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Ask HN: Where to publish tech blog posts these days?
Feels kind of like getting back to dating after a divorce, and finding things don't work quite as they used to...

I've had a long break from blogging, nearly three years. (Corporate job, family, the usual reasons.) Recently I finally managed to put together a 5000-word piece I'm happy with and my friends politely found awesome, as they must. So I posted it on Medium because that platform worked well for me back around 2017.

It seems that, while I was busy with life, Medium has fallen out of favor. The organic traffic is nothing like I saw back in the day, and the general vibe I hear is that, at some point, Medium managed to put off a lot of people with shenanigans around paywalls and stuff.

Where should one go these days to publish a long-read deep dive into a particular technology? My post is the first part of a series that will probably end up being around 15k words total. I'd like to put it up somewhere that might have a shot at offering the kind of on-platform discovery Medium used to have.

But if that doesn't exist anymore, I guess I'll just go with publishing on my own domain. I've heard that there are some excellent static site generators for this kind of thing. Any advice there?
A while back I was hearing about large department stores, especially Sears/Primark, considering conversion to data centers. They're everywhere, so not hard to find one in a desired location, and they usually have good access to relevant kinds of infrastructure (especially power). And sellers who are desperate to wring some money out of them before they literally fall apart. Conversion wouldn't be free, of course, but it seemed like a way to get a new DC for far less than it would cost to build its equivalent from scratch. Haven't heard about the idea for a while now, though. Not sure why.
Sure, but we can't stop those processes.

We can stop ourselves from being unkind, though
lol if you think trucks are primarily driven by contractors or farmers. You should visit the south, trucks are most definitely used as commuter cars.
"IPv6 was intended to be "just like IPv4, but with 128-bit source and address fields". Just make IP addresses 96 bits longer and add no more magic. But it didn't turn out that way. "

Where does that quoted portion come from. The mind of the OP author or someone else.

If IPv6 was just a 128-bit version of IPv4, I would be an IPv6 user.

As long as it continues to work, on the networks I control, I will prefer the relative simplicity of IPv6.

Relative to IPv4, IPv6 is more complex.
The frog thing is interesting because there's a kernel of truth there; we're releasing an enormous number of endocrine disrupters into the environment (PVC, BPA, etc, etc etc), which is wreaking havoc on both animal animal and human animal hormonal balances.

Obviously it's not an intentional government plot... but that doesn't mean we _aren't_ "turning frogs gay".
It’s the Settlement Assurances
You missed the key point of swapping batteries. You don't own the battery nor did you pay ($16K) for the battery. So there is no "original battery". I assume that in ten years we will have "standard units of power" - the equivalent of a large "D" cell battery.
Careful, You might be comparing apples and oranges...

Contraceptive pill blood clot risk is for any type of blood clot, such as deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, etc [0].

The vaccine cerebral venous sinus thrombosis blood clot risk is something like 1 in 100k+ (as you mentioned), but during J&J FDA trials of 20k people there were 50% more blood clots of other various types in the vaccinated group [1] (15 blood clots in vaccinated group versus 10 in the placebo group, which the FDA did not consider statistically significant at the time)

You may be comparing fatal-only vaccine blood clots to non-fatal contraception blood clots, and ignoring non-fatal vaccine blood clots.

I'm not saying this to throw the vaccine under the bus, just pointing out that the comparison of the odds you presented might not be fair.

[0] https://thefemedic.com/contraception/blood-clots-thrombosis-...

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/13/health/johnson-vaccine-blood-...
> Alex Jones is an awful person. He lies about so much, some of it will end up being accidentally correct.

Agreed.

> What he says or thinks should be shunned by any decent human being, and he should not be brought up here.

No. He should not be a taboo topic. Let it out in the open where rational people can see for themselves how crazy he is and make up their own minds.

I really hate this whole cancel culture thing, I don't even wish it on the Alex Joneses of the world.
I'm an absolute noob here, but is using SSD racks for storage a feasible option cost wise and for this issue in particular?
Personally, I think it would not be a better outcome, no.

What would be the point of creating new species? Sow more division and war and violence. I just dont see it turning out well. Inherently humans would be the "creators" of the other species. Sounds like a recipe for some horrible problems with speciesm.
It's a very light truck. Especially these days. Seems like a vanity vehicle mostly. If you're hauling you have a bigger truck, and if you're offroading you have a jeep or something.

Nobody is using electric for anything that we'd relate to as "critical" or "high availability". In fact, there are trucks that just bring gasoline to bigger trucks.

Source: I live at 8300ft in Colorado.
You'd think that rather than getting low-level events for "LMB Click" / "RMB Click", the Windows DirectInput API would be handing Unity events for "Primary Mouse Button Click" / "Secondary Mouse Button Click." OSes don't emit raw un-keymapped keysyms to apps, so why are they emitting raw un-mapped mouse-syms?
For me, learning the thousand and one little quirks and details of a particular platform are more annoying at this point.

I know what I want to do, the details on how to get it done on yet another platform aren't interesting to me.

I'd rather attain further mastery of one platform.
> Android exists

So I see this as 2-sides of the same coin. From the developer's perspective, they can choose which platforms to develop. As a consumer, if you have chosen iDevice, then you can only purchase from the one single store. However, you did make that decision on your own. Corp making you use iDevice, then why are you loading apps onto it that the company did not provide you in the first place?
Why are people renting u-hauls in Hawaii? Blame the pandemic
Media reporting on almost anything is terrible. It's only obvious when one be somewhat well-versed about the subject themselves.

Media reporting on internet communities, or places that I physically live in that I've seen are invariably very inaccurate.
The 4-door coupe body style became popular in 2007/8. Mercedes and VW both brought out new models with that profile with the fastback rear roofline tapering down to the the trunk.
Maya's grip on the VFX companies is, I suspect, in part due to how Maya has been built into the pipelines and tools that many companies use, which is only possible because of Maya's fantastic API. I haven't used the API in anger in about 10 years, but it was amazing back them. Very well designed.

Now if Blender had a comparable API that VFX studios could build on Blender would have a better shot at eating Maya's lunch. I predict that smaller companies with smaller budgets and almost no custom software will be the early adopters of Blenders and will pave the way for bigger companies.
Interesting article. Reminded me of the Texas Roadhouse CEO.

> After surviving a bout with covid-19, Texas Roadhouse CEO Kent Taylor’s post-infection symptoms grew increasingly painful. Taylor was beset in particular with a severe case of tinnitus — a loud buzzing or ringing in the ears that can be debilitating.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/03/22/texas-roadh...
Ok but the perfect isn't the enemy of the good here.

Being able to go for a climate-controlled one-kilometer walk every lunch break is a real luxury for a lot of people, it's way better than a cell in some high-rise near the highway. The mall could have a hackerspace too!

It has potential.
The importance of other factors don’t make UX obstacles magically disappear. If that’s the point a person is trying to make, then that’s what they should say. Not “UX is solved now”.
I don't really know what is throwing you for a loop. I have a Certificate in GIS from UC-Riverside, very respected at the time and some of my professors worked for ESRI by day and taught part-time for this certificate program.

Some basics:

Software-wise, GIS is a database hooked to mapping software so you can query the database and spit out maps as your answer. It's valuable because "A picture's worth a thousand words" and most data can be connected to a mappable bit of data (address, lat-long, etc).

A Geographic Information System has the following components:

1. Hardware

2. Software

3. People

4. Procedures

5. Data

6. Network (added more recently and not part of what I was taught, https://learn.canvas.net/courses/464/pages/unit-1-dot-2-iden...)

Data is the most expensive part of that. Good data is hard to come by.

People with the right skills and talents are the most critical part.

You can start a GIS project by surveying your in-house software, hardware, data flows, etc and putting together a use case. You probably already have some of the pieces you need to create a proper Geographic Information System where the data you already track can be hooked into a system for making it query-able and mappable so you can up your decision-making game.

ESRI is probably still the world leader in GIS software and they put out a certain amount of free info.
It might sound funny, but making slippy maps in Web Mercator is emphatically not what people call GIS - GIS being:

* The technical part of the academic Geography field

* Data collection and mapping work done at agencies like the USGS and municipal governments

* Work done with ESRI software (see https://joemorrison.medium.com/esri-cant-be-stopped-3b063f3d...)

Yes, Pelias is a mature project backed by a great team at https://geocode.earth - definitely one of the best options if you need an autocompleting geocoder based on OSM+other data like http://whosonfirst.org

About OSM data extracts, I also run an extracts service at http://protomaps.com/extracts that provides on-demand data updated once a minute.
TCP and IP Bake Off – RFC 1025
Lets say we have an app ecosystem where you can OK third party apps, and one where that's not possible. Let's say people voted with their dollars that the one where it's not possible is a better ecosystem.

Should the one with the closed ecosystem be forced open, especially if the company says that the ecosystem being closed is one of the primary factors in their success and why people prefer it?

Apple dictated to companies that they will implement privacy labels. If the ecosystem was open, they could not do that. The big companies could make people jump through hoops to avoid it or put a lot of support into a competitive app platform if iphones were an open platform.

I am very in favor of privacy labels, and I think it is a direct result of the closed ecosystem and apples opinionated stance. I think it is a key competitive advantage for apple that the app store remain closed so it can dictate to companies that privacy labels are now a requirement, or HTTPS is a requirement, or anything else.

When people say force apple to allow third party app stores, I hear "why do we need Dropbox when there is rsync?" Just because you know that an app is violating your privacy doesn't mean parents do, they can't meaningfully compare and contrast app stores. I hear people not understanding that an app store is a commons in the tragedy of the commons sense, and all commons need a regulator to not turn to garbage.
Jones is a kind of "bullshitter," as defined by Harry Frankfurt [0][1].

To paraphrase — a liar has some respect for the truth, because he knows its power and shies away from it. A bullshitter doesn't care if something is true or false, only if they persuade their listener, and therefore the bullshitter has no respect for the truth.

The point I was trying to make, and maybe I did not make it well, was that this is another thing Jones's adherents can point to to say "well, look, he was right about this." That means he can persuade more people, which is clearly not good.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1RO93OS0Sk

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit
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True, but who's going to sue you? Developers? More likely the EFF, but they can't go after everyone. Legal recourse is increasingly becoming only possible for the most motivated or well endowed participants.

Also CLAs are pretty common these days, the legalese is written in a very non-offensive manner, and the youngsters that are new to open source probably don't think twice about signing it (assuming you should think twice about signing it in the first place, of course, some people may not agree with that).

Free bootstrapped money-printer startup idea for someone -- software for managing CLAs (projects, signatures, revocation, etc) would probably be a no-brainer for most of the companies looking to get into OSS. Making this easier for companies may damage the ecosystem (essentially enabling more of the behavior I've outlined), but it could also be good because it brings sunlight, if you know the playbook (and it's obvious when someone asks you to sign a CLA), then the community as a whole can avoid those companies' projects, or know what they're buying into, and the shift between Free software, open source software, and source-available software will widen.
I am aware that some companies have tried (I wouldn't say "many"). And I know that Apple tried with the Newton and failed - and didn't give up.

I don't think that a battery swapper would be any more complicated than an automatic car wash.
Why in general has RAM been so limited in computers for such a long time? A decade ago we were expecting new kinds of RAM to replace hard disks entirely, using new computer architectures that did not use disk drives at all. Instead most general use computers have been stuck with 8GB or 16GB of RAM for like a decade. A few go up to 128GB. It seems like RAM has been artificially limited as a sales feature (price tied to RAM size as a feature customers easily understand similar to CPU speed), which has limited greater use of it. Also similar to the way the size of SD cards that can be handled in devices are never future compatible (got a new 1TB card? Good luck using it in your older phone!)

Perhaps there are national security reasons for this? Like a computer that has 10TB of RAM could simulate nuclear bomb reactions to a degree of fidelity and with a speed that would give adversaries new capabilities? I don't know, but I know it seems like an artificial limitation. Possibly there are hardware limitations (like more RAM uses more power, but RAM could be turned on and off and speed managed just like CPU's are, depending on dynamic need).

CPU's are currently limited by the I/O speed of data, so moving all data to RAM could bring huge performance benefits, yet current computers are still very much limited by RAM sizes and RAM-CPU integration.
The effect of zoning is vanishingly small relative to the effects of money. An insurance company investing its reserves isn't going to change its risk tolerance just because zoning changes.

These people look at the numbers produced by their model and send their money where indicated. It's why Walgreens and CVS will build on two corners of the same intersection. Both have the same traffic counts and same catchment demographics.
Does the European everyman get a 2400sqft detached house on a quarter acre?

Whether American urban design is "inefficient" depends on the value you place on mass-affordable spacious housing. I personally think this is a dumb thing to optimize for, but a lot of people are really attached to it. I think they'd look at a European transit-centric home as ideal for a group of college friends, but balk at the idea of raising a family in close quarters or with strangers walking by.
What is the justification of removing the trace amounts of alcohol in the sauces? I’ve heard that they’re pretty strict about alcohol on NASA’s end, but I’ve also heard that astronauts are master smugglers... Is a bit of reduced wine sauce really that much of a risk?
There is an AGPLv2 and an AGPLv3, but most recent adopters are using AGPLv3.
The pricing would be prohibitive, I reckon. S3 on Outposts is $0.1/GB/mo, whereas the S3 single zone IA that OP is using as a baseline is $0.01/GB/mo - an order of magnitude less. (Prices are based on us-east-1.)
Maybe similar. While I agree with that view, I think religion is more than that.

My practical argument is not that it encodes generational wisdom, necessarily, but rather that it is a source of moral reasoning that lies external to pure logic, which sacrifices what is right for what is practical, or expedient, in many cases
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Apart from at night the other long period a car is not used is when people are at work. I hope governments give tax incentives for companies to install chargers in their parking lots as this is also the time where solar power is abundant so the electricity used for transport would be cleaner compared to night charging in most cities and countries.
How is your comment relevant to mine?

The thrust of my argument is that imposing negative consequences (irrespective of reason) is a form of coercion. There are many things that ought to be coerced, but it is ridiculous to assert in the face of imposed consequences that people aren't being coerced or forced into taking vaccines.

People might not want to state it that strongly and the coercion isn't as strong as what criminals or the government can impose, but it's still someone or someones using their power to enforce behavior on others.

And couching that in phrases like "pricing in those externalities" doesn't change this. In fact it makes it more blatant.
>It seems like every financially successful developer out there came from a middle/upper class enviornment.

I think this is more likely evidence of how many advantages being brought up in those environments gives in becoming financially successful. Not having to worry about paying for college, for example, leading to having more seed funding to be able to start working on your own projects, and potentially even having relatives provide that funding directly.

Even then, only the greedy find major success. Make the cost of living lower, and you see more successful people, specifically more guys like Thibault who are willing to do thinks the right way.
> Lots of parts of the country have unpleasant weather much of the year.

I spent a large chunk of my formative years in a desert climate in the southwest. The sort of place where you would try to stay in air-conditioned spaces as often as possible during the summer. The regional mall was a huge air-conditioned enclosure where people would go just to sit around for hours on end with the occasional stroll through a department store.

In the 30 years since it first opened 2 of the 5 "anchor stores" closed. Other than that it's just been plugging along. One of the reviews I recently read for it was, "A great place to go when you're in a desert and need a mall."
ghstack is amazing. When I started working on PyTorch in GitHub I desperately missed the stacked diff workflow of Phabricator, and ghstack basically made me whole again :-).
The luxury fashion industry seeing a bounce-back seems like just a small part of the larger clothing industry bouncing back; it feels as though all clothing and apparel shopping should rise again as more people go outside. I know I personally haven't bought much/anything in the past year since I was sitting at home all the time, and normally I do shop for clothes a good amount.
+1 for having to be sealed.
We have a handful of companies wanting to sell us needed chips but they are odds and ends, not always packaged. Were always suspect.
It's the supermarket doesn't want housing on top. If it is the only way to get the location and the location is incredibly good, then the supermarket will accept it. Leasing to a supermarket is incredibly more profitable than leasing or selling housing.
Why are you so wed to the idea that these protocols are in some sense correct? So many people have basically asserted infallibility for the CDC/FDA throughout this pandemic despite their consistent failures across huge swaths of the response from border lockdowns to masks and of course to this non-sensical pause.
Keep in mind that the $40k price is eligible for a $7500 federal tax credit, plus in CA you’ll get a $1500 instant rebate at purchase from a utility company fund, plus any middle class buyer will get a $2500 (I think) state rebate. That takes the net price down to under $30k.
Not to mention less traffic, as malls tend to be more distributed and closer to suburban housing than CBDs.
I didn't mean to imply that IPOing is the point at which a start-up becomes a not-start-up. None of these three were a start-up for quite a few years before their IPO, either.
Once found the site of a a Russian travel photo blogger who’d been almost everywhere and had a particular fondness for fire hydrants, street signs, bollards, trash cans, and so on. It was weirdly fascinating, I must have looked over dozens of his trip pages and many hundreds of photos. I lost the link though and it’s either gone or a victim of modern search-engine weakness.
All that's left is GameStop, and it sucks.
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There is an elephant in the room. Big confondounding factor:

VAR.

In spain at least it was deployed on the season prior to the covid season (19-20). That 1st season was a trial and many adjustments were made to it which presumably came to full force in the year of covid.
Surprise! People buy cars that are not functional but aspirational. Can we add:
- SUVs that are are really just wagons or hatchback with big tires.
- Sports cars that will never see a track and couldn't possibly be driven safely at half their top speed.
- Trucks with reinforced bumpers, headlamps and gas cans so that they are ready for Baja or more likely Target.
- Your BMW or Mercedes that convinces me you are really rich because you can afford a lease or a 72 month loan.

This is human nature. Wanting more than you need is actually important to capitalism in countries as rich as the U.S. so I cut people a break.
Sorry, what is MC an acronym for here?
Doesn't Sussmann's propagator model work kind of count as "Lambda the Ultimate Spreadsheet"?
Ah, missed that post.
The particular one you linked to ended up behind, but could've been way ahead if they stayed open for another 6 months until the pandemic hit.

Original: https://www.wsj.com/articles/mall-short-seller-shuts-down-be...

Different fund who raked it in: https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a34785141/shopping-mal...
This is amazing! I'll have to try it out later, but thank you for making it open as well!
Oops, update again: I called up the research institute and they informed me that the outer band is actually the line past which you cannot see the aurora, so in fact anywhere north of Newport should be good, the northernmore the better
For me it is pointless to buy made in USA given NSA. I would be better off blending in crowd, or buying from within EU.

As for planned obsolescence, FP2 has 5+ years of support as we speak. Without help from Qualcomm, as they EOLed SD800/801 long ago. That's the same SOC as in the Mars helicopter, btw.

The point I made still stands: Librem 5 is made from slave labour (gold, cobalt). Especially sour with the 2000 USD price tag.