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>But cars are evil, because we should ride our bikes more! Because everyone lives where it's always nice!

I thought so as well until I saw this video about cycling in Finland. Looks super doable. Rain on the other hand ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU
I get a feeling you commented after reading the headline and didn't read the article. This is a positive story and I'm glad the person was given the opportunity to chase her dreams.
It does look like an interesting read. Thank you :)
Agree, state files can contain sensitive information. We parse the Terraform client side and only send the details to the API that are needed to determine the price, i.e. the instance type, region, etc.
That's not right. At these temperatures even glare ice is quite grippy. The snow gets stiff. The only real downside si that the snow squeaks when you step on it. It can be sort of loud.
My rule of thumb is just "don't click on links that are sent to you". If you need to do something, type the URL in yourself, even (especially) if you get an email that looks legitimate. I think the one exception to this would be if it's a direct response to an action that you initiated, like a "Forgot Password" email that you specifically requested.
The problem is that people need so little and that 98% of commerce consists of people transacting for something more than the bare minimum of staying alive.
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Hey HN,

I can't be the only one obsessed with slide-out physical qwerty keyboards. I'm eyeing either astro slide or fxtec pro 1. Are there any other options out there, preferrably with good SoC and optics, preferrably able to run Sailfish and Linux, that i've overlooked? Thanks!
No. Recipient was unbanked, under severe financial hardship.
Interesting point. But is in any more "in danger" than sneezing - where I loose vision for a couple seconds? It shouldn't take more than a couple seconds to flip up my googles (they should be designed with "flip up" capability anyway). Another point is that we have have self-driving cars before we have such high-quality VR goggles.
Unfortunately I’m never remotely qualified for the rare occasion I see I job I’d “love”.
A bit late to follow-up, but by the time you commented, my comment was back from -3 to 6 and now 9.

So who nows? But it's not the first time I raised my issues with Scaleway price rises, and every time they get downvoted quickly. So that makes me think, yes.
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I wish her well in her endeavors.

Her staying at her current company is a warning flag.
It doesn't sound like she went through any other interview process at other companies, so she doesn't yet have full understanding of what's required to be in software engineering field.

The most likely path is that she will be guided into some sort of Software Development Management role after couple of lackluster years as "software developer" role. Many, if not most, software engineers burn out after couple of years or get into comfort zone and stagnate or get moved into management roles.

There's huge propaganda push to get certain groups into software engineering, women, minorities, etc. The central planners decided software engineering field had to change. The motivation is mostly financial, they need to increase number of available candidates to drive down salary increases in software engineering.

The quality of candidates has suffered because of this push, men, women, etc. Most people are simply not interested in software engineering field. Some people find out too late, after spending too much money and time trying to pursue a career in software engineering.
Sure, but most of that introductory post was about service management, and mount management, which are two areas the init system was traditionally heavily involved in. Sure, the init system might not technically have concerned itself with either, but a lot of the ordering considerations were very heavily concerned with both of those.

Now, no one will argue that systemd's service management capabilities far exceed what most historical init systems did. Heck, the traditional init system had interior service management to window's Service Control Manager implementation, since the classic init could not for example give a list of running services. And systemd is far more flexible and feature rich than Window's options now.

systemd-boot and timedated on the other hand are pretty darn disconnected from anything a classic init system was concerned with. It does feel like a lot of the non service/mount management parts of systemd are basically a grab bag of random stuff.
> Being slightly more convenient

And even that is debatable.
It's pretty reasonable for a hardware vendor building on top of Linux to upstream their changes.
I related to a lot of this and really appreciate the authenticity and how humble the author is. Good luck on this next chapter and congratulations on pursuing your dreams! Also: keep doing the side projects :-)
We are located too far from major client population centers for any Data hosting to make sense, you'd always deal with higher latency to either the US or European users vs hosting in those places. Few submarine cable connections (which cost hundreds of millions to run) mean high data costs versus well connected cities such as Hamburg or London or NYC.

You do realize that transmitting power via cable means moving it through large bodies of salt water (the ocean) that contribute to huge losses in EMF resistance. Not to mention a power cable from Iceland to anywhere else in the world would be 2x as long as the longest power transmission ever created.

It's more scary for me to realize you actually have no productive ideas for a country that mines BTC from renewables but STILL think you're insights are correct.

Did you know what we do with the electricity here before mining was popular?

Alcoa Aluminum smelting, Ever check out the environmental impact on smelting?
> A 15$ pizza in 2009 or whatever is worth ~150K USD now.

A 15$ pizza in 2009 or whatever is worth 18.10$ now.

So which currency should you be spending or which one should you be saving?
It’s booming. I’m considering making Rust or Haskell a requirement for my current remote job search. And given that I have no strong salary requirements it’s actually going to work, could not have done this 4 years ago.
Get a dog, be happy and healthy.
Though 1491 was published 15 years ago, it seemed both well-sourced and restrained in its claims. Whereas there may have been dense towns up and down the east coast in the 1400s, by the 1600s when the pilgrims arrived, and when Manhattan was sold, Europeans were encountering populations with their own politics and a societies suffering from collapses and multiple catastrophes.
But how could anyone reasonably claim they are Rust, particularly given the large reach of it's online services, like docs, crates.io and rustup? Those trademarks are very unlikely to produce anything except another round of debian's icy rebrands.
Thats why Canada has so many malls. :)
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Bought a treadmill for this reason.
I lived in Whitehorse, Yukon for 4 years.

Every single day of the year I rode my bike to work, but more importantly I took a walk at midday to get sun on my face and some fresh air.

The few days I didn't get sun on my face in the winter I noticed how grumpy I was later in the day and how horrible I felt by the time I got home.

Even at -44C (before wind chill) I loved walking along the river, watching the ice twist and turn and eventually breakup. I loved having the library as a destination - it was about a 10-15 minute walk, then I could hangout inside for 20 minutes to checkout books and warm up before the walk back to the office.

You'll be fine, just wear the right gear.
If you want to get on the managerial side, you have to learn how to get people to listen to you and do what you ask of them. You have to become an annoyingly squeaky wheel and develop your soft-skill Jedi mind-tricks.

Or you can drop it all and start your business, which means all of the above plus sales plus lots of patience and little or no pay.

Otherwise, you can always change career completely.
> members are free to reform under a new org

That's what the purpose of this bankruptcy is.

It is to transfer the assets and members to a new organization.

Things like the Virgina headquarters and employees can't just be spun back up overnight. That would be a huge loss, if that happened.

Thus, the purpose of all of this stuff is to move all the assets and members to a new organization, so there is as little friction as possible.
Came here to ask this. It doesn't say, but I think that'd be a key part of the "frank discussions" she had with her manager.
Yes I'm aware, which is exactly why I find it surprising that they aren't involved in the foundation even though the other tech giants that have made investments in Rust of similar size are.
There is good evidence that gay males are much more involved with their neices and nephews [0] and that their sisters are more fertile[1].

[0] https://www.advocate.com/news/daily-news/2010/02/05/study-su...

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15539346/
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You are never "just a whatever" and you should not think of yourself like that. You are a human and you have just as much value as any other. Your life experience and views create the diversity that makes us all strong.
Would you describe a box that weights 600 kg to weight "as much as a single man"?
>but I'd bet that most are successful at creating value that you're just quite not able to see.

I did not say they create nothing, i just said that they should not be held to a higher "rank" than people who actually create something real, with that said there should not be a feeling of "demotion" from director to developer...quite the opposite in fact.

BTW: Look at your reaction, instantly calling me ignorant because i think managers are just gears in the system and NOT drivers.
The term showed up in the 80s, but there was an earlier (70s) failure in AI. There were a lot of grand ideas and promises, people really did anticipate AI moving much faster in the 60s and early 70s than it did. Since a lot of ideas (both regarding AI and CS in general) were in their infancy, the limits of computers (fundamental limits) weren't yet fully recognized, but also the hardware was itself creating limits (non-fundamental to the field) that weren't escaped until the 80s and 90s. See chess AIs of the 90s finally "solving" the problem, which would've been technically conceivable (how to do it) in the 70s but totally unrealizable (unless, maybe, you hooked every computer of the time together).
The 1990s felt like an entire lifetime. I was in Kindergarten though High School.

The 2000s felt long too: High School through college to my first job.

The 2010s was over super quick. I worked full time, changed jobs twice, and got married. Hurricane Sandy in 2012 still feels like yesterday.

I can imagine the 2020s will feel even shorter. And now we know why all of our relatives always said "Wow you got so big!" every time they saw us.
serious question : would you recommend Rust for CRUDdy type of web applications -- stuff where mostly you are firing off prepared statememts at a SQL db and then applying business logic to result set. This is what most J2EE apps do currently.
I'm not one who'd put pressure on science to prioritize focus on what industry finds useful (which adds opportunity for bias in funding).

Instead I was hoping this article would shed light on why in (vulgar) slang we say "sh... bricks". The opportunity for a bad pun here was lost by the author, the researchers, and everyone commenting on twitter so far.
Ah that's a very interesting piece of information! So I guess if you think you're going to get cataracts get the surgery done in your 70s or 80s so you can do it. Not that a person could really plan this.
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A product that doesn't work wouldn't be considered.
please provide a better worded response to such an inane generality then.

> Because they bring enjoyment to people, and all that truly matters is the happiness of people.

my response was actually the politest way I knew how to respond to someone pulling argument after argument out of their backside without any introspection whatsoever.

I honestly think they're just trolling at this point.
Also relevant is the issues they've had getting this right with fighter jet helmets.

https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/this-is-the-f-35s-third-ge...
When running an experiment and following poor practices (i.e. p-hacking), results that fit the hypothesis will be accepted more readily and negative results will be debugged or re-ran more often.

i.e. The initial error may be randomly distributed. But the follow-up on the error will have a lot of bias.
It's much cleaner and simpler though
So do what you need to do to become qualified.

Or don't.

It's your life.
Tesla stock jumped up 2% today on the news. If you think TSLA stock is overvalued, you can short it but there is a graveyard of dead shorts and pairs of red satin short shorts to commemorate it.

Personally, I’ve wondered why this hadn’t all happened sooner with companies. However often times Tesla is the trailblazer and the other companies copy & follow.
I don't believe the law has ever been revoked that requires anyone sending documents through a non-USPS service* to include the appropriate USPS postage cancelled with a pen along with their shipment

* excepting a point-to-point courier service for some reason
Conviction rates are surprisingly high in a lot of the first world.
There are two points that come to mind here.

The first is that, in the most literal sense, maybe 99.9% of the work/insight/decisions of such a capital allocator are going to be utterly useless since the creation of value will come from those rare investments that balloon out of proportion. I might be paraphrasing here as I recall a high-profile VC mentioning this exact concept. Maybe it was Altman himself?

The second is that even in an optimal case, it's up for debate how exceptional capital allocators are. If 99.9% of their qualities amount to nothing, are they really useful or actually gambling middlemen that could be excised from the process? We could imagine for the sake of argument that they do in fact contribute quite a bit and generate the insight necessary for that fateful 0.01% to happen (in similar fashion to the apocryphal tale of the specialist charging $1 for the hammer and $9,999 for having learned where to smash it), but it's unclear that a moderately energetic and highly but not superbly intelligent individual couldn't also do the same if given the opportunity to do so.

Even then, following the most charitable interpretation of the work of an allocator, is it efficient to give them the lion's share of the profits compared to those who do the actual work? I can't say I have the answers to these questions, nor am I advocating for an immediate Marxist revolution, but I am generally skeptical of the culture fostered in the tech world around this topic.
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I studied a bachelor CS / master CS, having worked for 2 years (odd jobs as a dev), and I have to struggle interview after interview by myself. I dream about getting this kind of mentorship from a such an amazing company. Yet, when I apply to Stackoverflow, I don't even get a chance to be interviewed. The mentorship that she received is so super lucky, I hope she realizes that.

I'll bet you this: if I (or most CS master graduates from The Netherlands [1]) would receive a similar kind of treatment, then they'd nail that software developer position in terms of skill [2].

[1] I can't comment on other CS master programs, but I've followed lectures at: Utrecht, Amsterdam (both of them) and have seen what they're capable of at Delft.

[2] I'm not making claims about culture or communication.
What sort of failure mode could a boot or glove have to leave you in serious trouble? It is not something that anyone ever has to worry about. Most people don't walk out of reasonable range of civilization. It takes a fairly long time to actually freeze to death.

People that do somehow walk out of range of civilization on a casual walk will usually be in range of a cell tower.
It makes sense that large corporations would be interested in Rust given its current capabilities and future potential.

Amazon, Huawei, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla all have a vested interest in Rust succeeding since they are all deeply invested in high performance software, the majority of which is written in C and C++.

The undefined behavior semantics in C and C++ trade safe handling of undefined behavior for high performance. The result is high performance code that is difficult for developers to reason about and vulnerable from a security standpoint.

https://blog.regehr.org/archives/213 gives great insights into how undefined behavior in C and C++ can cause problems.

Rust is becoming an excellent replacement and hopefully will continue to succeed to enter all the niches that C and C++ currently occupy.
Interviewing for my last two jobs, I told them very explicitly that my career goal was to never become a manager.
As far as "concerns" go these are not even allegations, these are rumors and slanders. There has never been even one shred of evidence that Huawei have done that.
You can test self-awareness, if you can test if the program knows it will halt.
This is not the point.

'waste' energy means energy which you could not have used otherwise.

If it is cost effective to mine bitcoin in europe, then europe will just produce more energy for your usecase independently if it is useful to do so or not as long as it is cost effective.

This is not 'waste' energy; Its energy prodcued for your bitcoin mining.

Would the world be better of without bitcoin? Holy shit yes.

Do you know why farmers produce opium? Not because it is using waste farmland, because others are paying them more money for it then for food to consume. Its the same issue with bitcoin.
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Yes, g-d forbid the rest of us ride scooters to work because a few people live in Whitehorse. One need not live in SoCal to avoid the use of a car in winter. I lived in Indiana and managed it. Hell, people in Whitehorse manage it, for that matter. (EDIT: well, there ya go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26067682)
I'm sorry code search isn't working. I'm more than happy to help. If you reach out to me via my email I can see whats up. neovintage [at] github [dot] com.
Also popular implementations do some cool things. The compiler section in the SBCL manual[1] has good details. SBCL's type inference is powerful and you can also convince yourself it's actually working by looking at the output of DISASSEMBLE.

[1] http://www.sbcl.org/manual/index.html
> They'd probably be hiring a non-negligable percentage of the same people who are running scams. The risk of insider abuse is untenable.

This is the first time I hear someone making this claim. Is there prior evidence of this being a regular occurrence with outsourced customer support operations?
Did the Covid-19 virus escape from a Wuhan lab?
This was addressed in the UCC and is pretty simple actually as each state implements laws to saw who has jurisdiction and how to handle.

It also bypasses the federal government in that the code is established by some big council and implemented in (most) states.

That’s why when I live in Missouri and buy something from a vendor in New York, they still have to accept returns, issue refunds, provide for basic warranties, etc. and if I have problems I can easily get remediation in state courts.

There’s 50+ years of where this works ok. Not perfect and lots of room for improvement. But better than the current shitshow that exists like this article describes. If we had the minimum level of legal structure, it would be so helpful.

Because of UCC, if I give away a product for free, I have to support it through its commercial life. So if I hand out knives, for free, and they explode after 20 years, I must still support it. Even if they come with a form that users have to click that says “I will not sue PrependCo if these free knives explode.”

Google’s free (and even non-free) services are causing harm to people and aren’t being supported.
Of course if the job sucks, then you're screening for luck the wrong way.
I'm really happy to see this happen. I'm also really thrilled to see Lars Bergstrom on the board, and am excited about taking Rust farther both at Google and across the industry. Rust is evolving from being centered at Mozilla to being a true community and collaboration between many different groups, including big companies, so I think a well-supported foundation is key. I'm very hopeful for the future.
Here's a pretty famous video on exactly this demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV3gMTOEWt8
They didn't, it was all speculation, mostly speculation from the person that received the call and the company's insurance firm.
That's cool, I had seen https://cloudcraft.co but BrainBoard seems to be taking things to the next level. We're seeing the need for cloud price and cost information to be available in other products and are happy to explore integration opportunities. My email is ali@infracost.io
Just because someone doesn't like Bitcoin doesn't mean it's a misunderstanding because they're privileged.

Bitcoin IS a terrible currency because it's volatile. Really the worst aspect to have in a currency.

Also, your statement alludes to Bitcoin being the one true way, as if there are no other options for third world countries.

Volatility in a currency is a terrible idea and it gets even more terrible of an idea when utilized by people with little money.

Can you explain how a volatile thing like Bitcoin is a reasonable currency for third world countries?
Yes it does. Any simplicity with moving money that BTC gives you is solely due to the fact that it doesn't follow AML regulations. That will end.
> But if you stray off that path even a tiny bit, you’re often in for a surprisingly inexplicable, unavoidable, far-reaching pain.

Not to go off on a tangent, but I feel like this is true for most packages/alternatives to mainstream solutions (at least in node.js)
the difference here though is that physically you can at least own the address, but even your digital address isn't actually yours. Phone, email, ip and whatnot are all provided by someone else and can be taken away.

Domains can be stolen, deprecated or simply restricted from your use.
How convenient. A huge percentage of managers in large organizations are expert on talking the talk, read this:

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...

Any big organization will optimize for people who can extract as much value from their peers/subordinates and present it as their own.

By the way, this does not mean they are not smart or hard working, but you could say the same about any other worker.
Just commenting to let you know that at least one other person on hacker news knows marginal revolution style economics/moral philosophy/classical liberalism and finds it more compelling than the alternatives seen to date. No offense meant to those who see it otherwise.
That's a fair point - the 200GB disk costs a bit more if you need an SSD (although my experience shows an SSD is not super necessary unless you have write heavy workloads or otherwise unusual access patterns).

If you drop the SSD requirement, a cheap dedicated server will blow Snowflake out of the water. As a bonus, you can run your own code (ETL, scrapers, dataviz). Kimsufi has 4 core 2TB (spinning) w/ 16GB RAM for $17/mo. Personally, that is the route I go for my personal warehouse, as I find I almost always want to put an API or django app in front (and other software like Celery, scrapers, etc.)
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