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So, constantly. It's Texas. 40C summers are normal. The state was sparsely populated, even by 19th century standards, until air conditioning became a common fixture. It's a necessity.
I didn't read this as 'completely isolated community'--the author writes about a rail station. Also if it is as idyllic as described it would be swamped by tourists.
I think it’s more likely just something in the style guide that all articles on events impacting public companies note the impact on share price. It’s not a comment on whether it’s news in one direction or the other , it’s just their standard.
There's just no way I can pay someone, even a pittance. I'm putting in as much as I can just to keep the lights on.

I can show people I've been working on this forever, have a full product, business plan and am working toward funding but that still does jack-all.

It's unfortunate because I desperately want to pay someone, but it's just not in the cards right now. That's why hopefully the idea itself should help instill some confidence that if we execute, it could become something cool (and profitable).

I get the world doesn't usually work like that though, which is why solutions like this might help me find like-minded people.
New method for cleaning lakes shows promising results
What's getting confusing with this discussion is that the title has changed. Now it's just "Poisson's Equation". But before it was "Most Powerful Tool not yet in your Toolbox" which was really off topic for a mainly sw dev crowd.

That the author himself submitted it (under that original title?) would then be his own "fault". But my general original point remains.
Nintendo Unveiled a New OLED Switch with Several Improvements
Yes as commenter says

Nobody does OO anymore

It's too popular
Only way for the town to not be dependent on AC is to stick it somewhere other than Texas.
It's actually pretty easy to imagine humans going extinct, and taking a huge portion of the other life on this planet out with us. As the level of human "crazy" in the world grows (seemingly exponentially), I find myself worrying more and more about the fact that some of the craziest people on the planet (political "leaders" and their militaries) have access to nuclear weapons, and that's only one potential concern among far too many.
Why would Chinese censors have a problem with films making fun of American capitalism and imperialism?
Designing a national booking service for COVID-19 vaccination appointments
Niantic and Adobe as members is a huge boon though - 3D engines are obviously great for games but we need better rendering in tons of software. Intel + AWS + Huawei at least means it's a serious effort to bootstrap this thing too.

https://venturebeat.com/2021/07/06/amazons-lumberyard-become...
They should provide free heating to locals in winter.
Most of the stuff people talk about in crypto space is really meaningless. Gotta focus on the signal!
It's true that the right-leaning government will override local control when it comes to most controversial issues in the blue cities, but when it comes to land use, Texas leaves cities alone. I grew up in Dallas, now own a home in Los Angeles. Aside from the local zoning ordinances (Dallas is "zoned", but compared to Los Angeles, no it's not; and Houston doesn't have any formal zoning at all), California has _way_ more state-level codes than Texas when it comes to land development.

Also, I would argue that, for better or worse, Marfa, TX in West Texas is a real manifestation of this essay. It's only a town of about 5000, completely walkable, and homes that were selling for $20k when news got out it was a secret artist enclave just 10 years ago are now going for north of $1 million. And, to assuage your concern: yes, it's blue (not enough to turn the rest of the rural county blue, but close enough to make the vote of the county 48% Biden - 52% Trump, almost exactly mirroring the overall result in the state). Marfa even disbanded its entire police department in 2009, and the red state government still left it alone.

https://www.themanual.com/culture/marfa-texas/

https://www.npr.org/2012/08/02/156980469/marfa-texas-an-unli...
What is a strong enough disincentive? Would you recommend building physical walls along our borders and using violence against people who attempt to cross without authorization?
Virus doesn't need to be perfectly adapted to infect a species.

It easily infects species other than humans.

It's stable but not that stable. The variant that spread out of China was already different than the variant that initially caused trouble in China. Since then we got few new variants and that's only counting the ones that spread enough for us to notice.

There are no perfect things in biology. All things are just good enough. This virus was just good enough at spreading between people that given our connectivity it spread pandemically.

If the virus was was somehow uniquely well adapted to humans (which it isn't) it would be still more probable that its ancestor was just an unknown human coronavirus (other than 4 that cause some common colds) that we haven't discovered yet, because it spread completely asympthomatically. And the mutation it acquired made it slightly lethal not more infectious.

I don't think that happened because then why would pangolins be better suited for it than dogs, although dogs and cats being high on the list is quite curious.

And I'd be careful about reasoning that if I can't imagine any other way something could happen then it must have happened exactly the way I think it happened. It's good to be aware that no matter who I am and what I know, my ignorance always exceeds my knowledge and imagination.
I don’t think the simile fails for that reason. “Informed consent” is generally accepted as the standard, and it’s arguable that click-through EULAs are not in any way “informed consent” for the average person.

To bring the original simile full circle, let’s say a person signs a contract with another person, and then that person forces themselves on them. I doubt the presence of a clause in the contract saying “I agree to have sex with X” would absolve them of guilt.
I have used Poisson’s Equation recently. Actually, something similar. Been coding up some thermal conductivity calculations form scratch.

What’s nice about the Laplace equation is that there are some exact analytical solutions in some situations which is really helpful for validating numerical codes and sanity checking. It’s also simple enough to implement in an Excel spreadsheet, Color coding the cells to indicate temperature. Good sort of “no code” example of the concept.
Would an FFP2 mask work?
The traditional french cuisine of Quebec was eaten by folks that regularly canoed hundreds of miles up and down rivers so they had an immense amount of physical activity to counter that out - an amount quite beyond what you'll get sitting at a desk job these days.
A new brain implant automatically detects and kills pain in real time
Ken Thompson's speech was made two years before the first draft specification of C was published, so I don't understand how it is connected to language specifications.

Here's a way to address the issue he brings up in that speech that does not involve language specifications: https://dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/
Isn't Godot Engine really similar? It's open source as well
"If you want me to test your app(lication), pay me."
- so-called "power user"

What many of today's software authors want/expect is free testing.

"To me, this seems to not just be admitting defeat, it's ensuring defeat right from the start."

While I do not use any of the example programs the mentioned, it seems like these environmental variables would be appropriate if the user wants to toggle between tracking and no tracking. However, for users who would never want to enable tracking, "no tracking" should be a compile-time option. It would not suprise me if that is not even possible with these programs. How is the user supposed to verify that "Do Not Track" is being honoured.
Apple ramps up its decentralization from Silicon Valley
I think the problem here is with the definition of “secure system”. What is “secure enough”? Considering we’re talking about groups that have resources to buy 0-day exploits, if they want to get in, they’ll eventually will.

Sticking with your analogy, we could probably define a set of standards for baseline IT security for all IT systems…but it probably wouldn’t be very useful. Systems vary so wildly in complexity and scale that coming up with the equivalent of a “code” that fits most systems like we have with electrical installations is impossible.
I'm sorry but the second these words left his mouth obviously indicating his displeasure with the likelihood of Amazon winning the contract he had influenced the outcome.

“I will be asking them to look at it very closely to see what’s going on because I have had very few things where there’s been such complaining,” Trump said. "Not only complaining from the media — or at least asking questions about it from the media — but complaining from different companies like Microsoft and Oracle and IBM. Great companies are complaining about it. So we’re going to take a look at it. We’ll take a very strong look at it. Thank you very much everybody.”

He head already shown at this point that he was an old boys club type of guy that would go after anyone who disagreed and support anyone who kissed his ass, so anyone having a hand in the selection of the winner of the contract that wanted favor with the president would obviously attempt to influence the outcome to not be Amazon.

He should have kept his mouth shut on such a massive pending contract, but it's pretty obvious by now that keeping his mouth shut isn't something he's physically capable of doing.

Now instead of having started on a crucial service that is needed by our military we're looking at likely further years of delays. All because the president was butthurt over some mean words in a newspaper.
> When you live in a different country, you are surrounded by cultural norms of your country and disobedience is punished too

Yes, it is true. But my country doesn't try to impose its cultural norms all over the world like they are universal truth that should be applied everywhere.

Also, I don't really want to argue whether the society and processes in the US are just or not. It's that they're not interesting to dive into for somebody living in another country.

E.g. I've started reading a sci fi book recently (won't name an author), and stopped after reading like 60 pages most of them describing all kinds of deviate sexual relationships. It's that I want to read the sci fi book, not an encyclopedia about 50 genders and how they mate with each other in all the intricate details.

But I have a feeling that writers and directors in the US are forced to put that in their work. It's like communist system is commonly described: not only you are forbidden to object, you must also constantly demonstrate that you support it.
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What I want from a co-founder is: Smart, good chemistry, available. With most people I get 1-2 of these.

Also, we talk a lot about how it's hard to assess the quality of technical co-founders, but it's also really hard to assess the quality of non-technical co-founders. I'd love to collaborate with a non-technical person, but I have no way to determine whether a person is good at the skills which I lack. Maybe it's my tech chauvinism showing but there seems to be a lot of non-technical people who want esssentially a get-rich-quick scheme.
I would add that the ease with which we can access food is also a main culprit.
Url changed from https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/bitcoin-mini..., which points to this.
Well, why haven't you submitted anything from the blog? They don't get a lot of submissions here. I'd never heard of them. Seems like if you thought it'd be good HN content, you might have submitted. Is there anything else you're sitting on?
100% with you. Generally posts like these induce the HN crowd blinders, since people who typically post here are sympathetic to software developers. The same software developers who are making money hand over fist. The same software developers who refuse to pay reasonable amounts of money for zero days.

These hackers are fulfilling a market inefficiency whether users here would like to acknowledge that or not.

It’s not the mean hackers or bitcoins fault. The blame should be squarely be placed at the doorstep of all the brilliant engineers who are responsible for the creation of the system architecture but for whatever reason are nowhere to be found when it’s starts to degrade.

This is a major issue with software development that is simply not convenient to discuss because the incentives to frog hop from job to job massively outweigh the benefits of staying on board for the years the job actually requires.

And yes, people will tell you, especially on here, that air tight code is a pipe dream. And maybe so, but the amount of severe deficiencies in code bases that millions of people rely on every day are simply unacceptable. When your earnings report is in the upwards of hundreds of millions, it’s really hard to play stupid.
"When collecting samples from the wild they aren't collecting viable virus, they're collecting samples which have mRNA in them. Those samples just won't infect anyone at all."

None of this is right. RNA (of which mRNA is just a subtype) is extremely unstable and degrades almost immediately unless carefully protected, which is why viruses need a capsid and why mRNA vaccines need cold chains. You can't just touch some animal and collect raw RNA. Also the only type of thing a virologist could recover from a bat of any interest to them is viable virus because their whole goal is to study actual viruses.

"Then there would have had to be some novel lab accident since SARS-CoV-2 requires aerosolized particles to be breathed in"

There's nothing unexpected about that. These supposedly novel lab accidents happen all the time. Viruses constantly escape from labs. SARS1 has escaped in China many times, and the last foot-and-mouth outbreak in the UK came from a lab that had captured samples from the previous outbreak and kept them replicating.

"petri dish binding studies don't produce an environment where a lab accident is very possible"

Virologists don't only try to grow viruses in petri dishes. Look up serial passage. Animals are frequently used for that purpose. The WIV has been found to have been developing and buying bat cages. It's not really disputed that they were infecting live animals with viruses.
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I've been using this since February-ish.

Talked to maybe 20-30 people through the platform.

Joined one startup as cofounder. Worked together for two months, then left. My cofounder was smart, had high EQ, and I enjoyed working with them, but we had different visions and parted amicably.

My thoughts:

- Early on, there was a smaller pool of people, but they were of higher quality. I feel the quality of people has diminished over time. YMMV.

- It was interesting just to have talks with the high quality people and expand my network. This kinda segued me into Lunchclub, but I've since stopped both. Depending on who you are, you might get burnt out with these "social" calls after a while.

- As a technical person, I had a lot of business-y people reach out, most of which I didn't end up responding to. There's plenty of candidates, just like dating on Tinder. I get to choose to work with the really nice and productive people that I like.

- BIGGEST PROBLEM: Unfortunately, it suffers the same problem as every other cofounder matching program. There's no system or formula to really dig deep and see if you're compatible on all the levels you need to be. This means it can be a big time and energy drain, from the initial meets, to the dating process, to even cofounder work.

If you do use this, some tips:

- Being short and sweet with your profile. Burying the fact that you're a high school student in 5 paragraphs of text won't make it more likely for me to work with you, and I probably won't even read it.

- Add a photo. You're going to be working with a human, not a robot.

- Your cofounder courting process is something you'll have to develop and figure out what you're looking for. Take your time and think about it.
Right, we've invested a lot in the idea that specific people and specific countries own specific pieces of land, we're really not well set up for fluid changing circumstances, as a civilization. The mass migration and the strains that will cause seem like they're going to be rough.
Regulatory crackdown is focused only on companies that did IPO in the US
Chinese went after Jack Ma before he tried to list in Singapore and HK.

If that's not a clear message, I don't know what is.

Ray Dalio and other investors who have been doing big bets on China are fucked. Either their work for Xi and CCP (and talk like them) or they get out.
If a bridge collapses, we don't get upset that the police weren't forming ranks by the bridge to keep the water away. Software is more like bridges than stores. It's supporting infrastructure that needs to be able to withstand reasonably anticipated forces of nature.

We expect buildings to be able to resist termite damage by taking reasonable means to block them. We should also expect software to resist self-propagating worms and other attacks. If you build a building in a tough neighborhood (or a warzone), that building has to have security and stability features that match the demands placed on it by its environment. The Internet is basically a termite-infested warzone.

We know that threats exist, we have things like OWASP and other sources of improving best practices to prevent common entrypoints for attacks. We have to expect software and networks to do better, just as we expect governments to find and stop the attackers.
Combine that with reports that WIV worked with live bats, not just samples:

https://news.yahoo.com/news/evidence-mounts-wuhan-lab-studie...
Lots of people go to movies to go out with a group of friends. They have to agree on the movie, and don't each pick their own one. They enjoy spending time together maybe more than they enjoy the actual movie.
Once upon a time, there was an application that needed to be replaced. (Apache mod_perl 1!?) My employer put a team together to do it, a team that was very concerned that it be "very maintainable, up to todays standards, easy to onboard new hires in", etc. Unfortunately, they apparently failed to include "working" in there. As the project schedule began to slip, they added more people to the team.

Eventually, after many months and at least a couple million dollars, I and three other people got dragged in: another developer (no one lets me do UI code), a good project manager to coordinate with users and management, and a developer/tech lead/manager who had two unique abilities: good at cutting Gordian knots, and having enough political capital to say "no" to people (most people around couldn't say "no" to save their life; I can and do, but nobody listens to me). The latter promptly booted the previous team off the project.

Within four months, we had the new app up and running and in production. I'm told that it has one of the best issue track records in our area, including never having had a sev 1 outage. On the other hand, I have heard some of its current maintainers complain about it not being "up to todays standards" because we deliberately kept it simple rather than adopting a bunch of complexity for resume-padding reasons.
Of course they put the Arabs in the buffer state that's the idea, do you think they will put Jews in there?

Another fun fact for you, Arab citizens of Israel population are mostly living in not so prime areas near to the borders with higher risk of excursion from the Palestinians or neighboring countries [1].

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_citizens_of_Israel
What if they were though?

There are 6.25 apples farmed every 10 minutes. Adding more orchards does not produce more apples or make the apples better, but whoever builds the biggest orchard has the highest chance of getting the 6.25 apples to grow on their property. The apple orchards now consume 1/200th of the earth's arable land.

An apple is $33,000 and not even very good to eat, so mostly they are traded symbolically on exchanges with little reason to actually take delivery.
Decentralised finance is a blockchain based app. He’s talking about Compound, Balancer. They are that.
Again, it is hard to compare because I don't know enough about Finnish.

the first option is rather simple, assuming we have a good psuedo-random generator with low bias margins. we get:

A-Z,a-z,0-9 = 58 options,
Length = 16

58^16/2 is the target.

Second option is weaker IMO because we know that plain brute-force is rarely being used today for anything over 13~14 characters.

We mostly use masks\dictionaries to try common passwords, phrases, sequences. So even if there's a very small chance that someone would have some kind of heuristic rule that targets Finnish orthography\honology, it is still more likely than someone successfully brute-forcing 16 random chars+numbers.

Another interesting observation is that fact that it contains common English words by chance. things like rock or tent. those can increase the chance of a dictionary success(our 32 chars starts breaking apart) whereas the 16 chars are random so in nature there are less prone to contain common English words
There are still plenty of cars around college campuses and parking is a perpetual issue. Certainly faculty and staff (and some students) drive in and park daily. And even a town built around a relatively small college like Hanover NH still has a population of over 10K people.

ADDED: But, as others have noted, once you drive somewhere at least relatively close to where you're going, at least small to mid-sized campuses and associated towns are generally designed to let you walk to stores/restaurants/etc. fairly easily.
I would argue that, for better or worse, Marfa, TX in West Texas is a real manifestation of this essay. It's only a town of about 5000, completely walkable, and homes that were selling for $20k before news got out that it was a secret artist enclave just 10 years ago are now going for north of $1 million (even more eye popping when the median single family home price in the most expensive metro areas of the state, Austin and Dallas, are around $500k). Outside the town is farmland and oil fields. Inside the town is a collection of bars, restaurants, hotels, museums, and high art, all from a once-dying/repurposed small town on a defunct train line.

"A desirable place to live / visit" is its own economic engine. See (also mentioned in that article) Seaside, Florida.

https://www.themanual.com/culture/marfa-texas/

https://www.npr.org/2012/08/02/156980469/marfa-texas-an-unli...
check out airforce platform one logo with "the child" https://software.af.mil/dsop/services/
They also have decades of unavoidable baggage. "Disruptive Innovation" theory allows for new competitors to surpass incumbents despite inferior products and lack of depth. We, including you, don't know if there is room for such a disruption. There could be. All we can do is wait and see.
Considering the DoD themselves say that the terms of the contract are outdated and they don't need it anymore, I'd trust their decision over random online comments.
https://archive.is/ByenE
Broadcom “illegally monopolized“ TV and broadband chip markets, FTC charges
Companies are fictional abstractions and cannot write code.

Humans are the ones responsible for their actions.
Interstellar trade of physical goods is quite impractical without FTL. If there is interstellar travel for non-colonization purposes it seems like the primary goal would be to enable low-latency communication to compensate for semantic/cultural drift that could interfere with the efficacy of the high latency communcations.
How much non-aviation software is built to similar quality standards?