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Ask HN: Peer Programming Without a Peer
TL;DR: Peer programming makes me productive - how can I get into the same state of mind without a peer?

So the last 3 months has taught me something about myself. Solitude makes my brain explode in inspiration and ideas very easy to explore without anyone looking over my shoulder and at home with easy access to all my hobbies and beloved gadgets. - I'm pretty sure now I could get an ADD diagnosis or maybe some other letters.

Problem is - I don't get much work done and in the end the people paying me to work will probably stop.

Procrastination is not new to me but I manage it a bit better when in the office. There I hate the noise and stress, but at least I kind of "feel" that I need to do some work.

It's frustrating - BUT - I found a solution: Peer programming.

I did have a chance to work with a colleague - a new guy who need to learn the way around old code. So he watched and listened to me sharing the desktop while I got work done - I was telling about why stuff was implemented, getting a lot of insight myself and having razor focus for 4-5 hours straight.

I was amazed! - but this was temporary. We don't use peer programming all the time and having a redundant peer who just pretend to listen is an expensive way to work.

- So my question: how can I trick my brain into this : "someone is watching and you need to keep focus" mode, where I actually enjoy working ?

I actually like what I do and I am OK at it - it's not because my work is boring - the procrastination I do is very similar to the real work I need to do.

I might just be hopeless - I might be the only one with this disorder. I see lots of people praising this work from home period, where they can work in silence and get focused. I envy this!
Depends on the wireless ISP. Speaking generally, a wireless ISP has the potential to provide much better service at a much lower price. As compared to current satellite internet providers it is exponentially better, as compared to Starlink... who knows, we'll see when they release concrete information.
Booting the Raspberry Pi 4 with an External SSD
Blu-ray player keeps cycling on/off whenever plugged in
GitHub Actions Facilitate MLOps on Repositories
To be frank, it could definitely use help in terms of both engineers and donors. OBS's userbase has grown from roughly 500k daily users at the beginning of March 2020 to more than 1.4 million today (on Windows -- I don't have numbers for Mac or Linux). The project only has one full-time developer, and he's frequently stretched pretty thin between developing major features, reviewing pull requests, reviewing RFCs, and having calls with industry members. Unfortunately the nature of such a complex project (both in terms of functionality and technology) is that it's hard to find people qualified to work on it who aren't already dedicated to some other project. More community contribution from skilled engineers would absolutely be welcome. For example: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-browser/issues/219 and https://github.com/CatxFish/obs-v4l2sink/issues/56

And on the subject of donors, it's tough to be able to appropriately compensate contributors without some amount of stability of income. OBS accepts donations primarily though Open Collective (https://opencollective.com/obsproject), and while there's a good amount in the bank, it's not being replaced as quickly as the project might need in order to properly fund developers at the level it needs to in the long term. A broader donor base would certainly help bring the stability needed to support that sort of effort.

And you make an excellent point with the lockdown. Now's an awkward time to want to raise funds for the project with so many people struggling financially. In fact, it's probably reasonable to say that OBS's usage has increased so much specifically due to the fact that it doesn't require anyone to pay for it, so it's less likely that the people who use it are able to help fund it.

I will say that there are efforts underway to hopefully address some of the systemic shortcomings that the OBS team has in terms of funding and development bandwidth, but things still move slowly when built on the back of a largely-volunteer workforce.
This is off base - the article is about McCandless and people like him, not specifically people who have later gone to find his bus.

It's opinionated, but not far out there. He (McCandless) died due to a combination of poor preparation and compounded mistakes; it was almost certainly avoidable. There is an interesting question of how much responsibility individuals should take for this sort of thing.
Ingenious spray paint transforms physical surfaces into interactive displays
That first commit is to the repo it is forked from, which was go-ipfs... so it didn't get the name until the fork at a later time.
Life Sciences Financings and Commentary #12
>Should a highly visible revenue-oriented corporation really aim to improve connectivity out in the boonies?

That's the only place the service will function, unless you're using it in a park or field somewhere in the GTA... so yeah I guess.
Okay, who has another idea to burn an equivalent amount of energy :) ?
This is an amusing piece of performance art, but, clearly, a better use of this display would be to play Pong. ;)
> Nobody does fingerprinting ... so I wouldn't worry about that.

I'm not sure how long you've been out, but this has changed a lot recently. Many adtech companies (not us) have responded to ITP by building out fingerprinting to continue personalization.

(Disclosure: I work on ads at Google)
From your name you live in LA. I live in and know the area I am talking about. Thanks for the suggestion.

As for household income proximity to Toronto is an indicator of wealth in itself.

I don't mean this in a belittling way, but if you are from California your concept of 'remote' is vastly different to ours in Ontario, where we have less than half the population in ~2.5x the landmass, and that population is mostly in the Toronto area. Now imagine what 'remote' must mean in the less populated provinces and territories (Ontario is the most populated province).
> We as a society generally have conventions around what speech is appropriate

80 years back you would not be able to express freely your defence of homosexuality. Before that you would not be able to "talk back" to the pope. Said conventions are rarely sane or fair.

> And we as a society generally "punish" people who violate these conventions by being reluctant to interact with those people.

Or mob on them by calling them to be banned from a conference or to get fired.

> I don't oppose strict legal consequences for murder

There are victims in murder. There are no victims when you express your opinion about something. In my experience most people who get censored are not bigots, in fact they even follow the wider social conventions, the issue is that they do not follow the specific social conventions that the extremist groups that are anti-free speech want to enforce.
Anyone dream about a Zoom meeting yet? Since I have seen a hundred zooms since the lockdown, I recall seeing one while dreaming.
Latency is the video-call superweakness.

But with text there are tools to overcome this problem. Text scales into larger groups, and accepts days long latency. People adapt quite well to hierarchical chat and shared co-authored documents. Any group larger than half a dozen people will organize better around text. But any large group is also composed of smaller ones, that can always benefit from on-site talking.

My impression, after some time of forced remote-only interaction is that both modes are very important, but spoken on-site communication is ideal for a very small share of the total communication.
- What is your level of multi processing programming skills?
- Unparalleled!
Hey this is awesome. One question, can the coach(es) cater to preexisting conditions/diets? My pops has Parkinson’s and is on a pretty tight diet that my mom has put him on for weight loss, so in order to try to get him to try it, Mighty Health would probably need to work within those confines to start. Would something like that be possible? If so, I’d love to gift a subscription to see how it helps him.

Cheers and congrats on the launch! v exciting stuff.
An appeal to authority how fallacious of you.

In fact I’m getting this from the source. My own family lived there for most of their lives. Only left in the late 80s.
I think not, because despite the high quality of the pure CSS result, there's probably a js lib out there that will get the same result for a few hundred extra kilobytes in the bundle. But knowing CSS is still very useful as a skill, it's usually your "moat" that makes it hard for backend devs to do your work while you're on vacation.
> I used to work for a spammer (that called itself an "incubator")

CogoLabs?
Late but essentially what the others said. Additionally I would point out that I migrated my accounts whenever I used them and noticed I logged in - so really piecewise.

On top, I had some burts of motivation to step through my password manager vault occasionally and update accounts I don't log in to too much.
A mathematician once said something like, "if the solution to the problem in front of you is not obvious, then you are not yet ready to work on it".

Which is to say that intellectual pioneers are often necessarily humble about their achievements, yet worked very hard to get there.

One wonders if it might be the opposite for some founders who were in the right place at the right time to hit the VC/acquisition jackpot.
I spent about ten years with field service as part of my job.

What that taught me is every form of communication has it's uses. For full effect you often need multiple types. Talk on the phone. Send a follow up email. Then talk on the phone again. Update the original email into a formal doc. Two engineers with a whiteboard can solve some problems in a few minutes that would take days of back and forth over text.

Formal text though is usually very good. Especially if the author can produce high quality output quickly. This is my particular failing.
i guess i was talking sideways...was trying to say that some of the most valuable things we do as a species are already non or quasi transactional.
When I saw the footage in the Watchmen, I thought it was a made-up event for the TV show. I was appalled to discover it really happened.

I also think it's worrisome that this was posted 4 hours ago and mine is the first comment on it.

I get that there is a anti-political stuff sentiment on hacker News and that makes sense but this still needs to be discussed.
Many hard useful things, which once we're more accessible to small-scale entrepreneurs, have became scalable industries by using technology and free money.

Solar installations certainly seems that way - it probably runs by big companies/platforms, hiring freelance salesman and installers and offering better financing, web marketing, QA, brand, etc.

And of course this ties to "freelancers on demand" platforms, replacing many entrepreneurs.

Same could go for tree trimmings, maybe by using sat images to find opportunities, and automating the legal, marketing processes.

As for automating plants, there's robots-as-a-service, so this probably creates an opportunity for proven robotic service companies to grow and less for new entrepreneurs.

It may just be that the world just needs far fewer entrepreneurs.
>Use a mnemonic that includes the name of the service or website in an algorithm.

I'm not sure what the point of this when there are password managers available. Sure, it prevents simple credential stuffing attacks, but you're still open to sophisticated attackers deducing your passwords based on a leak. For instance, if your bank password is "correct horse battery staple chase", an sophisticated attacker might try "correct horse battery staple paypal" for your paypal account. Attackers already bruteforce common variations of passwords (eg. password -> (Password, password1, etc.), so this isn't too far fetched. Password managers with randomly generated passwords have none of these issues, and you still only need to remember one password.
As I understand it Wirecard had a written confirmation by two Phillipine banks that there is 2 biion in desposits. E&Y got suspicious, because the confirmations arrived really fast, much faster thank banks usually take to issue these papers. So they sent a guy in the Phillipines to the banks to investigate. The banks claimed that there are no deposits and the documents were issues by an employee without authorization.
It was the right call because even if you were overly cautious, you can always go back again.
Into the Wild certainly inspired me to increase my exposure to the wilderness, on top of many years watching Survivorman. I only grew up car camping, so it's a slowish process of acquiring the necessary skills through longer and more challenging summit day hikes in coastal BC, and soon multi-day backpacking as I aquire necessary gear. I was never particularly taken by the transactional feedback loop of life, and I think the McCandless story sort of re-affirmed that in some way. The only things I've done that approximate his path were a few long and short term trips that I've taken with no real plan, nowhere to be, and no place or time to be back. It's not for everyone, but you build a lot more confidence if yiu can make it through.
Didnt Mitt Romney shield a fortune from taxes by wrapping Bain Inc deals inside IRAs? Sounds kind of similar.
Snowflake is per your link an RDBMS. Where it lives and on what storage subtrate it operates from is irrelevant.

On your recommendation I'll have a look at DBT, thanks.

Whatever you're doing at work sounds really complex, possibly worsened by sheer quantity of data. I wish you luck with it!
> Those were dangerous in general sense to the establishment's position of power

How was the argument of legalization of homosexual relations a danger to the establishment's position of power?
Making accurate, specific and surprising predictions.
Ask HN: Redditers want a product, can we help connect the dots?
Hey HN-ers!

I came across this post on reddit where some are looking for an up-to-date Picasa equivalent. (It was killed.) I know lots of startuppers are looking for ideas, it seems there are at least some users who need this.

Is there a site where users can vote on ideas they need? I think I've seen one posted here some time ago but can't find it. Any ideas? Maybe we could help connect the dots..

https://www.reddit.com/r/photography/comments/hbt3aq/i_wish_someone_would_create_a_real_replacement/

ps - I'm in no way benefiting from this
Not only did he play Bilbo in the Rings movies, he memorably played Frodo in the many many episodes of the 1981 BBC radio serial version.
Is this assuming you can pick winners?
One vaguely related thing is the 1953 jukebox hit, "Three Minutes of Silence" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3OSg2ehHbs which delivered on its promise. (It doesn't seem to have a WP page yet. Does anyone know of a WP-friendly source of information on it?)

Here's a Spotify playlist of various (apparently) silent tracks, useful for inserting pauses/silent intervals into Spotify playlists as (AFAICT) there isn't any other way to do so. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4fN5YP4n8aGCSS4j3MQoeo?si=... .
You're saying he has special access to data, but it doesn't necessarily follow that he has special insight based on that data. That said, Sam is a smart guy, so he probably does have some special insight - but it's not immediately obvious and this is hardly an evidence-based argument.
So say that. No part of the phrase "defund the police" indicates any part of this re-allocation that you describe. Regardless, you still will need a police force. There has to be some entity of the government which enforces the rule of law. Look at what happened when the police abandoned their posts in during the Rodney King riots. Additionally, what about homicide and detective units; we should probably keep those positions, right?

The problem with this slogan is I have no idea what it is actually proposing except for the literally dismantling of the police force as we know it.
Pretty much all of those features you call out are available in modern video chat software - at least the one I have to use daily (Zoom).
I'm not sure about the macOS scaling, and I couldn't find any info on the Internet about my question.

When using non-integer scaling, does mac OS actually render fonts at 2x, then scales it all down?

So you have a 3840x2160 monitor, set mac OS to "look like 2560x1440", it would render at 5120x2880, then scale it down to 3840x2160?

To me, a more logical solution would be using the vector font of the target physical pixel value (3840x2160) and skip all scaling etc.
Truly a great recommendation! I switched to tt-rss years ago when Google Reader was discontinued, but as more services discontinue their RSS feeds it has been consistently losing value.

I'd looked for something like rss-bridge ages ago, around the time I moved to tt-rss, but it didn't seem to exist (or wasn't popular enough to find). Your mention caused me to give things another look, and now my tt-rss is rapidly filling back up with content. Thanks!
Geeks are a wonderful marketing vector.

And he is promising them a better internet.

I would not worry about that.
I have ranted about the terrible quality of consumer telecommunications in Canada for years - I am terribly excited. I have lived in both the US and Canada, moving between both for the past 6 years, and I am always thrilled to use American providers.

Anecdotal data point: For a while, AT&T had an North-America wide plan for $~40/45 for month with 10G LTE with the rest being 3G. I kept this in Canada because there would be nothing close to this there - it was cheaper to use the American service.

I've always used my own phone with prepaid plans and the cheapest plans in Canada are awful compared to the cheapest plans in the USA. I also lived in the GTA, not some remote village.
Movies with similar concepts, which were surprisingly good:

- Searching (2018, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7668870/)

- Unfriended (2014, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3713166/)
Wow very cool stuff. I'm wondering if these ideas could be integrated into the rust type system.
If they want to use an Android-only app. Just like I would have to buy a $400 iPhone if I want to use an iOS-only app.
I was quite convinced by studies I have seen, mostly those collected by Radley Balko that this your first paragraph is not the case.

But here, we are arguing about opinions on what is going on and not by "you should understand this person can not accept racism as explanation because he would not be benefiting from it".

There, I was asked to understand that reasoning on itself, if it is not benefiting me it can not be true, which is completely different then this.
That part of Alaska is not serious wilderness by Alaskan standards. It is near vacation homes and hunting lodges a major roads.
Mitigating password reuse is far from the only purpose of MFA. If you are using any sort of SSO or account that signs in to multiple services (I think Xbox falls into this category as a Microsoft account), then it can also protect you from an attacker who steals the login info from one place and uses it to sign in to a different service. In the case of a Microsoft account, all it would take is one decent enough phish, one app storing your email credentials improperly and accidentally leaking them, or a quickly blocked malware infection that nevertheless manages to steal your password manager’s contents, and without MFA the attacker can then log in to email, Xbox, and so on.
> more than 2000 investors (excluding employees)

I don't think employees are excluded from this.
Are you familiar with Eco’s work?
> 21 billion could be spent on two hundred thousand

The $1T F35 program has entered the chat.
Well, this is different in the sense that I have to initiate a payment (or schedule a payment if the amount is fixed). The other side cannot just access my account to withdraw money.
Musk companies are working like agile software teams, except with hardware. I'm excepting that they actually launched the satellite before being able to make them work.

They tend to figure things on the way. Or not :)
I know it's an exaggeration, but it's exciting to think of some random bored person in a low-access area all of a sudden seeing a new access point in settings.

(Come to think of it, with the PSPS phenomenon here in NorCal, I might end up being that bored guy this very year!)
Torrents can't write though, or are you referring to a shared filesystem like NFS?
AFAIK, most bill pay services move the money from your account into an account owned by the bank, and then send out a bank check. But verify this for yourself before trusting it.
how would svg help ? Its not an image of a grid they want.
If you are looking for something more robust, I would recommend Fluxonaut (https://fluxonaut.com). It's only for Windows and is still in beta but you can mix RSS, Twitter and YouTube quite nicely through multiple screens!

(Full disclaimer: I'm a founder, but I truly feel it's the best way to consume RSS if you use 2+ monitors on Windows =) ).
You can still reach them with internet marketing, people who live in rural Canada still use social media. In many rural areas there will be kind of a catch all local business that springs up and resells cable, dsl, dialup, landline, cell or whatever services are available in the community (along with offering computer and phone repair or whatever). If it were me I would reach out to these people and let them do their own local marketing, in addition to the normal Elon strategy.
There's also an amazing full length Daft Punk music video that sometimes is considered a sequel to the 80s film, but you'll likely want to watch the spin-off cartoon for a lot of the necessary plot.

In the plot of the cartoon the titular character (program) Tron is assumed dead, and then corrupted by a corrupt system. I can only assume this is why his name is being bad mouthed by some sort of crypto-currency scheme, as Tron was a good program, a security program built to defend the users and would never stand silent on for-profit exploitation of users.
Ask HN: How can I add structs to bash?
I’m trying to write a Lisp in Bash, but while writing a recursive parser I really struggled with storing values in parallel arrays (it got fiddly). Having a data structure that can store both the type and value would be really useful, which can then be stored in an array. Has anyone ever added data structures in bash before? How did you do it?
The article talks about "constitutional rights": hence the US constitution link. You may not be in the US: in which case, you're right, you shouldn't care.

The usual counter example to statements of the form "You are not free to do something if you are threatened with jail-time or murder or getting beaten or ... ." is "if you yell fire in a crowded theater, expect to get in trouble". You're free to yell, but there WILL be consequences.
I wonder how credible the claims of carrying 45kg for 40km is. This seems nearly unbelievable; my understanding is that healthy, experienced hikers today might carry around 30% of their body weight at the upper limit, which would be 60lbs or about 25 kg for a 200lb person.