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Ask HN: Where are the financially independent hackers?
I'm sure there are a lot of people here who have successfully exited a startup, or have taken the FIRE[1] route and saved enough money to be financially independent. I've done the latter, and in a few months I'm thinking of "retiring early" and leaving the workplace behind.

I just don't want to deal with office politics anymore, or prioritize what I work on based on profits (over how much it helps people, or how technically interesting it is). But I still want to code, and I still want to meet smart people to code with (in person, once this pandemic is over, because fully remote doesn't do it for me).

The problem is that I normally meet other programmers at work, conferences, and meetups. And nearly everyone there is driven by their careers at for-profit companies. So I think I need to look elsewhere.

Are you a financially independent hacker? What does your "retirement" look like, and where do you meet other people like you?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIRE_movement
As a random aside, I'm in Oz too :-)

Heya to my neighbors! It's actually not too unlikely that we're physically not that far apart. I'm about 5km as the crow flies from the Sydney CBD.
I mean that white supremacists are outside the range of reasonable political debate.
Florida becomes first state to enact DNA privacy law, blocking insurers
Check out Clojure, it is a dialect of Lisp.
Modern skills with a legacy philosophy is an interesting pairing (god is not real)
BLM is a terrorist organization
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Speaking against the sanctioned narrative is "dangerous".
Any handy links for that Google-Russia story? It’s not that I don’t believe, because I do (IMO this is something that Google would have done) it’s just that I’m on mobile and am too lazy to search for those links myself.
I think that assumes there's no cost to hypocrisy. It sounds like New Relic have tried the approach you advocate (publicly showing the apparently now mandatory support for BLM) whilst actually trying to ignore it, and that was insufficient for a few of the employees.
I agree with you, and at least I meant to say the same thing. I read OP’s teacher as saying that when the US became majority-minority, that would eliminate the remaining roadblocks to a progressive remaking of America. And I think that’s premised on the misunderstanding that because people of color vote Democrat, they agree with progressive white Democrats that such a remaking would be desirable.

As you observe, the 2020 Primary is an example of this phenomenon. Progressives try to explain it away by saying suggesting “people of color really agree with Warren, they’re just more concerned about electability.” But my guess is that for the most part they, like my parents, actually like Biden. And that should give anyone who believes in “demographic destiny” pause.
> Legalize and regulate all drugs

Yeah, legalizing fentanyl in particular should do an excellent job of thinning the herd.
I see it as an order of magnitude less dangerous than censorship at the library level.
Does SyncThing suit your purpose? https://syncthing.net/
He's still around. He did help design a pretty cool fractal explorer app for the iPad (I have it). http://sub.blue/frax
I just came across the term of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaky_abstraction. I think that term captures what we're talking about, do you agree?
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As a Russian, seeing how Russians perceive things, which I imagine is something of an analogue:

They don't believe our internal propaganda. That's why Russia and the like spend so much time hyping up where we don't live up to our ideals - it lets them sell the line that we're just as bad, just as corrupt, just as etc. but we either mouth the propaganda trying to get by, or we're dumb/gullible enough to fall for the propaganda.

My understanding of Chinese culture suggests there's also a strand of "they'd love us to be hamstrung by falling for their bullshit, so we don't seize our place in the world."
My experience in Continental Europe with DAB is that when you receive the signal it is fine, but when the signal is flaky it is useless. For FM signals, the quality drop at bad reception is much more linear, and not a binary type of reception where it drops, but rather just gets grainy.

Since internet coverage is so wide, I can always receive digital radio online, should I wish to.

In the case I am somewhere with bad data reception, I would probably preffer FM.
Yay for some depth to design. Nay for the overuse of drop shadows (especially on Messages icon).
Interesting. I took a screen snapshot of the front page: https://imgur.com/gallery/thY5Tl6

Compared to #1 and #2 ranked posts, which have half the upvotes, but uploaded within the same hour or two, this post is ranked #19.

Maybe many people are "flag"-ing the post so the HN ranking algorithm pushes it lower.

(Edit: For the record, I don't believe the HN mods are doing any downmodding here, and it's probably just due to the ranking algorithm and behavior of the HN audience)
Pretty helpful. The more translations the better too. Cross referencing translations is always interesting for me.
People do things that benefit them, and avoid doing things that harm them.

They motivate their selfish actions, to others but also to themselves (Motivated Reasoning) with noble sounding arguments. Our brains are very good at coming up with those.

Once you understand and accept this, you can process the world on a higher level.

The hardest part is seeing when you do this yourself.
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Nice API. Still, it's a little like a Shakespeare API that supports only Portuguese and Chinese. It would be great to include the original languages.
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> Don't you think that C-levels of all of them were previously dying to get into China, and were ready to do anything?

> ...

> treason

In the case of China, doesn't the US government in some ways encourage this? I forget the colloquial name for the "policy" (if you can call it that, because I don't think it's codified into law), but isn't the idea that if the US shares some of the fruits of capitalism and liberal democracy with China, the people of their country may follow suit?
Well, many people disagree, so I'd like to voice my support. Maybe more of us should team up in a chat room.
I've also linked to an article that dismisses the study in question, and links to it.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidnikel/2020/06/07/controver...

But why would it be deleted? I guess because it has already been on here? Maybe multiple times? But wouldn't people just link to previous discussion(s)?
Relevant => css library that resembles mac desktop apps
=> https://photonkit.com
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I’m not making a value judgement either way.

Yes I now work for $BigTech and make somewhere around the salary of an SDE2. But I work remotely in the burbs of a relatively low cost of living area. I can take a hit.

But how will people feel making the same salary and living on the west coast? A lot of them think they are “barely middle class” because they can’t afford to send Timmy to a private school, have the house, max out their 401K and save for their son to go to a top ten college?
Ask HN: Is it possible to submit electron.js apps into the Mac App store?
Really, I need to hear this!
Congrats on the growth - enjoyed the writing which led me to find your partners blog as well.

DDOS is always a good sign —- would make a great post as well!
You've certainly given this a lot of careful consideration.

Edit! First off I appreciate the hate keep it coming.

Secondly it's like this dude had this list in his back pocket just waiting for this post to show up so he could get it off his chest.

Now back to your regularly scheduled death march
That's exactly what we need. It boggles my mind how most of the huge cars I see on the road are occupied just by one person.
100% with you. I absolutely hate the material design, it's the least intuitive way to use a computer. Paired with touch-first interfaces it's one of the worst thing to happen to computers.
Kaleidoscope https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/kaleidoscope
Milling is not necessarily confined to grain.

While gristmills are one of the oldest types of mills, many windmills in the Netherlands were poldermills to drain low-lying land, and the industrial revolution brought us a variety of carpet mills and powdermills and everything mills, although they were mostly based on water mills, and steel mills, which don't even involve turbines.
Please share your views :)
The way I've heard Sandi Metz talk about it is basically that Don't Repeat Yourself isn't the important thing, but it's what we tell beginners who don't realise that having 15 copies of the same logic all over their program isn't a good idea. It's a proxy for the idea of abstraction, because that takes much longer to develop a good taste for.

And unfortunately, a lot of people learn the quick reminder "Don't Repeat Yourself" without ever hearing the actually definition of the principle: "Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system", which doesn't roll off the tongue as easily. The DRY principle is a bit easy to corrupt and mis-apply, if you don't ever learn what it really means.
LinkedIn also works in mainland China, but it is subject to censorship. [1]

[1] https://www.inkstonenews.com/tech/linkedin-says-profile-poli...
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And your anecdotal experience comes from a local community. At least mine comes from people posting all over the US.

You bought up student loan debt.
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It's a heck of a lot faster when running locally on your own NAS, but it's also worth remembering that it's not just a fancy demo where all of the window content can be stuffed into a single large JS file and downloaded ahead of time. Synology's UI is actually doing real stuff, and the content of every window has to be streamed from the server on demand.
I don't quite understand the issue with aspect ratio. I know there isn't a way to define it well yet, but people have been building websites for almost 30 years without a way to specify it, and now all of a sudden everyone claims to need it. It's weird.

I hope it's just evidence that CSS layout has improved to the point where 95% of the problems are effectively solved by flexbox and grid, and the upcoming subgrid, so now there's the edge cases left. Aspect ratio certainly seems to come up a lot though...
I think the trouble is that, despite this researcher being from Europe, the lab-made origin theory is "right wing", and thus more or less blasphemy in certain circles. You see the same thing any time a Hydroxychloroquine article comes up. "Wrong think" must be suppressed.
As with all visual systems, too much minimalism and too much noise spoil the experience.

Ultimately, the context matters a lot. Not to mention the app, target users, complexity of the app, and what not.

But I really hated those flat, borderless 'buttons' in earlier iOS versions.

That's just stupid design. It's minimal for sure, but functionally.
Programming is currently hating on OOP, in love with strong typing, and somewhere on the way from loving microservices to disowning ever to have spoken in their favor. Ten years ago, it was the opposite.

So this particular quirk of thinking in groups doesn't seem to be confined to the design domain. Nor do "swings of pendulum" preclude the pendulum also having some forward momentum in sum.

Think of it as a skier's waving, or a sailboat crossing against the wind, and the sideways motions is actually required for any forward motion to happen.
> I'm not sure why people are math phobic

Some people. There is a wide range of people's natural aptitudes. Some people are tone deaf, others can't wrap their mind around programming concepts like pointers, so no wonder some have trouble with math. Especially with abstract math.

> If you can't do math, is it even science?

Depends on your definition of math.

If you mean the difference between a quantitative field that deals with numbers and a qualitative field that doesn't, then doctors do plenty of math.

If you mean higher level math like number theory, there's plenty of science and engineering that can be done without it. I have an engineering book that avoids using calculus altogether.
He lives in Germany in the 1000 year old castle he bought in 1999 from the money he made from his ownership in the companies HSC, MetaTools and MetaCreations. The castle was not in the best state back then and was restored by Kai. Here is an aerial photo of the castle from 2009[1]. I lies on the Middle Rhine, a very beautiful area.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/Burg_Rhe...
I'm flagging it because it's just presenting the view of some guy who asserts something.

There's not enough information in there for a fact-based discussion. Since this topic is unfortunately a politically loaded one, that basically guarantees the discussion is going to turn to shit.

If somebody were to post an article presenting clear arguments based on data, I wouldn't flag.
Used to be all the rage in the late 90s / early aughts. I can remember many music players (or winamp skins) with that kind of UI texturing.

It was horrible.
People sometimes forget that the move to flat design was not entirely arbitrary and driven by fashion, it was driven by shifting technology and usage.

Sure, fashion played a role, but in this case the main driver was the need to support devices of different resolutions. Scalability implies vectors, which implies shapes, fills, and strokes rather than bitmap assets.

As a designer who made "skeuomorphic" interfaces before the shift, supporting even a couple of different device sizes with hundreds of different PNG slices had already gotten unsustainable by 2010, and moving to a vector-based workflow was a breath of fresh air.

The pendulum did swing a little too far: some of the early human interface guidelines were wary of the concept of lighting (gradients and shadows). But, realistically, that was unworkable, and those guidelines changed because nobody followed them.

"Flat design" as a moment was actually pretty short. Later iterations on the concepts explored during that moment, such as Material, were actually thoughtful and workable, in my opinion.
> What if we could give complete control of visuals to user?

This would be a terrible idea.

People complain (in the comments on this very page) that Apple’s professional designers do a terrible job. You think my uncle is going to do better?
Yup. That's it.
One roadblock is that many in the embedded software industry uses proprietary IDEs and tools like Keil, Atmel Studio, CCStudio and STM32CubeIDE. These propietary IDEs and tools are often based on Eclipse or Visual Studio Isolated Shell.

How good is the Rust support in Eclipse and Visual Studio?

Visual Studio should not be confused with Visual Studio Code. The latter has great Rust support.
They went too far on that one.

Do designers consider how expensive the gpu rendering is for skeumomorphism or neuromorphism?
You can't rely on "they should just know better" otherwise you would face a lot of disappointment. If you want something you better have the teeth or something to force the change.
Since this is a widely held view, it is worth debating. I would argue for a contrary position: 1) every organization has an ethical responsibility, and 2) corporations not only do have an ethical responsibility but have a higher one. A few, abbreviated reasons are as follows.

Every member of a physical grouping (e.g. neighborhood, community, city, state, etc.) has an ethical responsibility to other members of that group. Organizations, like individuals, are members of a physical group. Therefore organizations have an ethical responsibility to other members of that group.

Those who are granted special privileges by the group have a higher obligation to the group as a result. Ethical responsibility represents one of those obligations. Corporations are granted special privileges such as limited liability, hence they have a higher obligation.

Similarly, those organizations that are granted disproportionate political and economic power, assume disproportionate obligations. With, again, ethical responsibility being one of those obligations. This is the "to whom much is given, much is required" principle. Also, since an organization with disproportionate political and economic power necessarily has a disproportionate impact on a given society, it is entirely reasonable for those granting that power to expect it to be used benevolently.
That would make a good topic by itself, especially if anyone could toss in expected results (e.g. like the calculations in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporative_cooler )
What's weird is that it fails at SSL protocol negotiation; Chrome says it can't agree on a SSL version or cipher.

This is weird because the cert is issued by CloudFlare, who probably shouldn't fail TLS negotiation just because the backend is unresponsive. Very strange.
Why not Apple itself give a few options from minimalist to textured?

Sure as hell Apple will not allow too much customization, but they could do the designs themselves and give users a bit more choice.
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This reminds me of the bike routes in Flanders and the Netherlands. There is a dense network of cycle routes, with every intersection being numbered (these are called "knoppunten"). At each numbered intersection, there is a signpost, with directions to the neighboring knoppunt. As a result, you could plan a route based on a list of knoppunten and just write down the numbers. I've heard tell of small scroll wheels that you'd attach to your bike that these lists of points could clip into, with a small window to tell you where you are, but I've never actually seen one.
I think Apple went overboard with minimalism, flatness, and lack of texture. Walking some of that back is good. Recent Apple designs lack sufficient visual cues to differentiate functions. Some things ought to pop in some way to draw attention.

But "fun"? No thank you. All that cutesy crap they used to have was distracting. There was no consistency at all. Yellow lined paper as the notebook background? Winking emoji? UI elements that change size? A color palette chosen by a toddler on LSD? This new "fun" is an unwelcome reversion.

Apple finally dropped their misguided cuteness in hardware design and ditched all the rounded corners and pastel colors. Are they going to undo that too?
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Thomas Edison

"The attitude thus disclosed toward Mr. Edison's work was never changed, except that admiration grew as fresh inventions were brought forward. To the day of his death Lord Kelvin remained on terms of warmest friendship with his American co-laborer, with whose genius he thus first became acquainted at Philadelphia in the environment of Franklin."
> CS career questions is an odd ball though. Internet isn't a reliable way to assess what young people actually think especially in geek or programming circles.

Just look at the two emphasized parts of your statement.
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Let me be the only leperous pariah in this thread to mention that the same rationale can be applied to the way we dress, as a culture of design professionals and engineers.

Because UI trends can come in and out of fashion but hoodies and T's are for life I get it.

Any ex-military in this thread understand the importance of dressing up to pass muster?
In the real world people seem to still be reproducing and mating and marrying. So no, this story of women no longer pairing with men due to apps making them picker doesn't ring true.
I feel like I'm one of the few people who still likes flat designs. I hope it doesn't swing all the way back to full skeumorphism. YouTube looks way better than it did five years ago. What I do miss is efficient use of space. HackerNews still has a great design, it's really efficient with space. Old school iOS used space efficiently too, because it had to. It only had a 3.5" screen to work with. I miss that.
The articles and sources from the articles you have linked seem to refute the claim that the virus was artificially engineered from scratch; rather than having a lab accelerated evolution towards 'desireable traits' for human infection that TFA is suggesting
Same thing happened at my place over pepe emojis. What strikes me is the conversation centered around perceptions. "It makes me feel bad so take it down or else. End of the conversation" No opportunity to "work it out". Everything is confrontational, win or lose kind of thing. Each incident seems benign on its own, but kills soul in the long run. If you're ever caught in that crossfire, the reasonable stance is "just do what they say, don't make a scene, think of your career"
Yes, I am approaching it, from equity in the company I work for. I don’t want to keep on with computers and coding when I finish. I despise our industry and corporate America generally, but also as someone here once said, the world has lots of sandboxes to play in. I’ve spent an awful lot of time in this one and it’s time to move on. I’d rather focus on things like gardening, playing music, fixing up old cars, helping others, hiking.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX49PVlb4bpvee5mZe1LIyA

Not a log house technically, but same kind of build own home in middle of nowhere type concept.
> I would ask you to consider that whatever greatness it can claim lies not in it’s continued founding myths, but in the many unheralded acts of sacrifice and resistance that so many of it’s marginalized citizens made and continue to make down to this very minute.

Did you mean to make this an either or thing? I’m a supporter of BLM and have long been a supporter of criminal justice reform. But I also think a lot of America's “greatness” rests on the founders’ creation of a Republic with limited government, separation of powers, free speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, an armed citizenry, due process, etc.

People shouldn’t take those things for granted, because those were also achievements, not some inevitable, universal principles. I come from a country that has ideas like freedom of religion and due process embedded in its constitution. We lifted these ideas from the US Constitution and the magna carts because they are foreign to us. For example, according to the dominant religion in our country, people of other religions should not enjoy equal status. Likewise, freedom of speech is a totally foreign concept imported from the west.
You've hit the nail perfectly with most of those points.

For all its faults, the older styles of UI and icons made better use of screen space and conveyed much more information to the user. That should always have priority over a "designer" or "artist" imposing a "style" on the system. Any UI is meant to facilitate work, not create work in trying to understand whatever new trend.

It's quite an uphill struggle, but I've managed to salvage some better UI work from the past on my present GNU/Linux desktop (my loathing for flat and padded knows no bounds). But I'd prefer it if the user at least had the option of a coloured, 3d-textured UI in modern applications. Life itself is 3D, we should once again embrace that on the screen.
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I would really like to see less of this kind of content on hn.
I saw "homebrew windmill" and thought he was milling malt for home brewed beer. Then I thought he was powering his homebrew kettle with wind. Then I realized I'm a bit slow this morning and "homebrew" is "DIY".