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> I am very sure that there is INITIAL help very close for free in terms of money;

A hotline call (where available) can avert an immediate crisis but is not able to address underlying challenges. Recovery needs extended time with mental healthcare professionals. All indications are that most of Earth's population doesn't have access to that. For them, the advice of "Just Go Get That Free Help" isn't helpful.

I'm not saying we shouldn't help. I'm saying that assuming they have access isn't helpful - unless we actually know they do.

To be helpful, we need to ask if they know of services in their area. If they don't know, we can offer to look if they're willing to share their general location. If we strike out (not unlikely), we can learn more about them and their region - see if some obscure solution can be unearthed.

It takes time to provide the help that folks actually need.

(note: Evidence that most of our 7.8 billion have reasonable access to usable mental healthcare is absolutely welcome).
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Wow, I seriously underestimated the way this written communication could be misunderstood. Especially how anyone could possibly read it as a 'tirade'. And not everyone knows about EEE, especially nowadays but fair enough as to how a link to explain some of it might upset someone that does. That said I really thought that you weren't aware of some of what they had done and how much it would have cost them.

We have a difference in opinion it seems on how much money we think Microsoft might be willing to pay for it and other items as well. That's fair enough. How any of that is a tirade is honestly quite nebulous to me but I probably won't be able to change your mind, even if I tell you that it wasn't written by the furiously typing mad dog you probably imagined.

Let's structure it, so you see how I thought I was addressing things:

> truckload of code

I.e. costs a lot of money: "it's a well known strategy to loose money to kill off the competition"

> pull the plug altogether on such a cost sink

Addressed in "Microsoft has traditionally been able to do it and I have no doubts that they would still have the stomach for it"

> feature parity with Jetbrains on languages like Java or Python

The rest that starts with "I don't know if their pockets are still as deep as they used to be." and which also includes "The landscape looks a bit different nowadays I'd wager" is basically me acknowledging that your opinion is different on this than mine and that I can see that potentially their cost/benefit analysis would lean towards your interpretation. They are trying to cover the Java side well enough with the Redhat maintained plugin. If Redhat does a good enough job to take customers away from Jetbrains that plays into Microsoft's strategy without spending a lot of cash on it. Brilliant.

It's an evolving thing too and as you point out in your reply here, MS did loose the browser wars eventually. The market changes all the time through technology breakthroughs for example and people are actively working against EEE tactics too. I for one am glad that MS lost the browser wars and to address one thing that I did not comment on (on purpose because I was concerned with the EEE discussion and not whether or not one or both of us like JetBrains):

> I'm actually delighted to pay for a product that I use every day for ~8 hours

I absolutely agree that IntelliJ is awesome and I don't want to miss it or use anything else. I don't even use vscode for FE code, unlike most of our FE developers. I'm traditionally a BE guy but have no qualms about doing FE work as long as you don't make me do pixel perfect reproductions of designs in CSS :)
Well there is Citrine: https://citrine-lang.org/ - it offers a specialized version for over 110 human languages.
I discovered Kidder's book while I was digging into what microcode actually was. I had been thinking about what a huge impedance mismatch it was to write in C targeting an abstract machine that resembles of a PDP-11 and expecting the CPU to translate the instructions for that abstract machine into an architecture is that drastically different.

Microcode is the magic, it's the compiler internals that we don't have access to. I really wish we could get a modern CPU with a writable microcode store so research could happen in the open.
While I 100% applaud the effort - and I absolutely love the idea of languages in non-English languages - you should be aware that phonetically (and if you drop the 'h'), the name is a racist term in the UK at least.
This. Try any recent network with TF-TRT and you'll find that memory is constantly being copied back and forth between TF and TRT components of the system every time it stumbles upon an operation not supported in TRT.

As such I often got slower results with TF-TRT than just pure TF, and at most a marginal improvement, even though what TRT does is conceptually awesome from a deployment standpoint, and if it only supported all the operations in TF, it could be a several-fold speed up in many cases.
I've been pretty much following Lyn Alden's newsletter and Fortress model portfolios, which consists of international ETFS (VWO, VPL) energy and metal commodities (RDS.B, SCCO, GOLD, FNV, WPM), and IVOL. Uranium ETFs like URNM might be worth a look if you expect extensions on reactors/new reactors to continue.
I lost quite a bit on btc-e, but in that case our government stole it.
I think you should look at the incentives...

In the academic world, tenured professors are rarely fired for bad behavior. Their primary incentive is to create grad students who cite their work. (“Expand on the path they’ve laid”). This means they can tune out or abuse anyone not part of their citation factory with relatively little cost. As long as there is a ready supply of new students each year they are fine.

In the professional world the incentives are from the market. If you can’t generate revenue or funding you die. Leaders of small companies can be abusive to get things done. As the companies scale, abusive leaders find it harder to attract talent and bad managers tend to get weeded out by the market for talent. (Jobs and Musk are exceptions) As companies turn into monopolies focused on scale there are less external pressures and toxic behavior can return as turf wars trump market pressures.
>>“My life it ruined, I’ll kill myself” reaction when a band breaks up

For the above statement to be adjacent to “healthy,” suicide needs to be something funny and lighthearted.
Pluck and hard work, or luck of birth? Two stories, one man. (2019)
I was cured of a decade long chronic pain by reading a comment on Hacker news about TMS and Dr.John Sarno. Then a few people who read my comment also commented the same happened to them as they too had been cured of debilitating illness and chronic pains (one HNer said he was contemplating suicide because how bad his pains were but was cured just reading about it in the book).

I generally don't like to post about it anymore but since you want to know if HN got you money, power, etc. All I can say is reading HN got me my health and life back.
Add E2E tests to ensure that your main features are working
Tesla has closed its forums to launch a social platform and fans are not happy
Show HN: Send badass bug reports to Jira. With Screencast, console& network logs
I could see the opposite of that possibly arising, e.g. doing something irrational like creating a training event every 2 decades, due to belief - but the inverse makes no sense to me, what's the advantage to a society to renewing skills at 20 year cliff-edges vs. continual development? Makes less sense still in the context of Japanese kingdoms, the kingdom choosing to continually propagate skills would win.
Hey, we already have two bold dots here, so linear regression, you know
As a Dane I wonder what’s behind using Hafnium as the name of the Chinese organization?
(Hafnium is an element, named after the latin name of Copenhagen - Hafnia).
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This is another argument on why we shouldn’t be using Google Safe Browsing. It’s frankly unacceptable that for every 5 (or less!) bad sites it blocks, we get something like this.
so what was the contents of the actual malicious file that was uploaded?
Good news, this has existed for years! It's called Bandcamp.com
This can still work. The protection is when the external customer says “the output is garbage” and the scrum master says “you are doing fine”
Aren't hooks default in reagent now? Or at least, wasn't there a move in that direction a few months back?

Personally, I use reagent (with re-frame) and the only times I need to do JS interop is when using JS libraries (which shadow-cljs has made easy -- I know that Clojurescript has better support now too, but I've not used it because I was already a shadow-cljs user).
Nimbus v1.0.8 release and Rocket Pool integration
Perhaps just telling the site owner a max of 1 compromised subdomain, e.g. "We detected malware on sub.yourdomain.com" or "We detected malware on sub.yourdomain.com and potentially other subdomains." Seems like that would provide a huge benefit to people trying to be compliant without much benefit to bad guys hosting lots of malware on different subdomains.
Guardian Promotes ‘Global Lockdown’ Every Two Years to Combat Climate Change
This is an ignorant statement. Pakhi means "bird" in Bengali. Check the translation.

Edit: To all the downvoters, I truly hope that ignorance is bliss for you. Maybe learn another language before you project your ressentiment tinged identity-politics idiocy onto something you don't even understand.

[1] https://translate.google.com/?sl=bn&tl=en&text=pakhi&op=tran...
The article lists: “pests, disease, insects, and/or witches”. So I think they’ve considered that already.
If you view it from the perspective of people who watched Slashdot fall apart, it seems a lot less elitist and more pragmatic about SNR.
It might sound crazy but I am not willing to take risks with my personal data and managing it myself.

I pay iCloud and Dropbox monthly so I don't need to manage my own data. I know its secure with Apple and Dropbox.

To me privacy concerns and hypotheticals are less important than losing data outright to attackers or my own mistakes.
Cool. I wonder if this was useful in forestry because the punch cards were quite sturdy, compared maybe to a clipboard full of forms, or field notebook.

A little more detail from the cited article: "The personnel of each crew includes a forester, a crew chief and a tallyman" Later: "All records are in code: Mastery of the code is a large part of the preliminary training..."
2.5 million leading bid right now.

https://v.cent.co/tweet/20?s=u_o
Can you point us to the post that pointed you towards how to search for bulk manufactured chemicals?
Eager Loading Polymorphic Associations in Ruby on Rails
I've only got 1/3rd the HN Internet Points. But I write a lot of comments here.

I feel like a lot of people actually read the comments here, and consider them, and may change their mind. I've seen enough conversations where someone says something, another person argues something different, and the first person agrees and thanks; and ocassionally, I see that person bringing it up with the new state of mind in future threads.

So, while "someone on the internet is wrong, I must correct them" is generally a fruitless endeavor, it seems somewhat fruitful here. I get good vibes from helping other people in that way.

Also, I am sometimes corrected and I get good vibes from learning new things. Ocassionally, you can rant about something related and say it doesn't make sense or isn't documented, and someone will point you at the documentation.

Do I spend too much time here? Probably. But it's a better time suck than many other places. I try to stay out of the political threads, although not always successfully (rule of thumb, it it's 100+ posts and not connected to my technical experience, don't click, or if you do click, just skim for current events knowledge)

Also: HN loads fast almost always, and has the best chance of loading in poor conditions compared to anyother site I might want to look at.
I’m genuinely surprised (and a little disappointed) that this thread doesn’t have a single love story sparked on HN. I did once receive a bunch of shirtless bathroom selfies from a gentleman here when I included my twitter handle in a comment. Unfortunately, I blocked him before he had the chance to propose so I guess I’m doomed to forever wonder what could have been...
My Show HN[0] got to the front-page and I received amazing feedback from HN users. I also made several sales from that post and I received an outstanding exit offer (I didn't accept it).

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24746921
Show HN: Connect with people visiting the same webpage
Show HN: I made a note-taking app for roleplaying games like D&D
I'm also a longtime Clojure user and I barely use Java interop at all. Occasionally I do something like convert an instant to a java.sql.Timestamp, or I call Math/abs or something, but even these tend to be isolated cases. Its rare that I need deeper interop, unless I'm wrapping a Java library myself (which I haven't needed to do in a long time).

The biggest area where the JVM leaks through is exceptions and error messages.
You see a red circle moving across the computer screen, but in reality there is no red circle, the only real thing is a excitation moving though the R,G,B fields of the screen.

The same with particles. They are as real as the red circle. A convenient illusion which simplifies things and computations.
Pakhi means bird in Bangla. Bangladeshis also used to be Pakistani, so they're probably fine. ;)
HN is where I got interested in seriously improving my programming skills, several years ago. I was doing a lot of programming, but not employed as a programmer, so I had let my skills become outdated. Coincidentally, the language getting all of the "buzz" at the time was Python, which just really clicked for me.

Reading HN has also been the start of many a good nap. ;-)
Sure, there are some loopholes like a dragged aether that could resolve the contradiction with Michelson-Morley. But you are going to have a very hard time explaining all the other tests of special relativity such as Ives-Stilwell type experiments.
The ColorChecker Considered Mostly Harmless
Right. A key point here is that some complex things are easy to mass produce. If you can make it by stamping (available in the Bauhaus period) or casting (also available), adding decorative detail doesn't cost you anything. There's a class of parts you can make on a four-slide machine cheaply, and it includes most small threaded parts like the ones used in assembling lamps.

A good example from that period was stamped tin ceilings, which were a big thing in the US around 1880-1920 or so. These are purely decorative ceiling panels, available in many patterns. They replaced decorative hand-made plasterwork. Some of the patterns have Victorian details, some are rather plain. Manufacturing cost does not increase with pattern complexity.[1]

[1] https://www.decorativeceilingtiles.net/tin-ceiling-tiles/
Microsoft goes down the periodic table to name each new threat organization.
Apparently there are a lot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programming_...
Most IT services should definitely be outsourced.

Let’s say you are a big airline company, there is absolutely not a single reason you should manage your email system. Your job is to fly airplanes not to manage some goddam emails.

The really fun part in that is that most of the big airlines actually outsourced some key part of their core job (IT wise I mean), like how they manage seats and load, this kind of stuff, while keeping some absolute non-core IT services internal, like an internal Exchange system with dozens and dozens of people to manage it.
Selling his digital autograph, not the tweet. Selling the tweet would imply passing full control over the original.
Show HN: A Slack app for anonymous team feedback and polls
Only source I can find for your last claim is https://mechanics.stackexchange.com/a/28690/33924:

> Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if the great Nikolaus August Otto, inventor of the four-cycle engine had a similar saying to explain his engine: Saugen, Drücken, Knall, Schlag...

So I think this is apocryphal.
> the slope isn't nearly as slippery as you're imagining

I had a great chuckle at this.

The issue that is being tossed into a big pile of other issues is simple. Ebay, a private company, has taken the path of banning the sale of those now-discontinued books. This action is totally within their rights and is fully legal for them to do. You can, rightly, talk about the content of _this specific book_ as much as you want, but that's not the broader issue here. What is riling up some people is the idea that in the US we are, ostensibly, a country founded on freedom and they feel like that freedom is being encroach upon. You seem to feel like them banning the sale of the book is no big deal, but they are in a large market position and them preventing the secondary market sale has a large impact.

The even bigger issue is that what we are seeing are very vocal groups that push the idea that we have to prevent these kinds of thoughts from being in our society at all. They force these ideas onto the greater community as a whole by attacking any entity they deem as non-compliant. As a result you have companies preempt that attack and voluntarily comply. To use the theme from the previous poster, they are voluntarily banning or self-censoring. This _is_ an attack on freedom though. You cannot have freedom of speech if you make it so only the speech you _like_ is effectively allowed. And I purposefully said effectively and not legally.

This obviously doesn't get into the broader topics of corporate censorship. I have many thoughts, some of them conflicting, about that as a whole. The simplest distillation would be that as long as your free speech is not encroaching into illegal territory then I don't feel like you should be excluded from society, even if your communications are repugnant.

So, back to where this started. You claim the 'slope isn't nearly as slippery' as they were imagining. Perhaps today that is the case. Maybe it's the same next week or next year. At some point the thoughts being attacked may very well align with your personal beliefs and _then_ the shape of the slope will be drastically different _for you_.
Hi Hacker News, I'm Matt, the founder of Incognito for Slack!

It's a Slack app that helps leadership get honesty from their team using anonymous feedback and polls.

I work part-time at a series A startup, we're using it for anonymous questions for our CEO townhalls. But there are many use cases:

- Team NPS

- Colleague appreciation

- Anytime feedback

- Specific question & response

You can see some other ideas I pulled together here: https://www.incognitoforslack.com/ideas

Thanks for checking it out! Let me know if you have any questions, ideas, or anything else! You can reply here or email me directly at incognitoforslack@gmail.com
Build an artificial island, declare it a sovereign nation?
If someone were to build an artificial island in international waters, could they legally declare it as a sovereign nation?
They are mathematical constructs, but they can sometimes lead to viable intuition. Classic (and necessarily simplifying) "how it works" explanations for Hawking radiation, the Casimir effect, deep inelastic scattering results, and more rely upon invoking virtual particles.

Matt Strassler was among several theorists who helped me, as a graduate student, to develop a deeper intuition for quantum fields -- it is important to develop an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of both the simplistic and nuanced ways of thinking about and discussing these interactions.

It is tempting to regard Feynman diagrams as if they are actually what is happening. One should only use them as guides to intuition. They are actually compact expressions of successive terms in a perturbative expansion, terms that can interfere with one another sometimes. Theorists (like Matt), who work with these things every day come to develop a more-nuanced understanding, generally one that places greater weight on fields (not just the bosonic force-mediating fields, but the fields for the fermions, too) than understood by even many practicing physicists in other specialties.

Another helpful insight that may aid understanding of virtual particles as you start to understand things more-deeply: the photons we observe with our eyes from distant stars need not be exactly on-shell, just very (very!) close.
Is that really true? Are there tech-literate folks that don't have a NAS and use VPNs? If so, count me surprised. How would you BitTorrent without a NAS configured with VPN?
Perhaps the White House needs to use something other than Zoom.
One of the gotchas of columnar storage (coming from Redshift) is that you lose all of the compression benefits if you have just one column that’s fat or hard to compress.

In Redshift columns are stored in blocks. You want to fit roughly the same number of column values per block across all your columns. But if you have one column where a small number of values can fit in a block, the rest of the columns end up leaving most of the block space unused. The result is wasted disk space and poor query performance.

This Postgres extension has similar-sounding storage ideas with stripes, but it’s not clear to me if it suffers from the same issue.

My first test to vet this would be a table with 50 columns of ints and one column of md5 hashes stored as varchar.
I removed GA from several sites and didn't notice any easy-to-corelate change in SEO traffic.
If you're looking for money, fame, or love - so-called "tangible benefits" - you're in the wrong place.

It's a stimulating way to spend some reading time, with intellectual debate, tech news, snippets of insider information from those in-the-know.. Plenty of fluff but occasional and consistent inspiration and thoughts from genuine people deep in their niche domains.
There is a red circle in reality, measurable in intensity, shape and wavelength of its radiation.
I sit down at a desktop, and do what I must there.

Edit: To be honest, I made this reply from my phone. I'm as addicted as anyone to these devices, and its why I've put so much effort into curtailing my usage. Edited from a desktop :)
It'd be great to see C/C++ be easy to integrate. I can't quite tell if there's support for them? There's so many existing C/C++ code bases that are security nightmares but still provide great functionality. Wrapping it in a secure context would be awesome.

Also it'd be fantastic to be able to compile Nim as well. Maybe a weekend project. :-)
Hetzner just hiked their dedicated server prices +20%, after not being able to satisfy demand for some time.
No problem, I just assumed some kind of misunderstanding and tried to explain my thoughts in different words :) I'm afraid I don't have especially great ideas for that, nor am I a sysadmin. In fact, I was hoping to see some example of how you'd suggest to use the thing so that I would better understand it and get inspired :P hm, dunno, how about uploading my ssh public key to a remote machine? Just random idea of a thing commonly needed to be done.
Except that doesn't happen.
That's not what it's for. It's to prevent user content from being served from the same origin as Google services. If the content were to be served from the same origin, scripts loaded from that origin would be able to access your google cookies and therefore would be able to access your account data.
I have a Synology, and use their "DS File" iOS app to backup all of my photos. And scheduled backup jobs on desktops. Great peace of mind. I backup my NAS to Backblaze and to a local USB drive plugged into the NAS. I'm on my 2nd generation of Synology and am a very happy customer.