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Of course it has nothing to do with developer skills. Follow the money! Fixing bugs/selling upgrades makes money. Writing perfect software makes you bankrupt.
By that logic, is https://json-schema.org/ is the reimposition of a schema within JSON?
I find your quote here and the follow up seriously unconvincing. You know what a miserable workflow is? Preparing all my build scripts according to the half baked build tool that our in-house Deployment team cooked up to use fabric to spray my deployment onto a bunch of nodes in our data center, all the tests and script linting pass, so then I go push it through our CI/CD pipeline (which can’t do the above tests for me because again this is all threadbare maintained by in-house tooling teams who could not be less aligned to end product deliverables), and lo and behold it breaks. Good thing I’m not paying so much for CloudWatch so I get to literally go ssh to the worker node of the CI/CD system where my task failed and cross my fingers that it wasn’t reclaimed for the next task and that the log files weren’t rotated off, grep my way to tracebacks that probably involve things no one on my team has ever heard of, spend 1/2 a day chasing them all down (if I’m lucky), and finally kicking the box to restart a build a few times and it goes. Then it goes to the in house homebrewed kubernetes deployment scripts where it promptly chokes on a secret that wasn’t configured right (thanks home made script linters), so then I have to go down a rabbit hole of eye melting Helm config of secrets for an hour but thank god I’m not paying for a simple cloud UI for this. So we get the secret cleared up and everything is great, until the kubernetes scheduler can’t schedule my pods because our data center is at capacity and now I literally can’t get work done until I chase down some probably incorrect and certainly unmaintained Grafana chart of who is using how much excess memory on which nodes, and wrangle someone with authority to force another team to stop eating lunch and downsize pods right now. After all this, 6-7 hours later and 20-30 labor hours later, my workload is finally deployed, but it will die overnight for an uncaught reason that doesn’t alert anyone, and even if it did, the team managing compute resources is in a permanent state of PTSD from never ending pages so they wouldn’t bother caring about why my workload failed and will just assume it’s application logic bugs or Docker bugs on my side for as long as they can just to avoid yet another un-debuggable failure landing on their plate, so that’ll be great for morale in the morning when I get to derail yet another day and spend time doing every type of ops work that is not my job and prevents us from delivering product goals.

This is every company I’ve ever worked for or ever heard any colleagues, friends or associates work for, that tries to build their own SRE practice on top of data centers.

Large cloud platforms alleviate so so much of this pain. The “back to the 70s” workflow sarcastically described in the quoted passage you shared sounds like an absolute dream compared to the nightmare of shipping code on internally created developer tool & deployment platforms interfacing to bare metal or space leased from data centers.

I can’t give the cloud providers my money fast enough and I have only ever felt happy about that for years and years now.
I think this is a confusion between "professor" (i.e., anyone on the tenure track) and "Professor" (i.e., Full/University Professor).
>And nobody is forcing you to watch the ads -- you can get rid of them for $12/mo. Or are you saying that you expect people to produce quality content for you for free?

They are not. And I generally don't. In fact, I rarely watch YouTube. When I do, it's generally to find a specific song or video clip (both usually decades old) to forward along to someone else.

In those situations, I would be shocked if the "owner" of the content (the YT channel owner) had actually paid license fees to the actual copyright owner.

As for paying $12/month to get rid of ads, that seems an awful lot like a protection racket. "It'd be a real shame if you had to waste all that time watching ads. We don't care about the money, we just want to help you make your viewing experience better."

Given that the video in question[0] wasn't actually created (or even directly licensed) by the owner of the YT channel, your point is moot for that particular piece of content.

As for actual content creators, I absolutely believe they should be fairly compensated for their work.

However, simply repackaging the work of others isn't "content creation."

Regardless, I make every effort to shun all platforms that attempt to show me ads. That's my choice. Because I don't care to be presented with a bunch of garbage or pay the same people who profit from it to not see such crap.

If there's something I want, I'll buy (not stream or rent or license) it.

There's far too much of that going on and I refuse to support it. If I buy music or a phone or a car or a tractor or seed or anything else, I should be able to use it as I see fit, without restriction, data exfiltration or a bunch of scum trying to sell me stuff.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va8Uz6MoKLg
This quote has fascinated me for a long time. It seems that this is a skill that can be sharpened with deliberate practice.

I went to a 10 day silent meditation retreat (Vipasana) abs felt I got much more comfortable sitting by myself just observing my thoughts. The practice part was difficult, probably one of the hardest things I have ever done. 10 days of no talking/reading/writing, sitting in a room, observing your sensations, for hours on end, punctuated by 5 minute breaks. I felt the world temporarily go from HD to 4K after a couple of days.

Anyways, this really made me reconsider my relationship with thoughts. I feel I can separate the sense of my being from my thoughts some times. This helps me with my anxiety.
Vaccinated should be in quotes. Then it would make sense and the title would take on a sinister tone.
That would not happen, assuming it is not massively overvalued before the sale.
Ask HN: Might Solarwinds hack scuttle US's attempt to thwart strong encyption?
Each attempt by the US government to weaken encryption with backdoors seems to teeter upon a pivotal assertion that the government can be trusted with such "keys". Forever. The Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act introduced by Senators Graham, Blackburn, and Cotton, for example.

Might the Solarwinds hack conclusively disprove any such assertions (that the US government, if entrusted with encryption backdoors, is capable securing access to those backdoors)?

And how broad are the implications to the average American of such "keys" being stolen and widely disseminated?
Promotions are a big part of shogi, and part of what makes it fun. You do not start with the most powerful pieces, you have to earn them through promotions. Also, the promotion area (the enemy camp) is larger. This article doesn't capture that aspect of the game... which is necessary if you are looking for an ideal chess variant.

You may also want to take a look at some mechanics of Xiangqi, another chess variant.
I have been managing people for many years now. It’s a hard balance, but I always start from a place of empathy. I find it easy to be empathetic first and then lay out then business/situational needs. We don’t do brutal honesty, just gentle honesty. When people are brutally honest they just use it as cover for being an asshole. I am probably not being clear about what I think about kindness, it’s a subtle point. Even kindness overdone can be patronizing.
same, I often end up having to force reboot my mac as it seems to do strange things and freeze up. My windows machine is going strong, haven't really had a problem for a long long time
You and I agree here. Build homes. Use tax money to build and operate housing. (Don't do the shitty American thing where you spend on the capital budget but not the operational budget.)

We also need crisis intervention, counseling, drug programs, and support.
I noticed the Storage Share page doesn't mention anything about server-side encryption - is this an option?
I only figured out what was happening by trial and error while trying to fix the production issue where I was moving 1000 messages at a time into a 2nd queue. Once I had dequeued 20k, everything starting pumping like normal. That's when I fired off an email to our AWS rep asking for confirmation from the SQS dev team. Within a couple weeks, the docs you just quoted were added.
Ok, well you go first.
LTSC really is the way to go for a stable windows experience, unfortunately there's no legal way for consumers to get licenses without a much larger investment than what a home or pro license costs.

You can meet in the middle and run transcript on pro which disables most of the worst new features.
Someone who confuses a workplace with a police state is someone who almost certainly has never lived in a police state.
As someone who has bought a new Samsung phone ever other year since the first Galaxy, my current Samsung device will be my last.

The knox lockdown and license revocations is the last straw for me. Which is ashame, because Knox would be a game changing feature, if only they would allow consumers access.
> Instead of spending all that silicon on more CPU cores, perhaps we can add more coprocessors instead?

Isn't it always a trade-off and some balance? You can add more specialized processors (ASICs) but that also takes away space from general purpose processing units on your die. So depending on the workload your co-processors might be useful or simply dead weight that's not utilized but takes away from the general purpose units that could be useful.
This was a regular thing at tournaments I used to play as a kid. We called it “transfer”.
And of course, your ability to get CNS papers is strongly determined by your Pedigree + PI too.

It obviously matters when submitting a paper, but it even determines what sort of experiments you can afford to work on and for how long. An HHMI-funded megalab can keep throwing things at the wall until they find some CNS-bait. Smaller groups may have to publish something to keep the lights on, even if it's less "complete."
That's cool, you shouldn't buy one if you care about portability. I personally love not being tethered to my desk, so I haven't really owned a desktop in a decade. The M1 for me was just so perfect I had to jump out and buy one!
pychess.org has many chess variants, and you can play against the AI to try them out. No registration required.
I found the clarity of your thinking and writing refreshing, it's rare for someone to observe and recognize these archetypes. I by and large agree with how you see it.

One thing jumped out:

>> I think some people are just wired that way, or perhaps set on that course by environmental factors early in life. Either way, it's not a choice. So I think it's somewhat of a tragic condition.

and

>> My advice would be that if you're consistently getting negative feedback about personality traits from others, take it seriously.

If you think about it these two comments are contradictory. Either you are a victim of your programming, or you have the power to (slowly and painfully) recognize it and change.

I am a firm believer that people ultimately can recognize their problems and change. Recognition is the harder part. For most of us, to recognize the really deep and ugly things about ourselves is really hard and often is only done when someone has hit bottom and are forced to confront that there's something wrong. It's easy to say "listen to feedback" but it's impossible to convince someone they should until they've had some painful experience that forced them to recognize there's something that needs to be heard. But it's possible and important.

The other thought as I was reading your comment - I think you'll enjoy Ray Dalio's Principles book.
Lately, the main reason for using “serverless” (aws lambda in particular and all related wax) has primarily to do with security “compliance” at enterprises, cost of it in particular, and nothing with developer productivity or technology... aws just makes it super trivial and cheap to meet all the compliance requirements if using only this dilapidated stack.

It’s no wonder any startup with half the brain would still pick rails/ruby for actually creating something of value, while enterprise middle managers and bean counters argue about how to not write code.
You know, come to think of it, probably someone in the lab learned it elsewhere and brought it.

None of us were bright enough to come up with that gem.
Yea, we had a queue backlog of 3 million (that were bound by an SLA) by the time I figured out what was going on.
Not everyone is a programmer though. Synthetic benchmarks don't just compute prime number or run mandelbrots. They test things like video compression, image processing, zip compression and decompression, etc. - things that most people do.

> Geekbench 5 measures the performance of your device by performing tests that are representative of real-world tasks and applications.

http://support.primatelabs.com/kb/geekbench/interpreting-gee...

I'd rather rely on Geekbench score than some programmer's compilation pipeline. Not saying programming benchmarks aren't important. Just that you cannot blame the reviewers testing comprehensively because your use case is specific.
> In the real world, there aren't many people making purchasing decision between an M1 Apple laptop or Mac Mini and an AMD 5800X desktop machine anyway

I have a 15 inch 2018 i9 MBP that's objectively a terrible device (throttling/keyboard).

With corona and WFH I'm weighing my options - right now everything is out of stock but early next year I'd be interested in building a desktop. My problem is the M1 is so good that if they do a 8 performance cores version for 16 inch MBP in spring there would literally be no point in having a desktop - I could have a single device that outperforms the desktop machine. Frankly I don't see why they couldn't offer a 13 inch varian with more cores - thermals are not a constraint.
But why "take it to extremes"? Yes, if you're sitting next to a volcano or on a glacier then outside conditions can affect your ability to think. Obviously.

However the OP said "an indoor room isn’t a particularly desirable environment" - and that actually is absurd. If you need to be in a sauna or on a beach then you're already too distracted by the environment to be able to think deeply.
Quite a Utopia
That’s called bughouse chess and it is quite popular.
Was it the gender reveal party?

Forest fires are natural and happen all the time and are part of natural cycles of the forest.

What kind of forest management was happening to allow the fire to get that massive in the first place?

So you have government restricting freedoms to stop people from making mistakes created by the government in the first place.

Not a great pro-government argument.
I suppose it's because they now "test" using virtualized hardware. So even if chkdsk runs during their tests, it's running on a virtualized disk, not a real SSD.

Honestly, I'd pay money so they bring back the testing team and not use all of us non-enterprise users as beta users.
Princeton grad says Ivy League made him 'social climbing weasel'
UK alcohol sales fall despite rise in home drinking
Dyndns does work when you have a say in at least one side of each potential connection, unless you want one of your NATted hosts to also act as a bounce server in a pinch.

But you do not seem to be getting that the use of nftables, for the open-network bounce server, is wholly optional.
> the government stage-managed what appeared on the domestic internet

If this is news to anyone then they have been hiding under a rock for the past decade or two.
Thing is M1 air is cheap for the quality/performance so you could probably get both.
I'd say that JSON is "structured", and probably HCL as far as I know, but the others have problems.

I haven't worked with an API that uses XML in a long time, but does it express the difference between "0123" and 123 well? I think that it either doesn't, or you add some really awkward schema language with XML namespaces ...

I just translated my .travis.yml to JSON, and I learned that

deploy:
on:
branch: master

gets translated to {"deploy": {"true": {"branch": "master"}}} because "on" is a synonym for true. I'd call that unstructured. It also has problems with keys that start with -, etc.

Also, all of the languages are often used with say Go templates, which makes them more unstructured. They're no longer statically parsable, which is "table stakes" for doing anything else (validation or static analysis).

I took some pains to make shell statically parsable [2], and I think it's now a better foundation than these config languages, per my other comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25483270

I think HCL is probably a lot better, but it also seems to be the least used! It's structured, and has its own mechanism for expressing duplication that's not the equivalent of a 70's-style #include.

[1] https://github.com/oilshell/oil/blob/master/.travis.yml

[2] http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2019/02/07.html
> Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world

This is utter nonsense. Many people enjoy their work immensely. To take a HN hero I'll bet Steve Jobs enjoyed changing the world via his work and through that loved his work. I'll be Steven Spielberg loves (loved?) his work.

Further, short of AGI, there will always be work. Let's imagine no one had to work anymore. What would we all do? We certainly wouldn't make TV shows and movies because those require work to make but we just said we live in a world without work. We could all have twitch channels talking to our fans but their'd be no games to play on them because making a game is seriously hard work. Maybe some hobbiest would make some 1 person indie game and not call it work but there are few TV shows, movies, and games that don't require a small army of people, most of which have to do "work".

Not sure how we're going to take the work out of nursing, cooking, cleaning (clothing, buildings, kitchens, hospitals, parks, streets) etc...

Replicators, if they ever exist, won't remove the need for work. Even in Star Trek (post scarcity) what do think the 1000+ crew members each ship do? They do work.
>The king is surrounded by people whose only thought is to entertain him and prevent him from thinking about himself.

This is really interesting from a modern perspective. I'm an audiophile - I've spent countless hours just sitting in a chair in front of a stereo system I've spent a couple thousand on. If I ever lapse into non-attention to the music, I try and get back to the music. It's like mindfulness meditation, but unlike the monk, my mind is focusing on a sense, not emptying itself.

On the other hand, I can't lie in bed for more than two minutes without deep introspection - my morality, arguments for and against all positions, what projects I want to work on, the papers I've read, etc.

But before writing some comments on this website and elsewhere, I'll have a deep think about what I'm arguing, and why. Other times I'll just jump at it for the engagement, the thrill of refreshing in the morning to check the Hacker News Engagement Number, whatever else. I've tried to make an effort to not read outrage-bait on Reddit, I've deleted my Twitter account years ago, I've done countless things. This i my third HN account.

The best part of my day, after work and my energy is exhausted? Gaming. I only play one game - online and multi-player, with an Icelandic man I've never met. It's all a distraction. Why continue learning piano, Japanese, philosophy, literature, introspection, when I have this pleasure right here? Where will I be in 30 years? 20 years? Even writing this comment sadness comes over me.

To think that in the 19th century, there were men being compared to Hegel and Feuerbach at age 21. What the hell am I doing?
Reminds me of when people would use quotes for emphasis. "Quality" ingredients.
If by "AMD is wildly rumored to have a processor" you mean it's been leaked and benchmarked multiple times, then sure: https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Ryzen-7-5800H-shows-decent...
I've been sitting quietly in a room alone for months, it will likely be a year before it's done. I'm able, I'm OK with it. The Daoist/Bonpa[1] base qigong I've studied, along with other practices (Alexander technique, self-hypnosis, NLP, etc.etc), has prepared me for this. But it hasn't solved all my problems, I wouldn't expect it to and I have a hunch that this kind of simplistic formula is something like a weakness of the "Western" (philosophical) outlook.

I understand that the "inability" stateme involve an effort to cast a spotlight on many people's inability to attain something like a "meditative mindset". If that's all you want to do, fine. But you houldn't take awareness, a contemplative mindset, and so-forth as the answer to everything. It's much closer to starting to explore the question, having sufficient tools to explore human existence, etc.

Indeed, I'd say "humans are capable of sitting alone quiet in a room alone and it is the ignorance of a given person that prevents this. But to overcome your ignorance, you probably have to leave your room".

TL;DR; this kind of claim is more like taunting the unenlightened than helping.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon , https://www.academyofqidao.com/
Same. To the point where I finally gave on my mbp and built a windows pc. Network (wifi and ethernet) dying repeatedly and at random, only coming back after a reboot, got to be too much when working remote. Random lock ups, I got more kernel panics in the last year than I have in the last 5 ish prior combined. Not reliable and it feels like the OS is sacrificing stability for features I don't want/need.
I've been sitting in a room, alone, for almost two years now. So far, this has yet to resolve any problems.
> or simply dead weight

What's wrong with dead weight? Is unpowered silicon a problem? Can't it sit there unused until the rare occasion it is used and still be practical?
Flexible open source systems with sane defaults and access to proper documentation.
TLDR: excellent developers produce something else, not more of the same thing other developers do.
I'm missing the reason why RISC-V in particular is (claimed to be) so much better suited for building specialized co-processors. Are they talking about ISA extensions? Or maybe that the royalty free model makes it cheaper?
Thought is stimulation.
Effect of a Low-Fat Vegan Diet on Biomarkers in Overweight Adults
Seems like there’s a few major contradictions when discussing targeted ads.

This article seems to claim that targeted ads may not be that effective. If that’s true, why is my CAC on FB significantly lower after a few hundred pixel conversions? If that’s true and ads that aren’t targeted are cheaper yet just as effective, as the article claims, why are DTC brands spending so much on FB and not on less sophisticated ad networks? You’d think there’d be a pricing equilibrium unless we think that every DTC marketer is either incapable of calculating ROAS or they don’t care.
Around here (San Francisco) the primary use of this kind of wood is for decks. It stands up very well in the weather and it's lovely. Popular is used a lot here for this process. The color changes to a rich, dark color.

I've been wanting to get some to work with but it's special order. Apparently this process is reasonably available now as one of the mills in Marin produces it. Unfortunately decking, eg. boards 1" think or less, seem to be the only kinds available. At least at the retail level.
Does this apply to Ants and Amoebas? They don't seem to enjoy sitting quite either.
I haven't been to the "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks in a while and I couldn't believe they are still posting!

http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/
It looks like AssmeblyScript has GC already https://www.assemblyscript.org/runtime.html