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I appreciated reading about how both of them reacted to the realities of early retirement. I like to think I could be like the author, and be happy without much, but it did make me think if I might be more like his SO, especially when I see my friends upgrading their lives in our 40s.

My take away from the post is that they fundamentally felt 2 different ways about it. The author did not feel the stuff his SO felt. But she was on board with retiring on “lean fire” so I doubt she predicted this about herself either.

I read this post a few weeks ago, so maybe I’m remembering wrong, but I thought the author was perfectly open to SO returning to work, but she wasn’t sure in the middle of all this if she really wanted to do that? I don’t think it’s the author’s responsibility, and I don’t think he thought it was his responsibility, to decide for his spouse if she worked or not, that was up to her to decide.
Turns out that at least in terms of performance, everyone using numpy is fine with this. It just needs to run fast enough, not as fast as possible ;)
I frankly think the idea that paternity leave “forces” you to have fewer kids is utter nonsense.
yes, I got the vaccine and then COVID afterwards. Outside of losing taste and smell for ~3 days, it was completely asymptomatic though
With some of the load-balancers and gateways and things in that space I've had to use, long-polling doesn't work at all because of short timeouts.
On HTTP, pub/sub is eventually guaranteed to drop some messages because TCP/IP itself is not a guaranteed networking protocol (it just makes some promises about failures being uncommon and probably detectable).

If what you want is guaranteed state synchronization, pub/sub alone can't give it to you.
I never used this software, sadly. What made it different from Mathematica or from Maple?
I don't think people hate it nearly as much as they should. Just look at the way newly generated "money" is injected into the economy - through interest free federal loans to investment bankers. A totally hidden transfer of purchasing power from everyone already holding a dollar - directly to the top of our economic power structure. It is hard to not have very dark feelings about those bankers and politicians.
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Is he starting to memorize jokes from Centurion Vilhelmus's Whiz Bang?
It seems like the mortality rate is far higher than 0.1% according to the actual data (not anecdotes): https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality

Obviously this data is only for confirmed cases, so there may be far more unreported cases in the wild, but your made up number of 99.9+% is still pretty clearly wrong.

Also, given that you can be have covid, and be asymptomatic, there's actually no way to know if you are healthy (unless you're getting tested regularly). If you're infected, but asymptomatic, you're spreading the virus and you're part of the problem.
For infrequent events, why not both? A webhook to push the event and a full list at /events?
I've done maintenance and didn't even have to wow anyone to get satisfaction.

There's something deeply satisfying to me in cutting out thousands of lines of code and no-one even noticing.

I will even go back and look at that commit over the next few weeks with a feeling of peace and accomplishment.

I've sometimes 'stolen' time from feature work to do that refactoring, and it's the massive reduction of complexity and TLOC that often gives me satisfaction, not delivering the feature.

Don't get me wrong, I've delivered features and applications I'm proud and happy with too, but I think there's a significant minority of us who really enjoy deleting tons of bad code too.
Is this just meant to be silly for the fun of it? Or is it meant to suggest our real extrapolations are probably as ridiculous as these things are?

If we have even a single mud impression somehere, and we do, then this implication is DailyMail, I mean garbage.

Similarly, unless you take an artist who currently draws dinosaurs to the best of their ability with all current anatomical understanding, and THEY produce these drawings from a monkey etc, then again, DailyMail, I mean garbage.

"These drawings I made are stupid" on no way proves that "therefor those drawings you made are stupid."
Seems like fundamentally different ways of life between them. The author seems to have strongly held views that fall well outside the mainstream. Something being "pretty uncontroversial" is not a compelling point to such a person, particularly when it clashes with said strongly held views.

I can relate to his outlook. I hope he was more diplomatic during their discussions about this, but now that it's after the fact, we are reading his blunt opinions on the matter. It's hard to know if he is "right" and she really was influenced by status-driven thinking via Instagram, or if he was just being hard-headed. Either or both are plausible to me.
I'm looking at it from the perspective of a web dev. If you're already building a web application, it is almost always more work to do the polling setup.

In Python, it's either a cron script or Celery beat. In PHP, usually a cron script.

That all means more processes running outside of your web framework, more stuff to deal with, more complexity. Now you have to manage e.g. running a celery process, managing crontabs wherever you deploy...

Even in languages like Elixir where long-running scheduled processes are cheap and native, you still have to write a GenServer in comparison to just using your web framework.

I'm fine with the approach in the article. I actually like that they're giving the option for multiple ways of getting those events. Just please, please don't make /events the only option...
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Coins you can stake.

ETH should be possible to stake soon-ish, other examples are ADA, ALGO and many more..
I think BBC iPlayer is as good in terms of UX
dear hacker news community, don't downvote someone for asking a question.
Facebook's Engineers Spied on Women
Hmm, that might be me remembering wrong. At least I can't find it. Sorry, I may be wrong.

They do go to great length to avoid calling Kafka a queue. No where does it directly state that Kafka is not a queue. The docs just never talks about Kafka as being a queue.
Stake?
Even if products exist that try to solve the same problem, the UX is unlikely to be exactly the same. Tools like this one are meant to be engaging; the backend is maybe not that unique or interesting.
It's not at all unique, it's a mix of "efficiency wages" and tournament-based compensation.

Efficiency wages just means that the pay is set higher than what it'd take to clear the market. It means that people who'd otherwise have even better career prospects become programmers instead, people who would otherwise quit to work in a different field or for a competitor don't, and that employees generally see jobs at the current compensation level as something relatively scarce and hard to acquire in unemployment. Employers pay these efficiency wages because getting more out of their programmers is worth the extra expense, but on the flip side it means that they're more able to ask for overtime and otherwise apply stressors to employees.

Lots of places have efficiency wages, and they all tend to be stressful AIUI. Oil workers are notorious for this - massive salaries for dirty, dangerous, and difficult work shifts.

Tournament theory is more about how difficult it is to measure programmer productivity. So, don't even bother; instead get a sense of which programmers are doing better than the others, and make a significant portion of compensation based off "winning" this vaguely stack-rank shaped "tournament". In theory, if employees are risk-agnostic, this is as economically efficient as measuring their output and paying piece rates, but without the overhead of measuring output. In practice, this is yet more incentive for overtime, hard work, extracurriculars, networking, etc. Basically, instead of paying for the direct output of giving your job your all, they pay the best at doing that the most and let people figure out how that should translate.

The stereotypical jobs for tournament theory compensation are corporate executives and professional athletes - how hard an athlete works in the gym and what statistical performance is worth what are hard questions, but "who's the best 10 players in the NBA" is a lot easier to answer.

Anyhow, that's my understanding of the main factors leading to software developers being so well-compensated in the US and why there are so many unhappy and burnt-out developers. Part of the same complex IMO, it's fundamentally a result of programmer productivity being so important to businesses and yet so hard to measure.

The thing I'm curious most about is how pretty much all the example jobs I gave are skewed male. It's not every male-skewed job that fits the bill, but it's still something. I'm not at all sure what, though.
We've been told many times that we were just a feature. Didn't stopped us from building our product, get 1000+ companies onboard and moving closer to profitability everyday!

The market looks simple, as the solution, but the problem is huge. You can have 3 days of remote per day, meaning you can not see one of your teammate for a lifetime if you don't coordinate.

We're going to see each other less but we don't want to stop seeing each other. The creativity and brainstorming sessions can't happen through zooms calls, most people need to do it in person.

Can't wait to see how 2022 will look like though!
Apple releases MagSafe Battery Pack for iPhone 12, available now for $99
>> Just because you have the legal right to be an asshole doesn't mean you are an asshole

If they're explicitly carving out the legal rights to be an asshole, I think it's fair to assume, regardless of what they say, they are going to quickly become a giant asshole.
You can absolutely find people more qualified for book recommendations on the subject than me, but here are a few:

"Confession of a Buddhist Atheist" by Stephon Batchelor. Useful to me for understanding the cultural context of Buddhism.

Insight Meditation by Joseph Goldstein. I just find Goldstein's style the easiest to comprehend in a field that often comes across as frustratingly esoteric

Wherever You Go There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn. I thought this book is interesting because it draws parallels to Western authors, particularly Thoreau.

Sam Harris's "Waking Up" app may also be worth a listen. Besides the actual mindfulness practice, there are a lot of discussions on theory and he has conversations with a variety of people that come to the topic from different perspectives.
Another issue which this article ignores, and so does the fear mongering clickbait media, is how many asymptotic people we are testing now vs 6 months ago or a year ago.

It’s way more. The UK especially is testing like crazy. But that means a lot more cases appear in the statistics than before, even if the R rate is only marginally higher.

We simply don’t know what the actual r rate of all the different variants are because we had different test velocities as well. And this is crucial in whether we should be hysterical about Delta or not.

Also, wtf happened to cases in India? It’s not exactly all that catastrophic any more. In fact by the time the media had their 2 week India is dying narrative, cases declined.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/india/
I empathize with most of what you wrote, but there are two errors:

"I also know what to expect from a respiratory virus, because I've had those a number of times."

No one whom I know who has had COVID describes it like any normal respiratory virus, and it attacks multiple systems. I'm terrified of brain damage, and before-and-after MRIs shows brain damage in >10% of people who contract COVID19.

"If I get covid, darn that sucks but people get sick and that's life"

And if you kill a loved one by sharing COVID19? Or give them brain fog? That's not something I could live with.

The deeper argument, though, is about herd immunity. If we don't stop the spread, really bad things happen.

I'll mention: Do you use proper masks? N95 and proper nanofiber masks are widely available, and appear to do more to stop the spread than the vaccine. They're also risk-free.
>The loss of life due to the virus is tragic, but has been mostly the old and infirm.

Why do the old and infirm deserve to die?

>the mRNA concept has been in labs for 20 years, but it's only been in labs

mRNA therapies have been in clinical trials for over a decade now[1].

1. https://www.clinicaltrialsarena.com/comment/evolution-mrna-v...
The question is precisely whether they are "really" burnt out or just had a long day (or couple of days) at work and are feeling burnt out at that particular moment. We all experience something akin to burnout at some point or another but it makes a big difference whether it is "I felt burnt out for a day or two after a tough sprint or major production incident" or "I've been working 80h per week for months". The former you might be fine after a relaxing weekend whereas the latter may take months to recover and seriously jeopardize your long-term physical and mental health.
I definitely don't want to see long polling. In that case I'd prefer a combination of /events and websockets, where websockets can push (or pass via a GET param) the last read event from /events to notify the server which is the last known event.
There's no other way I can say this: you absolutely suck at risk analysis. The worst effects of COVID are much more common -- and much worse -- in the general population than the worst effects of any of the common vaccinations available in the US. Your opinion here contradicts all available scientific facts.

Sorry, but you're just plain wrong.
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This is lots of fun, thanks for finding it.
> It seems a lot easier to build

Quite the opposite. HTTP servers and clients are essentially a solved problem. Massive scale-out, load balancing, retries, authentication, authorization, rolling deploys etc. can all be done out of the box by a hundred different providers. Anything to do with maintaining a large number of open TCP connections is still a massive pain on the server side.
Will do that, thanks for the feedback Kurt :)
> the mass of jupiter ... means to destroy an earth-like planet.

What? That's a bit overkill, don't you think? I got a this pebble that'll do the job just fine.
TRAMP is more than just opening and writing files: it runs VCS operations remotely, which is very helpful.

https://emacs-lsp.github.io/lsp-mode/page/remote/ suggests that LSP under TRAMP is basically there, though I haven't had occasion to try it.
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I was pretty sure that they at least transcode it currently. At that point encrypting isn't a big deal.
>From operations that went public

Are you talking about Snowden's powerpoint slides or the Shadow Brokers arsenal?
> There were news recently about Fidelity expanding crypto-related staff by some 70%.

You got me curious: 70% corresponds to 100 people. The article is here: https://news.yahoo.com/fidelity-digital-assets-plans-70-1850...
I wonder if this could be connected to Jellyfin.
While I do think those are the key quotes of the article, I'm not sure I'd call those interesting.

Those quotes belie the truth--the article and any inferred conclusions therefrom are meaningless.
For me, it's not even the "larger scale"— I'm well aware that the current economic structure allows for a small wealthy leisure class who wile away the days indulging themselves in socializing and consumption activities. And I know there are many who would love nothing more than to join that class and just travel, party, play video games, whatever.

I just... yeah, don't find it satisfying when I've had small tastes of that life. I like to be able to look back at the journey and see how it led to growth in my skills and achievements I'm proud of showing off.
There are many ways to compute e. :)

(The article's original title -- "To compute a constant of calculus: A treatise on multiple ways" -- described its purpose better than the truncated one submitted here on HN. I see posters suggesting various solutions. Perhaps someone will create a public repo based on the article and then folk can add solutions.)

> did not see the extremely easy and quite efficient method of calculating e through continued fractions.

(That could be misinterpreted by readers of this thread who have not read the OP. The OP includes several continued fractions, including ones that seem simpler to me than the one you've shown, though that might be because I'm no expert.)

I'm curious what name is normally given to the fraction you showed? And are you saying it is more efficient than the Brother series?
I've the feeling you brought your generic Apple rant into a specific issue about profile photos, where it doesn't fit.
Honestly I have no idea, but a new variant called Lambda originated in Peru which is a relatively small country with only 32M.
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That is pretty much what TCP does, except that it doesn't "request" missing packets: the client just acknowledges the ID of the last packet it was happy with.

It requires a sequence though, so that you know that the client can know that packet it just received isn't the one it expected, but you could build that with a chain of IDs like you're proposing.
Thanks! It's on the low end of what systems in other domains like LMAX have done, but can make a difference for the payment systems that we worked on in coming up with the design, to go faster and reduce costs.

Ahead of performance, we are especially excited about TigerBeetle's safety fault models, where we think there's an opportunity to break new ground, with all the new storage fault research that's been coming out the past two or three years, especially from UW-Madison.

Zig has been fantastic, in particular for Direct I/O alignment and static allocation, and it's only getting better with things like the self-hosted compiler. Having done a bit of security work in the past, I really like Zig's unique approach to safety, for example checked arithmetic enabled by default in safe builds, all the explicitness around return values and exhaustive syscall error handling, and of course comptime. The speed and ease of the compiler itself and cross-compilation tooling is excellent and the readability of Zig is also remarkable.

Huge props to the Zig Software Foundation for what they are achieving as a fully open source community funded project.
> I really don't know what their game is, but they are up to something.

Their game is absolute power. It's not hard to see that anything that strays from the party line or amasses any degree of power that poses a potential risk will be squashed.

People ridicule with "all news is good news for Bitcoin" but it's somewhat obvious that this is a credit to the power of Bitcoin - they wouldn't take swift action against something harmless.
UX and engagement is everything in our case.

The value brought by the product is only based on the Visibility provided by people and Usage/Habits they have with it.
you'll see what's about to happen very soon ;)
You earn interest (varying) while you delegate the coins to a stake pool.

This is basically the same (details matter, ADA for example keeps the coins in the wallet all the time - AMP coins are transferred elsewhere) for all PoS (Proof of Stake) coins.

Bitcoin, on the other hand, is a PoW (Proof of Work) coin.

Edit since i can't reply downthread:

You're of course free to cash out your staking rewards however you want, but mind 2 things:

- taxes

- transfer fees

- the interest compounds..
I think pretty much all browsers and a lot of web platforms made it clear in their response to FLoC that everyone except Google (and Twitter, I guess?) considers Privacy Sandbox to be harmful as a whole.
Came here to say this.

PE recalibrate a lot of things in me, I sleep earlier, fall asleep faster, goes deeper.
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TFA addresses this by suggesting long-polling as an option rather than the only way to request `/events`

> In our integration with Stripe, it would be neat if we could request /events with a parameter indicating we wanted to long-poll. Given the cursor we send, if there were new events Stripe would return those immediately. But if there wasn't, Stripe could hold the request open until new events were created. When the request completes, we simply re-open it and repeat the cycle. This would not only mean we could get events as fast as possible, but would also reduce overall network traffic.
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The article calls it telemetry, and says the fork was created that "removed any current or future tracking code that was implemented upstream." Which is true, even if you don't want to call their telemetry "tracking."

Further, the subject of the article is the CLA, and the entire telemetry part is just to recap recent events.
Seconding this recommendation. As long as you have a basic understanding of electric components he's really easy to follow and does a great job of explaining how the circuits work.
During a RCA, you find a specific error message associated with that incident. You deliver a new alert with some documentation about what it catches and what to do. You even generate automatically a ticket when it is raised.
Time passes.
There's a subtle change if the error message. You have another production incident but your alert hasn't fired.
The complexity comes from this: how do you know that an alert is still valid without creating an incident on purpose ?