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Just going to wall of text this one.

For me, it was neurotic as fuck. I started to question how predictable I was, and whether or not I could prove that the world around we wasn't just a tiny fake spec generated in real time based off predictions of what I would do next. The notion that my entire world could actually be very, very tiny as long as I was predictable enough kind of got to me. I started trying to do things I wouldn't do, and that was sort of a paradox. Eventually I began to use randomization to try to throw off the feeling. Nothing really worked, there's no way to prove that this isn't the tiniest matrix using advanced predictions to generate just a little more than what I sense. Also can't prove it's not a giant amazing universe. What-if-ism means: if it doesn't hurt to believe something, and you're willing to cede it's probably not reality, go for it. I like to believe in the universe as it's normally described.

Anyways, I find that the more I think about something, the closer I get to a paradox. What's the point of philosophy? To prove there is no point. What's the meaning of life? To understand there is no meaning. How do I achieve x goal? Stop caring about achieving it.

In a few words, rather than things existing as opposites, they exist as a paradox. They really shouldn't exist together.

As a WIP tangential thought (take it with a grain of salt, it's just for fun right now): as much as we take it for granted, I think there's something fucked up about a universe with both Cartesian and radial coordinates. Like, they shouldn't be together. And why just those two? Why not more? Why not just one? Seemingly things should be either universally relative, or personally relative, but not both simultaneously. It's like we're trying to survive in a universe with two disparate rule sets that by all accounts shouldn't be able to happen at the same time, and yet they are. It's a fucking paradox.
Could you expand on the Ruby part? I'm not sure if you hate all programming or programming in anything other than Ruby.
Smart people don't waste resources defending themselves from libel suits because they couldn't stay off twitter. If he called him a pedophile privately, that's being an asshole. Inviting legal action through public statements is a waste of everyone's time and money. See also the "going private @$420" tweet.
Now I need to port that code to MIPS, what do?

This is a very nice feature to have if you know your environment is overwhelmingly tied to a certain architecture and you want to make it easy to target this architecture in particular.

This might actually be a somewhat reasonable, if short-sighted approach if we were in 2005 and you could make the point that anything that's not x86 is effectively legacy or niche but nowadays you need to at the very least support x86-64, ARM32 and AARCH64. Baking all these flavors of assembly into a language would be very heavy handed and a maintenance nightmare.

Beyond that we're not in the 90's anymore, ASM is not routinely used outside of very low level code these days. Even for performance people often opt for intrinsics instead. Compilers got massively better at optimizing code while humans got worse due to ever more complex architectures.

Being able to seamlessly blend ASM with normal code isn't that much of a killer feature anymore IMO. It would be a costly gimmick to implement.
Here's an example of how workers were pressured to come into work:

The state approved Tesla to work. It's the county that is concerned. But if you decline to come to work, just know you will not receive benefits and you will be unable to apply for unemployment since we have work available. We can't force you to come in if you don't feel comfortable.

https://twitter.com/PlainSite/status/1270110558071566337
Just for reference, vim does have built in completion. <C-p> and <C-n> in insert mode will complete a word. Also in insert mode <C-x><C-{n,p,l,f}> are contextual completions (see :h ins-completion for full list, I suggest not using the dictionary because it takes awhile). I have found that contextual completion has changed how I program in vim and it seems to be one of the lesser known features. It is way more powerful if you're using buffers/panes/tabs, which all three have greatly improved my programming as well (in different ways).
Most of your points are verifiable _facts_, so there is no discussion to be had there. However, the _why_ is an important point that you didn't mention.

If these 'bio-mass' operations are so obviously illogical and unstainable why are they pushed so hard?

The large portion of these operations are old coal plants and incinerators. These are effectively wood chip burning furnaces that managed to reposition themselves through lobbying and marketing in order to ride the 'green' wave and be labelled as 'renewable' on paper, enabling them to collect massive amounts of tax payer "green" funding to pay for operational costs that could never be profitable otherwise.

This is a case where you have old polluting businesses trying to avoid bankruptcy by grabbing "green" funding.

PS:
Things I've read in the past from astroturfers on this topic:

- It's "renewable" because we plant trees that capture carbon (not at the rate that you need to burn it to break even).

- It's reclaimed wood (marginal volume compared to forest wood).

- We also burn organic waste (doesn't burn as hot as wood chips).

- It's wood from responsibly sourced forestry (which you transported across oceans from Canada, Malaysia and Brazil).

- It's not sustainable now because we haven't started replacing local forest with fast growing trees (this would absolutely kill local woodland bio-diversity).
"If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem." - J. Paul Getty

In this situation, China would be the bank?
Not, I should add, a long-term stable situation; sooner or later the bank will have a liquidity problem, and then you have a problem when you need more cash. But it probably does keep the U.S. and China from rushing as headlong into enmity.
Lucid Motors’ plan to build the world’s best electric vehicles
Yes, I'm absolutely sure he went to his HR department and did a personal investigation into every one of his employees, all the people they live with, any family members they're caring for during lock down, the demographics of all the people they bump into during their commute, when shopping, everyone they bump into during their spare time and made careful decision to start tweeting Free America Now!.
This is awesome!

Is there any way to exclude certain tables or customize what is generated in any way? It seems like it just creates a model for every single table in the database, no matter what. I would love to be able to customize the config to exclude certain tables.

As a side note: I was able to get the GraphQL server working for a small mysql database, but when I tried to hook it up to a larger database, it gave me this error: Error: Field "UagFbDataAggregate.min" can only be defined once.
If you're a gamer and you haven't played Bioshock, then do it and admire the art deco and the music from a long gone era.
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It's different if a company re-opened against guidelines and is not considered "essential." Is making a few more cars really that essential?

Different companies have different roles to play. And if shutting down non-essentials can reduce the rate of infection, it improve the outcome for _everyone_ afterwards.
So much this. I'm almost at the point of stating that echo cancellation has done more harm than good, because we are now in a situation where 80% of people have no idea that wearing earbuds could make a tremendous difference in call quality, and everyone just expects the software to magically take care of it.

Sadly, the software does not just magically take care of it. Anytime two people talk, a typical echo canceler just starts decimating frequencies until both of them are unintelligible.

Add in a couple of clueless teams who mount a camera/mic against a conference room wall and introduce massive amounts of room echo into the mix, and I'm at the point where a conference call becomes an absolutely mentally exhausting experience just trying to decipher what is being said. I have no hope of contributing, because I can only hear 2/3 of the syllables, and my brain is running on overdrive trying to turn those back into words. By the time I've figured out what they just said, they're half-way into the next sentence. What a stressful hellscape.

Ironically, if we had no echo cancellation, it would force everyone to use ear buds, and the average call quality would be a lot better.
I was impressed by this when it was posted a bit ago and am still impressed.

What's funny is that right after seeing this, my neighbors were selling their house. I checked out the listing and they had this same technology for a COVID-19 walkthrough linked right on the redfin page. They got two offers within a week. Pretty shcmancy!
The Netherlands, with roughly double the population density of the UK, became a net exporter of food fairly recently. I think they did this by adding a lot of greenhouses.

I think the UK probably can’t add so many greenhouses because, in my opinion, local politics means “pretty” is valued more than “functional”.

This is also why on-shore wind isn’t already everywhere in the UK even though wind farms don’t prevent agriculture.
Congratulations and thank you for sharing your story. For someone starting to get into the entrepreneur world your story is inspiring. Wish you all the best for future.
> I big fat "update the system" (or don't) button with my user-installed packages totally separate, as I get with macOS, is nicer.

Today we live in the land of plenty. Computer hardware is so cheap, it's practical to put together a respectable lab with gear literally pulled out of a dumpster. The reason Windows and Mac OSes have a sharper line between system software and user software is because modern advances have made computer cheap enough that not only does almost everyone have their own personal computer, almost everybody has more than one. As a result, Windows and Mac have always been mostly single-user systems. Yes, yes, they support having multiple _accounts_ but usually by one person at a time, which limits the number of accounts (as a practical matter) to a handful at best.

All of the major Linux distributions were designed in a time where large multi-user systems were the norm. Disk space was limited, memory was small, CPU cycles were few. Unix (and hence Linux) was designed to make efficient use of these limited resources by installing popular software system-wide with shared dynamically-linked libraries because that was the only way to even _fit_ a few hundred users on one system. As a sysadmin, I get cold sweats thinking about what would have happened if every user wanted their own personal copy of Emacs on such a system.

> Especially on a single-user system, I should be able to install most software without escalating privileges.

I do believe you can, see Snaps and Flatpak. These run on just about everything. But there is a steep price: user-isolated applications can take an order of magnitude more disk space and significantly more memory compared to OS-built packages, see https://www.reddit.com/r/pop_os/comments/gia8s1/flatpak_pack...

If you're looking for a Linux distro that behaves more like Windows and Mac, you're in luck because Ubuntu is hurtling themselves in that direction as quickly as they can by making snaps compulsory on every desktop install.

> I should be able to blanket-update my user-facing software without any risk whatsoever that a kernel update will get thrown in

So, I think you have it backwards. Kernel updates generally contain important security or bug fixes and you absolutely _should_ be installing those and rebooting _well_ before even acknowledging the existence of your userland apps.
I work in a mixed environment of both Windows and Linux and in my opinion sudo is very similar to Windows UAC and local admin rights. In that, you can give someone access to a computer without sudo or local admin rights and they won't be able to make any system-wide changes. But for someone who does have sudo or local admin rights, then it's just a safeguard that should hopefully make the user think twice before escalating their privileges.

If a Windows user is tricked into downloading some malware, and runs it by using their local admin rights to bypass the UAC prompt, then the system is owned. I believe this is the same risk with sudo, although the hope is that the extra authentication prompt gives the user the opportunity to re-evaluate whether or not they want to run the command as a privileged user.
So much useless information in this thread.

The best way to become a better programmer is to read more code and understand what it does and think about different ways to implement the same feature.

Programming is problem solving at its core. Everything your mentioning is secondary to achieving that goal.
The Cities Taking Up Calls to Defund the Police
We already have an abundance of resources, like food and land, yet we don't efficiently allocate them such that they don't go to waste, leave people hungry or leave people homeless. The only reason people without significant assets can access food or land is because they're able to trade their time for money. People who can't trade their time for money currently go hungry and become homeless.

This is why I say that unless there is a significant change in control of productive property, when that productive property deprecates human labor, those who rely on trading their time for money will be in dire situations.
> PlainSite affiliates may hold long/short investments in companies discussed. Not investment advice.

Interesting account there ...
You wouldn't, to be honest, since I don't have a website, twitter or FB at the moment, and it's on the backburner. Besides, it's probably way too cynical and toxic to actually publish. Just look at the responses here.

Also, I'm planning for that book to have a slightly narrower focus, so I may have not done the project any justice.

I do have a lot of tech machiavellianism to write about though, from the small, but notable tech community in my country (Israel).
Username inspired from Nawazuddin Siddiqui? I am also a fan of Paras. The way he started a profitable bootstrap startup is mind blowing. Been learning from his journey a lot.
> ancestors

(Descendants; ancestors are those in the past.)
I'm not sure. It would be good to prevent spread of disease. But also, Tesla's mission (https://www.tesla.com/about) is "to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy." This is a generational timescale business - in Musk's mind an extra 1.5% of population dying is probably worth it - especially if the alternative is Tesla dies.

Edit - here's an interesting question - how many lives is accelerating the world's transition to sustainable energy worth? Climate change is surely going to cost lives. Tesla also isn't really the best solution in my mind. I think we should all live in denser cities where you can walk, bike, and use transit.
If you want to see Ivan Werning's presentation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PkK9IlTHVM
>Why the breathless article about 2 cases?

Because articles are now written to confirm people's preconceived notions. Articles that confirm your biases are more likely to be shared than articles which don't.
I’ll assume you’re not intentionally misunderstanding ALM vs. BLM. ALM is the base assumption that we all agree with. But imagine if we were in our happy ALM world, but “B” kept getting shat on. BLM is a response to that, to say, “Hey, BLM too!” If it helps, think of it as an asterisk. “*BLM too.” BLM is not exclusive, it’s an interjection.

Also, these thoughts aren’t mine (though they were obvious to me from the start), they’re fully Googleable.
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And yet the local officials decided not to forcibly close the factory. They could have looked good on TV taking Musk away in handcuffs, and it certainly would have made a lot of people happy, but they didn't. There is a reason for that.

Ultimately, local authorities couldn't make a compelling case that opening the Tesla factory was risky enough to justify intervening. They had already allowed a number of other businesses to open that were more dangerous in terms of covid transmission than the Tesla factory and could also be called "non-essential". Tesla was taking the same precautions that local authorities recommended for other businesses they allowed to open.
EncFS 2.0 does not seem to have been released. I don't recommend it due to security problems.
Looks like a great topic. look forward to checking it out
I can tell that this is hard-earned wisdom from lived experiences as I nod my head in agreement. Thanks for sharing.
This is also a problem with teaching online piano lessons, sometimes the piano gets filtered out and makes it hard to hear what the student is doing.
Functional programming has been a game changer for me as well and has enabled me to write larger and more complex programs that are easy to maintain and reason around. I highly recommend cytoolz for python
Keeping a developer journal, digitally, so it can easily be searched.

(I'm using a simple extension called `vscode-journal` in my text editor, it writes daily markdown files stored on my Dropbox.)
We seek to replace things that are not working all of the time. Sometimes it takes more creative solutions, but usually we can fix systemic issues we have created ourselves, as long as we have a little imagination.

Defunding the police would allow us to do things like fund more social workers and non-armed, non-enforcement officers who can help people in crisis. It would allow us to fund infrastructure for safer streets, classrooms and highways. It would allow us to fund restorative justice programs, subsidize housing for those who need help and make our society work for everyone. It would allow us to fund drug treatment and education programs, fund school lunches, and help create vocational training.

Fundamentally, defunding the police would allow us to actually identify the problems that they solve, and eliminate those they create. The problems that are left over can then be solved in different ways.
What are the lucrative tax arrangements that are keeping them here? What about the US's tax structure is better than Switzerland's?

https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/Switzerland/Corporate/Taxes-on-...
I'm not entirely against the concept of trusted computing, but it's hard to believe that "trusted computing" as we know it today is so innocuous when it's included on consumer CPUs. Why not keep it as a premium feature for server-class CPUs instead?
Every time there's a thread on the topic, I like to share this fantastic realtime map of the carbon intensity of electricity production in various countries :

https://www.electricitymap.org/map

As I write this, the UK's intensity is 326 gCO₂eq/kWh, which is nothing to write home about.

This is better than the worst European offender (coal-loving Poland : 652g) as well as Baltic countries, the Netherlands and Germany (373).

But it's far from the best in class : Nordic countries (around 20-30, thanks to hydro) or for a more comparable country, France (around 60, thanks to nuclear)

Germany is interesting because it consistently has one of the worst carbon intensity figures of all developed countries, in spite of a record-setting share of renewables that its green activists like to boast about, and hundreds of billions of € in subsidies poured into them in the past 20 years.

That's of course the consequence of its decision to phase out nuclear power in the early 2000s. Wind/solar are intermittent and there's no way around that (battery storage isn't nearly mature enough).

That leaves 4 options for handling the base load : nuclear, hydro, gas or coal. Only 2 of those are low-carbon. And if you don't have the geography for hydro (like the Nordics do) but still decide to go nuclear-free for political reasons, guess what you're left with ?

IIRC, German coal power plants have 7 spots in the top 10 worst air pollution emitters across the EU. Coal-related air pollution causes an estimated 10.000 extra deaths each year across the continent. Radiation caused one direct death in Fukushima. Thanks, Die Grüne.
Accusing people of defending Musk without addressing any of the actual statements violates this site's guidelines.
This is a quick sum of the study's basic intuition:

> When workers lose their income, due to the shock, they reduce their spending, causing a contraction in demand. The question is whether this mechanism is strong enough to cause an overall shortfall in demand.

Answer:

> Positive, demand may indeed overreact to the supply shock and lead to a demand-deficient recession.

Suggested solution:

> The optimal policy to face a pandemic in our model combines a loosening of monetary policy as well as abundant social insurance.
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I think it's awesome that HackerNews exists. Sadly, every other platform on the internet seems to criticize and discourage new products (except product hunt).
Hey Paras,
This is very encouraging and exciting. Congratulations.
Would you please share with us your user acquisition journey and also how you determined pricing and the various pricing tiers.

Any other stories in your journey would be appreciated e.g Growing your team, sales and marketing

* Edit - Added more areas I would need your input from
+1 to self code reviews, I almost always find stuff I've missed or could have done better.
> "[The beating tape] didn't look good. It looked bad. But it was, as far as I was concerned, it wasn't against the law. And then I couldn't convict 'em because to me they were doing what they were supposed to do. And, well, the majority of us felt the same way at the trial."

Source: https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/fall-rodney-king-juror-...

> "But I assumed that the videotape showed everything that had happened. I was amazed to discover how much more of it existed than had been shown on television. The whole tape was only eighty-one seconds, but even so, only a small portion of that eighty-one seconds had been shown on television. The whole tape, seen in context, presented a far different scenario than what the public had seen."

Source: https://laist.com/2017/04/25/rodney_king_jury.php

It's a shame they were acquitted, but our culture of violence runs deep, and our [low] expectations reflect that. It's not surprising that the jurors considered the brutality justified.
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Sudo has nothing to do with training wheels.
Zoom seems to be optimizing for bandwidth use, and by extension, cost to them. Its typical use case is a shared office internet connection.

Discord users are more likely to have a dedicated fast internet connection and doesn't seem to care about profitability at the moment.

It's just the difference in designing for a 100/10 connection to yourself vs sharing a 100/100 connection with 20 other people. Zoom reasonably gracefully degrades on choppy/slow connections while Discord becomes straight up unusable.
The light problem is solved very easily, by the way. Just use a small piece of black electrical tape to cover the LED.
I apply exclusively to small companies, if a company has more than 20 employees I don't bother.

Typically they're hiring because they have some specific pain that the founder/CTO/person who wrote all the code lacks expertise in.

I have over a decade of experience of fielding phone calls from the CEO requesting a new feature by Monday, then delivering it to win a deal. I'm also good at getting on the phone with customers to find out what they need, then delivering that.

Finding a startup at the right stage seems to be pretty tough these days. There don't seem to be a lot of companies that are early enough to use my skills but are able to pay me actual money instead of equity.