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I use his work, but for me the situation is more complicated my prior experiences with the author.

He's been making similar complaints about his lack of renumeration for quite a while. In an older GitHub where he requested contributions, I pointed out that he had barely worked on the project for many months (at that time), and not published a new version to npm in years[1], despite making a $600 withdrawal from his Open Collective fund in June 2018 with the explicit purpose of releasing v5[2].

In the thread, I suggested that I and others might be willing to contribute, but I wanted more certainty on what exactly my contribution would be paying for. As I saw it, at that point he had a number of regular donors who were essentially paying him to do nothing.

He responded very angrily, saying nobody had any right to question his actions or to expect anything from him, even if they were paying him. He then deleted my comment entirely and banned me from commenting further. This interaction didn't exactly leave me with a strong desire to contribute. I think he's a rather volatile individual and the community would indeed be better off forking this project than indulging his sense of grievance.

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/faker.js
[2] https://opencollective.com/fakerjs/expenses/3972
I never thought of Elon Musk as a narcissist, and I always assume most Elon Musk hate is political.

But the fact that he has supporters on the internet point out how he made public donations to the ACLU makes me begin to think maybe he is a narcissist.

Edit: I mean this specifically in the context of narcissism being a condition where a person tries to control the image others see of himself. Being able to make strangers say, "He's not a narcissistic asshole, he donated to the ACLU!" makes me think that's specifically an image he tried to project of himself onto others and succeeded for some.

But I don't know the man, so I'd rather think it was just a donation.
Awesome. The rapid progress on cheap SBCs like that is good news. Will probably wait personally but excited anyway
There are healthy ways to engage with science, but magnifying disagreements ("No wonder that among the serious and dedicated Scientists..."), appealing to personal freedom ("...As a person who loves his personal and indvidual freedom..."), and the other ways you're describing are not the right way to engage.

The right way is to participate, "put up or shut up" as the saying goes. If all you want to do is shout from the sidelines with doubtful rhetoric, we don't need you.
This made me wonder if the bill of rights applies to state, local governments. According to Wikipedia, yes. A series of court decisions in the 1920s (re-)interpreted the 14th amendment as applying the bill of rights to state governments.
And until you have that, you're going to assuming the unlikely, unproven, and unprecedented side from a president literally known for lying and questioning the results of the past election baselessly, finding no evidence in 4 years of time to search and the DOJ at their disposal? You think the conspiracy is so widespread and perfect that there's no trail at all, not even to maybe 20% of the alleged fraud? C'mon now.
Not really. The soft "sc" with a mute "e" at the end is typical of souther Italian dialects, including neapolitan and sicilian.

When you say "capisc?", instead of "capisce?" (written: capisci?), Italians mostly feel that the word is said following a southern Italian dialect.
I would like the spirit of the old internet with modern graphics. I don't understand why sites like that need to look like they're from the 90s.
The law isn't entirely settled on the matter, but some rulings so far suggest that the government can compel the surrender of a physical key, but not the disclosure of a combination.
Yes, a decreasing tax base is terrible for societies.
He was one of the founders of Nodejitsu, acquired by godaddy in 2015. I wonder if he ended up not seeing any of that acquisition money?
Contract tracing worked in Vietnam.
"Don't outsource your thinking"... here are 580 words with my thinking on what you should think about thinking ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The news makes the US seem like chaos, turn it off.

This is a continent sized country with states larger than most individual countries. Day to day life in the largest and densest economic centers follows decent distancing measures and lockdown restrictions.
A few large cities ruling the country is tyranny to those that live outside the cities. Only by granting equal state votes can we avoid a small portion of the country having an overwhelming amount of say in electing an executive.

States are members of the union. You are a member of your state not of the union. Not being a member directly of the union you should not have equal say. If you did have equal say there is no reason to have states. If we dont have states it is time to draft a new constitution cause the old one doesnt apply.
I’m also a Chicago voter and I would be surprised if any city would reject the referendum as stated. “Do you want more free stuff or less free stuff?” It doesn’t discuss the downsides, especially the opportunity costs—Chicago is in a budget crisis which has been exacerbated by COVID and maybe that money could be better spent on those who have lost jobs or something, but none of that nuance is represented on the ballot. Note that I’m not actually opposed to this initiative per se, only remarking that the support probably has more to do with the presentation of the initiative than it’s merit.
I do sometimes, usually Iron Condors and vertical spreads. But I had a bit of luck last year and made ok money from options. But then this year I gave it all away and then some.

I would still trade them but not as much as before. I think the mistake I made this year was that I tried to really go deep into mathematics and probabilities. Last year, I literally, browsed /r/wallstreetbets and other Internet forums and made biases usually around earnings.
Guilty as charged - much of my writing is processing my own thoughts and reminders to myself. My thinking is far from perfect and very much a WIP
He also, after apologizing, doubled down and called him a child rapist a month later.
Besides that fact that human perfection is not a meaningful concept, I personally consider that episode just a symptom of his personality - nothing more or less than a narcissist, who craves attention. I actually find it a genius, in a perverse way, in the fact that he turned the attention in a business model (although this approach is nothing new). Don't get me wrong, I credit him as a successful enterpreneur - just much inferior than the one he projects (and that a non-small audience believe he is).
Internet in Chicago is unregulated; it's a completely open market.

Many years ago, people got really tired of companies digging up roads, putting in utilities and then repaving the road, only to have some other company come in and dig up the road again a few weeks later. So the city now has an ordinance - if you are going to dig up the road, there has to be an advance public notice, and anyone can lay utilities once you are done but before you've repaved. And once you've repaved, there is some time limit before anyone is allowed to dig up the road again. This makes it pretty cheap to lay dark fiber that will someday get lit up, and now Chicago is reaping the benefits.
Charitably put, there are two definitions of ‘merit’ in merit-based entry.
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If he'd taken back the statement, I'd agree that it was an outlier and forgivable. But he didn't; he doubled down on the pedophile label.
Thanks for the YouTube information!

Everyone here should watch. It is the type of show that in general this crowd will enjoy. The host, Victoria Mitchell is wonderfully funny and quirky charming and also a poker player you may have seen. Her husband is the comedian David Mitchell.
This is much farther along than the Russia vaccine. They are also publishing their data publicly. I know they haven’t published this data yet, but they say they are going to, and they have a good track record of doing so.
The Apple One bundle is definitely not worth it to me. But Apple News+ on its own isn't too bad of a deal; I'm a subscriber.

Had a previous $4/month subscription to WSJ, but cancelled it and switch to News+; which gives me access to a few other paywall news services without having to pay separately for those.

Note: I am in the US, so maybe the deal is worse in other countries.
Why aren’t we using _all_ the factories to make as many doses as possible? There should not be “companies” making these to their capacity. This should be a public effort
That, and a clickbait submission title by the author themselves (the title of the article itself is "Don’t outsource your thinking").
I wonder if npm packages should operate in a similar way YouTube does. Why can’t people sell a license via npm? That would be a nice way to browse packages, pay a buck or two for Faker.js for commercial projects. Plenty of us have budgets that $50 dollars could get you some solid pro versions of a lot of software.

We devalue ourselves really.
"I dont care what Elon says"
Writes blog about Elon
And? How can you make these kind of claims it has not been verified? Just because the mechanism is different it does not mean it is free from ADE. ADE is result of using improper antigen for creation of immune response. mRNA is not an antigen, the protein produced from it is. If you choose wrong antigen, and deliver it in any possible way, it will still create wrong immunity and will result in ADE.
Knowing the right words to use or not use is very useful when crossing borders (and probably when talking to powerful officials generally). One strategy is to use the least specific language you can that's still truthful.

For example, I've heard of developers get turned away at the border because they began by saying they were "speaking at a conference/giving a workshop" and noting they were being paid or having their expenses covered as if that makes it more legitimate. Instead, you'd start by saying you're "attending a conference." This is something border officials encounter 1000 times a day and will rarely question further.

Likewise, if you're planning to record a podcast or take some photos at a conference, you don't mention that unless asked specifically because otherwise it puts them on the track of treating you like a member of the "foreign media" and demanding the relevant visa for that when it's really not relevant for most people doing such things as a side effect of their attendance.
... what?

You realize the concept of innocent until proven guilty is not a unique concept to HN readers right?

That presumption of innocence is not "act like maybe he was making bombs until proven guilty"?

It sounds like you've let the media erode your understanding of a very basic human right, but do not try and cast it on others as some sort of tribalism.

He is innocent until proven guilty.

Not "reasonable chance" according to your random opinion, but a judge and jury and various council go through a legal case and legally find him guilty.
I suggest you do some research. It is perfectly fine to have “mixed” licenses. Redis operates like this and has no problem making money, as do many others.

“adds a lot of difficulty” is a terribly weak argument - you want to make it your job and get paid for it, of course it will take some effort. Nobody owes you anything.
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Reading this made me glad to be Canadian as we are the only nation that doesn't require visas to enter the United States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_requirements_for_Canadian...
Please email me! I need people to test a new system I developed and have been using myself for being productive in a world with many distractions.

I haven't been formally diagnosed with ADHD but I do have certain symptoms that align with it. I'd be curious to get your personal experience and feedback with what I've been working on
"By medical standards you still have a sedentary lifestyle"

Is it? Is 1h of strenuous exercise at a time and sittimg the rest of the day not better than getting up every hour and doing some simple stretches or just walking around? Not trying to be argumentative, I honestly don't know.
"The things you own end up owning you."
Yep. My DIS call this morning was bananas.

Tasty Trade has good videos. Investopedia is good. Reddit /options is good.
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> There are numerous companies which specialize in -80C transport and shipping. These containers can be used as temporary (3-7 day) storage at destinations where they do not have infrastructure.

But what kind of capacity can they handle? I imagine the scale of a Covid vaccine rollout would overhelm prior existing infrastructure
It actually does work. If you have your family member's nonimmigrant US visa application denied, you can ask your congressperson to help out, and they sometimes do help.
Doesn't this line of thinking lead to everyone being able to project any viewpoint on him by deciding which (different) things are trolling and which are not?
That's absolutely hilarious. The blog post is all "I don't want to know what the 5 things are, and I wont watch the clip because I don't care what Elon thinks, because I should think for myself and do what matters to me even if it's not a major problem for civilization", and Elon's actual initial suggestion right at the beginning of the clip is saying _exactly_ the same thing.

Classic.
It truly is ridiculous that we are forced at gunpoint (through taxes) to give our hard-earned money to an organization that too often actively works against our interests. I feel like the only way to ethically tax people would be have a process to enable taxpayers opt-out of funding with their tax dollars government programs they have a strong moral or personal disagreement with. For example, I would be too happy to fund schools, poverty relief efforts and infrastructure but it sickens me to think that money is being taken from my paycheck to fund pointless wars, genocidal racist thugs and immigration policy that is both racist and destructive to our economy. If financial contributions are a form of free speech, is not the forced usage of my tax dollars for these morally abhorrent equivalent to a law requiring me to purchase display an I <3 ICE bumper sticker on my car?
Montopolis and McKinney are basically right before farm country (I ride my bike there all of the time). Where on earth are you seeing 5k sf lots being sold for $2k?!?!
While this view is potentially applicable to the party as a whole. I still maintain that the best way to engage with an individual is to try to understand, from their perspective, why they've come to the conclusion they've come to. Even when they say there's nothing to understand. Even for those with extreme, reprehensible views. You can understamd without agreeing, but it takes effort to fight down the "cast out the evil other side" feeling that is super easy to fall into.

Most people aren't that one-dimensional, even when they've wrapped themselves up in a one-dimensonal identity. There is nuance and context to how each person arrives at the conclusions they do, even when they'd struggle to explain or remember it.

If you refuse to empathize, you're making things worse.
Who has ever been bashed for releasing a commercial product on HN? It is a startup forum after all.
At the bottom of the food chain, maybe. But let's see them develop anything without us!

Unionization when?
I'm really sorry about that. Still, probably every successful open source project should offer the commercial support by default, I feel like that's the best way to change the culture.
Chicago will get a big slush fund to pay for some unspecified infrastructure down the road? What could go wrong.
I do not disagree. But at the end of the day, there is:

- that which occured in reality

- our measurements (best possible effort, or not, often with unknown(!) accuracy) of that which occured in reality

- what the media (and individual persons) say has occurred in reality (sometimes based on measurements (accurately, or not), sometimes completely made up)

These are almost always not equal, especially in complex situations like this. That the media and intelligent people cannot acknowledge this without resistance is rather alarming, to me. Mainstream thinking is increasingly starting to resemble that which is usually attributed only to conspiracy theorists.
I'm neither American or pro-Trump, though looking back I see why I might have been perceived that way.
Why not?

What if we can? How would we do that?
In this case both seem to apply.
Much of this seems right, but the remarks about COVID-19 are problematic. Lockdowns in particular are not clearly effective. Some areas doing well now had weak or no lockdown. Traditional epidemiology says quarantine is not useful for fast spreading contagions. Honing of models of spread shows coronavirus is not capable of exponential growth as initially feared.

Disagreement and denial are very different things. Both problem statements and potential remedies should be carefully considered.
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When I read it on the ballot when I voted I immediately assumed it meant "libraries, etc", but now that you say that I'm worried "community areas" is bureaucrat-speak for "neighborhoods". Much different implications.
It can get stuck between departments.

US Visas bounce around between security services (Homeland Security, FBI, DoD/NSA), immigration, and State/NVC. These other departments can flag any visa for additional scrutiny.

When excessive delays like this occur it is often a security flag, because then it has to go back to the origin agency and even the department within that originally created the flag to decide if it is a valid match to this individual (and or the facts are correct).

Keep in mind that the other departments handling this, it isn't their primary responsibility. They're dealing daily with e.g. terrorist threats, drug trafficking, or similar threats/violations. Nobody is interested in prioritizing State's visa processing (of which they receive many).

Plus the people or department who created the original match could no longer exist/work there, and now the request is bouncing between different departments with nobody wanting to take responsibility for it.

PS - Just to be clear I'm not defending this. It is a giant mess and hugely dysfunctional. But to understand why something can get stuck in "administrative processing" for years, you have to realize how deep this rabbit hole goes.
Having a payment processing vendor that handles OSS projects is an interesting concept. That sounds like a large hill to climb before we can get OSS project changes funded, but regardless it seems like a viable idea. As an engineer, what would you do internally to nudge things in that direction? What would you say to your manager to plant the seed and encourage it to grow upwards?
I wholeheartedly agree, and I think when it comes to Apple holding the keys to their own platform, we have that balance: you don’t like Apple’s management, you go to Android instead, and there’s competition.

Plenty other areas I’d like to see Apple’s control weakened where it impacts the user experience, but running arbitrary code on iOS devices isn’t one of them, for me.
> I love how people think Elon is "evil" when it's clear people who interpret his banter this way have 100% fallen for his trolling.

Not to veer into politics, but I've heard the same thing said about Donald Trump. At some point The Rule of Goats[1] applies.

[1] https://twitter.com/popehat/status/858722120620265473
> I think it's understood that your battery for your EV will not last the life of the vehicle.

Tesla's existing Model S and X battery packs are showing longevity well into 300k-400k miles. Tesla is targeting 500k-1 million miles of battery and motor longevity over the vehicle's service life (supposedly the Model 3 motor meets this service life, and is the same motor to be used in the Class 8 Semi). Under these assumptions, structural architecture for batteries is reasonable.
Maybe it's a cost issue? Manufacturers depend heavily on low/stable energy prices, and I know that Germany exports a lot of manufactured goods and is trade-positive.
Out of the hundred or so resumes I have worked with at this point the handful that have had their github up that I had time to look at were net-zero or net-negative as an addendum of their resume. There's a difference between an engineer with a history of open source and one that 'did something and pushed to github', and most entry-level engineers haven't had such a strong history of open source that what you see of them would be meaningful anyway. I do try to preach this to what developers I come across but there's only so much that can be done.
I concur. My citizenship application was stuck for 2 years. I sent an email to the office of Pelosi and 2 months later I was at the oath ceremony.
Even though it's possible to connect my HP printer to WiFi, I've never done it, and I am so glad. I can use super cheap 3rd party ink that lasts years at a time.
> Everywhere I worked, I have always enjoyed developing internal tools.

This is both a blessing and a curse.

Internal tools are great when managed properly, but they can turn into significant drains on developer energy if the team isn't careful.

The reality is that if a 3rd-party product accomplishes 90% of what the company needs, it's almost always worth it to just pay the company and move on.

I've seen far too many internal projects that were pitched as 1-month or even weekend efforts turn into multi-year burdens on entire departments. When engineers get excited about building tools, they often forget the overhead of maintaining and supporting the tool indefinitely.

The other challenge is that internal tools often escape the management oversight that goes along with customer-facing products. This leads to scope creep, poor resource tracking, and other problems that can drown an engineering team if left unchecked.

Internal tools are great when the business case exists, but if engineers are working on internal tools for the sake of writing the code or having fun, watch out.
Surely that xkcd applies more to privilege escalation vulnerabilities, not plain RCE?
I don't know, but I don't -- I'm paying $70 for phone and 60Mbps VDSL in a suburb of the Denver metro area from Centurylink.
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> My DNA will be permanently altered and permanently create fake covid proteins ?

No, in fact, mechanisms in cells are in places so that "heteroduplexes" (meaning one filament of RNA and one of DNA paired together) are quickly degraded.

Secondly, the RNA doesn't even need to get to the nucleus, where the DNA is. All it needs is to land in the cytoplasm, where it will get processed by the protein synthesis machinery (ribosomes in primis) to produce the antigen.
RNA in the cell isn't that stable as well, so it will be ultimately get degraded.
I quit smoking by reading a book[1] about how to quit smoking, which basically said the same thing. Nicotine is not addictive, a true addiction will cause withdrawal symptoms like alcoholics can die if they quit drinking too fast.

While reading that book, I just stopped smoking cold turkey. I still get cravings every once in awhile especially when I see other people smoking but easy to control now.

1: Allen Carr's Easy Way To Stop Smoking
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Has syncing music from iTunes to your iPhone stopped working? It's the first-class way to listen to "the music [you] legally own" on an iPhone, and comes with no ongoing service fees.
Am I supposed to take the word of someone whose Facebook account was banned for violating community standards at face value?