematical models at a high level of abstraction, so it's not like the interdisciplinary understanding is a stretch for them
True. And the location of said desk.
"Ad hominem" literally means "against the man", and it refers to the logical fallacy of attacking the attributes of the man rather than the logic of the man's argument. That's all there is to it, and you're simply wrong.
People want to live their lives and let politicians handle global warming, as it should be.
A few casual observations:

* Looks like the expression is almost always the same.

* The backgrounds seem remarkably well replicated in many of these.
> Go is not the tool of choice for experienced professional programmers

wut
Should a planetary scientist spend her time making documentaries to rebut the flat earth people? Who is "deplatforming"? They are asking for the film's creators to face up to their mistakes, retract the film, and apologize. Nobody can take Moore's platform away.
Sure, but beyond those thousands, there are millions of other companies that aren't.
Word on the street is that AWS is writing more and more Rust
One way in the US to help pick an economically viable major is to use the BLS Occupational Outlook...

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/mobile/home.htm

It gives estimates of salary and future demand for pretty much all occupations. Recommend this to your children to help them understand how their major selection could impact their future career.
Single deployment binary, static typing, gofmt, and takes "there should be one and only one obvious way to do it" even farther than Python. It's very easy for new team members to ramp up on a Go codebase - formatting is standardized, libraries are standardized, and the language encourages very simple readable constructs (at the expense of brevity and abstraction, sometimes). That makes it attractive for companies in their growth stage, where you're working in teams but still have constraints on fast execution (CPU) and fast execution (developer velocity).

IMHO Go is still inferior to Python for solo-developer projects.
I've experienced mild hazing and I still wouldn't trade my military service for anything. I don't condone hazing but except for egregious examples people shrug it off and move on. No, not everyone has the same positive experience of anything, but the hazing issue is smaller than you'd think.

I'm ready for you to not understand this, civilians usually do not.
I know you aren't promoting it, but to answer your question:

> Why innovate and create when I can live like a king just playing our economic, governmental, and social systems like a fiddle?

Because the entire country is going to implode.

2008: financial crisis

2016: political crisis
Personally still owing some debt(that was pretty much wasted since I didn't finish school, my own fault) debt was handed out easily/same with credit cards. I think it's a great opportunity if you use it right(follow through in my case). I didn't understand money though at that time, wasted it/killed my credit score. I was lucky though I have federal loans and they do a pay as you earn type plan where you can pay nothing if you don't make enough granted it still builds interest. Overall my debts aren't bad since I had some grants/went into engineering/physics not a doctor or lawyer. I at least made it into software so if my life continues to pan out I will get out of debt within two years at best.

But yeah, at that time though(in school) I was really scared because I was not doing well in school and I was like "how will I pay this back"...
Why is this being downvoted? Strange.

I graduated in 2007 and your observation is the same as mine. Students go to school without really thinking about what is next. I'm guessing that is a result of a middle/upper middle class upbringing. I noticed international students were a lot more driven, on average. I went to a small, liberal arts college that was not highly selective in admissions.

Even with the talented and studious, very few had any real idea of what was next. Why do we encourage so much debt just for the supposed sake of edification.

I will say, though, that it was a really fun time in my life. So maybe that's worth it?
Health insurers to investors: We’re good. Health insurers to lawmakers: Help
Intel in Macs (2006)
Splitting tabs into separate processes is mainstream these days, but it doesn't really help that much. You only need the focused tab to be snappy.
Not for long: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/01/us-finally-prohi...
> (seems they have high temp advantages over LCDs)

According to Wikipedia [1], it's their low temperature advantage: "...unlike LCDs, VFDs are not limited by the response time of rearranging liquid crystals and are thus able to function normally in cold, even sub-zero, temperatures, making them ideal for outdoor devices in cold climates."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_fluorescent_display
People want smartphones and TVs and cars and entertainment and health systems etc pp, they don't just want nutrition. To provide that, we still need a lot of stuff that isn't automated (yet).

I'm not talking about distribution of profits, I'm talking about raw output.