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> None of them seem to have caught the eye of investors.

That's the problem with this doublespeak, where people intentionally fool themselves into cognitive dissonance.

The whole point of currency is not investment. It's the exact opposite of investment. Currency is intended to have stable value over time, because it's whole point is to serve as a unit of account, store value, and serve as a medium to exchange value in an economy.

By it's very definition "investing" implies the expectation of profit. Think about it for a second: how can something intended to have a stable value be considered apt for speculation?
I won't even consider projects who's READMEs don't include enough info on what it is and basic steps for bootstrapping it up.
Agreed. Having spent some time in the UK equivalent, what they do primarily is training, not hardware procurement.

Although they do spend a tidy sum on hardware too, of course!
This is a great idea, and worth encouraging.

Some tips to be aware of in order to maintain a healthy contributor/maintainer ecosystem:

Bear in mind the volume of requests that the project/maintainers may have to deal with. This is usually fairly open and transparent with most FLOSS projects.

It's always good to test and understand your changes before submitting them - and if you can demonstrate that to the maintainers (by way of test coverage, screenshots, console output, etc), that'll increase the likelihood that your changes can be accepted, and can increase your reputation for respecting maintainer time.

If you feel like you _didn't_ fully test/understand your changes and they _were_ accepted regardless, that could be a sign that the project needs a bit more help with review and quality control. That can be a challenge, and it can also be an opportunity to provide other improvements (for example, by code reviewing and/or increasing test and continuous integration coverage).

PS: It might sound like a lot of this refers purely to code changes - but READMEs and documentation can be equally important to keep correct.
For All those who feel Ibstall of java, using maven/gradle and all the Other ceremony about java is too much give a try to https://jbang.dev.

Setup jbang and install java if needed:

curl -Ls https://sh.jbang.dev | bash -s - app setup jbang

Create a java file that has dependency on picocli and just runs:

jbang init -t cli hello.java

Run it:
./hello.java

Edit it in vscodium with live fetching of dependencies(you can use your own ide too):
jbang edit --open --live hello.java
What’s some underrated general life advice?
Not commenting about this specific case, but I know some people just like to feed their ego, by lecturing so "high" no one can understand them, so they reinforce their believe, that they themself are clearly the most intelligent person around.
> This is untrue: https://lwn.net/Articles/753646/

Your link seems to prove otherwise. RMS is seen to leave the development of the projects he started alone, letting the developers decide everything. Sometimes, less than once per year, he chimes in for a totally non-technical part of the project (a stupid joke in the docs). But even then, the lead developers can have their way! It looks that the GNU maintainers have already full control. What else do you need? That RMS cannot even participate in the mailing lists? These are open, you can also write there.
The article is a summary of this government report: https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/GlobalT...
It's automatically generated, but not ML, it's just scraping together other sources, likely from a Google search. If you look at their comment history and just pop some sentences into Google with quotes, you'll find the sources. Depending on when Google picks up HN-threads for more obscure topics, the bot will also copy parts of comments from the very same thread it's commenting on, e.g. here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26841134
Normally when politicians propose something awful, you simply don't vote for them next time. Unfortunately this does not apply in the EU. If EC is fixated on something, there is no way to stop it. If you recall the massive protests about ACTA and then few years later they got it (slightly changed) through anyway - just wait when the time for implementing content filters and link tax is up.
So if they want mass surveillance, they'll have it regardless of any petitions.
It sounds harsh, but that it the reality.
I saw that website after I started their.news but when I tried to use it it was rather confusing to me. Also it seemd as if their focus was more on providing ratings to the specific articles than on quickly searching and comparing news. But you are of course right that both projects are very similar.
What the flying fuck ?

> John Lorch was offered a position as his assistant at the IAS. Lorch's duties included reciting aloud lines from Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" and reciting German poetry.

And, it's Edgar, not John.
> It obviously helped the US but already in the early second half of the 19th C America was dominating the industrial revolution, by a wide margin, and had cemented it's place as top GDP (overall and per capita)

If you look it up you can see for yourself that you aren’t saying true things.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7174996.stm

The UK’s GDP per capita was still massively higher than the US’s as late as 1870. It didn’t overtake until 1890.

And the US obviously had a relatively late industrial revolution and adoption of things like railroads because they began in other countries and were imported.
That just moves the goal posts by a level, doesn't it? What's the chance you have a low stress upbringing that allows you to work towards such goals? Parents who are supportive and believe in that middle class dream, teachers who don't give up on you when you misbehave, enough comfort to not have to focus on immediate concerns?
I never said it was bad either.

I was specifically taking umbrage with the reasoning provided - X does a lot of Y in their complex thing and gets good results, so lots of Y can't be bad - and tried to be clear about that.
>Is there enough evidence that fasting ultimately leads to better aging?

There never is any evidence than anything leads to better aging because longevity studies are notoriously expensive, hard to do, and prone to be inconclusive. like those diet studies that pinhole certain foods like chili peppers which supposedly reduce vascular disease.

https://newsroom.heart.org/news/people-who-eat-chili-pepper-...

"eating chili pepper has an anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, anticancer and blood-glucose regulating effect"
Similar things have been said for fasting. But just like people who eat chili peppers in these studies, they differ from the normal population, most likely in more ways than just consuming chili peppers. even though there is significant consensus, like this article also affirms, that reducing inflammation might help you live longer.

You could test the theory more conclusively if you had 100.000 people participating in fasting over entire generations but you'd also have to account for changes in their diet as response to such insane study. I bet everyone would think longer and harder over shoving high-sugar foods in their mouths after explicitly consuming nothing for a period of time.
Ask HN: If you were 20 again, what would you do differently this time around?
As the Chinese say: "Luck is a combination of opportunity and hard work".

You can work hard, yes, but you also need to walk into an opportunity to exploit your hard work, for ultimate success.

Developing skills to see a better opportunity matters. Some people just grind away at it without thinking, and some pause and re-evaluate. Think more, work less. Don't be a dumb work ant.

In programming, I found that when I was younger, I did that a lot. I kept coding and rewriting. Now that I am older, I think for days before I start something, and it usually results in less starting from scratch. I try to play things out, visualize, etc. The code does not just work the first time because I am "lucky".
I used the app quite actively for a couple of years and maybe had one conflict at most.

Maybe I don’t do edits as intensely as you do.

The free plan was perfectly adequate for the first year, then I explored the editors in the paid plan but found I got used to plain text much more so switched off all the add-ons. Was happy to compensate developers for a great app.

Forgotten password recovery is very simple:

Export an unencrypted backup on one device, delete the account from everywhere, recreate the account, reimport the backup.

Search in a single big list worked absolutely fine for me but maybe it’s just the way my brain works :-)

I didn’t notice much feature disparity but then again maybe I just like minimalism.

Same about the UI - it’s perfect. Very fast and no clutter.

Not sure what is absurd about their pricing. I paid the 5 year plan mainly as a token of thanks, because the app is absolutely perfect for my taste and use.
He'd have to sell a lot of Amazon stock to try and make that work. Who knows what that would raise once he starts selling.
OneNote does allow you to password protect (which encrypts) sections within a notebook, however.
I do caving and scuba diving. Both are fun outdoor activities that have nothing to do with computers or IT.

From talks with other people in IT, it seems outdoorsy, physical and low-tech activities are quite popular to get away from our daily work.
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> The same person advocating most strongly for colonising Mars is, er, also responsible for bootstrapping solar, battery and EV technology, and having a good go at working on traffic congestion specifically to preserve the environment on Earth.

Is he? To an extent, but he's also extremely anti-better solutions that didn't originate with one of his companies. He thinks that digging thousands of tunnels for a vehicle per person is better for congestion than digging a significantly smaller amount of tunnels for rapid mass transit, which would cost less and is drastically better for the planet than everybody rolling around in a car, even a Tesla car.

Solar has been a steadily growing thing before Tesla was, so i'm not sure you can credit him with anything there.
Understanding is not binary. They mean that the bright student walked away understanding X% (maybe 70%) of the major logical steps Von Neumann made.

Those students could then go home, open a book or the transcript of his lectures and spend 5-10 hours figuring out all the details, and exploring auxiliary stuff not covered in the lecture.

Lecture time is fixed, outside-lecture time is 10X lecture time.
I think it's quite obvious that Spock was sometimes very good at sarcasm, and sometimes nerdy, but the rest of the crew couldn't really see it (or didn't want to expose it). He would often use logic as a mean to an end. It's adamant in the pilot story ("the Menagerie"), where he had to use somewhat specious logic to explain his behaviour, which was clearly driven by his will to save the captain.

Trying to understand him by compiling statistics on the scripts is very "Dataesque".
Probabilities. Outliers.
> Stocks: you buy them because they increase earnings and eventually produce dividends at a very high yield to your initial investment.

No, you buy them because you want to support good, non-nefarious companies with sound business models.

(I know that’s idealistic, but focusing purely on speculative uses of stocks is another extreme and paints a very incomplete picture.)
Bitcoin is new technology. Internet took 42 years from 1967 to 2009 to get from zero to Bitcoin. How long for Bitcoin to get zero to <?>

Arguably, the technology is much more complex and slow moving because it has to store value instead of just random bits.
Typically, the Chaos Communication Congress is referred to by its number and the abbreviation C3. So it's 36C3 for the last regular installment.
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Anyone can use their own definition of success. Then develop a plan to get there, and execute the plan.
You can only transfer what's in your pocket instantaneously when the recipient is right next to you. The real value of cash is that it is able to be nearly anonymous. Venmo and other services break this anonymity. The only thing cash has on crypto is stronger anonymity.
How dangerous is parkour? I always wanted to pick it up but was always hesitant due to risk of injury.
So, why don't you do it then? Seems like there is a nice amount of money waiting for you.
It's a really nice offer.

I found one small typo: "Part of the~~w~~ review process"

I'm sorry, it's kind of a trigger for me to read READMEs with typos and I need to send a PR to fix it.
Well, maybe because they extort indecent amount of money from their students to pay top researchers more than any other country.

More than half of the Ph.D. students in US came from abroad.
> Hi Kids.

Should have been "Hi Bjarne", but the author made a typo and missed the j.

"barne" is not really a word, although it is how you conjugate child (barn) for use in compound words (baby carriage = barnevogn), which is probably why Google translate decided to go with "kids".
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But Java clearly didn’t “OOP all the things”, unlike earlier languages like Smalltalk. Java primitives are not objects (despite the fact that I often found myself wishing they were), and static methods are actually just functions. These days Java even supports first-class functions.

I know not everyone will agree with me, and that’s fine, but I always found Java to be far more pragmatic than, for example, C++, which well and truely predated Java.
well I heard that good COBOL coders nowadays are recalled from retirement and covered in gold in order to maintain old codebases.
It's not that bad :)
I think what you're missing is that to be successful you need someone to invest in you and your ideas. Whether it's your parents or a VC that point still remains true. However you still need to put in the work. So advice from Musk is still valuable in a way. Not all his advice though lol. You need to pick and choose what's relevant or applicable to your situation and that i think requires wisdom and discernment.

Now as to the question of what success is...
You can blame your parents and teachers up until age 18, then it's on you.
I think you're being a little bit weasly here. They do have a shared definition of success and you are part of that, as am I. The definition does not have to be identical to be useful.
Because those reactors are always build with ignoring the decommission and its costs.
> Arguably, the technology is much more complex and slow moving because it has to store value instead of just random bits.

What does this even mean? Writing ones is faster than writing random integers?
Maps, activation codes and server-side validation
wow, 2021 and there are still people that think Java is interpreted?
The topic of nuclear weapons proliferation is one that keeps experts awake at night as that becomes more imminent.

A lot of tyrants would love to have a button to push that would launch nuclear-tipped ICBMs.
I'm so lost when looking at READMEs or web pages like that. It will tell me that it's going to solve my problem faster and better than all other solutions out there. But I still don't know what my problem is.

Always start with the problem. Tools don't exist just for fun, they exist because we need them.
It's not positive-sum, you are taking away capital from a competitor or exploiting somebody down the line.
The key is not to care what some people you don't know think of some guy you don't know.
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Is the cryptography protocol documented anywhere?

The link on your website under the end-to-end heading leads to the Privacy Policy, that only mentions "XChaCha20-Poly1305-IETF & Argon2" which is far from enough details, especially for a closed source app with no audits.

From the names it sounds like you use libsodium, which is good, but it doesn't make rolling your own protocol safe.
Pro tip: delete your post and stop acting like there's really UFOs. Work on yourself.
Maybe it's speaking figuratively. When you're reading the output of a super-human being like God or GPT-3 it's naturally that some things don't immediately make sense to mere humans.
CO2 levels at 418 ppm right now. It's not just rising but accelerating up. When are we going to start fixing this exactly? https://www.co2.earth/daily-co2
This will also be a bit messy, as I am on my phone and don't have much time to write this down.

I have 10 years of writing Java on both small hobby projects and massive systems on my job.
I dipped my toes into C/C++ a few times and I can write hobby project sized code that runs, but I can never really trust that code like I can the Java code that I write.

I had this issue especially when writing my first TeamSpeak Plugin: I could never be certain if I had to free the data or if TeamSpeak would do it for me after my function was called.
I had to look into the documentation, as TeamSpeak is closed source.

About one and a half years ago, I finally sat down and learned Rust. I had tried to learn it several times before and always ran out of motivation.

This time, I got to hobby project level proficiency within a month or two.
It was really fun and I rewrote several Java Spring projects in Rust's Rocket.

As Rocket starts just about instantly, even with the long compile times, the Rust rewrite takes less to compile than the Spring projects took to start up.

Coming to the point:
I am already more confident about my Rust code than ever was about C and would even go so far as to say that I trust it more than my Java code, despite the big difference in experience.

I believe that I am ready to jump into a big Rust codebase and become productive as soon as I have understood the business-logic of the project in question.

I doubt I will be able to say the same about C/C++ in the near future.
“He finally staggers up to the last resting place of the late Slats Slavin and falls there with the blood pumping from the hole that Johnny Brannigan drills in his chest and as I notice his lips moving I hasten to his side figuring that he may be about to utter the name of the horse Slats gives him for me.”

There is only one Damon Runyon, and always will be.
Don’t ignore rejection emails
I don't think there's much difference to the experience. If the narrative is engaging enough then I'll focus on the meaning, not the words. Past tense and present tense are like C# and Visual Basic .NET, where the difference is mostly syntax, and it all gets compiled to the same intermediate representation. After a few thousand words I'll stop noticing the difference.
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There are several meta analyses you can find on Google Scholar that show a weak to moderate relationship between grit and educational success.

The issue appears to be that there are conflicts over what grit actually represents in this context and whether Duckworth's scale is a good measure (and if she's overselling her findings).

These are very relevant questions, but they're very different from grit != success, or that grit doesn't matter.
This is one datapoint. Not indicative of any route to success or making money
Even then, you can buy a Yubico YubiHSM device for 650€.
Yeah, good point about unwinding. While still requiring concentration, indoor climbing is a lot more straightforward and requires less thinking. Top-roping might be even easier to get started with than lead climbing.

You'll miss out on hanging outdoors, of course.
lol. that was good!
Well, I did by dint of being incredibly lazy throughout my undergrad, but clearly smart (engaging with the material, but not doing enough work).

I was pretty lazy in my UG, and (for the first time in my life) competing against people just as smart as me. So I did pretty badly.

I did demonstrate strong research aptitude in my project, as well as a bunch of other classes. I kinda skipped a bunch of stuff in second year, and second year was 33% of the final grade, so I did pretty crap.

To be fair, I came to the department with a proposal, found my own supervisors and got my own funding (through a government scholarship), so I didn't really cost them much.
Alternative is that the price would drop far below $50k, mines would shut down and people would just trade gold that is already available on the market.

Just because something is expensive to produce doesn’t mean that it’s worth that much.
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I thought as much. I suppose some things are riskier than others, but at the moment I really don't know which ones.
> Oh my, your post reads like a bureaucracy horror story, but I fear it is not a work of fiction!

Afraid it's not fiction. I see it pretty regularly.

> Regarding client-side restrictions: I doubt I'll ever understand why many organizations appear to be so focused on restricting their employees' computers, some even going for full-blown surveillance.

Several reasons I've seen. Firstly, don't underestimate the importance of protecting people's data at scale. If staff can use their Gmail on a computer, someone will email themselves someone's personal data. Maybe it won't be malicious, but it's still a breach. Maybe it was some software running on the computer (malware) that got in via an ad or game, that simply emails out information.

Governments (and large enterprise) operate at a scale where you need to be careful of data exfiltration by malicious users or software. While you might be able to trust people in a team of 5, it's very hard to scale that trust up to 5000 people.

> Maybe I'm just a little naive, but is intercepting and filtering all network traffic really the only way to notice whether an employee is playing browser games all day (instead of, you know, noticing the employee's productivity dropping)?

This implies that the person's manager is competent enough to actually notice this, and has enough understanding of what they do to act.

Filtering network traffic is often more about preventing data egress of other people's personal information than it is about spotting someone playing candy crush.

> My primary concern that those enterprise firewalls intercepting all traffic (including MitM-ing TLS traffic) regularly prevent adoption of new Internet standards. At the same time, the idea of total communication surveillance seems surreal. Image the equivalent situation 20-30 years ago: What would you have said if your employer hired a team in order to eavesdrop on every single telephone call and open every single letter entering or leaving the office?

In financial services and other regulated sectors, they pretty much did/do that, albeit recorded rather than having someone listen all day long. I agree with you that these kinds of active MITM firewalls likely introduce more issues than they solve - many don't themselves validate the certificate of the site they're MITM'ing properly, therefore introducing a whole new attack vector if you can convince the MITM box to serve up a valid certificate for your site's invalid certificate.

Unfortunately though, for as long as the goal is to make it possible to work at big scale and minimise the risk posed by individual employees, you'll continue to see this be the default way of working, I reckon.
Sounds as though you've gone out of your way to memorise his flaws (the first 3 and last 1 not being flaws, really).
> we can't manage to stop climate change on Earth, but we're going to somehow terraform a planet?

The fact that we caused climate change shows that we can terraform this planet. We could also do the reverse if we all stopped burning fossil fuels right now, but we are generally unwilling to do so.

If Mars were covered in easily accessible hydrocarbons and had an atmosphere with sufficient oxygen, we could terraform it the same way by sending over a lit match. But those preconditions are not present.