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>Rogan's not really a great moderator (for example, he doesn't even read the books of his guests). He's not asking insightful questions. He can even be a bit dense. But he's open-minded, curious and "normal".

I don't really like Rogan personally but this behavior is intentional and quite smart in my opinion. Rogan (and his team) preps quite a bit, the vibe he is going for is an everyman who does not know anymore about the situation than you do. This is not reality. The idea is that this style makes the listener not feel stupid or embarrassed to learn about the viewpoints of the interviewee. He's among the most listened to interviewers in the world, so I guess it works.
Looks like you were more looking for a reason not to have to pay anymore. Point of netflix is to watch content, not the UX of the home page.
Just because you think the state should allow any discussion and any opinion, doesn't mean you need to think its content is worthy or valuable. Do you think nazism should get as much exposure as something you like? Creationism? Flat-earthism? Any fringe idea with five believers?
Surface Book 3 review: the web developer's laptop
what does this change? companies can still adjust the rest of the wage accordingly
> I consider the whole area to be socially alive.

Ha.

A lot of twenty-somethings are not so open-minded. Disparaging nearby neighborhoods as socially dead or otherwise undesirable is practically a pastime for young city folk (especially if they're dating!)
Seattle wasn't as expensive back in the day and if I recall correctly, Bezos actually chose to move to seattle and start Amazon there for cost reasons (I think taxes were a big part of that). Moving an entire headquarters is expensive and did you forget about the HQ2 plan to expand elsewhere?
> low barriers to entry sometimes turn into barriers to growth at a later stage

I don’t happen to agree with this in the specific case of org-mode, but it’s a useful generic insight.
This is probably not an appropriate conversation for Hacker News but essentially you can vote Democrat in America and still be a reactionary conservative and those are not inconsistent positions.

American politics is shifted so far to the right that any honest categorization of it suggest that almost no "leftism" actually exist in the politics. America's notion of liberalism is largely defined economically.

Looking is clearly a Centrist with strong reactionary leanings. He has all the hallmarks of this. For example he's historically been very soft on conspiracy theory culture and is even been part of some of those movements himself. He clearly profits from the same system that Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Ben Shapiro also profit from.

Nor do hosts of said shows need to believe the profitable aspects of their work to profit from them. Ben Shapiro does not seem like the kind of person who's so stupid that he believes that a permanently flooded house could be resold, but he's definitely said that and then subsequently defended it. I also suspect that Crowder doesn't believe many of the things that he says, but it's his business.
I use Mercurial for almost everything

The hg command line options are far more sane than git. And TortoiseHg is the best gui ever

But I might switch eventually, when even bitbucket is dropping hg support. And many linux distributions stopped including a working tortoisehg.
Notion Is Blocked in China
The comment your replying to as written doesn't imply any nefarious intent. And you go on to talk knowing my to Joe Rogans state of mind, which you cannot know. This is a weird comment; it sounds almost shilling for some reason.
Is this really easy? I spent days lately trying to compile popular library on Mac for all platforms (Win, Linux) only to figure out that it is MUCH easier just to set up bunch of dockers/VM and compile it there. I suspect it is close to impossible to compile the library (LevelDB) for Linux on a Mac.
Maybe my problem is I don't do complex enough work to warrent a tool like this (I'm still a BSc student). I do use emacs for almost everything already but I don't use anything for organization really because it just seems like a really complex way of just setting a reminder somewhere
I would add that the last time I used LFS was almost 20 years ago. I don't know if the procedure got more complex. From what I skimmed it looks manageable (I guess that's the whole point).

The reason for not using LFS would actually be security. It is possible to just install whatever you want and then use it for a long time (akin to LTS Ubuntu distribution). But you still need to somehow notice there are critical security updates and you definitely don't want to miss them.

Another reason is that distro developers create a huge amount of convenient mechanisms and choices for the users.

As an example, getting software X to work might not be a problem, but getting X to work along Y and Z when they might have conflicting dependencies might already be a headache. Distro developers will ensure various dependencies are tested and make sense together. If you install something on Gentoo (sorry, I don't have experience with Arch) and it doesn't work, there is a good chance it is possible to make it work and you can Google the solution. When you install something on LFS and it doesn't work you are pretty much on your own.
If you work for e.g. Coinbase, you can opt in to be compensated in Bitcoin. If you are in the business of writing software for crypto exchanges (like myself), this is also kind of a default option.
Yes the sauce is in the algorithm and its a non-trivial one. Its a NP hard problem of searching through a combinatorial explosion of possible configuration. I am not aware of any other product that comes close to what ITA offered.

The feature of Lisp that was heavily used in the code was the use of macros and metaprogramming. These are the kinds of problems were lisp excels. ITA made use of the fact that Lisp is a programmable programming language and they adapted programming language to the domain.
Being contacted several times per day seems totally reasonable for, I think, the vast majority of jobs in existence.

Few jobs would allow one to be totally dark until you arbitrarily decide you would like to crawl out of your figurative cave and interact. If you truly have that kind of job (and certainly, they exist) then yeah, maybe a real-time-ish communications platform is simply not right for you or the team.

Now, I am a programmer. One who often struggles with attention issues and getting into the zone.

More than many, perhaps, I realize that even a "quick" 1min. interruption can have a far greater drain on one's productivity than would be immediately apparent - it might take 5, 10, or 30 minutes to get "back into the zone" after an interruption.

Having said that, though, it still seems reasonable in all engineering jobs I've had for others to ask me questions periodically throughout the day, especially as I have gone from junior to senior engineer. Typically if something is blocking them. I don't want somebody sitting around for 1 hour or 3 days because they are missing a piece of the puzzle, held by me, that is leaving them at a standstill.

At the extreme, everything is poor company culture, not
<insert tool> issue per se. That is not a good argument.

Sure as heck is. It's not realistic to expect a communications tool to somehow magically allow only "good" communication. Therefore, we have to resign ourselves to considering tools that:

(a) Make efficient, respectful, productive communication the default. Broadly speaking I would define this as making non-intrusive async communication (but making those conversations easily searchable/browsable so you can "catch up" if desired) the default.

(b) Does not somehow encourage bad behavior.

I have plenty of nitpicks with Slack but I believe it passes those criteria. Some would say that the existence of @mentions makes it fail (b) but I can not agree. Certainly at my current employer, we have a nice Slack culture and it required zero pain to get there. Makes it a decent tool in my book.
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In any sane world, you wouldn't be getting downvoted, but here we are. One side wants heavy censorship and modern day book burnings, one doesn't. Joe doesn't, so he's evil to the left of today. It's a little bit unreal, but then again one might have seen it coming..
No which was part of the original point.
I discovered his podcast about 6 weeks ago, but only listened to a few of his recent guests. I liked the episodes I listened to, but I won't bother with Spotify, there is enough great stuff out there. This is much my attitude about "inconvenient" web sites with rollovers, painful Javascript, popups, etc. - I simply immediately leave if content is not easy to digest. I don't mind advertisements but I don't want ads to try to take over my browser.

I hope that Spotify works out for Joe Rogan. He seems like a very nice guy.
Or you could just get the "build tools":

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/#build-tools-fo...
Same on firefox
>, org-mode eliminates the risk of hitting any sort of barrier

Ultimately, it depends on the type of user but the "barrier" may be that it's plain text. So Org Mode's data format as a desirable selling point is also its ceiling of functionality.

Yes, I store 90% of my notes in plain text. But I also store some programming notes in MS Excel because I need a datagrid as UI with dynamic calculations. I store some project notes in MS Word because I need to embed graphics along with text. I suppose I could use Org Mode as a "single source of truth" by linking to .xlsx and .docx files but I reorganize my folder structures too often to make such file links stable.

I made a previous comment why Emacs Org Mode along with everything else I tried in the last few decades to organize life is a very hard problem of "boiling the ocean":
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23112843
Compared to SF, Zurich is 50% cheaper in rent, but pretty much more expensive across the board for everything else.

From Numbeo: https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...
Berkeley itself is as expensive and hard to build in as just about anyplace in the Bay Area.
Cataclysm – A Post-Apocalyptic Roguelike
Oh, interesting. Didn't think about that.
No, I think op is asserting there's a correlation that renters vote less than owners
150 CHF/month is not a lot but it would still cover about 8m² of my rent, which seems fair to me (I don't live in the center of Zürich, but not exactly in a cheap place either).

I'd see that as a way to offset electricity costs and maybe invest in my setup, rather than cover the square meterage per se, but in my opinion it's a pretty good middle ground.
Just don't base your choices on the spreading of ignorant memes.

Would you want to pass on Lisp because of the ramblings of a rookie web developer with no Lisp experience? That's what you might do if you believe the "Lisp Curse".
Hong Kong is the frontier of the fight for freedom against autocracy. I hope the news continues to cover it
True, much cheaper to steal than paying creators.
Anyone know where such websites get their data? I'm looking for an API for Netflix that would let me list all movies that have specific subtitles available.
Netflix.com/browse/subtitles only shows a limited amount of movies.
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Desktop Linux in general seem to have a very large amount of probable vulnerabilities, but it also has a very large community of companies that sponsor work and rely on it for servers.

Would be interesting to see how quickly an open back-door is fixed after it's discovered. Is the maintainer available? If not, can the package be replaced? Will it be vulnerable for months, years? So many uncertainties make me not want to rely on Desktop Linux for sensitive work.
> That life would be very empty and boring.

Wrong! Once you are addiction-free, you are much more sensitive to stimuli, making life much more interesting. But the problem with addictions is that the addict can't possibly imagine that this is true. If you are addicted, find a forum on the internet and read stories of people who have recovered. They will tell you without exception that their lives are much more interesting now.
ITA software would definitely be worth looking at, but you would need to get hired by the right team.

More details here http://www.paulgraham.com/carl.html you can also glean more information by searching over older discussions about ITA on HN.
Desktop Slack apps are based on Electron and just so you’ll get a sense of the bloat of it - all Electron apps have bundled in drivers for Xbox 360 controllers.
Yeah, I've updated the post after realizing that not everybody is as old as me. Steve was big in early 2000s (think 2008-2010) in the indie gamedev world that I was a part of too. I actually remember his (then) wife Erin. Erin is a psychic - https://www.erinpavlina.com/ There's also a person by the name of Christina Pavlina, who is a psychic and supposedly she's Steve's sister - https://theoneabsolute.com/about/

Steve used to get a lot of 'hate blogging', there were a bunch of blogs devoted specifically to his personality (ex. https://www.sitepoint.com/community/t/seriously-sick-of-stev... or http://bigwig-bigwig.blogspot.com/2011/03/8-top-reasons-why-... or https://stevepavlinalies.wordpress.com/2011/04/02/exposing-s...). I would have never imagined that I'd find Steve's post on HN.
That's interesting, but considering the mainstream scientific position seems to be the opposite (though it's possible its more nuanced and I've misunderstood it), I will wait until that changes, though its always useful to read dissenting opinion.
> Major Hollywood films often make 3x or more their budget in profit.

Other movies will balance this out though by making a loss - that's the business model. The interesting thing would be the average profit margin across all films at a studio or the industry.
It can be useful to directly unit test edge cases in critical concurrent code, because they are otherwise difficult to test deterministically. But like you said, I've also found them difficult to write and maintain (re-reading some of them months later is usually hard). The tests usually end up with 2-3x channels than the prod code, because I'm forced to inject channels into various places to control the synchronization. Sometimes though, in a critical code path, it's worth it.
nice! thx, that is exactly what I need right now!

Since remote work happened, I use a big single org file, with headers and a date here or there.

Now I have the opportunity to fix this and a guide to how.
Yes! So sad I have scroll so far down to see this. There is a huge risk here that we will be isolated more than ever, and yet more dependent upon other unseen actors---the contrast between these two phenomena is one of downsides of capitalism in practice, and this can crank it up.

Here are some crucial steps we must take in defense:

- Make sure working with non-employees is legal: no non-disclosure agreements saying you can't work in coffee shop or other shared space because of potential of overhearing. This would be the best hope

- Towns or cheaper cities, not exurbs. People must know their neighbors better if they know their coworkers less. Time spent walking around the office must be replaced with time spent walking elsewhere.

- More Aggressive anti-trust. If labor becomes more balkanized, capital must also be.

- Workers on boards. Like Germany, if you grow past a certain size this needs to be mandated.

Notice the last two point to the two healthy solutions: decentralized small businesses economy vs giant co-op socialism. The point is to basically all institutions must score high enough on the sum decentralization or democracy, and that the total of the two is far more important then the relative merits of each.
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Hong Kong is a territory of China and they have a right to enact this law based on perceived threat to national security because this will not be the first time USA used others shoulders to fire gun.

China don’t want to make same mistake as USSR of ignoring the outside influence and USA succeeding in its mission to thwart another rising power with a different system like USS dream of Mikhail Gorbachev was broken by similar kind of violent protests.

China learned from mistakes of USSR and worked to let the economic benefits trickle down to general population and their people’s life is better than before. I agree they could have treated minorities better and given more rights but looking at conditions of minority in most democratic nation its a worldwide problem.

So do a better introspection and you will notice that answer for this violence and protest is very much linked to geopolitical rivalry especially with USA. There is an uncanny timings that Hong Kong protests flared up quite dramatically right before Taiwan elections, and then suddenly reduced in intensity.
Software development is a bit like fashion or music. There is no direction like forward or backwards. Good and bad are often just personal opinions. Some things get out of fasion, just to be discovered years later. Others are are stables.
An awful lot of conservative people were moved by certain aspects of Bernie Sanders rhetoric. The notion that Bernie Sanders was a deep leftist is propaganda by the authoritarian right. compared to the majority of politics elsewhere in the world he's a Centrist. many leftists in America viewed him as a compromise candidate, not a representative candidate. This is probably because he's much closer to an anti-capitalist Libertarian position. Thus he cut across many traditional political aisles along a different axis.

And if you think for a few minutes I'm positive you can proposed people who are much further "left" of the political spectrum in American politics then Bernie Sanders. AOC comes to mind.
That MAGA hat does not mean saying what you said?

The opinions are there, you just chose to not see them.
> ... shows the power of independent media

Yes, as in "it's possible", the same as it's possible for an unknown author to be a best selling author (like JK Rowling). No as in it's an outlier or the exception. How many cases like this do we have? , esp. considering the consolidation of mass media in a few companies?
In general, dedicating some cores to userspace and some to kernel would mean sending a lot more data up to L3 for core-to-core communication, and I'm not sure that would be any better than flushing L1d. The exception would be with SMT, but then you're locked into a 1:1 ratio for user and kernel virtual cores, and still have to worry about side channel vulnerabilities.
I don't think they know what 'terrorism' means. Civil disobedience because of rights being usurped !== terrorism, it === a probably futile but admirable 'attempt' to fight back at an oppressive regime.
"You have reached your free article limit"
on a site I've never heard of. Bye bye
Shopify is now the second most popular content management system
yea, good point. Maybe that virtgov becomes really good at providing emotional healthcare to its citizens and another gov, virtgov, corp, or org wants to get better at that, it could provide training or consulting for a fee
Ask HN: As a biologist, how do I step up my programming skills?
I would regard my self-taught programming ability with Python at beginner to intermediate (ie, I know how to structure a google search to find helpful Stackoverflow answers), and have middling abilities with R. I did some ML for my PhD work, but it's nothing fancy. My python-fu probably would make a programmer cry.

I've been looking to upgrade my programming skills, and wondering what's the recommended "proper" way for someone with my background to go about it? Is there a MOOC or book that's the go-to?

I've seen suggestions for "How to Design Programs" & SICP, and I've been looking at Racket with interest.
Besides that, they can just stop using the blacklist as a signal for their results, but keep the feature.
UK Data Breach Reports Decline
I wonder, given your experience, did you ever try FaunaDB? It grew from the not optimal experience when scaling databases like Cassandra etc @ Twitter. Consistent + relational + multi-region.
The court in question is licated in Argau, where an extra room may cost 400-500CHF per month.
I bought a Purism laptop last year for around $3,000 USD. It is ok.

Purism had a bizarre falling out with their former CTO. I am inclined to believe the CTO [1].

The documentation is basically non-existent. There is no end to end hardware tear down, at least a fully complete one, which I found kind of shocking. The special privacy first operating system is a very lightly modified Ubuntu OS. System76's popOS, almost a clone itself of Ubuntu, is probably more customized.

The manufacturing seemed shoddy, although not terrible. Just a lot of air-space when opening the thing and pieces jiggle around a little too much.

The USB keys they send you are awesome (micro usb, usb c, and usb A in the same key!) and I wish more vendors did the PGP smart card setup they do.

In general the German open source movement has grown...strange...the last two years. Recently I was shown that one of the main contributors to the a small but important part of the Linux library that handles multimode to Usb devices...runs an overpopulation Institute that reminds me of the bad guy from the James Bond movie Moonraker [2]. They also added a "HuaweiAltModeGlobal" which causes no end of trouble for anyone in the networking field who commonly uses say tcpdump and USB router sticks.

[1] - https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Zlatan-T...

[2] - https://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/
You can't just redefine the political spectrum every four years and pretended there's no history or global context.

Bernie Sanders is a slightly left-of-centre person in a global context with slightly left-of-center politics which appeal more to the libertarian landscape then to the Communist, Anarchist or even Mutualist landscape.

The fact that the average American can have this conversation and not seeing any contradiction and labeling Bernie Sanders far left as opposed to, say, Sweden or Finland just shows how distorted this conversation can become.
Of interest: the first link in the article defines fl. <date range> as a standard syntax meaning the dates in which someone was know to be alive and flourishing.

I did not know this until today.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floruit
That's not really a good thing about HDCP at all. Not only that, I certainly have bad devices supporting HDCP.

In reality, HDCP causes issues with DisplayPort and HDMI link by being one of the weakest links (HDCP signalling is usually the problem in long or cheap cables). Any issue makes HDCP kill the connection and renegotiate content protection, which takes time where there is no content.

We still to this day have trouble with SCART-like features. It's just now called HDMI-CEC, and is very much a hit-or-miss scenario, even within the same brand. Case-in-point: I have an older Philips Android TV, where CEC in my setup works fine. The same setup does not work at all on a slightly newer iteration of Android TVs from Philips, despite both running a similar Android Oreo build.

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Also note: The default for SCART was composite, with optional S-Video and RGB support, and very rarely, component (which quality-wise would be somewhere around RGB). S-Video was the common "quality" setting that "just worked", which is close enough to component (and thus RGB) in quality for the material of the time.

Plus, getting suboptimal image is not as bad as getting no image at all, or missing features. HDCP and CEC is arguably a huge downgrade from SCART in that regard.

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>he doesn't even read the books of his guests

Does he lie when he claims he has? I've heard him discuss books with guests on many occasions, though I'm sure he hasn't read everyone's books given the number of guests he has now.