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It's been relevant recently due to the SolarWinds supply chain hack, too, since the implant was inserted into the build process, so I've been seeing it a lot more too. It wasn't used to infect a compiler, but still makes people think of Trusting Trust.
>We all share a single view here.

Except for dissenting opinions, obfuscated in light gray.
As parents of a young child (i.e. not much of a social life anyway), the main thing the pandemic changed for us was saving the commute time by working from home. Losing our childcare during the first wave made the work quite challenging, but once the daycares re-opened in our province and the Covid-related anxieties subsided, it's been overall better than pre-Covid.
The average salary for a Software Engineer is $107K per year in United States.

The average salary for a Software Engineer is $66K per year in Germany (~61% less).

Source: indeed and payscale.

I always find a bit funny when US devs in HN talk about getting salaries above $200K/year... when the average US dev gets half of that. (I find it funny because everybody here thinks we are above the average dev level and can get a job at Facebook/Google/Amazon/etc... which is statistically incorrect).
Being Dutch, I am surprised the article doesn't mention the Dutch disease.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_disease
When someone accuses me of lying, I try to dredge up the evidence that backs up my beliefs and present it. If I cannot, I admit I am wrong or at least do not have any evidence for my beliefs, as I am not a complete degenerate. I hold everyone else to these same standards.

In cases where I'm actually lying...well, I try not to do that as I don't think it's a long-term winning strategy. (I could be wrong about that.)
That's a very human centric view though. If we see them as balls of multi-colored light then what makes you think they can even grasp what an aircraft is, let alone radio signals.

Sure they might have been studying us for centuries, and that's how they can disable our instrumentation precisely without damaging anything. But then again that raises the question, why? Why even let us detect them in the first place if they have no message to send.

And if they have a message to send, how come they have complete control of our technology but can't convey their message?

Nothing adds up here.

To me as a skeptic the only common factor is human imagination.
One of the replies says the only sensible thing on that thread:

> Just because you had the thought doesn't make it true.
Two different targets, I have used both.
I have so many 5V power supplies sitting around, they git in the way. Including 12v/5v buck converters for auto stuff.
You can configure for headless when you set up the SD card before you ever boot. I have never booted a Pi with attached display/keyboard.

The Pi is cheap, for a reason, but it is still more powerful than anything I use it for.
But the same goes for the Beagle Board.

Choose the board you want, for the project you are doing.

Note: For every RPi project I have done, I have done two or three ESP8266/ESP32 projects along with five or six AVR/M0/M2 Arduino projects.
A lot of it is printing things I've found on Thingiverse that other people have created. More recently I've gotten more abilities to use TinkerCAD to build more complex models.

Things I've downloaded and printed: Headphones holder for my new desk, cable hangers for running cat5, Microphone "shock mount", a centrifuge for the kids science project, drywall passthrough grommets, painters pyramids because I forgot to pick some up when I was at the store, Christmas ornaments for us an our family, heart drink coaster for my anniversary.

Things I've designed: Hold-downs for my shop vac, hose adapters for my dust collector, hose adapters for a variety of my tools (many of these hard to just go out and buy), repair parts for my christmas lights to replace broken holders, a tool for more quickly raising/lowering the feet on my workbenches, a customized lathe tool holder for a friend.

The first time I shopped for something on Amazon (the headphone holders), and realized I could print on for a fraction of the cost in 4 hours, I was hooked!
I have a special SD card made up that has all of the correct boot configs set and a small script to update everything and set up the Pi for PXE boot. After everything is configured, I take out the SD card and let it just pull boot images over the network. My main home server serves everything up over tftp. The only downside is that you can't get this to work over wifi. The wifi Pis get read only SD cards that are all configured the same so it's easy to reimage a new one if the card dies.
Create a housing shortage. SV salaries are inflated due to COL in NYC/SV
Sure. But how efficient are they once you include the power used to keep them cold enough to superconduct? I doubt that they're even as efficient as a normal microprocessor would be.
> An “Ireland Event” outbreak, with draconian shutdowns, an unemployment shock and small business bankruptcies, would be massively deflationary.

Close your positions or reduce it today. Do it now. Don't wait until the shit hits the fan.

Sell, reduce or hedge. You've been warned.
So are they going to go back and “course correct” their ruling with Google? Of course not.

This isn’t anything other than some commissioners at the FTC seizing upon an opportunity to make it appear that they are actually protecting consumers by a token action. They knew they could win this because the company is a startup and couldn’t afford to fight it. They are minuscule in comparison to Google.

It’s business as usual for the real criminals —- the tech giants.
Requiring a phone number simple way to mediate and bottleneck people trying to create bot accounts or abuse the service and also create a positive user onboarding experience to actually use the app. I disagree with the need for a phone number, but it makes the act of "registering" much easier. There's a reason Gmail and other similar "huge" services also require phone numbers for registration.
The post touches upon it, but I didn't really understand the point. Why doesn't synchronous replication in Postgres work for this use case? With synchronous replication you have a primary and secondary. Your queries go to the primary and the secondary is guaranteed to be at least as up to date as the primary. That way if the primary goes down, you can query the secondary instead and not lose any data.
Elon Musk and the Boring Company should jump on this.
BuildZoom (better way to build custom homes) Is hiring a principal engineer
I wouldn't trust a PhD in literature to tell me about epidemiology, I'm disinclined to trust a chemist either.
Could you elaborate more on your “this is because Europe is corrupt” claim? I like to think European politics is not much more flawed than American politics, and would like to see such a claim backed up with some actual evidence.

I personally like to think Europe is very different from the US culturally, in that the countries themselves are much less aligned than the US states are. I would never consider corruption to be the cause of this, as much as it’s mostly about the egos of the individual countries and citizens.
Ok, here comes timeless saying: The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Most voted and the best can be two different things.
I do not object to the claim that FB/Twitter etc. are no better. I am simply pointing out that "arithmetically most of the things they did are harmless" is not a good argument. Most of the things Bin Laden did are benign, Him studying eating, partying, watching TV, taking a dump, playing a ball etc. probably accounts for %99.999 of his actions and being a horrible terrorist is just %0.001 of who he is, if we are looking for a benign/illegal ratio.

IMHO social media needs to be regulated, companies should not be able to simply cut you off from the rest of the public and you shouldn't be unaccountable for your actions and there must be ways for harm reduction. (if you tell/share a something, them maybe people affected by it should have right to equal exposure to challenge it. i.e. their POV could be attached to your post and everyone who interacted with your post receives a notification that the post was challenged)
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16% having personally seen something seems a bit high for your logic [0]. Granted, I don't have data for the "close encounters," so most of these will be distant or unclear, short observations with prosaic explanations.

I've never seen anything myself, but anecdotally, a group of sane family members did (a close encounter, at that) circa 1970, long before the secret military jet angle would have any credibility. Apparently more than half of people can share a similar personal or family anecdote.

[0] https://www.syracusenewtimes.com/ufos-aliens-and-abductions-...
This is pretty funny. Take yer damn upvote...
When they limited the number of devices I looked at the paid plans.

But the lowest-end plan costs about the same as Netflix, and I have too many subscriptions in my life already.
No separation between header and code, structs are better than records (because they bear their data labels when you inspect them, even if you send to another node that doesn't recognize them), and also since elixir requires that the tags are modules, you can use them for polymorphism (this is the best of OOP without OOP).

Much better documentation support, better compile time infrastructure, smart metaprogramming (this package would be a PITA in erlang: https://github.com/ityonemo/zigler), opinionated but optional directory organization. Module namespaces which are trivially subdivided and aliased, easier time making anonymous GenServers. The Task module, full stop. The registry module, as well.
If we believe in democracy, we necessarily must believe that the crowd - the mob, if you're feeling less generous - is better at making decisions than any small group of people.

Which means believing that it's better to implement a terrible but popular decision than to override the will of the people.

So in this case, IF the majority supported lifting restrictions (and I'm not Irish so I have no idea what the public sentiment was), then the politicians did the right thing: They obeyed the will of the people.

Which also means that in this case, the people of Ireland f'd up and need to take responsibility for that, rather than blame the politicians who simply implemented their will.

We can't have it both ways. We can't demand a government of the people, by the people, for the people, and also let ourselves off the hook whenever our collective decisions suck.

Maybe we, the people, suck at governing in a crisis.
I love your humour during these times, also thought by "Ireland Event" he was talking about "The Troubles" coming to America and clicked but I guess we have different stereotypical images of Irish folks.
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I have no trouble believing the 3x rate given that I believe I had Covid in April and was steadfastly refused a test, and later in November, after traveling, was refused testing once more. There still isn't sufficient testing capacity for everyone who wants one, and even then, not everyone who is sick wants a test.
"As Hart argues, the drug war has in fact succeeded, not because it has reduced illegal drug use in the United States (it hasn’t), but because it has boosted prison and policing budgets, its true, if unstated, purpose."

Attacking motives is a nasty way to argue. The general public pays for prison and police and supports keeping some drugs illegal (if not marijuana) because it fears the consequence of widespread drug use. This may be right or wrong, but it's not crazy or malevolent.
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I would liken it to missing a day at the gym. Even if you regularly work out if you start missing 1, 2, 3 days eventually you stop going altogether. The same thing has happened with WFH. People have already gotten used to working at home 100% of the time. Even if COVID was wiped off the face of the Earth there will be a large number of people who have simply gotten into a new routine and will never go back willingly unless if they are forced to.
Also Irish. 100% agree with the both of you. I have a limited amount of sympathy for the government as Christmas is hugely culturally significant, but I think they did a poor job (especially the handwaving over flights from abroad that can be paraphrased as "we recommend that people don't come home for Christmas unless they feel they really need to") and what we're seeing now is largely CYA.
Wait, you would qualify it as the lamest? I really don't see how it's very different than HackerNews in aesthetics and in design philosophy (minimalist, simple etc.)
One seasonal question that I'm pondering:

It's currently summer in South Africa, but death rate is spiking there, more than during its winter. This surprises and concerns me. What's the explanation? Thankfully, other obvious Southern Hemisphere countries aren't seeing a big spike right now.
I love bios mods. Replaced a crappy N chip in my Lenovo Yoga with an AC chip.
It’s one arterial road. I have lived in a city like that. The first arterial road has homes and businesses and then as population grew, new parallel roads are built.

But now we have to have inter city and intra city transport as two diff systems. What I suggested was to have inter city mobility underground and intra city transportation over ground..and many cities can be joined and networked like so.
The first dedicated site (I know of) that was distributing modified 54G firmware was wrt54g.com . https://web.archive.org/web/20050803021630/http://www.wrt54g...

Right after that some guy (Thomas?) was tweaking the WRT firmware and selling it on his own site. He really liked red things. His whole endeavor kind of annoyed me.
In a similar boat.

Our first was born this past June, and while it hasn't been easy—FYI TO ANYONE READING, BABIES ARE A LOT OF WORK—I feel like this pandemic couldn't have come at a better time, if it had to come at all.

There will be a point soon, I'm sure, where I may start to feel he's missing out on building relationships with other toddlers and trusted adults. But for now, all things considered, we can't really complain.
> Furthermore 'Irish car bombs' are a tactless but popular bar drink in America, which indicates an awareness of the conflict.

In the Atlantic parts, sure. But someone saying that others knows the history of Ireland because they knew a drink is a stretch at this point.
Is tailscale downvoting you as well?
Having read HN I got the impression that VC funding isn't always a good thing either. How is VC funding at this level better? (It might well be I just don't have any insight.)
I've seen this happens several times, people just group all other parties as right or left and team up with parties on their side
If you repeat it enough times it becomes true.
> The health department has exactly zero plans regarding the vaccine

I'm in San Francisco and a family member runs a specialty clinic here. They worked directly with the health department last week to get their staff vaccinated as part of Phase 1a described here: https://sf.gov/covid-19-vaccine-san-francisco

I'm not saying the performance so far is outstanding or good, but it's simply not true that the health department "has exactly zero plans regarding the vaccine".
We could've done that. We could've also used DRBD, etc. But then we still have the SQL/ORM/testing latency/dependency problems.
> NUVIA was originally founded in February 2019

Do they hold the record for the fastest and most profitable exit?
In many cases, Erlang has a simplicity that is largely unmatched. I love the pipe operator and it's something I miss in a lot of languages, but just as often I miss the simple form of Erlang as well, being able to just define a series of simple, immutable clauses.

In some sense, two ways to solve the same problem.
If you have so many problems with a vendor that you need collective bargaining among customers then you really need to find a new vendor.

You do not need a union, you need to move on. Let Google fail if they can't figure it out.
Also let's not forget the porous border with Northern Ireland, which is suffering from London's stupid rules.
The frameworks mentioned in the article (ReactJS, VueJS, etc) are not so far removed from basic HTML, CSS or JavaScript that this should be a problem.

The author mentions that they tried to make a login page in vanilla JS and CSS and got bored, because you can't just add a class to a component and have it turn out nicely styled.

Problem is that's not actually a feature of any framework mentioned. It's a feature of libraries that are sometimes added on top of a framework but not the framework itself.

Erosion of fundamental skills is maybe a "dependency" trap, but almost certainly not a "framework" trap.
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> I use SSM more because it's a pure example of this; what exactly did marriage advocates "give up" in the bargain? It was the opponents who more or less had to capitulate near totally.

I am fascinated by your language use of "capitulate" here. You are framing this discussion very much with the language of "subjugation".

Here is how I frame one category of public policy involving allocation of scarce resources. In the case of legislation that adjusts spending from general revenue, each taxpayer shares the responsibility. Individuals who attempt to withhold that portion of the tax will face penalties. This is one way a government can wield power. The power is often implied, but if necessary, it can be backed up with various enforcement mechanisms. These mechanisms may be coercive, but they are subject to the rule of law.

Now, with regards to granting privileges to same-sex couples, I do not see this as an issue involving scarce resources. A person who opposes same-sex marriage is not directly harmed by someone else's partnership receiving the right for hospital visitation, for example.

In fact, I think the opponent of SSM, in practice, benefits in ways they don't even recognize. Happier, more fulfilled people tend to lead to a more vibrant culture, stronger economy, and overall better quality of life -- for everyone. One of the classic ironic Hollywood storylines is about a homophobic man who grows up to be a father of a gay son. Over time, he realizes he was wrong.

At the same time, I can understand how this opponent of SSM may feel worse off. Unfortunately, this person wants their private morality to be imposed on everyone.

For background on how I am using public morality and private morality, see the writings of Robert Kaine. He argues against moral relativism while supporting the importance of value systems that are compatible with democratic ideals. In short, not all private moralities are equal in this sense: not all are compatible with a pluralistic public morality.

To be clear, Kaine's reasoning does not demand a total ordering of private moralities. Indeed, it steers clear of that issue.

So, in conclusion, while I can sympathize with people who don't get their way (which I frame as "having their private beliefs codified into law"), I don't think they have been treated unjustly. Not all private beliefs are compatible with pluralistic democratic values. Sometimes society has to choose.
Money is not usually the problem so 'subsidy' is not it.

A good example is that European companies are not interested in dealing with little startups that are not powerful. They like to deal with 'big brands'. They are unable to make institutional decisions based on more calculated merit, and instead go the safe route.

Entrepreneurs taking smaller risks.

Entrepreneurs not understanding how the VC cycle works.

A lack of proper exits.

The list is long.

Europe has plenty of money and 'competent, regular professional managers' but a dirth of the kind of focus required to make big plays.

I don't know what the answer is.
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Isn't it trivially true to say it's impossible for any natural process to sustain exponential growth for a sustained duration of time?
I haven't seen a particular critique of that paper so can't comment.

Bigger picture, I wasn't commenting on the particular validity of that paper as much as what this type of study could tell us...hindsight I should have picked an example from another disease.
Moved on, GPL-3 is a non-starter. Working on something with GrapesJS.

Are you saying something like "notify" rather than "check for changes" with shadow dom? What is studying -> effect? (in more detail)
Go's Windows and GUI support is questionable at best. If anything, Go is a Ruby, Python, and server-side C++ killer. Go gives you the development iteration speed of an interpreted language with performance approaching C. Go is a reasonable compromise in the backend arena.
> as it pushes Erlang forward in its own way.

Yes. Thank goodness erlang is starting to adopt hex. And elixir is driving better documentation in erlang via the EEP process already, as well as things that people care about in modern systems like telemetry. I think over time it will push more use of binary strings and iolists.
What are the size of those offices? (I don't know the answer to this question).

Every multinational company of a sufficient size is going to have "an office" in a major developed country.

The question to me is whether or not that office is employing more than the minimum required for the company to sell products in that country. If your "office" is just local sales and support, some lawyers for local legal issues, etc, I don't think that's a strong case.

Do they do substantial R&D there? Are there new products that come out developed by "Microsoft Paris"? Etc.
From the perspective of someone coming the other direction (a developer working almost entirely with Elixir that needed to jump to Erlang docs occasionally), it's interesting to see the note on docs, and honestly the vibe I get from this blog post feels related to my personal overall gripe with the Erlang community.

To be blunt, I really dreaded needing to jump to the Erlang documentation, largely because of a perceived gap in developer empathy. Elixir documentation feels like it's written in a way that wants you to be successful and enjoy the process, while Erlang documentation feels very perfunctory. Where Elixir documentation is rife with examples and hints, Erlang documentation almost makes you feel like an idiot for wanting to see similar examples.

I wonder how much of that vibe is more due to priming because of community perception more than anything else. There's a distinct stereotype of Erlangers having a strong "I am very smart" vibe. That's not fair to a lot of the wonderful Erlang fans I've met that are extremely welcoming, but the wider Erlang community has a strong perception of gatekeeping where they almost don't seem like they want the language to be more accessible.
It’s likely you have enough money that it isn’t prohibitive to you. I think most people would find $10 a month for file syncing crazy. Why would I pay for that instead of Google Drive? It’s one more company I have to share my data with and hope they don’t lose it/get hacked. At least I can log in once with Google (or OneDrive if you are in the Microsoft ecosystem) and two factor authentication and be done with it. I don’t understand the Dropbox business model at all. Hoping people are uninformed about better alternatives? 9 billion market cap for that?
Do functional, competitive markets really exist? The true nature of markets doesn't seem to be equilibrium, but brutal swings between various local optima (which generally are pretty mediocre overall).
"Equivocation" is like prevarication or evasiveness. The word you're looking for is "equivalence."