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Ask HN: What's one simple yet POWERFUL quote that you keep going back to?
For me, it has been this Eleanor Roosevelt quote:

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."

The quote above has helped me classify hundreds of conversations I've had with different people over the years and has generally helped me make better choices with respect to the kind of conversation I'd like to have.

It also acts as a people filter of sorts, and I have used that quite extensively to filter out people who spend way too much time talking about 'people stuff' over discussing events or ideas (in any field).

What's your go to quote?
That means that a guy standing about a football field away from me due east or west would have a clock that was running ahead of or behind mine.
Meanwhile the hydrogen in a hydrocarbon is somewhere in the range of 1/7th of the weight, so the fact that it all goes up the exhaust pipe in the form of water doesn't really subtract all that much weight from the input.

There's more energy in the hydrogen bonds, not the carbon-carbon bonds, right? Just adds insult to injury, if you ask me.
> Not everybody has to be political all of the time.

Of course, modern critical theory would tell you that it's only by the result of privilege that one can afford to remain apolitical. If you're not actively antiracist, you're racist, and so on.

What a world we live in.
Is being less tasty vegetables our best strategy?
Haha, like I said - to each their own. To be honest I'm starting to miss winter a little bit too.
Personallly I have hundreds of ebooks that I bought, it will be nice to have a system to enable me to lend them to other people for some times when I am not reading the ebooks.

Maybe someone can propose a viable solution perhaps using blockchain technology on ebooks lending and renting. This solution should work offline probably based on the new local first paradigm [1].

https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/11/20/local-first-software/
AWS Lambda – Debugging File Descriptor Exhaustion Using Go
I think it's more likely that numerous programs have worked around the issues of the built in type for a decade and/or changed scope/modified functionality to avoid it.

I had to work around one of the issues here in my first use of the built in ip type - I needed to parse ip addresses and pass them to a command that needed a tcp4 or tcp6 flag depending on the address type.
So who does Oracle sue because of this?
Considering how dark it is in winter mornings, I'd rather us just keep year-round off of DST instead. I say this while living in the geographic center of the country, and certainly for some people who live further north, I'd doubt they'd want the colder and darker mornings.
Desktop Applications 8%. There is a reason for that, the GUI frameworks up until recently have been quite poor. I had been using Lorca as a Chrome wrapper that gave me a HTML interface but alas some users ran into weird bugs with it, its just not reliable and webview which utilises the native browser (edge/GTK/Safari) is even less reliable. I have been trying out Fyne recently and that seems stable and functional all be it with the same issues that Swing has with Java but also the same benefits.

Go could do with a decent GUI framework, I think a lot of people would like something that isn't Visual Studio C#/C++ for this purpose but its not Go (or rust) at this point.
This is mostly a US only thing, outside of it there are very few places where this would even be an option.
I've worked professionally with a person who found their love for programming by modifying Minecraft mods. I'd say he was far better than the vast majority of bootcamp devs, even without much real work experience.

Finding out what is fun for you is such an important step in self-actualisation and a continued interest.
Boeing has also changed the name of the 737 MAX to the 737-8, at the request of airlines, since people know the former name but not the latter yet.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/aug/20/boeing-737-....
I think someone could make a good living as a Zapier consultant.
Buy a Spectre TV. Sane price. Very good picture quality. No stupid "smarts". https://www.sceptre.com/
While not as fancy as errno(1),

perl -e '$! = shift and print "$!\n"' ERRNO

works to decode (nonzero) ERRNO if Perl is installed (per strerror(3) in the C runtime library linked to Perl, so YMMV on non-POSIXish platforms).

Speaking of portability, Microsoft's err.exe[1] is a conceptually similar tool that references a considerably larger collection of Windows error messages (user and kernel mode Win32 error codes, COM HRESULTs, etc) and is therefore far more useful on Windows platforms than anything naïvely implemented in terms of C runtime errno (e.g., my stupid Perl one-liner).
Spain switched to CET in 1940, supposedly in an attempt by the Franco regime to curry favor with Germany. It was France, the Netherlands, and a few other countries that switched due to German occupation (France used to be on GMT as they also straddle the Prime Meridian).

The UK, Ireland, and European countries east of the CET-zone are on different time zones, of course, but CET stretches from Serbia to Spain. That’s not as far as Shanghai to Tibet, but it’s still at least a couple solar hours.
“Exogenous change.” Exogenous to any physical or chemical process-like seemingly reversing entropy locally.
Legislation saying that "network off" settings need to be respected and the device needs to work as much as a possible without a network connection, on pain of 2x revenue + penalty from whatever agreements you made selling data would go a long way.

No more cars that spy on you as you drive around when you turn of network services, no more TVs that spy on what you watch and so on.
I just want to see f(g(x), h(y)). I’m hoping for an editor that both generates and hides the twelve lines of noise that call g, handle an error, call h, handle an error, call f, and handle an error. I don’t want to write or review that for the same reason that stack frame setup just happens in code that nobody writes or reviews.

We could generate Go from some other language, but I can’t assume any team will buy into that.
I'm more than twice your age, and I can say that Windows is the worst coding environment there is.

If you just want to learn to do software, but don't want to dig into computers per se, then a cheap Mac is a good choice.

If you do want to learn software and computers, then use Linux. You can install it on most any old PC or laptop you have or can scrounge. Learn how to admin the box. It's an important skill for experimental physics and engineering physics these days.

And try Julia:

julialang.org Use the Pluto interface.

https://computationalthinking.mit.edu/Spring21/

https://www.zdnet.com/article/mit-were-building-on-julia-pro...

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3314221.3314642
(the paper is rather hairy, if you are new to this stuff.)

With your background in physics and humanities (he can write!) plus Linux and Julia, many doors should open.
ATS has linear types.
Sorry, I shouldn't have said something if I didn't have something good to say. Should I delete it, or just leave it?
This is best - for sure; thats why I am a fan of broad equity allocations etc. The larger the company gets, the hard that can be.

But in that situation, I can give top performers more equity, but in the grand scheme of things, thats not much incremental total dilution to the average employee. We all still make more the same way - when the company makes money or is sold.

If you are at a larger company that is a going concern for a long time... it gets a bit harder and takes some more thinking.
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I would ask how many times you've been sound asleep at 2AM, your local time, and woken up by a phone call from someone in the middle of their day. I used to have a phone with a Seattle area code in the GMT+5 time zone, and the only practical solution was to turn the ringer volume off at night.

The military and aviation are special cases because they're specifically trained to use zulu time for professional purposes in a certain set of circumstances and situations. I'm fairly sure you won't find airline pilots scheduling their family Thanksgiving dinner in zulu time.

The specific circumstances where it does work for humans is where it's known that UTC is the standard for some set of equipment, such as a person looking at a traffic chart for an incoming DDoS and going "yup, looks like that began at about 0300 UTC on Feb 2nd, so it started affecting the customer at 10PM Eastern on Feb 1st"
Black Lives Matter is just the name for a political movement and organization aligned with Critical Social Justice and specifically Critical Race Theory which actually dispenses with the idea of meritocracy as a worthwhile goal (see postmeritocracy.org for an explanation of this view; the author of that site is Coraline Ada Ehmke, author of the Contributor Covenant, which has been adopted by many projects including Golang)

The diversity you're talking about uses the definition everyone is familiar with from English.

The diversity Black Lives Matter is talking about is a technical term with the definition coming from Critical Race Theory, which defines whites as the least diverse categorically due to historically injustices against BIPOC folx.

> The idea of focusing diversity isn't at odds with focusing on competence

It is explicitly such, as stated by the movement you defend.
That's today. Who knows what is going to happen in 6 months.

Edit: there are a lot of people with other smart TVs that progressively got more and more broken applications.
Page cache and SQLite cache means you don’t actually end up hitting the disk usually. Also SSDs are pretty fast and NVMEs more so.

Maybe when you first start or access a new piece of data for the first time you maybe get a hiccup (maybe not - always profile to figure out how your specific application performs). If hiccups like that actually manifest, a nice way to solve that would be to attach the on-disk DB to the in-memory one, copy everything over (and maybe detach). If that DB is ever mutable at runtime, just copy the changes back in a background transaction to the on-disk DB (in this case I wouldn’t detach probably). This way you still get the persistence of the disk with the performance of RAM.
Obviously, people routinely compare and hash IP addresses in Go programs.
Honestly HN I want to shout obscenities about getting: downvoted for citing an expert on the topic, and one response that didn’t like the expert’s writing style.

I want to, but I’m not going to. I know it’s not cool to complain about downvotes but I’m just astonished by repeatedly finding them on topics that are falsifiable and lightning rods for malice.

I’m incredibly disappointed by the level of motivated ignorance in this community at this point. And I’m gonna make every effort to stop looking at these threads tonight and cool off before I engage further.
Some sea slugs can shed their body, regrow it, and might survive on sunlight
I still don't want to get work calls in the evening, and can't take social calls at work. I suppose we could all configure geo-fences, or manually set the phone to whichever mode since we're all working from home.

Of course the first thing I'd do is write a script to automatically switch modes at given times, so I don't have to. Then I'd share that script with my friends, and obviously what I'd have recreated is a timezone.
It also has little overhead compared to physical TVs.
I can't remember where I first heard it, but there are a few variations of "don't let the process get in the way of the end result". I usually remember it when in large and long meetings...
Yep but when our 401ks auto buy in there's a bit of a stop gap. Also I think the bigger reason is that with tech people expect a nonlinear impact. Amazon being the example. So not only revenue break even but market growth and new market opportunities.
> The main problems with X11 are within the core X11 protocol itself, things that are long considered deprecated/obsolete and can't be fixed or removed without doing a protocol break.

Which problems, exactly, would these be? Why is it impossible (or too difficult or disruptive) to solve these problems through a server extension, or some other backwards-compatible fix? I'm sure the X.org developers have an answer, but I'm not seeing it here.

> it is highly unlikely that the major desktops are going to want to continue on that path going forward.

I don't care what other desktops and toolkits choose to do -- I don't even use a fd.o desktop (hell, I don't even run dbus). If it weren't for needing a Web browser and Zoom, I wouldn't even need a GUI at all.

I'm doing this for myself. I like UNIX a lot, but I really dislike the direction modern Linux desktops are going in. But instead of whining about it online, I'm willing to put in the time and effort to keep things working the way I like.

I'm asking what problems Wayland solves in order to figure out why it's a bad idea for me to take a crack at implementing a simple X server of my own (assuming X.org is indeed going to be deprecated). Like, what is so wrong/broken about the X11 protocol that the X.org server developers are so enthusiastic about abandoning it? Clearly, I must be missing something. I would like to know what that something is.
Thanks! I’m very familiar with PCish buses going back to the AT bus days, but I had never heard of the S100 bus before. I’m pretty amazed at just how versatile it is.
Nand2Tetris is really great, but you have to be a reasonably accomplished programmer before you take it on.
As an outsider, my guess is not "bad contributors" or "diversity" like sibling posters but an increasing perception that Go is a Google language and not a community language with how events have played out in scenarios like the package management work where a replacement for what the community was doing came seemingly out of nowhere despite the community trying to work with the core team

Note: I could have facts wrong but this is the general impression left which is just as important for respondents on this survey item.
Well, it depends where in Japan you go to, like the US.
Hokkaido in the north gets lots of snow, the south like Osaka and beyond gets hot in the summer.
All I want for Christmas is a way to get decent test coverage on a method with several “if err != nil { return err }” branches that isn’t excruciating.
> what's better about the Netflix app

I can use it with the same remote as I turn my TV on with.

In all honesty, these things all are just feature parity, they perform the exact same between the two devices, but I really feel like the UX of fast-forwarding, rewinding etc is completely MIA on Apple TV and therefore it isn't really superior to the native applications, despite the $200 price point
Can someone familiar with actual game development comment on how this works in conjunction with typical polycount concerns for games? My experience with environment scanning (notably limited to Matterport) has been that the models it spits out are... really bad in many ways, most notably the mesh geometry is an absolute mess as you would expect from estimating things based on scans. It seems like if you wanted to use scanned or photogrammetric-based models in a real game where performance matters, you'd end up having to basically recreate them. Hoping I'm wrong and someone can explain how this fits into a real-world asset pipeline.
Tired of being broke and frustrated?Tired of being broke and frustrated?
Off-topic, but is there a reason for small companies/projects to use Oracle Cloud? Are their prices and feature set competitive against AWS, Azure and GCP for this audience?
Don’t know why you were downvoted, this is exactly it. Is a book club alive because all its members are alive?
> why wouldn't someone just hire a developer to do this?

...

> You could probably pay someone hundreds of dollars to write software that interacts with web services etc.

The reason is exactly that. They don't want to pay hundreds for a dev to dev for them, and that's just for 'one' integration, with Zapier they can always add whatever they want. They'd rather have the 'cheaper' option (which to be real doesn't always end up being cheaper in the long run, but sometimes does).

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That's super interesting.

Can you tell me this, no snark: how the hell do you fast forward or rewind on Apple TV?
What you say in the first part sounds correct, in that visibly sick people could be more likely to be aware of it and stay home or wear a mask than in other parts of the world, but don’t underestimate the pressure to conform. A maskless gathering will hardly have someone standing their ground wearing a mask, regardless (if one is visibly sick one will be unlikely to attend though).

If people here were more aware of the mechanics of spread and asymptomatic carriers, I think the high peaks could have been avoided.

As to ventilation, before it was officially banned many restaurants were already non-smoking. Add to that the incredibly fast churn of restaurants closing, opening and renovating, and you can see there’s no perceptible residue from that period. (I don’t observe particularly strong ventilation in Seoul restaurants or cafes, but to be fair I am mostly comparing to Hong Kong, not US.)
Please add an entry (comment) to the monthly freelancer thread https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring
This is why I host all my scripts locally on every web project. I think it's inconsiderate to users to make over a dozen external connections for things like Jquery or fonts just to view 3kb of text you want to show them.
I realized that I was the biggest limiting factor in my future. The rules I defined for myself were in fact self created.
My condolences. Genuinely curious, how has it been?
> QLED

apples, meet oranges.
This is a shot in the dark, but it's possible your HDMI cables aren't fully supporting the 4K. I was having trouble with a 4K monitor not displaying properly and it turned out my HDMI cable was outdated. Replacing it with a DisplayPort fixed the issue. That being said, most modern HDMI cables should support 4K, but it's always good to check the hardware specs of the cable and the TV.
> That still requires maintaining an extra code path for old X servers that don't support the new extensions, and creates additional risk of breaking things and causing regressions in the X server because of all the new code you're adding.

Yes, agreed! But why is it _more_ risky to do that than to throw the whole X server concept away and start from scratch? Rewriting such a widely-used piece of infrastructure from the ground up is a super-risky proposition.
I remember having both AGP and VLB graphics cards at one time or another. Definitely got the short end of that stick when PCI came along and became the de facto standard.

I do seem to recall for a short period of time there were some motherboards with both PCI and AGP slots for those who really needed that level of interoperability.
I still have my circa 2007 television. It doesn't spy on me, and I don't care that they've gotten better. I spend most of my time in front of my 3 display iMac anyway.
> In Japan & Korea, wearing a mask when sick in public is expected, like wearing clothing over your underwear.

No, this isn't even close to true. I've spent far too many hours crammed into trains, classrooms, offices and bars, next to sniffling Japanese people who were walking around sans masks, to believe this silly narrative. Getting on a crowded train and having a guy repeatedly sniffing his runny nose six inches from your face is practically a running joke.

The Japanese people I know mostly seemed to wear masks to keep their faces warm in winter, and to reduce allergies during the cedar season. Girls would sometimes wear them to hide their faces or to hide a blemish. Maybe some people wore them to prevent disease, but it was far from a universal goal.

> So a Japanese or Korean person who feels a little under the weather will opt to keep their mask on when attending a maskless gathering, but an American in the same situation will likely take theirs off.

This is a great example of stereotyping and asian exceptionalism. If anything, Japanese people are immensely aware of social pressure, and won't go against obvious social cues.
This is the real fascinating thing to watch.

There's more and more people who believe in this kind of nihilism that since there's corruption and bubbles in the real economy that it is entirely fiction.

And that is giving rise to things like this crazy pumping of GME for the lulz.

The trend seems to be that a larger fraction of people have complete disillusionment with all our institutions to the point where nothing matters.

That also seems incredibly dangerous to me. By believing that institutions are meaningless and beyond reform that could lead to a much larger systemic collapse in institutions / values / etc.
AMC revenue drops nearly 90% in fourth quarter, but CEO remains optimistic
"What's true? What to do about it?"

This is from Ray Dalio's book "Principles". The whole book really blew my mind but this quote especially. Our perception and interpretation of reality isn't actual reality. This is a humbling reminder that the motivations that I think are driving people aren't reality. It's a good reminder to stay open minded, and seek the truth, instead of assuming.
I agree it this needs to happen. Right now about all you can do is snippet your way through it, it is an incredibly common scenario that go handles really poorly.

Java's Checked Exceptions was less invasive and API polluting than this is because at least it didn't get in the way of these types of calls where the error should just shortcut. More importantly in Java you could hide the errors behind a generic RuntimeException if from that point up there was nothing anything could do but generically deal with the error. Panic/Recover is similar but very discouraged for this sort of usage pattern.
Nextflow is kinda like this.
Looks like it's ultimately an llvm backend that'll generate VHDL, Verilog, or SystemC, and has some optimizations it'll do for the exact family of chip you're running on. Knowing what the hard DSP blocks can do and writing code that'll use them kind of stuff (as well as a few farily generic optimization passes).

It doesn't appear to know anything about bitstreams and works at a higher level that'll be synthesized by another tool.

https://github.com/Xilinx/HLS/blob/da538325ea9cb410672be6bb1...

Awesome, fairly reusable looking work being opened by them. A lot more than I expected from the title. Good work, Xilinx!
"The sun is at its highest point" would be the common way to say it. I seriously didn't think anyone would have trouble with "top," but there you go.
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." -- Mark Twain

"Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it... Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again" -- Steve Jobs