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Yes I’m a big proponent of stateless stuff. In fact 20 years ago I was crowing this to a deaf audience. Instead I find queues in databases that didn’t even need to exist. And our solutions, kubernetes for example, are complicated Rube Goldberg machines rather than things that make us sleep easy.

However really the software industry is all about state and where to keep it because that’s where the trolls collect their gold coins.

So what can we do?
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I would argue that /etc/rc.d should be moved to /lib/exec and then use /etc/defaults files to load command line flags from environment variables. This separates the core of the service file you are unlikely to touch ever from the parts you want to touch and makes upgrades easier. It would also avoid or atleast minimize pacnew/pacsave files.
People staying at home more time, want to improve their current space, around my neighborhood people started rebuilding decks and doing remodeling. Local home depot traffic defienetly spiked
I firmly believe that a lot of really productive work can be done with shell-based applications, and that this environment represents the true power of productive computing. With the web taking front and centre priority, we've lost something very important in terms of human/computer interaction - many would say things are 'easier', but I have to laugh at this claim whenever I see someone clicking something in a list a hundred times when it could have been something they'd solved with a little script, had they known how. Too many times I've saved someones ass by a bit of script fu, only to be granted god-like status at how quickly it was done - but if people took a month of study on, say, bash scripting or something similar, it wouldn't seem so obtuse.

Same goes for google-fu. What is happening that the arcane science of proper search semantics is not being taught kids in school? It seems to me the devolutionary effect of "ease of use computing" has wrought its anti-pattern woes over a few generations ..

Anyway, my kids learned bash before they learned how to find the Settings panel, and there is something to be said for the teenager who knows how to wrangle his OS because his Dad taught him the basics of shell-based package management, something still not quite done well in certain environments...
Why is it an absolute given that the economy is definitely going to flop? As the days pass I'm convinced more and more that the general economy (and the 1 or 2% of people who are directly benefited by it) will do just fine, even though the majority of the population is jobless and moneyless. This will finally lay bare that the contribution from the majority of the working population is quite optional for the GDP or any measure of economic productivity, and push comes to shove, the institutions (factories, offices) will start realising they can maintain or even increase productivity without involving the majority of the population in the process. Hence the people who have the money now (and are hence in positions that don't necessarily get lost in this process) are likely to continue prospering, while the people who are losing jobs and houses are never going to get them replaced.
Feature request: When I find an article that the algorithm did Not suggest — but I like the article.

Then, it'd be nice to know how I could tweak the algorithm and its config values, so it would find such articles, thereafter.

And to dry-run the algorithm to verify that now it does indeed find that article.

(You don't have a website yet?)
You are just defending yourself. This is simply not true. Get an arm server on packet, install software, notice nothing.
Your president isn't doing research of any sort, much less the cutting-edge sort.
That won’t work. :visited was neutered for privacy reasons a decade or so ago, so that all you can change with it is colours, and if you try to inspect it with JavaScript it will give you the answers it would if :visited didn’t apply (e.g. it’ll tell you that purple link is blue).

The closest you’ll be able to get is a JavaScript click handler on .paper revealing .comments. If you do such a thing, you should probably only hide the comments with JavaScript in the first place, so that users with JavaScript disabled can still see them.
I disagree that it is narrow minded, if that’s what you mean. Many people want a space for their culture and way of life to thrive. When that is threatened or eliminated, it can be devastating. It’s a loss of identity and belonging and a space to call their own. Does every place really need to be another vanilla progressive west coast clone?

To me what is surprising is that people are willing to accept that cultural erasure is a problem in contexts like colonization or gentrification of poor neighborhoods in urban areas, but can’t accept that the same applies to other people and places. It feels a bit like that empathy only exists for favored causes and groups.
Probably harder to disrupt (cell networks, WiFi, and Bluetooth are all specialized, relatively low power radios after all).

In the US, legal radio usage would be easier to eavesdrop on (I believe encryption is effectively banned). But if you're willing to ignore that detail then it won't be easy to eavesdrop on you.

It would be trivial for a state funded adversary to triangulate broadcasters though.
> Make a service where I can rent my own server ( not just a portion of it ) and physically own it.

So, a dedicated server? Of course, you still have to trust the provider not to access it, but the only time I know they've accessed it is when I scheduled a replacement for a faulty hard drive. I was able to schedule that access for my convenience (so that I could rebuild RAID after replacement) and they had my permission to do so.

I don't see how this is opposed to their project, though I don't fully understand the difference between running Site.js + Hugo versus just Hugo.
Epic could have used the same developer account for both Unreal Engine and Fornite development knowing full well that Apple would have to either allow both or ban both.

They had ads and lawsuits ready when they pulled the trigger on this chain of events so it wouldn't surprise me if they made sure that the Unreal Engine issue was included.
Epstein was briefly a grad student at NYU's Courant Institute under Boris Kupershmidt
That sounds like Epic abusing its “monopoly”[0] on game engines.

[0] in the same sense that Apple is a monopoly on smartphones, hence the air-quotes.
Not to mention RTFM!
The doomed Cleveland balloonfest of '86
It depends. It can take from few days to few weeks. Also, there can be serious side effects for life.
>you can't bring an antitrust lawsuit unless you show evidence of harm (aka, lost Fortnite sales)

I thought the point of antitrust is that it brings harm to the consumers and not just some lesser company?
Well this is an interesting question, and there's a good answer: because if you make the drone dome dense enough, the drones can be so slow they don't move. So, the less dense you make it, the more they have to move, so there is a nice optimization problem with the lower bound of density given by the speed of the drone, and the upper bound based on cost and complexity. It also matters how big the dome is - you want a big one, but if its too big density goes down again.
One big reason I often go with HTML rather than any kind of actual UI framework, especially for prototypes or ad-hoc interfaces, is that's it makes it so much easier to do dumb things that weren't intended, aren't versitile or accessible, but I don't care.

I can put a div in a div, border-radius=50%, position=relative,absolute, add a single event handler and that's a digital joystick. Run a local single-exe websocketify and you can control anything from a CNC router to an army of drones.

I dislike Electron* as much as the next guy and steer clear of npm like my life depends on it, but there's no single thing that's more universal and easy to hack on than a simple HTML file.
"What did you think, you stupid apes? We were here long before you and we will be here long after you are gone!"
> It's true that Epstein did some of this, but from a pure power perspective, he would have gotten better returns by allocating his science money/time towards politicians directly.

That carries the risk of ending up with a felony campaign finance violation like Dinesh D'Souza's. Epstein was evil, not stupid.
Assuming they introduce the epic store and cut fees from 30% to 0% fees. It would take 6 years to pay the lost revenue back. It's entirely possible that the next hot thing will come out in 6 years and replace Fortnite.
One option: just let the F-22 fly around at Mach 2 at 50K feet. Meanwhile your drones are strafing, bombing, and otherwise destroying everything on the ground within their area of control.

Why do we have air-superiority fighters? It's to shoot down any aircraft that might be harassing our ground units, and to ensure that our own CAS/attack aircraft can freely harass their ground units without opposition. An F-22 with an air-superiority loadout is pretty much useless in the ground war. So just let it fly around, and if it shoots down 8 drones with its 8 missiles, big deal. There's hundreds more where those came from. Meanwhile any aircraft that are actively strafing, cluster-bombing, etc. the ground forces have to fly straight through the drone swarm, with likely pretty cataclysmic results.
Writing clearly is like playing Tetris. Sentences should be presented with clauses that drop down and slot together efficiently. At the earliest available opportunity you drop in a block that completes the line and points are won/made.

This can also make for rather dull writing and I appreciate the irony in this paragraph:

> However, at first you may still find yourself writing the odd long sentence, especially when trying to explain a complicated point. But most long sentences can be broken up in some way.

Here we see the Tetris player drop a sequence of blocks leaving a 3x1 gap down the left edge. Where are they going with this? More blocks stack up on the middle and right, there are “bubbles” in the pile that are covered by squares and there’s still that annoying gap on the left holding them back from clearing. Time passes. The screen is now getting dangerously full.

Then they drop in a pair of 4x1 blocks that completes rows 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6. The bubbles on rows 4 and 7 become exposed making a T shaped hole. The next block to fall is a T shape. The screen clears, the sentence’s cognitive buffer is flushed, and we move on to the next point.
It's already separately under Epic Games International, S.a.r.l (“Epic International”).

It was under a different agreement from the regular "Epic Games" that Apple decided to both terminate
A couple of years ago the capital of Alaska recorded zero snowfall for an entire winter.

First time in recorded history.
I might be pulling things out of my ass here but IIRC the correlation is up there with that of your parents’ wealth. And in current political discussion lots of time is spent on how to deal with the latter. It may in fact still be a weak predictor, but that obviously doesn’t make it meaningless.
I've been thinking along those same lines. Basically feels like we're returning to a form of feudalism, with a rather established aristocracy and nobility already in place.

I'm just waiting for the financially ailing counties to start selling themselves in their totality to corporations and those corporations begin providing employment in exchange for literal cradle-to-grave services.
Speaking of RISC-V, does RISC-V have any real traction?

Not niche traction and announcements here and there, actual heavy investments...

Or is it more like an "open arch" fantasy thing, kind of the cpu analogous to Ogg Vorbis and Open Moko?
Same in my country. There has been a surge of people at the hardware stores buying supplies to repair/improve their homes as a way to pass the time when you no longer can travel.

I guess they put their travel money into home improvements.
I think HN is still small web. It's custom-written by one or a few people, doesn't make money, isn't trying to take over the world.
Agreed, my 'Small Web' is a couple of Raspberry Pi plugged in to my router exposing services that are useful to me - the more I use it and the more tech news I read, the more I want to expand both the robustness and diversity of my personal services.
Ah, I see where you're coming from.

The benefits don't accrue as much when you're writing material you've been told to write, especially when it's not something the recipient will be happy to receive. Those can be valuable learning experiences, but it's not harvest season yet.

The value comes when you CHOOSE to compose messages meant to persuade YOUR peers and internal stake holders. Your skill with the pen gives you a voice, like a bard who can urge a crowd to action.

What words do we associate with those kinds of people?

Influence

Leadership

Writing can help get you there
In France, they can also take it from your salary.
Every example they give is a demo, not a production system.
You're assuming that ISPs are okay with you hosting a public service using their infrastructure, which they're historically very much opposed to (in order to get you to pay for a more expensive "business" account).
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>Quanta is an ODM. You said OEM.

Same difference, compared to building their own from parts. I don't think parent's point lies in the OEM vs ODM semantics detail.
Well the question is also where would you best put your money? As possibly devalued currency or bubble-territory index fund?Building a house requires resources whose price may rise up precipitously in the future, eg. energy, the oil major stopped looking and renewables are not there yet for a long while at our consumption levels...
I'm pale. I think it's neat that paleness exist in the world. Would I run of the risk of people not liking some phenotypic trait that I identify with like paleness and choose to remove it, in order to greatly reduce the amount of anxiety, depression, cancer, heart disease, obesity, diabetes, schizophrenia, parkinsons, and alzheimers in the world?

You betcha.
It's not all about productivity. Who is going to buy the new iPhone, or the new car, or an XBox?
Epic makes over $5B/year — and more than $680 million of that is from the Epic Game Store [1], which has always been banned from iOS due to Apple's policies against alternative stores. Fortnite Mobile makes them good money, but it's not their cash cow — and if they can trade a temporary ban on Fortnite for their store running on iOS, it seems like they'll take it.

1: https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattperez/2020/01/14/epic-games...
The harm to consumers is the higher price that they have to pay. Epic didn't just keep the 30% all for themselves, they lowered prices.
I would argue that some of that baggage doesn't make you less efficient. I mean it makes you less efficient at the features per hour metric, but what about the business value metric? If you have meetings to really think things through and plan, maybe whole areas of sterile development work are avoided and that is valuable.

Remember there are businesses that do well writing no code at all! Code or features isn't what it is al about, but in a tech company it is somewhere between nothing and everything.
They showed that Apple forcing iOS apps to use their Payment Processor is bad for consumers by providing an alternative that is 20% cheaper. Which is what got them banned.
I've written an article comparing a couple of the more popular note taking strategies. It was even on the HN front page 13 hours ago :)

https://www.zainrizvi.io/blog/remembering-what-you-read-zett...

HN link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24251068#24262190
The market can stay irrational for much longer than you can stay solvent and/or alive.
Even if he had a legitimate interest in science, who cares? There are two huge problems with Harvard allowing him to continue like that.

1. He exploited his connections to obtain a very lax sentence which allowed him to continue to rape children.

2. It damages the integrity of the scientific research as laid out in the article.

I have a bigger issue with the first than with the second, but I don't see how the question of whether he also had a legitimate interest in science is relevant to either.
Apple ordered to not block Epic’s Unreal Engine, Fortnite to stay off App Store
We'll probably just get one or more round(s) of $2T+ stimulus, I imagine.
yep...fun stuff.

https://www.amazon.com/Ideals-Varieties-Algorithms-Computati...

covers much of this topic
Had me right up until the advertising.

But let's focus on the first chunk shall we? Yes, wholeheartedly agree. Host it yourself if you can, host it with a small ISP if you can't. It's necessary to keep the open Internet alive and prevent us falling back in to the walled gardens of compuserve, AOL, etc. We're almost there already with our reliance on Google Search driving caged "standards" like AMP.
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Mine doesn’t give a crap if my outbound is 200 gig a month uploading stuff to onedrive or iCloud. Why should it have that opinion on anything else? I’m paying for a pipe. The only control metric they have is asymmetry and that’s a technology tradeoff in my case (ADSL)
I can’t stand how my switch has such washed out colors on my TV in docked mode. HDR 10 is a must.
Many invest in education to get influence and nudge research in a certain direction.

Love for science is one thing, love for influence is another. Science at least demands to be critical here and taking a look at which fields he invested is certainly a worthwhile endeavor. For science.

> individuals can pick and choose lines of inquiry

It is not scientific to think that would not influence results. Of course his DNA might have been just a selfless offering for scientific inquiry and maybe the pope was right all along.

Science can nurture naïveté to encourage impartiality. But sometimes you need to know when to drop it.
Is any place a progressive West Coast clone except for the progressive West Coast? Seems like an unfounded fear.
and /etc/resolv.conf dont belong anywhere as it is runtime settings
I totally get it. I used to revere books waaaaay to much to let any blemish willingly tar them.

Now though, I'm delighted to write notes all over
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All I want is basically Notion with an API, and the ability to self-host our data to mitigate security and privacy concerns.
This article explains how, but it doesn’t explain why: you should do this because it’s an accessibility issue. NHS Digital came up with a good example of this problem: https://digital.nhs.uk/blog/transformation-blog/2019/pee-and...
But that is the statement of Harvard, I think the article depicts a wider angle of knowledge.
You would think so, but actually a company can't sue another for antitrust violations unless they show evidence that they were injured — and the injury has to pass a two-prong test [1] to be covered.

That being said, the government can investigate without a lawsuit. But just because the government investigates, that doesn't guarantee the government will prosecute; a lawsuit guarantees prosecution, unless it's so baseless it gets thrown out by the court (which Epic's hasn't been).

Hence why Epic took a step that would obviously result in a ban: they needed the correct type of evidence of injury in order to sue.

1: https://www.businessjustice.com/the-elements-of-antitrust-in...
The best ubering I have ever done is in foreign countries. I don't have to speak the language and get significant reduction on tourist prices. Scale provides tremendous value.
Of course they lowered the prices.

It was a PR exercise to show the world the wondrous benefits of a potential Epic Games Store on iPhone/Android.

And of course once they had such a store they pinky promise to never increase the prices in the future.
Most of the tracking systems require enterprise integrations and need to support migration from other platforms.
The case mentioned in the article was taking 5000 IU/day, and that proved to be too much. I'm not an expert, but 10000 sounds a WHOLE lot.

I started taking 2000 IU/day because I wasn't seeing much of daylight because of the pandemic. I hope that's a safe amount, but it would be nice to get my blood levels checked.
set -o pipefail is now part of POSIX[0] and I believe as soon as someone posts a patch to dash to implement it, it will get included[1].

[0]. https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=789

[1]. https://lore.kernel.org/linux-dash/20200701015226.GA6839@gon...
The seignorialism aspect of feudalism is now absent though: the lord needed peasants to work his lands. This new ruling class doesn't need the labor of the growing unemployed and forgotten class - only their consumption.
In the limit, we get rid of navies and stick swarms of drones in 40-ft shipping containers, and then just sail container ships with 10K+ drones aboard around.
Those estimates are utterly out of touch with reality to the point of being a straight fabrication.

Fortnite brought Epic £1.8b in revenue for 2019, there is no way that 25% of that came from iOS based on actual player data and experience, if their iOS revenue is 10% of the total I will be in shock.
They lowered prices as part of a calculated stunt. If Apple is suddenly turning over 20% of the purchase price to devs, why would the devs lower the price when they're getting an extra 20% at the same price point?
Well you're citing netapp, zfs, freeebsd and debian. Those are all top notch.

In all honesty I can't understand why would anyone use anything other than zfs nowadays for important data.
I've been working remote for 5 years, and I live in ~90m2 apt in jakarta paying what i had to pay to live in a 3 bdr apt in boston with 2 other grown men… made enough long tail risk on HY trash, going into the "pandemic", and will make more again when the bottom falls out and load up on all the garbage for ~8.5 cents on the dollar (current amount of HY that is collateralized coming due within then next 4.5-5 years).

I hope it goes on longer, more time to build up more leverage selling trash to folks who believe oft repeated things as if they were the word of god.
So many on HN were talking about how these fires were so much more intense than the other fires, and that probably Big Basin would be gone forever, etc.

Just another example of how people especially on HN read a
few articles and then think they are experts on the topic.

The ancient redwoods survived and will thrive, as fully expected. It’s not that forest fires are great, but it’s a natural process of life and people thinking “this time it’s different” are usually wrong.
I get the line of thought and the idea of inflated military budgets but I'm not sure your average Joe should get any say in whether a new weapons system should be funded or not. They have no military expertise and no concept of what might be necessary to win the next war. While I do think there needs to be more oversight over how budgets are allotted to military projects, it shouldn't be decided by "do taxpayers want to pay".
I remember a Nokia phone that had a walkie-talkie integrated in it and you could use it as a radio.

Too bad that this quirky feature will never make re-appearance.
Pump and dump, imho.