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I can't tell either. On one hand, this article seems like a response to the hundreds of other articles, instagram posts, blogs, etc we've seen over the past several months that endlessly romanticize these actions. The vast majority of people that I know that have done this, have done so with an attitude moreso that COVID is an opportunity for vacation than anything else. They bought vans and celebrated with gaudy influencer-esque Instagram posts, and then were dismayed when not everyone celebrated with them.

Though the problems like "someone was judgemental about wifi at a campground" are mundane, it can be quite a jarring wake-up-call to encounter if your attitude up to that point was that everyone will think you are some kind of fabulous unicorn for being a nomad. So from that perspective, I am slightly tempted to be sympathetic. And if this article discourages even one person from going on these ridiculous "we bought a van!! aren't we so cool? follow us on instagram!" escapades, I'll be happy.

But on the other hand, while the rest of us were struggling with real problems like being laid off, ill friends and families, and the soul crushing weight of responsibly not traveling, these assholes were out frolicking and potentially making things worse. And now this article makes it seem like they want our sympathy that there wasn't a pot of gold at the end of their rainbow? Come off it.
interesting... vid suggests that we have to use cryogenic techniques to store vaccine partly because there hasn't been enough time to test how they store at higher temperatures.

so perhaps the infrastructure requirements will relax as time goes on
No site needs to be a net benefit to "everyone else"

That isn't the point.

It's one thing for Jane to tell me smoking in bars should be legal. We can have a real debate over that. It's another for Jane to claim her cigar smoke is good for my health. That discussion, I would not entertain seriously.
If you leave an HP inkjet for a few months will it still print or be clogged?
lambda, maybe, monad, overloading, scope .. concepts that don't exist in mathematics. Imagine if the keywords in a standard English sentence changed meaning depending on the overload operators. A virtual new language in each context. Programming took a wrong turn since Pascal
Every time I hear an ad for Wondery Plus I struggle to imagine paying for Wondery podcasts with the adverts removed. There would be about 3 minutes of content left.
Hard disagree. I'm not giving WebGL a pass, nor wasm, web notification, webrtc, webusb, HTTP3, websocks, DOH or whatever bright idea they had last month, just to read a newspaper.

I actually like and use webrtc, but only for actual RTC, otherwise it's a shitshow and disabled.

Some things are indeed useful, but I don't see how you go OK, it happend, time to make it secure - with an ever expanding scope and attack surface. Note - "more secure" is not enough, we need secure.
I feel kind of bad for the single people whose lives have been totally disrupted by this. It’s actually been a pretty nice year out here in the exurbs. My parents are retired and live nearby, so they take care of the kids while my wife and I work remotely. Parks are never busy and our river was open even when pools were not. It’s been lovely family time.
The populace has different levers for different controllers. Votes for politicians and dollars for private firms. In both cases the lever is imperfect and we don't always get optimal results.
Probably they were somewhat forced to do it for monetization purposes but it literally died overnight at my university when they started enforcing usernames.
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To be honest, any small 3-person company "acquired" and then promptly shut down, probably was just a fancy way to close the business.

Each person got a job with a signing bonus. And the investors may have gotten their money back.
I agree with this. To enforce some of this in Linux I use SELinux. Is there a way for people to enforce mandatory access controls on mac and windows?
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Wow. There's a lot of projects here that must have taken a lot of work - and look really good - but the MRR is just dismal. There's one there that's pretty close to a side project of mine - not even a grand. Somewhat offputting.

Does this mean that many of these projects could stand to put a lot more effort into sales? Would that make a reliable difference? Or is it really just this hard? Or a bit of both?

I feel like for some of these, giving the best salesperson you know a huge commission, just getting the ball rolling, could make quite a big difference.
There is only one notable cause of Chicago’s budget crisis, and that is deferring the expense of labor performed decades ago to today’s taxpayer via defined benefit pensions and retiree healthcare. Same with Illinois, and pretty much all the other governments out there.

It’s the easiest way to promise low taxes today and shift expenses onto future generations who have no say. It almost works as long as people keep having 3+ kids and the tax base keeps growing. Not so much once population growth stalls and the tax base suffers income stagnation.
The Battle for the Soul of Digital Freedom Taking Place Inside Your Printer
As per the parent posters point, the questions aren’t saying “do you want more free stuff or less stuff”?

They are saying, “how do you feel about this extremely broad and unquantifiable goal which sounds good to most?”

In other words the initiative is so vague that it doesn’t even make sense to begin starting to talk about cost.

We would need a specific, actionable proposal to begin assessing cost.
The caveat on (2) though is that you _can_ do R&D entirely remotely these days except in industries that require very large equipment that you couldn't set up at someone's house or home office. And in those industries, a lot of the R&D is done in autocad or virtualized environments anyway. Prototyping similarly has been revolutionized by 3D printing.
Not without it doing a substantial amount of 'self cleaning'. If you print infrequently, a laser printer is actually a better use case. Frequent printing, namely of photographs, is a good use case for inkjet.
Unsurprisingly, this piece focuses on outliers that are entertaining or cringey. The unsexy version of pandemic nomadism is safer, easier, cheaper, and boring enough not to warrant a snickering write up in the NYT.

My partner and I are currently spending around a month at a time in various medium sized cities in the mountain west. It is much cheaper than the Bay Area. The WiFi is good. The people are friendly. It’s not super Instagrammable, but that’s not why we came.

I think of this as a straightforward arbitrage. We don’t have to be in SF, and there are plenty of other places where we can live normal lives for dramatically cheaper, without the grime and city government shenanigans.
While the US visa is $160, it means you get to save on a pile of $14 ESTA applications :)

I’m not 100% sure how this works, but when OP renews their passport, they might need to keep their old passport because the visa is still valid, ie: travel with old and new passport. Not sure if the US works that way.
Survivorship bias is one of the biggest things we can't ignore.

In my view, survivorship bias is the main reason , some projects fail as the founders dont see the main reason behind the success for the product they copied.

There could be hundred reasons for a product to work for someone at sometime because of something.

Probably I should make a list of product that died after making $1K MRR(in 12-24 months)
Significant part of open source development is paid for by companies. I don't know why the myth of its being done mostly for free persists, but maybe we should stop pretending it.
Many of us will be working from home forever
Saw this when it came out. A must-watch for anyone interested in our voting process, which is quite vulnerable in ways HN folks will easily understand. The film was produced by HBO and is full of alarming examples and demos.
Over the last 100 years, humans' lifespan has only increased by ~5 years, if you lived to be a teenager.

Think of all the 'productivity' we've had in the past 100 years, that's +5 years when you're already old and finished.

Great. Can we do the math on how we've nearly blown ourselves up many times over, are destroying the environment, working 40+ hours/week and so on?

Worth it for everyone to be 'productive' for a collective increase of 1 or 2 years within your lifetime, assuming we don't destroy the planet or blow ourselves up?

You decide, keep your productivity if you wish, I'm going for a walk and enjoying my life :)
Well I think it’s inevitable so I think that will probably happen at some point.
Sometimes, $100 is worth not being stuck in a crappy "ink as a service" contract designed to extract the maximum amount of money from your pocket.

As an aside, for a "don't print much" point of view, 12,000 pages is a long time (I, for example, print about 100 or so pages a year, which would give me a lot of time with my hypothetical Brother printer).
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The uninformed audience is unbelivably spoiled by free software, no other professional will even talk about any domain specific problem without charging at least one hour rate. The software professionals have hopelessly low self esteem or think they're the smartest, many are ruthlessly competitive.

Applying for jobs in our industry is such a miserable experience.
Being able to calmly and piecefully experience the many cultural heritage sites, temples and gardens of Kyoto without any foreign tourists was one of those once-in-a-lifetime experiences for me (among others).
But they're abusing copyright law to restrict your freedom to use your own cartridges. We're technically able to do that, but HP will take all your money if you do.
I don’t.

Before I moved out of Cambridge, I used to frequent the local Makerspace, which at the time had two laser cutters and a selection of 3D printers. One of the rules for using the laser cutters was to keep an eye on them at all times, and to never leave them unattended — I believe the fear was something might catch fire, or someone might use a material without realising it contained chlorine, or something like that.

The printers needed frequent attention, and while they could be left running overnight, there was a 50% chance they’d have failed by the time you returned.
Yes, but up to a point. For many of us on HN, the issue is that we’ve been forced to live in the Bay. But there are plenty of nice, “expensive” places that are still a lot cheaper than the Bay. The non-techie residents have had to leave for elsewhere for a long time now.
That looks pretty cool! I'm surprised they only have enterprise level contact us pricing though, it'd be an interesting SAAS self-service product.
Yeah, as I said.

You know this isn’t an actual sincere attempt to collude with Russia, right? People can’t seriously believe that’s what this is.

Not to mention, he was talking about Hillary’s lost emails, not hacking the democrats.
CNN had to revert to a bare bones HTML page because their servers and Internent connection couldn’t handle the load of everybody reloading as things unfolded.
A professional hardware lab will have multi-thousand-dollar multimeters, oscilloscopes, wave generators, power supplies, etc. Sure, you can buy $30 alternatives, but they're obviously nowhere near as good.
Ben Eater singlehandedly got me into digital electronics. An incredible teacher!
The linked video claims Pfizer has a similar solution and the currently tested parameters limit the cooler can only be opened 2x per day, and not more than 1 minute at a time, and the box only lasts 10 days, and carries doses in multiple of 1000s.

A breakdown scenario in a rural area could mean 1000s of wasted doses
You're probably right, but since that has not been tested, I don't think it can't be used, by FDA rules.

The FDA is not known for its improvisational disposition :)
Well the government has handled logistics related to covid horribly so far. They were completely unable to distribute tests, even months after there were tens of millions stockpiled. They were similarly bad at distributing PPE. They couldn't even get toilet paper distributed properly. Of course there are major differences here, but I don't have a lot of faith.
Do you want the local government to have a direct tap into where you spend your time online?
1. You can circumvent most of that by hiring the international remote person as a contractor or by having him incorporate himself as a consultancy firm and then buy consultancy services from him. It also becomes trivial to fire (don't renew the contract!)

2. Just ship it. Most likely the boards came from a third party manufacturer anyways.
>Are you confident 1 iPhone can outlast 3 Pixels

Extremely, because I've owned several pixels and iPhones of various models. As an example I got my partner an iPhone SE in 2016 and it's still working perfectly, it even still looks good. Not only is it still getting updates, it runs the latest iOS. The original pixel came out the same year and cost hundreds more, less support, and my experience has has been disappointing in regards of hardware quality.

Just look at the used market and compare Pixels and iPhones released at the same time and about the same price. iPhones sell for about 2x vs google phones.
I think US citizens should lose the Visa-free travel arrangements in most countries. It's supposed to be reciprocal but the ESTA is a Visa, it walks, talks and quacks like one. If it's denied, there's no real recourse and the process is completely opaque...

Obviously, it's not in the interest of most countries to do that but it's really infuriating how something like ESTA was created to abuse the spirit of the reciprocal visa free agreements while sticking to the letter of the agreements.
I never read a book more than once. Life is short and there are too many books to get through.
Many people who need visas to travel to the US are not current in the US and do not have a congressperson...
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Is it not also possible that there simply aren't many people who want to pay for things, but will happily use it for free?
Oh so some Areas don't have any Access do they do not have phone service and ADSL.
That's why I pee in sink :)
I would think that rclone to S3/GCS/Backblaze would be better, because what if your rsync target is also encrypted with something like this?
There's also probably distance between the arm of the company that donates to open source and the developers who are opening issues when they spot a bug. And that distance probably gets longer for companies with the most money to donate too.
OR,

- release it under a permissive license

- wait until it reaches reaches a significant level of popularity for your purposes (see below)

- flex it to get a good job at a good company

- abandon the original project altogether or find new maintainers

- focus on your new job, build skills and connections

- invest most of your income in bonds and experiment with profitable side ventures which don't require much economic contribution from your side

- most probably die relatively well-off
It's like a bug ticket. Unless there is a rule (law) that they must be fixed by a certain time, they'll just become forgotten.
Agreed. But in the case of Primodos, there were cover-ups with government involvement for decades. The end result was that Matt Hancock apologized. That was it. No holding to account. No fixing the system so it wouldn't happen again. That's what undermines my confidence in the system.
Without external audits, there's no reason to believe any of the startups on this list are giving real numbers.

In addition, third parties like analytics SDKs or payment processors, which in principle have the capability to easily audit usage and financial data, seem to never do this business.

Then there are non-primary-data-source firms like SensorTower and AppAnnie. They are always reactive to (not predictive of) "download counts" - they almost certainly take money to rank higher in their charts, or such a mechanism exists through whatever flawed data gathering approach they take. Anyone who can afford to pay AppAnnie and SensorTower is already well capitalized to some extent, and it is definitely effective to arbitrage $1m of cheap fake downloads through AppAnnie into a $10m investment from dumb money.

Compare to Steam, which publishes realtime concurrent player counts and sales data that is irrefutably true, with rare exceptions caused by bugs. (1) There are always big surprises in the Steam data, especially when you compare the genres that lead the charts to the genres that giant companies most aggressively market. Such transparency has been instrumental to the continued success of indie game developers on that platform. Steam has the fattest tails in the business, at least in terms of something we can actually validate, so it's still your best bet for information.

Despite the information, there is still not a viable venture capital model around Steam games. You'll never see a Y Combinator gaming startup list on Steam, and the ones that do, they'll fail to raise money because all that investors will talk about is "how many users u got?" It's a vicious cycle

The problem is lack of simple ideas for analyzing this data, something so simple and straightforward that the kind of people who become Managing Directors can process in a deck.

Anyway, a startup is never going to release numbers it can't fudge.

(1) https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/aflabl/psa_stop_hypi...
Why was it a problem to get the Permanent Residency permit while working for Bell as an Engineer?
Good look at the evolution of Jamstack and how much "stack" is required for each different architectural pattern. Really enjoying the conversations and graphics embedded throughout. Thank you for saving some of the best for last - the Teastack! :)
There is a glut in the CO2 supply - it is a byproduct of several industrial processes. (even before carbon capture for environmental reasons.)
I disagree that this is a straw man. Apple has been consistent for _years_ on this issue -- they clearly believe that choosing the Apple ecosystem is synonymous with choosing to only be able to run code that has been reviewed (theoretically) by the app store team. If it quacks like a duck and looks like a duck then it is a duck.
As a third world citizen, where we always have to apply for US visa to visit, this is highly unusual.

In most of the cases we are informed during the in person interview of approval or denial, in case of approval, we have our visas stamped within a month.
I love my ScanSnap. My workflow is incoming paper -> scanner -> DevonThink -> shredder. But note that £24 is ferociously expensive in terms of ink if you're not printing more than 600 pages a year. That's probably £8 worth of laser toner. You can also get a nice Brother B/W laser printer for under 200 USD these days.
Can't believe I had to scroll down this far to find this - but this is exactly true. Since the virus has a non-human animal reservoir that means that even if every human receives the vaccine, all it takes is re-transmission from the animal reservoir back into the human population after the immunity period expires.

This means we'll probably have to receive Covid vaccination on a regular basis along with the flu vaccine in order to maintain a permanent broad-scale immunity. At least until we have a radical new treatment for this family of viruses that can confer a "permanent" immunity - something that for now is in the realm of science fiction.
You can get an aftermarket drum for a bit cheaper in many cases.
Depends a bit on the scale of the IoT device of course. Bigger machines like https://www.mekservice.no/utstyrsoversikt/maskinoversikt-mas... don't fit into your living room.
How and Why Am I Making These Light-Board Video Lectures
iirc (eg, second hand from the book "the adventures of English") ship came from norse skip, via the same sound-shift that separates shirt and skirt - but is why the K in the term skipper.
I'm afraid there is no way to do that right now, but it does sound like a good feature to be added.
People always say "A bad product still survives with good marketing but a good product can't survive with bad marketing"

May be correct that a good salesperson could make a diff.

Would love to hear the product that came close to your side project. Interested to know.
I noticed a pull request to my gallery of split, mechanical keyboards, and it might be just what you're looking for -- although it's a 100% DIY solution.

The "Natural Ergonomic Keyboard, Type A", an open-source, mechanical reconstruction of MS Natural.

https://github.com/ecopoesis/nek-type-a#body
They don't get any say once local monopolies happen, which is the case with broadband for most areas in the US.
Similar experience. For some reason my Epson clogs more easily than the HP it replaced.

I tried cleaning heads manually (there are a few tutorials out there that show how to do it with distilled water and some cloth). It's very dirty work and that didn't really work for me. It very quickly gets clogged again.

A trick that I found more useful is to not bother with the print head itself, but instead clean the parking spot and the tools that the printer uses to clean the heads itself (there's a rubber wiper, foam and some other stuff there). I unplug the printer, unlock the head and roll it off to the other side, and then use some cotton swabs and distilled water to clean the rubber and rinse the foam. I also keep the parking spot wet with water (the rubber seal + pad that rests on the head when the printer is turned off).

Keeping that part clean + the periodical head cleanings that the printer seems to do automatically works out reasonably well. Although every time I do a nozzle check I still always have a nozzle or two clogged so it's not perfect.
The lack of pragmatism in these stories is very not-engineering-like.

I didn’t get the impression that any of them were engineers. The way I read between the lines, most sounded like there was money coming from somewhere, but it wasn’t the business they were play-acting while on vacation. That, or it just wasn’t going as well as they thought. Setting up camp chairs outside a McDonald’s? I’d rather stay home. Turning a Tesla into a camper? You’ve done this before, right? No? Good luck with all of the new problems you discover.

From my POV, it read as folks with money and privilege discovering that money and privilege can’t smooth over every problem. It’s not unusual for the NYT, and if you think it is, read the weekend section where a couple “just starting out” has a budget of $2MM, and which 900 sq. ft. condo should they buy with that pittance?
Not only that, but this is obvious political riffing.
Product Development and Wickedness
Because it's cost prohibitive to find every animal on the earth that has the virus and medicate or eliminate them.