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Yes science can be a good guide. The trouble is that some left-wing social movements explicitly reject science (and Enlightenment values in general) as a tool of the oppressor. There are certain things you're not allowed to say regardless of scientific evidence. For one example, look what happened to scientific critics of Lysenkoism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism#Effects
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My point is, if it isn’t clear, is that scientists who think the world is being put in danger by climate change shouldn’t be requesting or otherwise accept money that would be better spent combatting said existential threat. To accept money on huge projects with no clear benefit to humanity when there are much more pressing matters at hand is either to deny those problems don’t exist or act with hypocrisy.

P.S. spending money on something that adds no clear value is the definition of a vanity project.

P.P.S. My argument also doesn’t hinge on whether the LHC or its successor is a vanity project or not, I think we can all agree spending 20bn+ on lifting people out of poverty or combatting climate change is a much more worthy recipient of tax payer dollars.
To judge whether I personally want to buy something (not judging its quality)

1. I put it on a note with the current date.

2. I set an arbitrary date that is 1 day / $100 OR 30 days (depending on which is shorter)

3. I revisit the prospective purchase in my head until the deadline and ask "Do I still want this"

4. I purchase on the deadline

Judging value:
Customer reviews and corporate manufacturing practices and corporate political stance
Good question.

While there are many tools for sketching flowcharts, mind-maps, UML diagrams etc, cloudskew has cloud architecture diagrams as its sole focus.

Also planning your cloud architecture requires several round-trips between your drawing tool, document editor (for architecture documentation), looking up reference architectures, googling for AWS documentation (for resource docs, pricing details etc).

CloudSkew can reduce some of these pains today:

1. It already has a built-in document editor (so architecture documentation + diagrams can reside side-by-side).

2. Links to official docs (including pricing details, SLA) for all AWS, Azure and GCP resources are available within the app itself.

3. Bigger icon set (as far as cloud diagrams are concerned).

Later in the year, some cloudskew features will be coming to make cloud architecture planning easier.
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Really? I'm more pro-nuclear, and to me it seems like every time there's a post about it there's a pretty balanced argument in the comments about it. It's incendiary, yes, but the debate does happen, and the antis seem just as passionate as the pros.
Hi Joe, nice to see you here! :)

So I think every community is interpreting the post with their own bias (it also showed up on Reddit). The context that is missing is that (1) you work for a company that writes amazing open source software to analyze satellite imagery and that as many other companies in the space have found out the hard way, (2) competing with ESRI marketing is absolutely difficult - you have some battle scars already from it. Cheers!
I think this is a good change. It's eliminates a potential avenue of accidentally doing the wrong thing but not noticing because it "works on my machine."
x86 is 1980s. POWER is 1990s. MIPS is 1980s. Sparc is 1980s.

What would you prefer they use? Itanium? RISC-V?
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This is indeed good news! I am excited for a new name and hopefully more resources put into making the client better and on par or even better than Slack
Pretty similar to what they do with kexts on iOS.
Australia did have a plan for a 21st century fiber optic broadband network, but the party suggesting that solution lost the election.

The election winners won with the help of a promised to build a better network at a quarter of the price, using the existing copper and coaxial systems and just adding in some new fiber optics.

Needless to say that promise never delivered and after spending just as much money on that copper/coax mess there is no money left to fix it.

The new system is approaching completion and it is already obsolete.

So here in Australia we did have a chance to join the 21st century but we just blew it.
For me this particular story was notable because it was the first time I had (barely) enough expertise to realise that story is really implausible and enough interest to follow it up.

It's not that rogue journalist influencing stock market is bad, it's bad, but that's not the point. What really bothers me is that that there are no mechanisms on media company level to punish or at least disincentivize faulty reporting.

We encounter misinformation on a daily basis, but can't do anything about it. We can't even notice it, unless topic in question happens to fall in our area of expertise.
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> engineers go extreme in designing things/code for future cases which are not yet known

They're afraid.

Fear: If I don't plan for all these use cases, they will be impossible! I will look foolish for not anticipating them. So let's give into that fear and over-architect just to be safe. A bit of the 'condom' argument applies: better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.

But the reality is that if your design doesn't match the future needs really well, you're going to have to refactor anyway. Hint: there will always be a future need you didn't anticipate! Software is a living organism that we shape and evolve over time. Shopify was a snowboard store, Youtube was a dating website, and Slack was a video game.

So my answer: relentlessly cut design features you don't need. Then relentlessly refactor your code when you discover you do need them. And don't be afraid of doing either of those things because it turns out they're both fun challenges. The best you can do is to try to ensure your design doesn't make it really hard to do anything you know or suspect you'll need in the future. Just don't start building what no one has asked for yet.
What do you mean with 'new physics'?

And no, the higgs was a theory, now proven right (maybe you mean that by 'new physics'?)

Sorry but your view on the world is just depressing, its like we need 'new science' 'new physics' whatever that means, but building the experiment to proof a theory is right, is too expensive?

And no the JWST is a space telescope NOT something completely different from hubble, it's a telescope.
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It costs a bit (180€) but it is great
I agree with this and have made an audio only conferencing service https://www.producthunt.com/posts/mornin
Fine overall, but weight coming back on as not playing football (soccer) 3 times a week like I was! Dreading going back to it, as every time I don't play for months and health/fitness suffer it takes a good 6 weeks to get back to where I was.
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Any moment now I expect Columbus city to be renamed.

There’s a movement to have Yale renamed as it was named after a slave trader, not merely a slave owner. But so far Yale has managed to frame it as a troll
Is it possible to sue for this kind of misrepresentation (lies), or do you need to prove financial (non social) damages?
The fact that a huge amount of money is wasted in one area doesn't justify wasting a smaller amount somewhere else.
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Putting on weight; working less each day; finding it harder to start on home projects as time goes on.

Positive: my garden benefits from my weeding-therapy sessions. Its mindless and physical, which I need.
I would expect this to impact mainly build systems, and I would expect to impact them really hard. But to be honest this is just a gut feeling. On the other hand, I am sure that Apple has thought this through, as we all know developer experience is of paramount importance for them.
I know nobody asked, I will suggest it anyway: Factor
Here in PAL land, though you'd already know this, you could get a related effect with some palette swapping. If you flipped between colours with the same luminance (pink and green, for example), you'd get an intermediate colour. Mayhem in Monsterland is an example of this that springs to mind.
Some things to keep in mind when doing any interview.

First, know what message you want to get across, and focus on that.

Second, avoid almost all "what if" type hypothetical questions.

Third, make your own recording of any interview, and make sure the reporter is aware that you are doing so.

I was fortunate enough to be part of some media training early in my career, where the trainer (an ex-TV reporter) recorded an interview with one of the participants. The next day they played for us the video they had put together splicing different questions into the interview and editing down the responses. The resulting "interview" was a real hit piece, and the editing was done smoothly enough that it presented as a single continuous take (even with the switching camera angles). It would have been very damaging if it had been broadcast like that, and without proof that it was faked the PR effort to counteract it would have been challenging.
Did that work out well for him in the end?
Nextcloud supports list sharing, you can find some free providers at nextcloud.com/signup. EteSync also supports list sharing.

The app itself doesn't include any sharing functionality, but if you set up list sharing through your provider then the shared lists will appear on both user's devices
can we get a binary with 68k, powerpc, x86, and arm and call the binary .fatso
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"In the last few weeks"? The NYT has been going in this direction for years.
At the end of that video the presenter mused about the possibility that Apple having success with their ARM chips might help other RISC chips and the RISC-V was named specifically. Isn't this a bit of a red herring? It's my understanding that ARM64 and RISC-V aren't compatible and porting Linux or Windows to RISC-V would be as big of a jobn as porting it to, say, the Intel Itanium.
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In NH my water/sewer bill is $350 a quarter at this point. "Plentiful water" doesn't seem to make an impact.
Better than expected. And I feel really weird about it.

I live in Sweden and I started a new job half a year ago. In many ways it's much better than my previous one. The only real drawback was not being allowed to work from home. For the first few months, that didn't bother me since I had a lot of fun socializing with my colleagues. Then, the pandemic hit and we were encouraged to work from home. My wife and kids are also home, since my wife was on parental leave.

I don't get out as much as I'd want to, haven't been outside the small town I live in for months. I used to take the commuter train to the big city each morning. I do miss friends and colleagues, but I'm surrounded by my family every day, do precisely the work I want and win so much time by skipping the two hours of daily commute. My son misses his grandparents, at first he had trouble understanding the reason for our new routines, and he has said he misses grocery shopping. I get that. Personally, I'm really happy we've been able to order online from our local grocery store.

I do have friends who were infected. Friends of friends who have passed away. But all in all it feels like I'm living in this weird shielded bubble with zero social contact outside of my family. It's surreal and I feel almost guilty for having been so spared from any real consequences of this pandemic. I was talking to a friend and we concluded that we both feel that this change has been primarily positive to our daily lives, and that we're so lucky to work in tech.
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This feels like a non-issue to me. The Linux Foundation didn't buy hardware and then settle on a Windows server install. They picked an email newsletter service that fit their needs and one part of that happens to contain a aspx link.
Oh, that's just because I happen to live in Poland (most of the time) and I'm very annoyed by these attempts to "put women in their place" (usually, the kitchen, and with child-bearing duties).

What I meant is that things are good, but the church and conservatives are hard at work, trying to make them worse.
No, this is not an example of the tragedy of the commons. It is simply a negative externality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality#Negative

And I guess it is an example of market failure in the technical sense but I don't think I would phrase that as "when a market economy fails" as it is not clear whether you are talking colloquially or technically.

EDIT: Just to clarify why it is critical to be specific, positive externalities are also market failures. Caring about a technical market failures is a bit abstract, I would not lose sleep over it, they happen.

Caring about a negative externalities and advocating for them to be internalized is a lot more concrete and actionable and not something I think anybody really disagrees with on paper.

You will have more practical disagreements though because it is unlikely that microplastics being used in say Denmark has the same environmental impact as microplastics being used in say Asia or Africa: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/90-of-plastic-polluti... and applying a tax to people in Denmark won't result in the externality being internalized in Nigeria.
> To be great is to be misunderstood.

I would be content with being ordinary—permission to ask obvious questions about the narrative handed down from on high—without fear of defamation that costs me my livelihood.
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> I was following the time honored HN tradition of posting one line about the article and then taking up a tangent.

Please don't.
Even ignoring the race condition, has stating shared libraries ever been documented as a method to ascertain existence of a shared library?

My guess as to the reason: I would guess the new way is faster, more secure, or takes less memory. Leaving an unused copy of binaries around would be wasting disk space (and yes, disks are enormous nowadays, but SSDs aren’t)

It may cache data from Apple’s servers, but calling it a cache sounds incorrect, though.
If you want something built as quickly as possible, get someone else who already knows it to do it. Either a friend or pay someone.

Becoming an expert is usually a side effect of building something. As opposed to the other way around.

I am assuming you already have a project in mind. Assuming you are already technically competent. Then you can design, in detail the project. When you have identified the pieces of the project, build each piece, using the new language/framework. Test each piece. The first piece I would do is one that exercised the building of code in the new language. Second piece would target the new framework. You also want to determine how you are going to debug this, at some point, you will scream WTF you piece of S* why are you doing this! Thats when you learn to love your debugger.

It helps a lot if you have a buddy who knows the language / framework. Not to have them do it but to guide you. When you have your first few pieces of code, ask them their opinion.

When lacking a buddy, I usually grab some 'step by step' instruction, build what they say. Recently I built a web site for work, we needed to post time relevant material, that would expire. The activity on the page we expected to be very low. So I looked at doing Github. Found this wonderful step by step guide by Jonathan McGlone. http://jmcglone.com/guides/github-pages/
I followed it faithfully to make my first site, FWIW I am a backend / embedded developer. I took that knowledge as a spring board to create what I needed.

When following a guide be careful of software version issues. I have gone through some guides just to find out it would not work because the version they used is no longer available. Sadly I have had this happen several times with Unity, to the point I have stopped trying. Video guides are often good as you can see what they are talking about.
Thank you for the quick reply! That issue is pretty much the only one keeping me on OpenTasks at the moment. :)
Water is the new Global Warming
Neither Signal nor Telegram are federated. You can't have an organizational or private Telegram server. Your account is managed by a party you have no control over.
I mentioned in another comment, Vector Marketing firmly holds the top spot in a google search for "vector".

Even if the Deciders called it Vector.im or Vector Messenger, and did some SEO, it wouldn't be that hard to find.

In fact Riot.im shows up at #8 on DDG and #6 on Google (for me) when "riot" is searched, even when "riot" is a very hyped up search term. (https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=riot)
As someone newly trying to learn DNS, I don't _use_ 8.8.8.8 personally. So I was confused at first why they kept offering it up on the page. It might help in the first reference to it, so say 'Google DNS' along with the 8.8.8.8
It is an external company, it's got "exacttarget.com" nameservers.
People get tied up with people problems, the great big universe doesn't give a sh*t about people problems - galaxies and suns will spin around no matter what you do. We have millions of years of evolution coded in our every actions - eating, sleeping, waking, screwing - how do you escape this? To me that is how you get a growth mindset, though even that feels a poor name.

A better thing to my mind is escape your programming, learn all there is to know about disparate fields, don't get tied down in other peoples dilemmas, dream incredibly big, find others who want to do the same, people will come and go in your life, enjoy them, shun people who want to drag you down. Every day do wonderful things, even if you have to do every day things, you'll still have time to find a tiny bit of wonderful somewhere, eventually it will grow. Learn a lot about humanities and science, not because you have to but because you want to know.

We have so many reactions that are hard and soft coded into our thoughts and bodies, from our DNA, our upbringing, our schooling, society, work - watch them, when you react to something, figure out why, and if necessary deprogram yourself. You will start to see the universe outside the people sphere, and you can bring some of it back, and share it, and make the people world a better place perhaps, and have your growth mindset.
Not to take too dark a turn here, but human zoos were not uncommon at the turn of the century.

The Bronx Zoo had people, in cages, on display in 1906. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_zoo
Best time for me in a while. Have focused on productivity, organisation and both mental and physical health over everything because I have the time now I’m not doing things I thought I should be doing but didn’t need to do. Achieved more in the last three months than the last three years.

Insanely perhaps, I sold nearly everything I own on eBay as well. This was liberating too.
> I love to debate and hear ideas from those I disagree with

The right may take the cake as far as hypocrisy goes in general, but the one thing that pisses me off the most about the left is their lip service to open-mindedness. I often wonder if they do in fact believe it themselves.

> They are using your statement to appeal to others to listen and accept their clearly racist ideas or provable wrong, anti-science ideas

With the continuously widening scope of what could be considered "racist" or "anti-science", I suppose there won't be much left to debate soon enough.
This is kind of a bullshit answer, but basic atom level understanding and experimentation leads to atomic bomb level outcomes. Now imagine you understand a few levels deeper. Do you think these types of engineering spin-offs are going to be widely known, or instead would they be kept very guarded?
I hate to break it to you but I'm not an American.

You've responded in bad faith with nothing but nonsense and wildly untrue accusations.

Also, I am very familiar with H1Bs and their application, as well as the companies that use them. Your anecdote isn't data.

Every country should be looking out for their citizens first and foremost. Not increasing the profit margins of corporations.

You're not entitled to live in a different country just because you want to.
In my experience Apache Kafka is indeed a real world incarnation of that Kafkaesque bureaucratic rigmarole that he described in his novel 'The Castle'.
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You seem to be responding to the following proposition:

"If it solves a user's problem, a Q&A is good"

which wasn't what I was saying. What I was saying was:

"If a Q&A is good, it solves users' problem(s)"
Unless you're following a regimented and formalized diagram paradigm, drawing is no different than writing. You have to be comfortable with failure and starting over.

I love drawing, but also struggle to make my diagrams relevant and useful in tech applications (software).

On the other hand, diagrams in software have a long and rich tradition. One of the topics I discovered which was fascinating and highly informative was a course on Business Process Management from TU Delft on Edx (though I can't seem to find it now).

I was amazed to discover business concepts diagramed and executable! How's that for formalized.

Besides that, it might just be a case of visual literacy. Katy Borner of Indiana University [3] had a great MOOC, Information Visualization at Edx (though, again, it's not available now).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_process_management

[2]: http://ebooks.iospress.nl/book/challenging-the-chain-governi...

[3]: https://info.sice.indiana.edu/~katy/
And of course they do, surveillance is the law in the US. They are expected to comply.
If you had bothered to read the article, you would see that Scott lists two reasons why he is shutting down the blog. The reason that you mentioned is one. The other reason is:

> The second reason is more prosaic: some people want to kill me or ruin my life, and I would prefer not to make it too easy. I’ve received various death threats. I had someone on an anti-psychiatry subreddit put out a bounty for any information that could take me down (the mods deleted the post quickly, which I am grateful for).

You write:

> What's the hidden truth, controversial opinion or super secret insight at stake here?

There is no one opinion at stake here. What is at stake is the ability to hold any dissenting opinion. Or not even hold it, but merely discuss it openly.

In the case of the anti-psychiatry lobby it's not even a dissenting opinion! It's basically the opinion that psychiatry ought to exist. There is just a small community of dissidents who disagree and want to get Scott fired (or worse). They now have a lot more leverage, because we've collectively decided that we should foster a culture where it's totally normal to try and get someone fired for things that are totally unrelated to work.

Just as the members of an anti-psychiatry subreddit should have a right to freedom of speech and association without the fear that their posts will get them fired (or worse), so should Scott.
Pretty sure I'm doing fine personally. Other than going out less and seeing less people this doesn't feel too much different than what I was doing already, since I was working at home to begin with. Financially we are in worse shape, but we're still doing better than most people.

But I got a sudden and serious reminder yesterday that even if I'm doing fine, other people in my family aren't doing so well at coping. So I should be putting in more of an effort to help others through this.
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