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Skills around software and IT - not just developers. There might be a lot of churn within that industry, but if you can solve problems in those industries industry with any tools, you're going to be valuable. It might take longer to find a job depending on the current times and your own retraining speed, but it will be there in some form. Nothing is likely going to make all software and IT workers obsolete like automation does to factory workers.

My evidence is that we still have a lot of legacy and technical debt around, and it's likely to still be there in 20 years, so even if you don't work on the cutting edge (which may now have stratospheric requirements for entry like a PhD and Github projects and 8 rounds of interviews), you can still take legacy work.

Security and defense (physical and IT/software) will also likely be around forever.
This was literally the case. But it seems like its not Apple season yet.
Terraform makes me happy, I use it daily on AWS and GCP. I can't stand Cloud Formation.
Strong consumer protection laws are good checks and balances against corporations.
Thank for the reply. This didn't go unnoticed!

What you're describing sounds a lot like the concept of "Deep Work" as popularized by Cal Newport. Unfortunately this is exactly where people with ADHD fail (or maybe it's just me).

I've been trying to set up a work routine, like the one you describe, for years now. Without much success so far. It doesn't even matter how high the stakes are or how close the deadline looms, I simply can't "force" myself to focus. It feels like every day the dices are rolled anew.

For over 20 years now, I've also been (on and off) trying to practice meditation and mindfulness even before this got popular and I still can't go 2 minutes without my thoughts wandering to what I want to do next.

But I nevertheless respect your effort and the results you achieved. There's a current thread about the application of Psylocybin to depression. Perhaps that one is interesting to you as well:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26816444
This is all true as long as the base material is steel. When you get into aluminum the number of people capable of producing good welds drops rapidly.

But you are on the money with the cost effectiveness bit, that's exactly why it is perfectly possible to do these modifications with confidence: you are not operating under a budget that gets counted out to the last 1/10th of a cent, so you can do it right, even if it costs a few bucks more. Something a car company operating at scale would never do. Once the cost constraint disappears there isn't a whole lot you can't do.
Interesting that this it the top story on HN the same day that Zoom is promoting "professional" quality audio. And there also seems to be a user in the comments working really hard to promote Zoom. Seems like a marketing campaign to me.
I’m curious about the telepathy aspects of this story. I have always been a skeptic of that - but have recently had some rather strange experiences. Has there been any recent studies (with scientific rigor) about this?
Amazon Prime Tops 200M Members
it's interesting how dogmatic this is
> In Canada, our freedom of expression is limited by whatever the Government deems appropriate:

Is hyperbole constructive?
Most of them were right. Rome lasted for 950 years. All things must pass, but it isn't likely to happen in your lifetime.
The sad fact is that producing real journalism costs money, and there are too many parasitic content providers that steal journalism for ad eybeballs. The whole system is unsustainable. People used to be accustomed to paying for newspapers and supporting the journalism field, but have gotten used to it for free. Ad prices can no longer sustain all but the largest, and the ad model presents a conflict of interests with juicing click through rates and returns.
It really depends on the setup. I've tested by asking people with both computer speakers and wearing headphones and been told they didn't hear any difference.
So the end justifies all means? Consultants and employees who reveal trade secrets to sabotage patents are heroes in your eyes, not criminals?
>if we want public spaces, we need public peacekeepers.

that seems to be what moderators/admins do currently. I know many focus on the worst, most toxic communities, but for many a simple warning will diffuse some small quibble. It seems this article and other individuals argue that this isn't sufficient, however.
Idem. I developed quite a number of desktop apps in a professional environment using wxPython. I found easy to quickly prototype new ideas. Also, you have access to the rich python ecosystem that other solutions for producing desktop apps won't have.

I found the API to be usable although the event system is bit limited in my opinion.

I even chosen it to develop a commercial app in c++(https://seamuove.com) mainly because I knew the API. Bonus is that you can produce small single exe using static linking.

Overall thanks for the effort dear wx team!
no it's not. it is actually positive due to the dividends . a 3x funds pays 3x the dividends . the borrow cost is only 1%, versus 2% dividend
For a more business-oriented perspective, Eric Weinstein's idea of Embedded Growth Obligations[1] is apt.

[1] https://theportal.wiki/wiki/Embedded_Growth_Obligations
I was able to repair a US-bought MacBook at an Apple store in Japan with no issues
Growing up in the 90s, my siblings had evolved similar signals based on missed calls on our single landline. IIRC a single ring missed call followed by a continuous call was intended for my sister, while my brother had a single ring missed call pattern. My brother was also dating multiple women, and had evolved a system (unfamiliar to me) to keep them all in the dark.
This is not the place to attack people. Please don't.
Mughals are solidly after Europe's Medieval period. It's greatest extent was later than even the Renaissance.
Many people don't make enough money to buy a house without a partner's income. This has been the case before amazon existed.
Guess where Coinbase settled, and why it's not in an absolutely lawless place. Guess where Kraken settled, and why it's not in Somalia.

The very same exchanges that make cryptocurrencies have their "value" (because, had these not been here, BTC would most likely still be under the $100 bar) rely on said army to be in a safe spot.
I am not scared of someone who reads 200 books a year. I am scared of someone who reads 1 book again and again and digest one great idea , write about it, talks about it add his/her own ideas, make it even more powerful and spread it like wild fire.
I'll take you up on that.

What's your thoughts on how many GME investors are retail vs. institutional? Any idea on what the breakdown is like?
How can you have an embedded database if you have tens or hundreds of application servers which all need to be able to access the same dataset?
I'd actually love something like that, mostly because differentiating between "str" and "String" in, uh, speech can be pretty annoying. They both sound the same! :)

I've taken to calling "String" "owned string" but that's a little unwieldly and not quite suited for complete Rust beginners who don't know the concept of ownership yet. Same with "string reference" for "str".
Orange Fitness has a smart watch that you only wear when exercising, and seems to have been thriving with it prior to the pandemic. Apparently it zero-interaction authenticates you to their gym equipment, which is a great user experience. Peloton cult folks might wear branded apparel and the watch beyond exercising, but everyday folks would no doubt wear the Peloton watch while exercising and then take it off afterwards, same as Orange.
Certainly this is a feature and not a bug. If you can play games you paid for on a PS3 or PS4, then what's the motivation to buy a PS7 or PS8?

Which is why I only play games from GOG or games on my Game Cube and only drink pure grain alcohol and rainwater.
Yes. All of my workout related data is on it.

I really don't care what the tool I'm using has as long as it integrates with the Apple Fitness system.
I pay $14.99 for the standalone Peloton app, which also lets me do all of of those classes. And if Peloton raises the price of that app to where I think it's too expensive, I can move to another one without losing all of my fitness tracking history since I track that with my Garmin watch.
Thanks. Yes, of course it can point to something in the heap. My comment was related to GP's "but there is an underlying array on the heap" and I wanted to say that &str is not always necessarily in the heap. I missed that part.
Is Joe Biden taking your guns away?
Gruvbox light is my jam - I can feel the difference between dark theme and light theme in my eyes, or at least in the muscles around the eyes - much more relaxed when looking at a light theme
The ability it keep track of all your workouts in the same place is really nice.
I work at Oracle on OpenJDK (but I speak only for myself):

1. OpenJDK is the name of the one and only Java implementation by Oracle (other companies contribute, but Oracle does ~90% of the work); all OpenJDK distributions -- from Amazon's through Microsoft's to Azul's Zulu -- are licensed to you by Oracle (read the license); and if you report to Amazon about a big in Corretto (their OpenJDK distribution), most of the time they'll forward it to us at Oracle to fix, because we're the ones actually developing the thing. So if you want to avoid anything that touches Oracle, OpenJDK is what you should avoid as that is the name of Oracle's implementation (look at the logo! https://openjdk.java.net/). But the "licensing mess" is Oracle open sourcing the entire JDK for the first time in Java's history, and using the name Oracle JDK as the name for their support subscription; if you don't want support, download the JDK from Oracle from http://jdk.java.net/, which, unlike all JDKs prior to 11 is actually completely free. The only licensing difference is that whereas the JDK used to be part open and part proprietary, part free and part paid, it is now 100% open and free. Oracle sells you support, or you can buy it from other companies that also offer support.

However, if you're on 8, your licensing situation is more problematic. Like all JDKs past their end-of-public-updates, you now have to pay for support, or use a free OpenJDK 8u build which 1. only contains backported patches that don't cover the entire JDK and 2. predates the full open-sourcing, so isn't identical to the old Oracle JDK. So not only is the license for versions past 11 better than ever in Java's history, the licensing situation for 8 is not that good because 8 is well past its free support period. Licensing alone is a reason to update.

2. There is no JRE anymore because there are no Applets and no Web Start, and so the model of a centralised runtime is not needed and has been replaced by something much better: custom bundled runtimes easily created with jlink. You, as the application's creator now have full control over its Java runtime, and your users don't need to interact with a third party, or even know or care that your application uses Java.
https://blog.goo.ne.jp/blastportable/e/94865043bfe721068c425...
I meant that it's a pointer that is aware of the type of object it's pointing to by virtue of all objects knowing their own type. Same difference I guess.

Unlike void pointers or Object references in Java you can't "forget" an object's type.
Renewable energy created during low usage times are the cheapest since otherwise its going to waste. Lots of dams china, hence lots of miners in china.
one of the neat little things about slashdot was that voting included a short reason, like 'insightful', 'funny', 'redundant', or 'offtopic'. then as a user, you had some control over the visibility of comments based on those standard evaluations. that seems more viable to me than requiring a full comment on each downvote (though i like the idea in principle), which would likely devolve into these one-word evaluations as comments anyway.

i wouldn't worry about getting shadowbanned unless you're constantly posting thoughtless and provocative craziness (which doesn't seem likely based on a very quick perusal of your comment history). i read with showdead on and find very few accounts being shadowbanned, and those that are continuously and blatantly violate hn rules (nevermind common courtesy).
I don't know that it's accurate to describe beheadings and child porn as "real human nature". The scum of nature, perhaps.
Why not call your retirement fund managers and let them know you really don't need _that_ much of a pension after all.
After cleaning up some spilled toner, someone put a very indignant notice under the photocopier:

"It would be who of you to be cautious openening a new toner cartridge."
>Maybe you can help explain this transition from hating, to loving, because of software. This concept is completely foreign to me and I honestly struggle to understand why anyone signs up for Fitness+ which - as far as I can tell - is basically a glorified list of workout tapes just like we used to get on VHS in the 80s.

Kinda, but what's wrong with that? We didn't leave fitness tapes behind because they were bad, we left them behind because we moved to streaming. Also, in general, it can be hard to hold yourself truly accountable in the middle of hard workout... I know, anecdotally, that I absolutely end up pushing myself harder following an instructor (IRL, livestream, or taped) than I would if I was totally on my own. Not only the verbal motivation, but the reminders of posture and so on. I also had a personal trainer in a gym for a while, same deal... he helped me with my form, my diet, and I could always dig a little deeper when he was pushing me during a workout.

>Is Apple+ more than that? Is there some magic sauce I'm missing?

It's how you use it. Without an Apple Watch, your vitals are tracked and you can get an idea for how much impact your workouts are having on your health. The Watch also gamefies the whole thing with rings and awards... low extrinsic value, sure, but people love it.
They definitely aren't 1:1 comparison.
A key feature of the Apple Watch is its Apple Health app, which tracks more than just your time on a bike. Peloton locking a portion of your data away from you is going to make it a lot more tempting to switch when you find a bike that integrates with all your other data.
Not necessarily in the same country.
This is a pleasant surprise. If photo editing is legal (and it obviously should be) then editing the frames of videos should be legal. Modern technology just allows for individual people to feasibly do large number of frames.

It's good to democratize what was previously the domain of only institutions and corporations. As for the claims of ownership on derived works from public data, well, the only reason that's even being entertained as a valid legal claim is technological ignorance and the catchy name "deepfakes".
I think buying the right "the market" can help too. For example I might think Singapore is attractive at a P/E of 12 and buy the EWS etf.
There is no risk of "WW3". No one is about to try to invade the entirety of Europe and kill 150+ million people, enslaving a billion.

These are all fairly self-limiting conflicts. China is interested in Taiwan (maybe) and a defensible path to the Pacific and Indian oceans. Russia is interested in having a buffer state against NATO.

If you want to counter these objectives, then there is going to be a cost. But the cost of these objectives being realized is nowhere near that of WW2, so an armed confrontation is not worth it. The truth is that there isn't really any good solutions here. Both of these powers are in a situation where they feel that if they do not secure these strategic advantages there is a risk of disaster. The answer is either convince them that this is not the result in order to lower what cost they are willing to incur to achieve them, find a way to create an equilibrium between the US and those other powers, or use military dissuasion (which will be incredibly costly and might be impossible).

In the end this is pretty much just a very difficult position. But you should not compare tactics that do not rely on the threat of massive violence to appeasement, none of these powers is willing to do anything near WW2.
But there's probably a down-side in there somewhere.
I haven't used it, but my 10 year old daughter seems to enjoy riding at the same time as her friend. Evidently, they share a real time a mutual video chat. You both join the same class and one of you finds the other in the list of participants and request to chat.
They thought the specific unit was faulty, not the model and its design.
Crypto relies on functioning nation-state infrastructure (internet/electrical) just like anything else
Your comment is directly contradictory. You say that developers pick stuff up by osmosis from their peers, but at the same time do not know anything from their predecessors. How does that work?
Agreed, but I don't think Americans take it for granted; I think they just don't abuse it. By not abusing a good faith return policy you allow the company to provide one that is consumer friendly.
"Frankly no one wants opened/used products"

Um ... When I buy for myself I look for open box products all the time. Steep discounts (sometimes 25% or more) are awesome for something that is essentially new. I don't give a shit about the unboxing experience unless it's a gift for someone else.
For sure, point well taken. There is a question of differing goals and values there between me and the "startup" or "get rich" people, I think, but I suppose we all have our own dogma in the end.
>Our job in life is to engage in value creation.

I don't think there's any non-tautological way in which this can be simultaneously true and not an oppressive imposition by capitalism.
No one wants used products for "new" prices, but plenty of people would be willing to buy open-box items at discounted prices. It's a huge thing for appliances.

In most situations, however, things are simply repackaged and sold as new. Clothing, for example, is commonly returned; then hopefully re-washed before selling again as new. In most situations this applies to electronics as well, although electronics can be different. There are stories out there of people buying new SD cards that had photos on them. Most companies have a return center that processes returns, inspects them, resets them, and repackages them to be sold again as new.

Exceptions are when returns are sent to stores… like Amazon or Best Buy handle returns differently than returns going back to the manufacturer.
> Should I put a monetary value on playing with my kids so I can justify it against making an extra sales call?

I think we do that implicitly. You would probably love to play with your kid all day but you chose to make some sales calls so you have money to support the family. But you don't make all the sales calls you could make so that you have family time.

So while sure we don't put a monetary number on our hours explicitly, we do have points at which selling our time is and isn't worth it.
Did you buy it via official reseller? Any reasonable country should have laws in place that will force the company to refund you for the defective goods. In that case Apple' policies shouldn't matter
When I feel sad or bored I know for sure that some hyper energetic and happy dance trainer will improve my mood. Some moves are too fast, but trying to catch up and move in sync is worth the effort when you get it.

They can adjust the voice to background music volume ratio to make it even better, but it's acceptable. The experience is completely different on a >55" TV vs anything else, imagine that the trainer seems real life size. Streaming on Airplay compatible tv is supported with 14.5 and beta.

I really like it. I'm super excited for a new Apple TV because I want to play audio through the homepods but it's ok.

Some improvements I would like to see across the system:

- ability to rewind

- history of workouts within the Fitness+ app, not normal app

- group workouts, now both of us has to start the same workout at the same time, the phone is just muted in on the table while dance in front of the TV

- some focus on making sure moves are done correctly, I would love some intro videos where it takes 30 minutes to show, repeat and help me (overall) understand some basic moves, some very basic intro series

- overall more basic workouts or at a slower pace

- live classes

- muscle categories listed in a user friendly way, I would like to combine 2 strengths workouts that focus on different categories
A few decades ago, we chose one or a few print sources and read those regularly. We read some others at the hairdresser.
It depends a lot on your sound card I guess. Pro streamers use them on twitch as portable options (like Seagull) and they sound great to me.

The only real downside to it is the cable is sort of flimsy and the 3.5mm termination is not great quality. That's how my last ModMic perished, although it lasted a few years.
That sounds like a recipe for repetitive strain injury
Yes Amazon is one of those institutions that you only see once in a lifetime. While they have had faults, they've always 'relentlessly' worked to improve. There is no doubt that Amazon may succumb to the same late-stage effects that have decayed those mentioned organizations.
Well this gets into the absurdity of relative utility of goodness altogether. If I'm comparing a child's happiness from eating a candy to the unhappiness of stepping on a pebble, what are the relative magnitudes?

Regardless, there are lots of criticisms of utilitarianism, and utilitarianism is far from the ascendant moral philosophy, so feel free to find others online.
Why would people want to have an iPhone for only a week? That sounds like more of a hassle than it is worth. Just to see what they are like?
Apache:

Header always set Permissions_policy "interest-cohort=()"

nginx:

add_header Permissions_policy "interest-cohort=()" always;
Maybe it could sync via your phone? That's how I sync pretty much everything else I use (garmin and polar)