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Shallow and too late criticism sounds like a problem with how the reviews are handled.

At my previous job reviews were required before you were allowed to check in, meaning if it wasn't good enough you had to rework it. This meant junior engineers were quickly brought up to speed with code convention and best practices. If you didn't adhere to them your code wasn't approved.

I also found it a great way to catch subtle bugs or difficult to follow logic. But it does require actually having and taking the time to carefully review things, rather than giving them a passing glance.
what does that have to do with crypto? elections are not markets. Where did you get this 10% swing idea from? I bet I could find 100's of examples of equities that trade within a 10% band for much longer periods of time
Shaun Ryder: I was a heroin addict for 20-odd years, but there’s been no damage
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wow this reminds me of metal gear solid for some reason
It’s all data. Even the old farmers tales.
Viable technically yes. Someone I’ve been following for a few years was a under 1k viewers on Twitch with a decent but niche YouTube audience when he went full time and now he’s doing very well & building a house with money earned almost entirely on Twitch.

On the other hand my ex girlfriend did it full time but couldn’t get partnered and ultimately made less than minimum wage anyways, she just didn’t want to actually work.

For the vast majority of people it’s actually worse than both of these examples and you shouldn’t even attempt it full time unless you are already approaching the level of income from it you need while you still have a job.

I recommend starting with YouTube as a hobby if you’re interested though — discoverability on Twitch is terrible and you’re going to have a hard time even hitting a monthly payout there without something like a YouTube presence that can drive traffic to your channel.

Also I feel like I might get some negative reaction to saying this BUT it is much easier to monetize on Twitch at the low end as a woman even without sexualizing your content. They simply have an easier time getting viewers and higher revenue per viewer on the low to mid end of things. Of course they also have to deal with a lot of really creepy harassment & they’re underrepresented in the top 0.1% or so as well so it’s not like this is strictly an advantage. But statistically speaking you’d have better odds of it being worth your time.
I’m guessing he forgot to tell us, hah.
It's a really short letter, you can read it here:

https://www.mass.gov/doc/naag-letter-to-facebook/download

Signed by attorneys general of Massachusetts, Nebraska,
Vermont, Tennessee, Alaska, California, Connecticut, Delaware, District
of Columbia, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky,
Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri,
Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York,
North Carolina, Northern Mariana Islands, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon,
Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah,
Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming

(Also, I was curious and had to look up what the plural is and why for a group like this: It’s tricky, because both “attorney” and “general” are nouns, so it seems perfectly legal to just add the “s” to the second word, and that often happens in news reports. “General” here, though, is an adjective, not a noun; you can think of them as “general attorneys.” So the plural goes on the noun, and the proper form is “attorneys general.”)
I've used RSpec for about 3 years now and I absolutely love it - and I've also come to agree with most of the betterspecs suggestions (which I reference quite frequently).

I'd be really interested to hear which suggestions you don't agree with and why, if you could spare the time for a comment or another blog post!

Thanks again for RSpec, it's wonderful.
I really like Alpine but it is sometimes a bit harder to work with. I found Debian to be absolutely amazing in recent releases. The new release (11) just works on all platforms (AWS, RPI) I use it. It works for data science (CUDA) as well as running databases or big data workloads. With Alpine some of these tasks would be hard to achieve.
I think 35mm->4k scans can look amazing. There's a lot going on though with film to digital scanning. The film stock itself has a lot to do with it. From the condition it has been stored as well as the actual type of film stock. The choice in a physical scanner also makes a difference. Single pass realtime captures vs slow speed triple flashed scans. Single pass is usually on a CMOS type sensor, where the triple flashes are typically on a CCD sensor. There's a whole list of things that are involved that makes one 35mm->4k transfer not like the next.

Typically, you as a consumer, will be receiving an H.264 or H.265 stream that your cable box or streaming device decodes. These have all been updated with levels/profiles to allow for things like 3D, 4K, HDR, and 10bit encodes. The shoehorn used to shove new features into these formats has been put to heavy use.
Why would anyone consider this shocking, there is a massive amount of content out there, and the human race is finite.
Time + patience + other hobbies + moving on.

If you can manage to stop worrying about it and move forward, then the curiosity and magic has space to grow. Worrying that the magic isn't there is not a good way to bring it back, it's not a good mindset to have anything positive arise. But "giving in" is easier said than done of course, since you want the magic back :) Once you stop wanting it, it will have a chance to return
I like to use bringing someone up to speed as a vehicle for improving the documentation. Docs go stale and decay, and require regular maintenance. But without a fresh eye, you become blind to many of the problems the documentation has. Having a new person go through the docs, feel their pain, and fix the problems (with your help) is a golden opportunity to keep the docs fresh and usable, and more importantly codifies knowledge that can otherwise be lost when people leave.
What are the page sizes used by Windows on various processors?
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I would have been happy if my toddler book was published and sold even $5k copies.
Biden Plans an Order to Strengthen Cyberdefenses. Will It Be Enough?
There's a difference between a kickstarter product being delayed, and solving self driving. The first one you know it's doable, for the second you only hope it's doable.

I agree with the identity part, it's more like a status symbol and hype feeds that.
Absolutely! Don't rely on ads, though.
After using systemd with Arch, I'm conflicted on whether I like it or hate it.
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Stiction. Good tip on how you were successfully eliminating the stiction -- likely useful to remember in many such situations!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiction
Should be a private issue
Where it gets tricky:

1. There would be entitled to ask for a form of ID in order to verify your identity.

2. Even if they are confident that you are really John Doe, how do they know that a mention of "John Doe" in all the data they have really means you, and not someone else?

At some point it becomes too difficult and time-consuming so the easiest is to decline the request on the grounds of an exemption.
That may be true but someone has to pay to keep things like that. It’s a difficult position to claim that the people with wealth owe anyone else anything.
Is there somewhere to find the names of the 268 books?
The difference between a stock buyback and iterative speculation is that the "bigger sucker" in a stock buyback is the customer interested in the actual product being sold by the company.
If you read the actual article it explains exactly that....
Pretty sure Rush wrote a song about the future you’re describing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Barchetta
Boomers recommend cow urine in my country for any disease. Very knowledgeable.
2.6 million would mean 1 in 3000 people on earth, bought at least 1 book in the last year. That doesn't seem very surprising to me?

Although I think you meant to write 27 million (268 * 100k)

edit - ignore, I missed that it was 2.6m unique in the article
Canon's L-series (red bands) have metal casings. The glass is also nicer, the barrels are rated much higher for dust/moisture protection. This is reflected in their much higher price tags.
Much of our humanity and ability to reason comes from our gut flora and various other parts of our body. Every year we learn a bit more about this complex relationship and how the brain is just one part of our consciousness and not the "CPU" as we used to believe so I become less convinced that we will achieve some kind of Matrix style integration within my lifetime. For what it's worth it seems most likely that we will figure out AGI before we lift consciousness into the digital realm and at that point it might be too late to go through the effort.
Jeff Bezos’s New Superyacht Heralds Roaring Market for Big Boats
One downside of this approach is that it only works when you can require everyone who touches the code to use IntelliJ.
We built boxkite because lots of ML drift monitoring solutions are too complex and heavyweight: this is a pure python library exposing a pure prometheus endpoint, then we implemented KL divergence in one massive PromQL query :-)
How is audible factored in here? I've 10X'd my audible intake over the past year.
Coming back to this after sleeping I am, if anything, even more confused, as I would have expected that, of all the animals, humans would have had the best hope of being the least effected by such a b"light", as we are the smartest, and often most rapidly adaptable (as we can learn new behaviors almost on a dime), species and so, tp the extent to which there were still something to eat, I would have hoped we would have the least amount of population decline...
I feel like I'm one of the few people that still does purchase books. In 2020 & 2021 I bought music theory books from amazon + jazzbooks.com, and I had some Korean books imported by a friend. I have the space and bookshelves to house them though.
All of your ancestors raised children. We are machines, designed by nature to procreate.

The notion that one would be objectively better off by avoiding the very process that brought themself into being...seems unlikely to me.

Unless, we’re narrowly using the term “objectively better off” to mean what society seems to value: money, power, pleasure, etc. These things aren’t necessarily good for the organism in the way that having children is.
Or just get a thousand followers who care enough about what you make that many will pay for more. That's what I did.
That's some serious security by isolation, not even Qubes OS comes close.

In time, as the expansion of the universe accelerates fast enough, not even light will keep up to get across.

Perfect total airgap.
Yeah, you won't convince people to pay based on features. Leveraging Google's loss-leader work on Blink/Chromium and building slick features cheaply on top of that will always be an easy way to undercut any efforts there.

The only way to monetise an audience like FF's is via ethos, and it's questionable whether that's enough. Wikimedia Foundation do this quite successfully, but I believe their revenue is a bit smaller than Firefox's.

The problem may be that the Google deals are too generous, which traps Firefox into an overspend, crippling their ability to build alternative revenue streams that meet the same income level (why cut costs when you have enough income).

Is it possible to maintain a browser of Firefox's scale at a WikiFoundation-level income of ~$120million?
I still have no idea what’s the substance here, your example was filters and pipes of cli. That’s trivial in Swift.
Hey Hacker News,

Problem: I often hear someone on one podcast and want more, but there's not an easy way to find them elsewhere.

Until now.

Podda allows you to search podcasts by guest, and also receive a notification whenever a person you like gets on a new podcast.

I just coded this today in ~5 hours, and all feedback is welcome.

Question: right now I only list episodes a guest appeared on. Should I also list podcasts that a guest hosts?
You can write either imperative for-loops or a set of connected stream-processors. An arbitrary set of connected "streamers" can always be converted to imperative code and I assume that is what is happening under the covers.

But the reverse is not true, an arbitrary set of for-loops can not be translated into a set of streamers. Right?

That means that the structure of your program is much more constrained when you compose it out of streams, than if you compose it out of arbitrary for-loops.

And if you know that your program obeys a set of constraints imposed on it by the connected streams, the program becomes easier to understand, because you can RE-use your knowledge of how those streams always work to understand every component of the system, meaning every stream-component of it.
I want very different things from my rubber ducks and my code reviews.

Rubber ducking is great for forcing yourself to articulate your train of thought, spelling out your assumptions, and proof-reading your own logic.

Code reviews are great for catching errors you glaze over because you're too familiar with what you think you wrote to see what's actually written. It's also a great way to onboard people and enforce code standards and best practices.

Even when you're in a more senior position code reviews can often teach you new things, when you interact with systems the reviewer knows better and they happen to know a better approach.
Looks interesting and installation steps seem to be straightforward, will definitely try it out in my stack!
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> there were 2.6 million books sold online in 2020 and only 268 of them sold more than 100,000 copies

I'm confused... just the top 0.0001% (268 x 100k) is 26.8M, yet they claim only 2.6M books were sold total for the full year. Am I missing something obvious?
This is the same reason that motivates me. My day job involves some really tedious manual procedures, of which I've been able to automate a few of through software.

I've never been more motivated to learn relevant knowledge and work on solutions than when the goal is to write tools to make my team's work less tedious. And I've never felt more satisfaction than when I completed those tools, successfully used them to cut those tedious tasks down to a few minutes, and got praise from my coworkers for making their jobs easier.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27080695.
Maybe this gang doesn't need to worry about the US going after it, it needs to worry about the FSB going after it for screwing up its game plan...
They _are_ following the rule of the organization. The issue here is that the organization didn't want to be seen as man and child loving (see the scandals with child abuses inside the catholic and evangelical church)
If i can delete the cookie and nothing goes visibly wrong, it's obviously not needed.

Same with blocking a script that sets such a cookie. Most cookies are not needed for providing a service.

edit: see the article 29 data protection working party guidelines here: https://ec.europa.eu/justice/article-29/documentation/opinio...
It looks like it would function as a meditation target, because it has a clearly defined central point and the segmentations roughly coincide with those of human central vision. And there are stone seats carved in front of it, as if it was meant to be stared at. In Buddhist territory.

How to use one: print it out, affix to blank wall (or ceiling if you like to meditate lying down), look at the center dot without blinking or moving your eyes away from it.

After a minute or a few, your peripheral vision starts to fade and then it starts showing the contents of your central vision. Everything around you becomes replaced with a fractal of what you’re looking at. Eventually that also disappears and gives way to psychedelic visuals.
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Not if they had a remotely controlled turret attached as well!
A lot of 19th century fiction was done this way. Authors (Dickens, etc.) tended to work from a loose outline and construct the details as they rolled along.

Peer at those books closely and you can see some odd detours that were shut down. Also some padding to get more segment-by-segment payments. But it's workable
> Are there any arguments as to why a platform for under 13 y/o would be worse than these demographics using the normal platform?

Without knowing anything about Instagram Kids, more parents might let their children use it if it appears safe for children. If it's not actually safe(r?), then that's more exposure.

For example, YouTube Kids is almost the same garbage as YouTube, but the name implies otherwise. Neither flavor should be left unsupervised with children.
Yep, this is a key difference between traditional SQL databases and key-value databases. SQL databases optimise specific queries and have a high overhead per query. Key-value databases have a low overhead per query and optimise on flows of queries instead of on a single query. RonDB is a key-value database with SQL capabilities, so has a bit of both.
The disappearance of a Soviet skiing party in 1959
Yes I agree, the ones that work are packaged, labeled and sold at a high profit as Pharmaceuticals.
I have a lot of respect and even awe for modern agriculture. It's incredible what we've done.

> The trade-off in abandoning these practices almost always involves sacrificing yields and the mechanization of labor.

The problem (that cannot be escaped) is longevity. Any system of agriculture that does not increase over time soil fertility and volume/mass is doomed.

Systems of agriculture that deplete [various measures of biological health] over time are akin to mining. Once the underlying resources are exhausted the story ends (the resources in question could be water, or biodiversity, or climate stability, etc...)

Even if we compensate with technology, we are substituting our managed system for a automatic system that has been (meta-)stable for billions of years. We should proceed carefully.
The billions of people who owe their lives to the Haber-Bosch process (and other innovations) may come to rue it if we crash due to environmental destruction. By some scientific estimates this is the decade when our biomass and the biomass of our agriculture outweighs naturally occurring biomass. For better or worse the world has become our farm.

That's why Gabe Brown (et. al.) seems so important to me: he is integrating modern practices with new (scientifically-validated) regenerative practices and his farm is both profitable and healthier year after year.
Things also "work" if you are able to scale down a cost (employment of human labor such as teachers and counselors) while maintaining or scaling up a source of revenue (student enrollment.)

This is an unfortunate truth. Schools grow, don't scale human labor to accommodate additional students, overall student performance & dropouts increase, and their answer is to recruit more students in a downward spiral. Never mind the fact that it costs more money to do this than simply hiring 2 or 3 more advisors to do real human outreach. I saw this cycle over the course of 4 or 5 years where I work. After providing hard analysis of this pattern each year, I, working with colleagues on the academic side of things, managed to push for those advising resources and the results have more than paid for it.

The problem is that many of the idealistic tech people are only looking at the problem from the tech point of view. I have resisted efforts over the years to assimilate me into a central IT division because the viewpoint I get through being embedded in an operational division strongly informs my analytical efforts. I see the business cycle, I talk to advisors, I construct & analyze surveys that mix quantitative and qualitative factors-- there is no detail of the student experience that is too small for me to ignore. It hammers home the point that analysis & tech can only help focus the efforts of human labor, not replace it.
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yes, but perhaps this is because of other things? Like that a person is going to have their phone with them anyway? Even if a phone camera is only 1/2 as good as a consumer camera, the ease of use and convenience is going to win the 99% of the market which doesn't care about 'professional grade' results. And the 1% that does care is going to buy a SLR.

Not better tech (better as in takes better photos), rather more convenient tech which is good enough.
Cacti is a plural of cactus.
I think they meant 2.6 mil titles, not copies.
> you have to do the chain on each line, so the stack track can pinpoint the line it failed at

...this, to me, speaks to a huge tooling failure. The stack trace should have precise information about the region of the source file that the call was embedded in (line+column start+end), as opposed to merely the line.
Shooting a moving target is actually extremely difficult, especially if you are using a rifle instead of a shotgun. You can also see one of the soldiers drawing and aiming a handgun after landing, so they aren't completely without firepower. Chances are good that they could also strap a bullpup rifle or subcompact machine gun on their chest during flight.

Also if significant resistance is expected, there are always torpedoes.
> How could the 4 hours "pairing" negate the fact that one of you can't work for 4 hours?

This is a very common misconception. Both of you are "working", only one of you is typing. I don't know what kind of work you do, but in my ~20 years of programming, typing is a rather tiny percentage of programming work. Most of it is thinking, problem solving and designing. Both people are doing these things, except you're both doing them on the same task. That means that the task is often done faster, but much more importantly, its done better and the wins really rack up in the long run: you get knowledge sharing for free, you make less mistakes, better designs, write more robust software, better tests (because you have a second person to make sure they're good), have two people working on documentation etc. We ship more complex projects, with fewer errors, better documentation in less time.

> I can see it if those 4 hours were really design/planning time, but otherwise, I just don't see how it could work.

How much of your programming is actually typing into a text editor? Maybe I'm working on different types of code as you, but for me, design/planning and problem solving is takes up about 80% of my "programming time". As I said above, not only is this faster with two brains working on it, but the results are better too.

> Most of what I see people here calling "pair programming" is just normal collaboration. Bringing in someone to put a second set of eyeballs on a problem, or to discuss some design topics, or brainstorm isn't the kind of pair programming in the original article.

Sure. The difference is that you're doing it all the time. Which has the benefits I mentioned above, at the cost of.. its a mentally exhausting way to work.

The project I worked on with pair programming was a large complex distributed system to deliver large amounts of data to fleets of airplanes over satellite internet (among other means), with guaranteed delivery SLA's. It took two of us 11 months from start to deployment. I've worked on simpler projects without pair programming that took longer. I don't work there anymore, but last I checked, it was still running in production without problems. I 100% believe that this project would not have been delivered in that time frame by just two people if we hadn't pair programmed.