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I use plenty of command line interfaces everyday. Most of them are pleasant, predictable, and easy to remember. None of them consistently confuse me like git does. (How many different things does 'checkout' do?)

SQL is not only much more intuitive than git, it gives me amazing leverage to deliver value to clients. By comparison, git wastes my time. There's zero or minimal competitive advantage to using it over any other VCS.
I am reasonably productive WFH (I was 2 days a week remote before pandemic and have had fully remote jobs in the past)- but the way some people talk about it really bothers me.

The people that want it, really want it, are almost like zealots about it. Where if anybody mentions that they struggle with WFH, they get mad almost like it's a kid raising his hand to tell a teacher they forgot to collect the homework.

And I get it - Going full remote would literally be life changing for a lot of people. But there has to be nuance there.

People often talk about the importance of a "third place" in communities. A place that isn't home or work for people to socialize. The WFH zealots are advocating for a complete elimination of even a "second place" - But the workplace is something a lot of people benefit from. You form deeper connections and sometimes friendships with your coworkers, some people use it as a way to concentrate away from the responsibilities of home.

Getting rid of the office would have huge implications on our society as a whole.

I also feel that WFH was easier for me when I did it after having been in office for a long time. Both in terms of connections with the team and having office time helps instill discipline around work. As newer generations enter the work-force without that, I can see it being really hard for them (in both directions - in that they slack off and don't do anything or that they become workaholics.)
I read the whole article, and they say it's because pitchers are striking out batters more often now because that increase in spin puts balls just out of the hittable range.

But beyond that, Baseball has been struggling in the last 5 or so years with a "boring" factor, and they are trying to change the game to address it.

To be frank, I think the biggest think hurting baseball is the cable blackouts. My father is a baseball maniac, and blackouts make it harder for him to watch the games he'd like to.
I don't get the appeal of taking local task metadata, executing on a remote machine and then consuming results locally.

I can imagine this for a collaborative task, but not much else.

Local computation has always led teams I've worked in to a superior (personalized, decentralized, fault tolerant, highly parallel) mode of operation.

My tryst with working with remote computation ended when the 5 VMs we were using as a team for development were locked out and decommissioned without a notice due to a devops error. Thankfully, I did have local equivalents, which I habitually worked on and copied over to the VM for execution, not so much for my team members.
> Seems like a regular run-of-the-mill supply and demand mismatch.

Pun intended?
For those eventually reading the above comment at some point - I honestly forgot that the accelerated approval process exists, and that’s how this got approved. That basically means they get to say their drug was shown to affect surrogate markers (in this case, brain amyloid levels) and thus could be effective at treating symptoms, even though the trial was ended for futility.

Feels like gaming the system in a way, and you can still market this very effectively without saying it can treat Alzheimer’s..”our drug was shown to reduce X, a key marker in Y”. I hate direct to consumer drug marketing.
Has anyone had success running Arch Linux on Chromebook?
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I'm not arguing that crypto is necessary. I'm telling you that I can use it to settle a transaction in the US right now in minutes that currently takes days to settle through bank transfer. I'm glad to hear that instant bank transfers are coming and I'll use that tech happily when / if it arrives.
This is why basically every attempt ever to say, "People from X country/state/city are like Y" is complete bollocks. There is absolutely nothing useful you can say about how this million people compares to that million people, yet people do it constantly.
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I've really wanted to move into this direction too. What's the remaining 15%?
Why don't they just legalize using these sticky substances and even out the field? It doesn't seem to detract from the game much.
Umpires routinely touch balls because they take the ones that hit the dirt. Surely they’d notice then, unless the ones that hit the dirt aren’t adulterated for some reason.
> Ideally though you have access to a lab / server that you can offload your hard work on.

And I think this is the key point here. Most CS things you can easily handle with the horse power of a Chromebook. And when you hit the 10% of the coursework that you can’t use a Chromebook for, you probably wouldn’t use a “normal” laptop for it either. You’re always going to have jobs that will take a bit more horsepower. Those should be farmed out to a cluster or server anyway.

Where I think the OP will have issues is what resources they will need for their research, which again will probably need a server or cluster. Likely, the most taxing thing they will likely need to work on locally is their thesis. This is where I’d think they might run into issues, especially with figures. But even here, Overleaf should be up for the job.
Take a look at Dice, Indeed, LinkedIn Jobs, Github Jobs, etc. Look at the amount of remote positions there are now. Objectively, your comment is false.
us east-west coast is in the 60's and us to western eu is in the 70s. hell I'd be content to run the etcd cluster across a tighter range, us-east-1/us-east-2/ca-central-1 are all within 30ms of each other. so I guess its really about kublet and whatever comes after that I'm not thinking of (networking).
Throughput in blockchain is solved. Just saying.
Ask HN: How do I complete my Apple Developer enrollment?
I tried to enroll and during the last step of the process I received a notice saying that my enrollment couldn't be processed. I emailed Apple Support and this is what they wrote.

> Thank you for contacting Apple Developer Program Support. For one or more reasons, your enrollment in the Apple Developer Program could not be completed. We are unable to continue with your enrollment at this time.You can still take advantage of great content using your Apple ID in Xcode to develop and test apps on your own device. Learn more about Xcode development. If you have additional questions related to this request, please reference case number: XXXXXXXXXX

Does anyone know how to address this and why they are so evasive about giving directions to resolve this issue? For context, I am an American living in Taiwan. I tried using a VPN to see if it was geolocation issue. I also tried to create a completely new Apple ID (I was using my "normal" one) but that didn't work either.
Why are you talking about bitcoin specifically? It’s the least advanced crypto
Unfortunately this is even less likely in future once Fuschia matures and Google are able to replace the kernel with it on Pixel phones.
My understanding is that it's actually the opposite of what you're thinking. Small scale wasn't an issue because wood type was used for large letters. This is because large scale was an issue for metal type, which could cool unevenly and warp at larger sizes.
WFH already has been a hiring perk for many who were willing to put in the effort to get there.
A gemini-like but designed around a global content-addressed structure would be a lot more interesting, imho. It doesn't even need to be tied to gemini. If you know how to do that then you should do it!
I don't know how common it is, but I do it. I encode foreign terms as <span lang="de" title="above everything">über alles</span>. How the client deals with that is up to the client, but most of the browsers I've used will show the title attribute if you hover over the term. I also style the <span> tags with the language attribute.
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WFH fosters far more trust than “I must see my underlings churning away to be comfortable”, which is currently the driving force for those trying to return to the previous norm.

Every contractor will tell you that you can be far more productive than normal employees because you don’t get quagmired in silly social drama. Look at open source software, it is absolutely possible to create great software without even knowing the other team members. This whole concept that reproducing high school in a professional setting adds to productivity is entirely unfounded.
You’re entitled to your opinion. But the rest of the world doesn’t care about it. People use something because it is useful for them.
I’m not a big sports fan, but to me, directly modifying the sports equipment during a competition to break the basic rules of the game is way more blatantly egregious than consuming substances that improve physical performance.
Did a similar SWAG with the theatre. It seemed everyone in NYC could attend a performance on Broadway, but only one every two years. If there weren’t any tourists to compete with. Lots of people, not a lot of seats. I stand to be corrected on that number if anyone has a better analysis.

An upstate professor I knew 20 years ago called it the New York City hype machine.

“Love poems” is a great way of characterizing them. And love poems to a place have a great value…they create a sort of emotional architecture that operates at a different, but no less real, level than the physical and improves the emotional life for those thriving/living/stuck in those places. You don’t want to be “that guy” making the slog worse for those living there by denting their ideal that already has obvious condition issues.

The problem is the “Jerusalem syndrome” that arises when newcomers, newcomers on which NYC depends like vampires depend on blood, compare their reality to the poems. Sadly, although we dream in poetry, we live in prose.
Mietek Bak Dives Deep on Feynman's “Mr. Young” in Cargo Cult Science
The game is already a snoozefest. If nobody can hit the balls, it will be even worse.

Checking gloves, gear, even by a doctor and banning cheaters is the way.

But article states that this type of cheat is in the history of the sport.
There is more than just bitcoin
Does this lend credence to the rumored idea that putting the body into ketosis (or perhaps ketoacidosis) could actually have tumor fighting effects?
The solution is fewer, more effective, meetings not forcing people back to face-to-face meetings that should have been an email.
A friend of mine who works data science for one of the MLB teams was talking to me about this.

Apparently enforcement is quietly coming down the pipeline. They're not doing enforcement out of nowhere because everyone knows that everyone is doing it, and it'd lead to the league enforcing against all teams simultaneously, which ultimately would be bad for the league itself to have at the very least none of it's star pitchers for some time period.

Enforcement is coming though apparently and you'll be able to see it in the stats pretty clearly in hindsight.

I don't agree with all MLB's descions, but at least in this case they're quietly optimizing for better games as best as they can given their massive bureaucracy which is what you want out of them.
Snake-like robots are already quite effective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMop3wyGC_Y
> porn for relationships and intimacy

Never heard of anyone giving up dating or intimate relationships for Porn. Is this a thing?
First 3D super-resolution image of dendritic spines captured by Yale researchers
I wish DVD-RAM with cartridge also took off. It seems that was it only a thing in Japan?
How's that working for humans so far?
Careers aren't genetic
The site is about fonts and text, not trees and roots.
Ask HN: Would you advise against starting my career in a small startup?
Would you advise against taking your first software dev job as a CS grad at a small startup with 38 employees? What are the pros and cons?
It’s unprofessional to suggest that you can only be productive if you are surrounded with friends. I will happily produce with a team made up of people I would never socialize with. It happens all the time as none of my real friends even know how to code. Not once has this impacted my performance.
It’s out there. Up to you to read the stuff and ask questions.
Coach should be able to call unlimited times as long as they are right.
Why are we talking about bitcoin when there are 100 more advanced cryptocurrencies?
Nothing, you cannot do anything to compete with the gargantuan mount of emissions corporate makes.
The Gopher+ protocol doesn't seem to be that popular in practice, and the only evolution of the gopher protocol since the mid-90s is the introduction of a few new selector types not found in RFC-1436 (like 'i' and 'h'), and the switch to UTF-8 (instead of ISO-8859-1 mentioned in RFC-1436). There are a few servers and clients that support TLS for gopher, but it's not exactly a good fit [1].

[1] http://boston.conman.org/2019/03/31.1
"Enough Python, Perl, PHP, C, Go, Java, and JavaScript to be able to read all the random code you come across and at least make some sense of it."

That's super broad and potentially more than most devs ever accomplish.

Also some mention of windows or non-aws providers might be nice?
Dont forget to search on the Internet Archive ;)
Pretty much. The Statcast system that made spin rate data widely available was introduced in 2015. It took a couple of years after that for the realizations that higher spin rate = lower batting average and that sticky stuff is the easiest way to increase spin rate to percolate throughout the league.
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Yep. Any supporter of free market ideas ought to want more firms competing in each market.
I'm also very troubled by the misuse of the term dharmic in this thread.

Westerners misusing Indian terms to suit their own desires should be pushed back on. It sometimes seems like a deliberate strategy to confuse and therefore hide the philosophy conveyed by those terms even though much of that philosophy is universal and nonsecular.

Also, in reading threads on this forum over the years, it is quite clear that many fall into the classic trap of confusing ethnicity with religion. Leaders that call for extremist measures are usually promoting the interests of some subset of their community - not promoting the ideals called for by their religion - but many of their followers don't understand religion well enough to realize that. This is just as applicable to the west as it is to other places.
The politics are greatly reduced when everyone is remote. No “in group” lunches or beers after work…

There are entire categories of drama that wfh eliminates.
You would think there would be more interest in psychological research. Or am I wrong, and it would be a copyright violation to download the source code and assets, compile, and ask volunteers to play the game?

I have a hard time believing the courts would object to psychological research conducted this way though; would video game companies really be willing to license this way? They would be liable for any ethical violations of experimenters; it doesn't seem like it would be a simple matter from the point of view of fiduciary duty. Better to leave the men in white coats alone.
> One of the features of arguments for “ethical” treatment of animals is that they are often so unethical.

One of the features of arguments is that accusing people who disagree with you of being hypocrites is popular. It doesn't lead to a good discussion, though.

In this discussion, you're cherry-picking an extreme position in order to misrepresent and then accuse a lot of people who haven't expressed that far out of an opinion.

The usual consequence of that is that you end up in a meta-discussion (like this one), instead of a discussion, and then everyone is unhappy.
> Just because you don't feel the weight of electron apps, it doesn't mean it's not there. You just have a powerful computer.

I definitely don't intend to imply that Electron apps aren't inherently heavier - they are, hence the second paragraph of my initial comment.

> I switched from Slack / Discord to Ripcord and, even though the UI is not great, it's much cheaper to run. It's using 80mb of RAM with multiple slack organisations open and multiple discord servers.

I actually switched to Ripcord for Slack myself! I find it doesn't provide a comparable experience to the first party Discord app, but it beats Slack all day every day. Slack is an excellent example of a poorly made and unoptimized Electron application, in my opinion.
Like I said, you are not being genuine with your arguments. What you're saying is technically true but not a productive viewpoint. That's why I don't want to address your stuff. Suffice it to say that Bezos doesn't pay his company's offset in taxes.
Not really true is it? WFH can mean I'm in Seattle and you're in San Diego. Not exactly a quick trip to the local cafe.
> Finally, be unfailingly polite and kind to recruiters, and to everyone, really, even if they don't have anything you want, unless and until they give you a specific reason not to be (eg gaslight, neg). How you treat people is a reflection of your personal character. Be on the side of good.

Yes, and also because it's in your own self interest. That recruiter who has a job that you're not interested in? The next job they have may be a perfect fit. But if you're a jerk to them about this one, they aren't going to call you with the next one.

Especially, never be rude to an airline gate agent. They can look you right in the eye and tell you that the flight is full. Or, in the exact same circumstances, they can say "Let me upgrade you to first class." They're probably going to go with the first option if they don't like you.

Absolutely, be nice to people because it affects who you turn into, and you eventually have to live with who that is. But also be nice to others because sometimes it helps you.
The earliest ransomware allowed using pre-paid cash cards to pay the ransom.

It seems that all (?) of them have moved to crypto only, though. Take that as you will.
You can just move the mound back like 6 inches. Not like the MLB does anything meaningful against cheaters like the Astros.

Also MLB has been doctoring the ball for years and not telling the players. Juicing and de-juicing, raising the stitching.

Manfred can do so many simple things to make the game more interesting that...isn't this. Pitch clock is the most straight forward.
When you use a VPN you stick out like a sore thumb. Try editing Wikipedia from a VPN and see what happens...
Unless one performs better than the other.
I believe they were just using it as a method to prove available funds while waiting on the traditional banks / lawyers to do their thing. The more interesting part to me was that he said it was guys in their late 50's / early 60's with backgrounds in construction learning how to use crypto for these foreclosure auctions.
Ask HN: Things you wish you knew before having kids?
We are talking about having babies. I love twins but I (male) have no control over it.
HN has wide audience who are parents as well. What things we should consider before having kids? We are a middle class income couple living in Seattle. We haven’t bought house yet and unlikely to buy for next several years as we don’t want to spend $250k on down payment.

What books shall I and my wife read? Any videos we should watch? How to prepare mentally for arrival and nurturing of new life?

Please add any resources and suggestions.
Etymologies of various profanities and swearwords can be fun to look up. Not so much in English, but it's kinda amazing how many Slavic swearwords still have recognizable proto-Indo-European roots in them.
From the content creator viewpoint, I concede the landscape is much different. But again, is “user-uploaded videos with ads” what we are really talking about? They can sell their own ads and roll their own hosting quite easily. What you really mean is “user-uploaded videos with ads with the reach of YouTube” but of course there’s only one #1 user-uploaded video website.
This is interesting. What sort of psychological research are you thinking could only be conducted with old games, as opposed to newer games, which one can purchase without need to compile and build?
I believe that's why Playdate become topic.
Even more amusing to me: the number of shocks men chose to give themselves had a mean value of 1.47 and a standard deviation of 1.46. This is after excluding one outlier who shocked himself 190 times [1].

[1] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/345/6192/75
No, not really. (This is the only way an informative answer to this comment can begin.)

If you’re talking about original man pages from volume 1 of the Unix manual (as found on e.g. http://man.cat-v.org/unix_v7), then yes, they indeed make superb reference documentation. However, even their authors recognized that reference documentation alone is not enough, and thus included a collection of (much less streamlined) papers on various parts of the system in volume 2 as a sort of extended introduction and rationale. Reading man pages, even ones as good as the v7 ones, when you want to achieve a specific goal but are not familiar with the system in general, is an absolutely miserable experience. (I imagine it was worse at the time, when OSes were much more diverse.) Man pages are not the be-all and end-all of documentation for the same reason that even the best-written JavaDoc/Doxygen/... reference without standalone prose isn’t.

So, my first caveat is that reference ≠ (comprehensive) introduction, you need both. My second caveat is reference ≠ specification ≠ introduction, thus you actually need all three. When people started to create reimplementations of Unix utilities, it turned out that they were massively underspecified by the man pages. The precise specification is more or less what POSIX is, and it’s significantly less readable than the original man pages even if you also format it as man pages and take out all the extensions. It’s not that original Unix userland lacked specification documents, it’s that their role was served by the source code of the libraries and utilities themselves (for all the copyright problems that it eventually caused). The kernel too, presumably, but people famously thought that wasn’t enough, and thus Lions’s commentary was born.

I mentioned above that the papers from volume 2 also served as a rationale and an annotated bibliography, which is also a good document to have, but probably not as essential as the previous three. I’m also not saying that they all be separate documents: Unix merged the introduction and rationale but separated both from the reference; except for the tutorial, Python manages to merge the introduction and reference for its standard library surprisingly well, but lacks a good specification; the TeXbook tries to be everything at once but is in my opinion not that good at any particular task. What I am saying is that they are all different facets that have to be present in the writing.

My third and final caveat is... Not really a caveat for your statement, but still a problem if you’re a documentation writer: The concise style and general structure of the Unix man pages only works well as long as the individual pieces are simple enough and there is not a lot of them. You can’t write man pages for complex programs; or rather you can, but the format starts to show its limits, as aptly demonstrated by bash(1). It’s probably not a coincidence that Stallman wanted to replace the Spartan man page by the hyperlinked info node. You can say that one oughtn’t make things that are that complex, and I agree, but that’s not the point of view of the documentation writer.
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