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Ask HN: How to reduce inertia in Hammock Driven Development
I've been a software engineer for almost a decade now, and I enjoy working in this field a lot. One of the most influential talks in my career has been Rich Hickey's talk on Hammock Driven Development [1]. It's helped me complete projects with such a simple approach that fits well with how my brain works. I'm a very pensive person and for the most part, everything from initial concept to system architecture I do in my head or on a chalkboard. The hardest part for me, still, is going from the chalkboard to code. In Hickey's talk, this step only takes up one bullet point on one slide, but it's easily the most difficult part of the process for me. I'm a competent coder, and know I am capable of writing the code I need to write. Sometimes, however, I spend a lot of time just staring at a keyboard, unable to type what I want to type. There are a lot factors making me this way, outside of the realm of software engineering, that I'm working on. But in the short term, I was hoping to hear about any strategies employed by people who work in a hammock-driven fashion, or anything similar, to actually take the concepts and systems they design in their head and on paper, and put them into a source file for execution.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc
I recall an incident while I studied Spanish. An older woman in my class was nearly in tears of frustration as she angrily demanded of our teacher why they use "estar" to denote locations. For example "París está en Francia". Given the naive classification of estar as temporary it seems counter-intuitive to suggest Paris is temporarily in France.

There are a few other ambiguous ser/estar situations we were taught, exceptions to the permanent/temporary distinction that I can't recall. But the near break-down this woman had about Paris was quite memorable.
Georg Mayr-Duffner’s EB Garamond [1] and Octavio Pardo’s fork EB Garamond 12 [2] are excellent, both OFL-1.1.

[1] https://github.com/georgd/EB-Garamond

[2] https://github.com/octaviopardo/EBGaramond12
The Apple Thunderbolt 3 Pro Cable (2 m) is one of the only cables that can support everything usb-c over such a long distance [1]. But that costs 129$, which just wouldn't work for smartphone charging for which cables (usb-c 2.0 & 60w, the least you can do while still being spec-compliant) cost 7$. I think I haven't seen such a clear & easy to grasp demonstration of tradeoffs anywhere else.

[1] For the longest time, this was the only cable to do it all. I think more are available now, but they're still very much non-affordable.
What's the best package manager in your opinion?
> Today, it's definitely harder to find good commentary and exchange. It's also super heavily astroturfed by political groups in all the subreddits (on both sides) to try to influence the general groupthink narrative/consensus. It's so disgustingly obvious but doesn't seem to be an issue for the team.

The only real solution for this is the same as any other social media, or even real life: accept that people live in non-overlapping bubbles and hang out in the bubbles you’re comfortable with or curious about.
It does when running native ARM code (but not x86 code), but AFAIK nothing stops Apple from changing this to being kernel mediated by updating libSystem in the ARM case as well. Of course I doubt they would take the performance hit just to get rid of a this issue.
Looks like a white labeled viking VDS2249R running custom software.
Uh yeah, I've never given my cat a live animal to torture on purpose. I also don't let it out to roam and kill all the local songbirds either.

If you have a barn full of crops to protect from rats or something, then sure, use a cat as a ratter, though there might be more humane ways to deal with your rat problem.

But if you're giving animals to your cat to kill for your own entertainment, then you seriously need help.
"It's not hard for most people to avoid sun burn. You just have get sun exposure on a somewhat regular basis ..."

Or, even simpler, and less controversial:

Just buy some super lightweight, long sleeved shirts ... like capilene zero or equivalent. And put on a sun hat.

Problem solved.
As I understand it, Oxide is going to have deep software integration into their hardware. So the expectation isn't that the servers in this rack will be running Windows or a generic Linux distribution. In case anyone from Oxide is here, is my understanding correct? And if so, will there be a way to run a smaller version of an Oxide system, say for testing or development, without purchasing an entire rack at a time?

Anyway, glad to finally get a glimpse of what Oxide has to offer. Looking forward to seeing a lot more.
Cheaper than AWS Outposts I guess. (Cheaper per core, not necessarily per rack.)
Distribution costs have decreased greatly, while markets have grown remarkably. Looking at inflation adjusted cost of blockbuster movies today, film company revenue or indie scenes across the globe, I find it hard to argue that the last 20 years have been bad for the industry. Disruptive, for sure, but this creates winners and losers.
I wonder what happens if you want to talk about Liberace.
> I think most users would at least appreciate the option

The M1 Macs are the first and lowest-end Apple Silicon Macs we'll see. There's a reason they only replaced the cheapest devices with them so far - wait until we're done with the 2 year transition period and I doubt you'll have anything to complain about.
In what sense do you think they haven't been exposed? As in, they've never seen their resumes? Or they've never worked with them?

I think it's an misalignment of incentives in most cases. HR seems to care very little once someone is past the hiring gate. So they would have to spend the time to understand the curriculum distinctions, probably change their grading processes, etc. It's just much easier for them to apply a lazy heuristic like "must have an ABET accredited degree" because they really don't have to deal much with the consequences months and years after the hire. In some cases, they even overrule the hiring manager's initial selection.
Clip: Cheap Lipschitz Training of Neural Networks
Why are we hard coupling the hardware to the software? The whole secret of the success of M1 and ARM in servers is that lots of software has long ago stopped being hyper-aware of what hardware it is running on.

What software are we talking about anyways? It's all incredibly vague, but it seems to reach all the way into the Kubernetes sphere. Why would I run this over something I can use on my next job?
So the second time, you're entering Visual Block mode or plain Visual mode?
What does the g Ctrl+A do?
I'd say money is cheap right now and fund managers would rather have people with information asymmetry invest their money, which OpenAI does via their API. I think it's a natural fit to invest in companies that use their API. This isn't a new idea, Stripe and Slack both do this.
Build Buy or Partner Webinar: Smart Home – Five Takeaways
Build Buy or Partner: Smart Home - How innovation will make the smart home smarter.

When it comes to the future of the smart home, how to make critical decisions?

For the third edition of Build, Buy or Partner on May 11, we talked with three innovation leaders about the future of connected homes.
We were joined by Rob Martens, SVP, Chief Innovation & Design Officer at Allegion and President of Allegion Ventures, Cory Sorice, SVP and Chief Innovation Officer at Masonite® International, and Scott Harkins, Vice President Sales and Marketing at Resideo. Dave Knox, the author of Predicting the Turn, led the conversation.

They talked about the greatest opportunities and risks in the smart home space, how their organizations are thinking about investing into the future of smart homes, how Covid-19 has changed the trajectory of smart home innovation, and where they’re investing right now. Here are five key takeaways:

https://radicleinsights.com/posts/build-buy-partner-smart-home-webinar?utm_source=social_media&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=smarthome_hl&utm_content=c3
The page says that OpenAI only manages the fund. The money comes from Microsoft and “others”.

So if you’re OpenAI, there’s not much financial cost. What you get in return is companies using your service for a wide range of applications. You get all of their data streaming into your system, with constant feedback for you to iterate your models.

It makes a lot of sense for them.

For businesses, though, welcome to training Microsoft and whoever those “others” are. OpenAI took a huge amount of funding in itself from MSFT. So a company is helping OpenAI build models to replicate what they do, giving MSFT access to those models, along with whoever the others are, and letting them wait until the experience is excellent before jumping in.

Sure, they only have access to the data and models. Except, oops, they also _invested_ in your company so they have access to your financials as well. They get regular status updates on whether what you’re doing makes sense.

But if OpenAI is the best out there, even if training their models could eventually kill you, what choice do you have? Develop your own AI to compete against their head start and billions? You won’t win.
>I don’t really understand how anyone can go from the dense hubbub of a city back to the routine boredom of a suburb without losing their mind.

I don't understand how anybody would willingly stay in a densely populated city. Not everybody is the same.
Indeed, before the Greeks The Buddha would most commonly only be depicted by his absence, an empty chair or foot prints most famously. It's amazing that the iconography of a religion so ancient and "exotic" is so significantly shaped by European culture.
Most communities have a related subreddit where that sort of stuff is banned, but finding it usually requires spending enough time reading to see a mention 20 levels deep in an off-topic thread near the bottom. You might get lucky with the subreddit's wiki or sidebar if it has one.

The 3dprinting subreddit's sidebar links to this: https://old.reddit.com/user/Devtholt/m/3d_printing/
Sony manages to pull this off still, if only to sell hardware.

The Last of Us pt. II is an incredible, highly detailed, long single player game with no microtransactions of any kind. Most modern Sony titles are like that.
Quick Charging 3.0 is more-or-less a hack and shouldn't be done on usb-c (unfortunately, cheap manufacturers still do). Quick Charging 4.0 is just USB-PD, so a different name but compatible.
I'd get one. Would connect hot side to home HVAC and just run scalability tests of my code. That'd be hot, nice and expensive.

And possibly noisy. Yes, noisy.
Closed platforms are still platforms.
Now you will run into WiFi type problems where your cable gives you different charge speeds depending on the season and time of day. Service will degrade and you may not notice the problem and may never figure it out in the end.
SpaceX has done amazing work to make space travel truly routine. Say what you want about Musk but this is a historic achievement for humanity.
And then even without these updates ships are fine running legacy software controlling obsolete hardware. As long as spares are available. Would a major navy, like the Martian one, keep their fleet up to date? Sure. Would it be done in flight? I don't think so. As today, this stuff is done during major maintenance in shipyards. Same goes for today's planes.
USB-C will soon be more cable than port, girth-wise.
3.2 cables are already very stiff, impractical and quite expensive.
What I Learned by Relearning HTML
> Has the person who came up with this idea ever met people?

For sure he has absolutely no idea about what people uses IRC regularly. I can picture him thinking about "users" in a general way, like "Facebook/Instagram/Whatsapp ad-clicking users", so he's now struggling to keep them tied to the platform at any cost.
Well, no. Thanks to his ignorance that is second only to his greed he's now going to rapidly lose everything. I'd bet a pizza that he'll likely sell at a loss in less than one year.
I judge the shit out of people who don't get the flu shot, too.

Get your goddamn vaccinations and protect yourself and everyone around you. It's real simple.
First, congrats!

But second, I'd love to understand the compute vs storage tradeoff chosen here. Looking at the (pretty!) picture [1], I was shocked to see "Wow, it's mostly storage?". Is that from going all flash?

Heading to https://oxide.computer/product for more details, lists:

- 2048 cores

- 30 TB of memory

- 1024 TB of flash (1 PiB)

Given how much of the rack is storage, I'm not sure which Milan was chosen (and so whether that's 2048 threads or 4196 [edit: real cores, 4196 threads]), but it seems like visually 4U is compute? [edit: nope] Is that a mistake on my part, because dual-socket Milan at 128 threads per socket is 256 threads per server, so you need at least 8 servers to hit 2048 "somethings", or do the storage nodes also
have Milans [would make sense] and their compute is included [also fine!] -- and so similarly that's how you get a funky 30 TiB of memory?

[Top-level edit from below: the green stuff are the nodes, including the compute. The 4U near the middle is the fiber]

P.S.: the "NETWORK SPEED 100 GB/S" in all caps / CSS loses the presumably 100 Gbps (though the value in the HTML is 100 gb/s which is also unclear).

[1] https://oxide.computer/_next/image?url=%2Fimages%2Frenders%2...
Sailing technology today is similar to technology from the 1600s, just more convenient.

Same thing with books, paper, pens, etc.

It seems likely that the idea of "screen, mouse/touchscreen/keyboard" will be around forever (like books have).

However we might have NEW technology (like an epstein drive).
As soon as vaccines are available for his age group.
Hum, seems they paid a lot for it, not sure MGM brings that much to the table, but I might be short sighted.
Anecdotally, I've become skeptical of US business investment and production metrics. Companies can ramp up investment into assets or expand production of assets without producing consumer/b2b goods.

We capture increased production and investment in speculative assets as economic growth when it may not yield any new production.
Although the emulations are getting really good. For instance this [0] VSCode plugin isn't even an emulation. It embed neovim into VSC, even loads your init.vim file. Snappy too.

[0] https://github.com/asvetliakov/vscode-neovim
Hence why he has gotten and will get a flu shot every year.
> It seems that most talc doesn't cause cancer -- but some talc has "rather high" amounts of asbestos in it -- which we know causes cancer.

So no evidence, just suspicion?

I must be blunt and say this has left me more puzzled why the US courts have ruled the way they have.

EDIT: Down votes again for asking a question? Explain yourselves. Are people defending something without evidence?
Though the first recommendation of it was r/funny
How do you handle the plethora of channels every Discord server has?

Like, I usually are only interested in a few channels on a given Discord server but by default, I get everything.

How do you switch between different servers or different channels? In my IRC setup, I can switch to the next channel with activity with the press of a key. Or get a list of channels with a search input to jump to.
Odd. You're perfectly civil, and relating your own experience, but it's obviously received negatively since it's going against some people's preconceptions.
> and there were also four lab accidents in three different countries (Singapore, Taiwan, and China).

Four countries... the US as well.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/health/germs-fort-detrick...
Oh no yea they have to keep it closed to keep terrorists from generating illicit mad-libs with their AGI
How hard is it to get vaccinated? Just get the fucking shot.
That was instructive, thank you. I only strolled through Xenophon and Thucydides in translation (although I believe θάλασσα gets pronounced/transcribed thalassa).

My impression is that the ties to colonies were like family obligations, and there was not a grand imperial design to them. Even so, Sparta let Melos perish without help, and helped Syracuse with just one man, who did lead the defense against the incompetent Athenian attack well enough.

I do not think that national unity and integrity of territory were part of the mindset back then. Alcibiades, for one, strolled back and forth to the hated Persians when out of favor. And it seems to me that colonies were planted either without consent in areas of tenuous control, or with the sort of permission a landlord might grant to a rentier likely to make a piece of empty land profitable.
DisplayCAL: Open-source display calibration and characterization
Well yes in a way. But it somehow makes the claim more dubious.

It’s like when you go see an osteopath and they tell you that your stomach problem is due to your bad posture...
Haha, thanks! I've never really made anything in React, so I just used the two hooks I know (useState and useEffect) Feel free to contribute to the code :)
"Attests the software version is the version that is valid and shipped by the Oxide Computer Company"

So in other words these servers will implement restrictive code signing practices and will be vendor-controlled, not owner-controlled?

This is not my idea of "secure", and really in the wake of things like the Solarwinds or RSA hacks it shouldn't be anyone's idea of secure. Vendor-holds-the-keys is not an acceptable security model.

A comment below mentions open firmware, open firmware is useless without the right to deploy modified versions of it.

Happy to take clarification on this.
Livebook is a secret weapon for documentation
I knew it.. Skin cancer is caused by these products. No wonder why skin cancer numbers are going up all the time.
I wouldn't pay that much, which suggests that I wouldn't have access to everything, but I would probably get best or alternatively everything in a certain niche (ie. a sci-fy channel that has nothing but sci-fy). Why pay for romantic comedy and horror when I don't want to watch it?
Why and how GitHub is adopting OpenTelemetry
We do judge for measles, mumps, and rubella. In the us, we don't allow the unvaccinated to attend schools.
systemd code uses it widely.
Yeah, that was precisely the point.
USB standards group naming and branding continue to be the worst.
I'd argue the opposite, "voice is the hardest to get right so we chose a vocal track" -> voice is hard to get right, so they got it least right..
For me, Tom's Diner was the easiest of the lot to pick out.
My understanding is you will use a API to provision virtual machines on top of the Oxide hypervisor/software stack, which is bhyve running on Illumos. So you can still just run your favorite Linux distro or windows or a BSD if you want[1].

[1]: https://soundcloud.com/user-760920229/why-your-servers-suck-...
Fully dynamic planarity testing in polylogarithmic time

https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.03449

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1deOVlruc-o
Lots of Asian languages have the nouns before verbs.
I mean if you refuse to read an article, you can't expect to learn much. You really should give it a read because the story is quite bizarre:

- She was a low level GIS developer working on the state dashboard

- After repeatedly posting internal data on personal social media accounts, she was asked to stop and her responsibilities were changed

- She escalated by intentionally sabotaging the rest of the team's work, locking other employees out by removing their security credentials, and by moving data out of the system, crashing the dashboard

- Even after discovery, she was not terminated, and an arrangement was established to have her go through consulting with management

- She then sent an email to everyone working on the dashboard falsely asserting she was being fired for not manipulating the dashboard, which was picked up by the press immediately. In response, she was actually terminated within a couple days.

- Her story, early on, waffled on whether the dashboard was accurate or not, and at times she asserted it was indeed transparent and accurate. Over the last year the story has evolved to the point where she now has a long list of individuals and organizations who apparently have conspired to falsify data.

- She claimed that she was raided by police last year to confiscate her laptop containing data the state didn't want getting out, during which the police waived a gun at her husband and children. However, it turned out she was related entirely unrelated to her work, and they were raiding the house because she had stolen the data of 19,000 employees of the Florida Department of Health from her home, and they traced the IP address there. She also took a video of the encounter in which she waived a sign saying "Biden Hire Me". And bodycam footage from the officers disproved her claims of guns being waived at her family.

- Using her fame and story about being a "whistleblower", she has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars online

- She continues to maintain her own dashboard, but admits she produces it using the same data source that the official state of Florida dashboard does. The difference in what they show is in their methodology for processing the raw data, but other epidemiologists and data scientists claim she clearly overcounts things like deaths and cases due to obvious errors, like counting both PCR positive tests and positive anti-body tests, which would include many vaccinated individuals and double count individuals who take both tests, as well miscalculating "excess deaths".

Apparently she also has long history of felonies/misdemeanor charges including a trial ongoing since 2019 in which she is accused of stalking her previous boyfriend. Hard to say how relevant it is to the dashboard fiasco, but at the very least makes it seem like she is an unstable individual.

At any rate, in addition to the unrelated trials, she is now awaiting trial for the data breach, as a judge signed a warrant for her arrest after reviewing the evidence seized in the aforementioned police raid.
For the record, the M1's GPU performance doesn't even start to compete with the 2021 laptop market, much less the 2014 one. GPUs have always been the biggest power draw in these laptops, and it's honestly no surprise that Apple can cut their power consumption down to 10w when their GPU is as pathetic as it is.
From how I read it, it’s not as if they’re spending their own money, but rather starting a new fund with other people’s money. It says specifically that OpenAI is managing the fund, and others are bringing money on the table.

Whether that distracts them from their core mission is up to discussion, but I don’t think they’re increasing their debts or anything like that.
I know someone who had an intensely positive reaction to wet, musky smells (think basements, dirt, old carpets, that sort of thing). Their doctor put them on vitamins for a separate issue and the attraction went completely away.
Post Malone, The Weeknd, Drake ... Those are all commercial pop singers, they are associated with hip hop culture in the same sense that Sum41 or Blink182 is associated with punk culture.
Here's an argument that a drive with Epstein performance is actually doable: https://toughsf.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-expanses-epstein-dr...
Because you can do something very similar with combos of other fields in the data. That's the problem here: no one knows what combination of details deannonimise a record. So what do you remove, all of them? So the claim it is anonymous is BS. And once the records are out there, there is no way to get them back...

Edit: as an example, I was in a car accident as a 17 year old and broke my jaw. If you Google my name and the location you'll see the news article. I was the only person treated at the local hospital for a broken jaw that day. You just deannonimised me.

Or go again: I'm the only person from my town who went to my university in the year I went. Just look for someone treated in <home area> term time and <uni medical clinic> term time 2002-2008.