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I've chosen to do this twice now, and echo your sentiments

After saving for 2 years I quit my software job and spent two years driving from Alaksa to Argentina. I went on multi-day hiking trips, I poked lava with a stick, I paddled with icebergs, went scuba diving and camped in the mountains of Alaska and Patagonia.

I got up when I pleased, I cooked my own food (except when street food was stupid-cheap) and I worked on my passion projects (photography and writing at the time).

That experience changed my life, and after four more years saving money at a desk job, I quit again and spent three years driving around Africa.

I woke up to elephants and giraffes less than thirty yards from my Jeep-camper-house, I met tens of thousands of extremely friendly people and I ate delicious foods. I had adventures off the scale in the Congo, Sudan and Mali, I swam in white-sand paradise beaches in Mozambique and Ivory Coast and I again worked on my passion projects.

I certainly was "working" on the second trip - I wrote a couple of books, wrote for magazines, blogged, filmed video, etc. but I did it on my own terms. I could sleep in and take a rest day whenever I wanted, and I have not used an alarm for more than five years now.

Work on your own terms is so much more enjoyable, and life has a different focus. I highly, highly recommend people give it a shot!
It's such a simple principle, yet it is discarded so easily by those who dislike the threat to their political preference.

This whole ordeal has made me zoom out - to realize that the very real issue of harassment and assault is simply being used as a political tool.

It's quite sad, honestly. Believe everyone, or no one. As for myself, I'll always listen. But without evidence, I'm not ready to convict in the 'court of public perception'. This applies equally to Kavanaugh, Biden, Trump, etc.
Why do I feel that this is Keybase selling out?

Zoom seems so off mission for them. Very disappointing.
Hey Hacker News

Sleepedy is an iOS app that pairs you with a sleep coach & administers sleep therapy. We want to help people sleep better without taking any sleeping pills or aids.

Sleepedy is built around Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia or CBT-I (http://sleepeducation.org/treatment-therapy/cognitive-behavi...). People often confuse sleep hygiene (eg: Don’t use screens at night) with sleep therapy. Sleep hygiene is good for small deltas in sleep improvement, but if you’ve struggled with sleep problems for a while, sleep therapy is the way to go. That being said our app is designed for day time use and is not really meant to be used at night.

Our therapy is a little too long to explain in this comment but we created a short guide to it that you can read here: https://www.sleepedy.com/cbt-for-insomnia/

I suffered from insomnia and went through a CBT-I program that helped me sleep better. The flip side was it cost me $700 out of pocket. My hope is that Sleepedy makes this incredibly effective therapy more accessible.

Please try us out, we would love to have you onboard and help you get better sleep.
Awesome work, thank you for that! Keep it up! :)
I like the original paper by Shannon "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" (http://people.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shannon...) a lot. It is quite readable and also probably the most important paper in the field of information theory.
You don't understand what Keybase does.

The whole point is that you don't just use it to upload a key. You link various verified identifies of yours across the web to your Keybase account so people know the PGP key there is the one of the verified person. It's a way to tie all your verified identifies together.

If someone would manage to compromise a bunch of identities of someone on the internet, and then create a Keybase account with them and then upload a compromised PGP key that would be a problem if you don't verify the key. But that's a bit of a stretch.
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It may be rare, but doesn’t anyone has some to share on what make a good interview experience?
We'd have less debt, which is bad for the economy, but good for individuals.
Definitely. If you're going for something integrated, Intel/AMD (and maybe x86 in general) are out of the question.

For a PC, though, using ARM can be tough if you're trying to use Windows. I'm not sure how many Windows programs have ARM binaries.
Both statements can be true: eliminating debt collection would massively curtail the availability of credit, and excessive credit availability practically any motive to curtail costs.
It's funny, but I think I get most of my Riot/Matrix news from your comments scattered about hacker news.

Anyway, I run a matrix server for my family (and we all use the Riot client) and the number one issue is encryption and mysterious "Unable to Decrypt" messages. (Closely followed by how rough the Android client is.) This fixes all of that (well, once RiotX replaces the standard Android client) and I think it will remove a lot of friction.

Thanks for your work!
There is no incentive (for businesses) with bailouts though. You can't buy out your competitor during a downturn because the government bailout to your competitor is already in the mail. We don't see the airlines that saved for a rainy day going out and buying out the ones that have no cash reserve, because the latter were bailed out. So then the industry as a whole decides not to save because they know the bailout will be there.

We need some kind of law where if you take a bailout you give the Fed a controlling interest, you have something like 60 or 90 days to buy that interest back by repaying the bailout. After that other entities have the right to purchase that controlling interest and then they now own you.
Rider comes with DB tools on par with DataGrip included. Same for PHPStorm. The exception si WebStorm and maybe other smaller ones
While any child of Elon will live in enough luxury to avoid bullying or difficulty, little X AE A-12 will still have to poop, even on Mars.
Awesome. Please let me know if there is anything else we can do.
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Implementing UBI without universal healthcare certainly would be a silly approach, yes.
There are lots of other languages that support full UTF-8 in identifiers (e.g, Go) and the non-English-speaking world doesn't take advantage.
Especially since excessive lending usually requires public spending to fix once it gets too bad.
Bluespec is still around and actually got open-sourced recently! [0] The Bluespec company is focused on using their tools to build RISC-V cores: https://bluespec.com/

[0]: https://github.com/B-Lang-org/bsc
As I mentioned in another response, sorry about that. We've had three incidents (intermittent degradation of service over the last two months that lasted 7 and 30 mins respectively). There were two similar incidents last year.

Not sure what you mean by "HTML errors", but apart from these unfortunate incidents stemming from legacy infra dependencies, there are no issues, and we cleared a billion trades last year.

Not sure if you noticed, the volatility over the last two months caused all top five traditional mega-brokers to go down for hours multiple times over several days. Of course, none of this should matter to end users, but I just wanted to say that a lot of these issues in the industry are because of the ageing underlying infra. Thanks.
Keybase was always grey area since the server-side was proprietary.

Matrix is 100% Free Software and you can run a server yourself.
https://outline.com/9UKJg6
TL;DR npm failed because of.... diversity. What that means or how exactly are not really stated. I want my reading time back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8Bt3jEhIwA
And that's what I thought the original mission of Sidewalk Labs was. They seemed to do more research and less city-building.
I'm mixed on Tim Ferriss, but he also advocates this. His take is that if it's important enough news, then you will hear about it from your friends. Hearing about something a day or a few days later usually doesn't make a difference. I believe he also advocates trusting your friends' opinions when you need to vote and make political acts. However, this essentially is a selfish position that only works if a few people do it.
Google Fiber was a major success that got ousted by the incumbents with never ending lawsuits and resistance. Take your anger out on the monopoly ISPs across the country.
That's not what the GP said. Could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html? Note this one:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

Also the ones about substantive commenting and ideological battle. The last thing we need is another Marxism flamewar.
The authority of an entire field of experts vs. the single representative of said experts is a good distinction. Good evidence can be reviewed and confirmed easily. Bad actors will try to obfuscate their information
Thanks, this comment clearly explained why there even is an issue
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Immediately sold them and kept the cash
The only "social programs" that work in this country are the ones serving Wall Street. Socialism for the rich is a reality.
Have you tried DNS-based ad blocking like pi-hole or https://nextdns.io/ ?
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what do you think about it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8Bt3jEhIwA
When you make raising debt cheaper than selling equity, and central banks print endless money making servicing such debt even cheaper, why bother doing anything else?
I was just on Lenovo's site two days ago looking for new Ryzen laptops. Sweet!
All savings are someone else's debt, as a matter of accounting definition.

In some ways we are seeing a "savings glut", which is why interest rates are so low, but those savings are overwhelmingly from the minority of mega-rich.

If the public start saving en masse, and not in equity but just banking, interest rates will have to go negative, at which point people will really question why they should be doing it.
As a non-English programmer who has seen a lot of code not written using English please, god, NO. The mixture of English and other languages identifiers in the external libraries makes me cry.
It doesn't help, because it doesn't work, once it's at the scale where people will assemble to fight against it, it's too late, you cannot prevent progress.

However I would point out that the original Luddites, who were middle class, mostly died in abject poverty.

We should not prevent automation, but at the same we should not just brush aside the plight of the displaced workers. New jobs will be created, but probably not for them.
The tax code actively discourages savings for a corporation. If a company wants to make 5% on a relatively safe investment, they have to pay the corporate tax rate first, then invest the money. If instead they calculate a business expansion can bring them 5%, they can hire new employees/buy a business and not pay that tax and still get the 5%.
I don't like the way this story ends. The US needs a plot twist.
Thanks :) The online on-boarding is the result of a multi-year effort of convincing the regulators of the advances in tech.
Please make your points without calling names. Maybe you don't owe Piketty better, but you owe this community better if you're posting to it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Funny enough the city is actually making some real changes due to the pandemic.

They're currently in the process of opening up certain roadways to pedestrian and cycle traffic and closing some of them off to cars save for local traffic. They've stated some of these changes are temporary, and some possibly permanent. This includes expanding the current bike paths and speeding up implementation of already approved paths.

The program is called ActiveTO. It was just announced.

https://www.toronto.ca/home/media-room/news-releases-media-a...

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Edit: Adding the following quote as a decent summary of the intentions of the project:

> “Our streets are going to look different in many places in the post-COVID world. We will need more road space for walking. We will need quiet streets. We will need more bike infrastructure. We are going about this in a responsible, common sense way with Toronto Public Health, Transportation Services and local councillors all involved in making common sense, health-focused decisions which broaden out our transportation network."

- Mayor John Tory
I'm not even a fan of that project in particular, but this is a common problem in Canada - the goalpost constantly shifts, the process becomes a political hot potato, and the foreign investor eventually just says "fuck this" and pulls out of the market. It's happened in oil & gas, banking, telecommunications, retail, and a whole host of other sectors.
Spaces works just fine without having anything in full screen mode. Just do a 3-finger swipe up to bring up the spaces bar and click the + button on the side of the screen to create a new space. Then you can drag windows to the new space.
That may have happened in some specific cases, but companies susceptible to a leveraged buyout are not in a liquidity crisis. Look at say Toys r Us just before PE showed up and they had access to plenty of capital, they just didn’t have anything to spend it on.

If anything the reverse is true as PE tends to burden companies with so much debt they can’t innovate or downsize to fit changing markets.
And how long of a delay counts as no longer "live"? After the meeting ends? Five seconds? A millisecond? Does the latency to the server mean it's not "live", since it happened in the past?
> How much is the confidence that that PR will not break master worth to you?

That’s exactly the mental trap I’m talking about. Requiring 20 instances to try to mirror production instead of getting better testing in place is a sign of testing immaturity.

I have significantly less confidence in the products that use this testing strategy because it really means they don’t have much in place for testing infrastructure to stub things out, inject failures, etc.

And it’s not t2 mediums. It’s whatever is specced for production because we’re such good engineers that we want to test in a production like env, right?

> Before you assume that it’s wasteful for any organization to throw cloud at a problem, realize there are many orgs for which a few hundred dollars of cloud compute spend per production release

That’s not even close. It’s hundreds of dollars a day leading up to thousands per release with larger teams.
Personal attacks will get you banned here, regardless of how ignorant someone else is or you feel they are.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and using HN as intended, we'd be grateful.
Or someone living in Nanking in 1938.
It's ~6% faster for GIMP, <4% faster on AES encoding, ~10% faster on Cinebench ST, ~11% faster on Blender, ~3% faster on Luxmark etc. It does really well on 7zip in particular. If you spend all day unzipping things you should be very interested in Zen2.

Also, the 3100 and 2500X are both 65W.
I'm not glad these stores are doing bad, but I just never understood how a pair of sneakers can cost $700 - $900 when I can buy a decent laptop with that kind of money.
What do you do when city council members profit off of the status quo? It's not that they are poorly informed, they are well aware of what they are doing and choose to ignore expert advice on city planning decisions. This is the frustration I have with my local government in LA. Most people who live in my city are renters, but most voters in local elections are homeowners so their voice is heard above all else, and council members are landlords or have multiple investment properties. When plans come up for building more density around transit, they overtly say 'this disrupts my view' but really mean 'this will limit the tax-free exponential growth I've enjoyed on my property values.' It's so frustrating, and I'm not sure how it can possibly be changed.
Sweden Has Avoided a Coronavirus Lockdown. Its Economy Is Hurting Anyway
Yeah and to a captive market too. College textbook sales is one of the most insane rackets I've ever witnessed... "milking the students" is no exaggeration.
I'd encourage you to read the wikipedia page on rotating detonation engines as a start, they're not the only ones who've worked on this concept.
Because the housing market has mechanisms (such as leveraged landlords) that mean that the price of land tends to inflate up until a situation of equilibrium such that the price of rent is always relatively high in any city where land is somewhat constrained, because zoning is a thing, because most people cannot get mortgages and are as such not able to participate in the condo market, because the price of land is wildly variable for reasons of zoning, because real estate investors do not always operate rationally (for example, empty rental homes held purely as stores of value), because the type of housing affects the type of transportation used which affects which kinds of land is suitable for use as housing, because not all housing is created equal in function or in value, and so on.

Simply supply and demand is not a sufficient mechanism to explain the housing markets in cities such as Toronto.
From a non-english speaking country: I prefer US-ASCII for code. Anything else just obfuscates.
My guess is that the leased lines are a requirement to connect to their partners.
Major bummer to see they're still using 16:9 displays, even when the lower bezel area could easily accommodate a 16:10 display.

I am however very pleased to see Lenovo embracing AMD in their high end products.
South Korea was hit with this virus at about the same time. In some ways they're more vulnerable than we are: higher percentage of older people, higher population density.

They've been FAR BETTER at controlling this thing than the USA.

The key difference? Leadership: they don't have a mental-case at the helm of their government. Trust: their populace heeded warnings and acted accordingly.

I expect that when this is all over, we'll see that even some countries that have been referred to disparagingly as "banana republics" will outperform the USA in handling of the crisis.
15+ hours of battery life on all of them? I would upgrade my machine for that alone.
Well they had better sort out their security ASAP. The South African parliament's Zoom meeting just because a porn stream. Second time that has happened in <month. Can't really see why anyone is still using it for serious work.

https://www.heraldlive.co.za/news/politics/2020-05-07-parlia...
I’m a fan of using ads to accelerate growth, but you don’t have to. I bet most profitable side projects got there without ads. And you probably shouldn’t spend money on ads in the early days, for a bunch of reasons. In general, I’d focus on organic growth channels to start with and only switch to ads when you have that working, you have revenue that’s growing, churn isn’t too high, etc.
There are two versions of you: the experiencing self and the remembering self. If you only pleasure the experiencing self then you make lots of short term decisions e.g. it's the experiencing self who enjoys the cake, but the remembering self gets almost no benefit from it. Worse, they have to deal with the consequences of the extra calories.

I'd convinced myself that there were things I didn't like so I wouldn't do them anymore, like travelling for long holidays. But after hearing this idea I realised sometimes the pain and inconvenience of being away from home, and being stressed by travel is a temporary pain for the experiencing self. The remembering self however gets lifelong benefit.

I use this model to analyse the cost/benefit to each persona which helps make better long term choices.
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Just my anecdotal impression; it's possible I'm biased by the extents of my bubble
As soon as they support Linux...
That’s parallelizing, which is not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about pointlessly building up huge environments that “match production”.
'Smart' is a marketing term that means 'useless BS'.
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Retention isn’t going to be a problem in this market. Hiring in general has almost disappeared. And if you get hospitalized with coronavirus without health insurance, it will almost certainly lead to bankruptcy. It’s too risky not to have a job right now.
> I want fast, reliable telecommunications everywhere I go.

Don't leave the city then. 5G has very limited range and doesn't work in rural areas where there aren't enough customers to provide needed geographical coverage.
You're right, I looked at the wrong link.
That's the 50 in 50-100€. At this level that's around one step up in CPU within the AMD range that you're wasting on an old GPU just to get the thing to boot.
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This is untrue. Talk to Louisville, where Google put trenches in the roadways, loosely covered them up with foam, letting the average snowplow rip up their network.

Fiber used real cities as experiment grounds, and ended up with at least one solution so bad they left the city rather than fix it, and had to settle with the city for all the damages to their roadways.

Pictures: https://www.wdrb.com/news/google-fiber-announces-plan-to-fix... (Ignore the title, Google decided not to repair anything.)
What countries are you thinking of?

New Zealand has been able to pretty much eradicate the virus through lockdowns and contact tracing, but they only had 1000 cases.

There is no precedent for doing that in a country with millions of cases, like the U.S. It may be too late for that.

So is the purpose of continued lockdowns in the U.S. to eradicate the virus? That is what I am skeptical about, I don't see the evidence that such a thing is possible.
> for instance initializing a structure or array partially if you're sure that nobody is going to use the initialized portion. Or having multiple mutable pointers/reference to the same object.

Rust supports MaybeUninit<> for the former example, and unsafe raw pointers for the latter. It needs unsafe because these patterns are not safe in the general case and absent an actual proof of correctness embedded in the source code, a static analysis pass can only deal with the general case.
BoE predicts 30 percent drop in UK GDP but opts against new stimulus
Fair enough.

Don't make buying decisions based on metrics provided by vendors.

For even better results, optimize systemically and ignore their metrics.

Example: click comes in with tracking code in url. Lead submitted with tracking code. Purchase made.

How much did you spend on those ads? How much did they spend on your products? Was it worth it to you?

That's more analysis than many ad accounts currently do, because vendors provide wonderful sounding things like CTR and CPC and Impressions and Reach to keep you focused on optimizing within their platform instead of between platforms.
Love they got a online ad revenue graph that ends in 2017 and then just "predict" a dashed line moving where it left off, always up.

despite that we all know it took a nosedive, along most other revenues, in 2020 ;)
Are they all just using an integrated gpu?