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I had a similar feeling installing Gentoo on my graphite iMac in 2004. Except in my case I received so, so much help from the IRC channel, particularly Joseph Jezak (JoseJX) who helped me with some very deep problems I had involving patching X to start on the iMac because it hadn't been used on my model before.

I saw just now that JoseJX went on to do Google Summer of Code with Gentoo in 2006 to work on the X.org Configuration Tool.

I believe it took me most of the high school summer to get X working. In the meantime I got to use links CLI web browser, IRC, and instant messenger clients (AIM etc) for 2-3 months until GUI was functional.

I became completely comfortable in command line as a result. It's sad to me that I can't help students replicate a simklar experience today because the internet seems largely unusable in a text-only browser now.

Those communities are incredibly for new users. For me it's been critical to have others around who can get me past roadblocks while I work hard to genuinely learn on my own.

And yes, the Gentoo docs were superb. The forum and IRC had incredibly patient people who genuinely loved helping people of all skill levels.
> You have to do it yourself. You have to research things yourself. You have to hunt for doctors & specialists yourself.

That's true everywhere, though. Just because basic stuff is paid for in Canada doesn't mean we've got crack teams of doctors tracking down your diagnosis.
> If you’re very employable it’s just a free 50% annual bonus

I’ve seen comments on HN going the opposite way , but let’s be honest for a minute : most of them will find work within less then a month.

We are looking at top talents from SV with years of experience as iOS engineers / executive those talents are hard to find and quiet rare regardless of the pandemic or not.

Honestly it’s just free money , I won’t deny the emotional aspect that may take time to recover but outside of that they’ll have no problem finding new jobs in the comings weeks.
So as long as you can take your pick between a number of different authoritarian situations, that's OK?
I think we will eventually see a return to company 'data centers' away from IaaS plays.

That said, its a pretty amazing time if you're a computer architect since you now have the transistors to spend on pretty much any crazy scheme you can dream up. So perhaps we'll see 'code safe' computer architectures emerge.
> A really simple step in the right direction would be mandated labeling showing how many years of software updates the device will get and statistical expected lifetime.

This isn't that simple because it depends on _which_ software. This gets glossed over a lot in these discussions.

An iPhone gets ~5 years of iOS updates. Importantly, these updates are the only place where the only permitted web viewer on the platform gets updated.
An android phone gets 2-3 years, if it's very lucky, of android updates. However, the _browser_ you use on that device is updated entirely independently of the OS, and while it isn't obvious how far back Chrome supports, android Firefox runs on android 5.0 devices (i.e. at least 7 years, probably more?)

These are two different security scenarios - an iOS device is fully patched against OS-level exploits for longer. True. But an android device will have a safer browser for a lot longer. In my threat model the latter is a lot more important - I don't think I'm unusual in that my web browser is by far my largest attack surface.

(disclaimer: i work at google, but i work on iOS stuff and like iOS a lot. more than android for sure. but i'm very salty that i can't have a browser updated independently from the OS)
> How valuable is to have 20 commits of "fix this error" , "fix the fix of the error", "revert all fixes", "real fix".... etc? I'd argue a PR with many commits such as these, conveys little no no useful information, when the actual change is 1-3 LOC.

I'm not saying that I wouldn't broadly discourage the worst of that but most people do not commit every changed line so it is rarely a problem in practice.

What does become a problem are people who insist on "clean history", "re-order these commits", etc etc at PR stage when you both agree the functional problem is done/fixed and now the negotiation has moved on to your git history. I do contract work (read: move around a lot) and this social anti-pattern comes up very often. Usually one guy who's into it throwing his weight around.

Would it surprise you to learn there is a large crossover because people who do this and people who go forensic on other cosmetic stuff: whitespace, syntax, etc?! :)
If all this was obvious and the govt couldnt do anything about it, why is such a govt required?
Farmer protests were last year. Cases started spiking late/feb and march.

Protests would have shown 14 day lagged incrEase in cases in Punjab and Harayana, where the bulk of attendees came from. Those cases were not seen.

This idea is incongruous with information we have.

On the other hand The central govt has been declaring mission accomplished since last year.

I wouldn’t blame people for thinking that their respected leader was telling them the truth and acting accordingly.

Risk taking behavior is related to how the people on top act, especially in India which is today, a far more centralized nation.
There is a working restaurant a few blocks away.
It's similar to McConnells recent "My advice for corporations is stay out of politics. Not including contributions of course"

The hypocrisy level continually reaches new heights
Is there any source for this? I think the scientific consensus last year (at least in the US) was that big protests didn't turn out to be super spreader events
The Casey Newton verge article goes into how they disbanded a Diversity and Inclusion committee. How boneheaded does DHH have to be to think that was a good idea? Your employees want to feel accepted and safe. Like it or not the demographic of work is changing and people are becoming more accepting and are wishing their workplaces do the same.
I look forward to someone arguing in court that politicians represent a uniquely oppressed minority for whom the state has a vested interest in protecting such that personal property rights are no longer relevant.
evs could drive lithium but i really doubt they would influence copper that much, since it is used so much already
I have had something similar to this (heavy fog and inability to continue creative work) and I use coffee, bulk vitamins and regular walks with music to work through it.

I also started eating more fresh food and less frozen food, even if it meant eating-out fresh, because it was much worse when I was reheating a lot of tasteless frozen food.

But no matter how hard I try, I have focused my career into an area that requires a lot of creative effort, and I think that this has given me nearly permanent long term memory problems. Over the years, my relationships always get irritated that I don't remember anything. Actually, I thought my memory was normal, until I started to contrast it with people around me who worked in hospitality and such.
It's like a game of Chinese whispers where the multiplier keeps on growing everytime the number is mentioned.
Is there a study that tells if the current wave is related to Kumbh Mela that was celebrated extensively?
Can you please read my comment again? Please don't turn this forum into a political propaganda platform.
I like RemNote [1] because of its native flashcards feature (besides its top-notch note-taking functionalities). It allows you to turn your notes into flashcards and practice them using spaced repetition algorithm. Ren's video [2] is a great intro to RemNote

[1] https://www.remnote.io/

[2] https://youtu.be/M2U61vHfQSQ
US-China doomsday threat ramped up by hi-tech advances, says Kissinger
Simplest way around all of this is back to one-core MULTI-SOCKET systems for "civilian" computers like x86 is.
Yeah right, Maharashtra had massive gathering for Kumbh Mela at Bandra-Worli Sea Link, and Delhi had election rally for Assembly elections and newly appointed CM Arvind Kejriwal had merely days to manage mess left by LG.
Why hire employees at all then? Just outsource everything.
https://www.dwt.com/insights/2006/08/political-programming-o... is a summary from as early as 2006.
Florida plans to fine social media for banning politicians
wow this is such a cool hack
Apple mostly got there because they already had so many phones. As Jobs would've said, Tile is a feature, not a product.

Unfortunately things start getting weird/potentially negative at scale, but at least Apple is trying to get ahead of the problem.
Ah yes, the Chaum paper. The "Hey here is a cool thing you could do and solve a billion problems. Oh by the way we've patented the shit out of it and our royalty rates are pretty extreme. Ha ha ha!"

I think the last of the patents expire in 2023 which allow for an end to end zero knowledge based local transaction ledger system. That will be useful.
I prefer to see people as individuals as opposed to a bloc of political ideologies or defined by their race or gender.

Didn't that used to be the point?
I would like to know this too. Why didn’t it take off last year and why now?

My prior is that the virus took time to evolve to be hyper-infectious in the local conditions. Fits timescale and may fit theoretical models (many suggest viruses become more infectious but less deadly - not sure if this is the case in India).

Would be great to see good research on this but it will take many months. Early reports and analysis are likely to be wrong.
Opinion columns are not scientific sources. To the article's credit recklessness from people are is the reason for the spike. But doesn't absolves a leadership that claimed to have concurred Covid-19 and have no clue about disaster management. Indians deserved better.
... yes? Faster Payments for my GBP balances and Prompt Pay for my THB ones tend to take a few seconds and be free?

Added bonus: both will confirm the recipient name, and if I truly, actually fuck up the payment, I can get the money back again rather than it disappearing into the ether.

Finally: the money I have transferred is now available to actually spend on things straight away, without needing to then reconvert it to real people money with a sizeable cost.
If you like this topic I recommend this talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em7nqDqQ8oM

It has a great explanation of the difference between complex and complicated, and the fragility of our systems compared to nature's ones.
My guess is if you're posting here you're not necessarily the target market for this product. You might be better with just a Sawyer squeeze or other off the shelf filter. If you're looking for clarifying turbid water you could get a bottle of alum from the grocery store and use that as a flocculant. Or if you wanted heavier duty there's "Water Wizard for River Runners" which is made of stuff which is often used for wastewater treatment.
I have also never heard of a contractor for big tech being hired full time. Ever.
Ultimately it’s just about respecting people. It doesn’t cost you anything to do that.
One example is Danish children take longer to get past tense correct than Iceland, Norwegian, Swedish, children.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232885372_Is_Danish...

I'm sure it's hard to compare but if one child says "I can has cheeseburger?" and a different child says "May I have a cheeseburger?" we'd generally judge the second child to be more skilled in the language than the first. So, it's arguably not impossible to come up with some measure of when a child is speaking to some level of correctness and compare those across languages.

If you want a blind test you'd just ask lots of kids at different ages to do something "ask for a cheeseburger", transcribe the results, have native speakers, who don't know where the answers came from, judge which answers are not making grammar/conjugation mistakes. Some languages children will stop making mistakes much earlier than other languages which would at least suggest that some languages are harder than others (I'm sure there are confounding factors)
In trying to debunk one BJP propaganda, you are spreading another. The protest was not only by the "rich" farmers of Punjab and Haryana protecting their interests, there were protests joining from all neighboring states like Rajasthan, UP, etc., with demonstrating being organized country wide. The rate of spread is not lower in Punjab or Haryana. It's the same as rest of the country, just not as high as the states where election rallies and religious gathering acted as a bigger catalyst.
Ground reality-

* 400,000 new infections reported yesterday. Number of deaths is being suppressed- 10x more deaths than reported. Crematoriums everywhere are overflowing, yet only 3k deaths per day as per official record.

* Basic resources like Oxygen, Meds (Favipiravir, Remdesivir, Monitors), Hospital beds keep running out in many cities and towns. Everything is on sale for 2-10x the official prices. For example, Remdesivir selling for Rs 20,000 ($300) instead of Rs 2,000. Ambulances charging Rs 25,000 for a half hour transport, instead of Rs 2,500.

* Beds are a tragedy. People are dying in their cars (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/noida/no-bed-in-4-n...). Day rent for beds in nursing home corridors (yes, actual narrow corridors) are selling for an amount equal to the average monthly salary of a middle class citizen.

* The government organized election rallies and religious gatherings and overruled the concerns of many educated voices over the last 2 months. Lockdown in election bound states was only announced yesterday, once all rallies and multi-phase election was finished. Votes/Power over lives, that's the mantra. One head of state went as far as to pass an order declaring anyone posting stories of O2 shortage will be prosecuted and arrested. (https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/covid-up-hospitals-defy...)

* People have stepped up as the govt has abdicated responsibility, sharing resources on their stories and working all day to verify their availability by calling hospitals and crematoriums. However the scale of the tragedy is immense and people who could have been saved are dropping like flies. This wave is affecting 40, 50 year olds, without any comorbidities. Apparently the strain is a double mutant (mutation of the strain from UK), and now a triple variant is also being reported.

* EDIT- Also for the sake of PR, the central govt sent more than half the vaccine produced abroad. Apparently the concept of stockpiling and reserves isn't common knowledge with the Indian political elite. So today we are at a situation where we are importing the vaccines we had exported, as we are desperately short on stocks and there is no relief in sight. Only 1.9% of India's population has received 2 doses of the vaccine. Long story short, many people will die.
Since that is how the relatively uncontroversial minimum wage law (which has been around since 1938) works, yes, society has generally decided that we do want to tell people, "it is illegal to work for some very low wage." And, while not the parent poster, I agree that it is a useful policy.
French Senate bans Hijab for minors
> How can Basecamp possibly avoid that issue?

Unisex bathrooms?
Are you just from or currently in Hungary? Is the situation there deteriorating?
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Protests were in Jan/Feb. Cases rose April. Larger gatherings happened in March and April for elections and religion.

Please take your one sided narrative elsewhere.
https://archive.md/jJB4A
How do you manage anyone with that level of lack of self awareness? Yea, of course prospective product managers will go to bootcamps to learn the technicals.

And why would "good developers" go to a bootcamp? That would defeat the entire purpose.

Think smarter.

And if you actually think coding bootcamps don't work, just take a fking look at the alumni...

https://www.linkedin.com/school/hack-reactor/people/
I feel like all the practical use standards are unfalsifable and there is no use that will satisfy it

Is it a lack of awareness due to disinterest, or objective reasoning, we’ll never know!
I entered Japan close to two weeks ago from Europe. Super strict and well managed border control. Passengers were supervised and escorted to a special quarantine hotel for the first three days of quarantine. After that they use an app on my phone to keep track of where I am. For 14 days I have to "check in" my location multiple times per day.

The place with no border control i Europe. Not Japan.
As I understand it, no stock though. There is no potential that you would, via Hey, be able to cash out. (And frankly, I can't see the technical or user appeal of Hey, it seems very bleh. I'd rather work on Signal any day.)
That comment makes me miss Douglas Adams.
This is speculation and no better than saying all the COVID deaths are overinflated because they include anyone who happens to have COVID when they die.
> I "depleted my brain of dopamine and glucose" causing "Functional Neurological Disorder" (FND - DSM-5 code 300.11)

Is this a real thing? I can't find any evidence of Google about this and the author didn't link any sources. "300.11" is pretty vague and seems to refer to a problem that doesn't match any other criteria. I can't find any reference to it being caused by glucose or dopamine levels.

Edit: https://twitter.com/TinkerSec/status/1388269323295338501 says "I went to a neurologist first to make sure it wasn't a stroke or epileptic seizures. They gave me MRI and EEG tests. Then I went to a neuropsychologist. It was the neuropsychologist that diagnosed me." which means it was diagnosed by a psychologist rather than a medical doctor with an MD.

The parts about stress are probably valid but the "glucose and dopamine" depletion is probably bullshit.
Kolkata has a 54% positivity rate now, and nobody is able to get tested due to lack of testing infra. Just because it wasnt reported, doesnt mean it didnt affect.
My point is not that farmer protests should be blamed. The blame and responsibility of this surge clearly lies with the government and ruling party celebrating `victory` pre-maturely. My point is that we should not propagate a wrong message that somehow the protests were immune from being a super spreader, making people think it is alright to continue being part of a mass gathering, whatever the cause.
Linux on the desktop?
This is all sounding very familiar to me :-/
A first look at Ewan McGregor's transformation into fashion designer Halston
The value of Bitcoin comes from the fact it can provide strong property rights to anyone in the world.

There are many countries where the governments have failed to secure property rights appropriately, mismanage their currencies, embezzle public funds, and abuse their citizens in so many other ways. It's disgusting.

Citizens of those countries can opt-in and benefit from Bitcoin and security guarantees it provides.

Billions, quite literally billions, of such people live in such situation today. They have no economic security. No property rights. Even the land they live on gets confiscated every now and then.

....how is granting strong property rights to the less fortunate of the world is not one of the most valuable things in the world?

Bitcoin is a freedom technology, disguised as get-rich-quick scheme.
However the cases explosion is not related to this event.

Bringing this point up sacrifices a chance to save india from future pain just to win political talking points to protect the culpable.

Cases lag events by 14 days. The spike was this year, the protests started last year. The cases didn’t even begin in those states that sent the most protesters. The current strain developed in Maharashtra.

The Govt and all Indians I spoke to throughout the year were complete unaware of how they had dodged a bullet.

Instead of being grateful and figuring out how to prevent it from ever happening again, our govt went ahead and said “we are invincible.”.

This is a behavior we cannot ever afford again.

If we didn’t know why we had such a mild first wave, we should have done everything to understand why and to take preventive measures.
In chia you need 1 SSD for every ~100+ HDD. You need HDDs more.
Okay, that's fantastic. I am honestly glad that you are doing well, there's no reason that many more people couldn't also have that financial security. But your personal anecdotal experience does not demonstrate that 2x should be the universal rule.

I am also a millennial, but I spent 4x for my house but now have a fully paid-off investment home and a 10% equity mortgage on my primary residence only because of recent home improvements and the fact that the low interest rates mean my excess money is much better used investing in an index fund instead of paying that 10% out of pocket by cashing out the investments. I have zero other debt, not a dime, not on credit cards, not on anything.

There are multiple paths to financial stability that do not have to involve a single rule. I'm glad it worked for you, but circumstances differ greatly between people.
What happens when someone has no k8s experience and the kubernetes cluster malfunctions?
The initial lock down and panic eventually made people deny existence of Covid, along with a narrative that Indians are immune to Covid. Later the leadership started claiming India already conquered Covid. https://www.livemint.com/science/health/we-are-in-the-endgam...

To answer your question, people were gathering for events other than rallies
NYC didn't have a healthcare breakdown, it did send covid positive people to nursing homes.
I think that all methods that apply a distortion can have a GAN trained to ignore it. Both Fawkes and LowKey are adversarial example generators which can be used to produce training data that forces the model to become more robust.

Once they are incorporated in training of the recognition system's model, their effectiveness as protection disappears.
System design is often inherently political as well.

How do capture gender in the database?

That's a political debate. Do you care that you can't correctly store 'foreign' names? Political.

Do you offer Catalan too when you translate to Spanish? Political.

Do you include disputed territories on your countries lists or allow people to enter 'other'? Political.

Privacy protection? Political.

Systems are shaped by political debate and in turn shapes it. Your decisions will have a political dimension whether or not you like it.

And that is before considering all of the internal cultural and behavioural issues that are inherently political.

As for Basecamp, I think they've set themselves up for further conflict and turmoil. If I was there and hadn't quit yet, I'd consider it now because such a huge departure will destabilize oth.the company and internal culture for a long time.