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Write and use high performance software, you pay for what you use after all. I've been using Nim for some time now, and it gives me that with a syntax comparable to Python.
I had a Singapore version of the E61, which included WiFi (unlike the US versions of the E61 where I live), and cosmetically was all-silver color (no odd-looking gray buttons).

It was such nice physical hardware, one could type messages very rapidly. It was also very durable. (I bounced it off pavement 2-3 times, and literally only got a few scratches.)

I would love a solid trustworthy opensource Linux handheld in pretty much that exact hardware physical keyboard design. I'm primarily interested in WiFi, but (isolated) cellular would also be nice, and maybe LoRa transceiver hardware would come in handy someday.
Don't misunderstand me. It is BAD! I'm thinking more about how you approach it with them. They took down the repo, so they don't have their heads completely up their *s, but having a go at the manager won't help. He did the right thing to correct the wrong thing. Working WITH him to ensure it was removed correctly, and getting him on your side is all I am suggesting.
I thought that was what the parliament was about. And they are the one who voted to approve this change.
I assume it's because they want to take advantage of Nix at the OS level, which you can only do through NixOS.
> He was sentenced to seven months in prison, but can walk free after serving just two months behind bars.

I don't know if you read the part where it says that he actually needs to spend only 2 months behind bars, but if you didn't, does that change your opinion?
Officely's a Slack app (where Café is a iOS+Android+Web app)

Also, Officely have more restrictive features (you can't do everything within Slack)
For what is worth, NixOS seem to also come in aarch64 flavor.
I seem to recall the password was client-side too. So if you had Lotus Notes in a VM and you restored from a save point you needed to remember what your password was when you did the save.
> For the average FIRE person working a $100-200K/year job

This is not at all "average" in countries outside of the US. Here in India, for example, a $100K job is kinda like winning the lottery.

For reference, going by the exchange rate it equals somewhat close to 7.5M in local currency. Handymen and people in other labour-heavy jobs don't earn this much in their entire life, considering a 30 years of active work life. Only the top 0.01% (yes, we are an extremely populous country) people have that kind of jobs.

Going by the PPP ratio[0] of 21.99, you still need to be earning upwards of 2.2M annual, which is hardly 1% of the population, and majority of them have taken upwards of 8-10 years of work to reach there (which means 1/3rd of work life is gone).

The argument could also be made that buying stuff is cheaper in countries like ours, but that doesn't stand for _good_ quality items. As an example, the laptop you can buy for $1k in the US is far superior to what you can buy for 22k and slightly comparable but still better than what you can buy for 75k. If you are lucky enough with means to import, good luck with ~78% import taxes and duties. You don't make these purchases often, but when you do it breaks you. Things like dishwasher, vacuum cleaners, etc are so much more common in the US and almost considered a basic necessity whereas owing to cheap labour (and traditional lifestyle) we subscribe to househelp, which isn't really "cheap" or scalable and the cost of these items is high too.

All of this, to say that

> they might be better off scaling back to a sustainable 40hr/week job

is neither practical nor helps in a poor country where an "average" person is working more than half their lives just to make ends meet.

[0]: https://data.oecd.org/conversion/purchasing-power-parities-p...
If you haven't seen this doc yet, rent or buy it:

https://youtu.be/BRnzBFM0BvY
It used to move with the scroll wheel. Starting with Big Sur it no longer does. No idea who thought that was a good idea.
> 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.

Media may cry wolf, whether there is one or isn't. But trust me it was a tough time for India this time. I live in Bangalore. And for the "2 weeks" you mention, there was severe Oxygen shortage in hospitals in most cities. Patients could not get beds in time. There were queues outside funeral homes and graveyards. It was hell.

I am not the one to panic easily. And kept on going for my runs during the first wave in 2020, when Alpha was there. As the curve was so flat. Please note case numbers can't be compared, but you can compare positivity rate (positives/tested) and fatality chart[1].

The 2021 Delta wave in India was approximately 4 times severe by all measures. Because of the shortage of Hospital beds and Oxygen, many more people ended up dying than what normally would have.

I know several of my relatives including a 42 year old strong built man who died (his O2 count was 30 unfortunately by the time he got to the Hospital). There are numerous fund raisers going on for people who died. In few cases both the parents dying.

Yeah it was a short wave mercifully. But did a lot of damage. If you just search you can see images of bodies floating in rivers, as the people didn't have means to do last rites etc.

Also the actual span felt like 6 weeks. There was panic as the curve was so steep, and it was spreading like wild fire from the the west (Maharastra/Gujarat) etc to the east. And the peaks at different places were at different times. So the period starting April beginning to May 20th or so was pure nightmare.

Even if one was not affected by the virus. As thankfully in my family's case, there was this fear of not getting a hospital bed/Oxygen cylinder should there be a need.

Overall, I agree UK looks much better thanks to being vaccinated. Although I would say, one needs to keep observing for another month, before making a call, and if by then the fatality curve remains flat, then we can call it a big success.

PS: I got vaccinated after the wave. Only dose 1 yet. And ended up catching delta variant 2 weeks after that. Thankfully, a mild one. But I still wonder how I got it, as I remained very cautious through out. N=1, delta is very very contagious. But yes, if you are vaccinated, no need to worry too much.

[1] https://www.covid19india.org/ (Look at the bottom most curve on the right hand side for positivity chart of the two waves)

Edit: A point regarding fatality numbers in India in the 2nd wave. They were under reported by some multiple. There are various articles comparing total registered deaths during months of the 2nd wave in 2021 with previous years. And there is a sharp bump in the figures, which shows that fatality was severely under reported.

Edit2: Now the same playbook is playing out in un-vaccinated Indonesia unfortunately, with Oxygen shortages and everything. I think, in another month when we compare how delta plays out in UK and Indonesia, we would have several answers to questions of effectiveness of vaccines etc.
Ask HN: Is there a SAFE (investment contract) equivalent for Europe?
Is anyone aware of the equivalent of a SAFE contract (Simple Agreement for Future Equity, introduced by Y Combinator) for European countries? Specifically interested in the Netherlands.
Equivalence principal is about the fact we can't differentiate between a flat spacetime+force and a curved spacetime. It doesn't require actual flat spacetime to exist anywhere outside of a model. It only says you can't tell how curved it is based on the forces acting on you.

Different argument to same end: as long as the universe is expanding, nowhere can be flat. Any 2 things have an inherent repulsive force due to spatial expansion.
Even worse than Teams is Teams on GovCloud.
Online Platforms for Learning Web Development
Should be fixed, if you want to try again :)
It leaves a bad taste in my mouth when an argument in that area starts using fake math to drive a point home. Top-tier engineers spend 6 months to have 20% improvement that could be achieved by spending 20% more on hardware?

Where IS all this coming from? Why is it acceptable to pull out a few random numbers out of our ass and conclude that it's always best to buy more hardware?

I know Google literally invented HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 to shave a few % off their hardware costs. And they had to not only implement this in Chrome and Google.com but to make it a world-wide standard. So surely they must be the idiots putting top-tier engineers for 6 months (or more) on such optimization efforts, instead of spending more on hardware? I don't know.
if you want protection from a ransomware attack you absolutely want a cloud backup, or you need to setup a cloud-like backup solution, where the "local" server is somehow airgapped from your local network and uses a different set of credentials, and none of your local-net pc's have access to it, except to write new files.
Depends on the individual feature/standard. I'd say the vast majority of their work is not controversial or extremely beneficial to just Google, minus a minority of exceptions like the ones you mentioned.
Sounds like it would dry out your eyes.
Apple should create an integrated package manager for OSX.

And I agree: I have only had bad experiences with Homebrew and the "cuteness" of its user interface just becomes a massive annoyance when the core of it is not working.
Heh. Just came in to say that when I saw this:

> You can search the package list using:

> $ nix-env -qaP git

I immediately said to myself "nope, not going to use this". For some reason unbeknownst to me developers think that CLI must be as inscrutable and cryptic as possible.

You don't have to leak your tool's internals everywhere to provide a reasonable `nix search package-name`
When you say actual calories, what do you mean?

Sugar etc is all there to view and basically legally required.

Are there any other pieces of information that you would like to see?
Possibly because the world in general has settled on certain things being lawful, such as the freedom to criticize governments without repercussion, and if Iran wants to go against that trend they can't expect to get the western media red carpet treatment.
For sure. And making sure you aren't using them inefficiently. At one point we were using 30% of our AWS spend doing S3 API calls. The next day it was 1% by optimizing that.
I played around with these notebooks a while back, and wondered what you get if you jointly optimize for several different prompts. Has anyone tried this? (Or is this what the article is about?)
Best Logo Designing Software 2021
>Far from being an innocuous domestic animal, a goldfish freed in fresh water is an invasive species, an organism that is introduced to an environment, can quickly reproduce, outcompete native species and destroy a habitat. And even though they get less attention than invasive organisms such as Asian carp or zebra mussels, goldfish appear to be a growing problem in bodies of water across the United States and around the world, triggering warnings from government officials in Virginia, Washington state, Australia, Canada and elsewhere.

>Also known by the scientific name Carassius auratus, goldfish can live to be 25 years old, weigh as much as four pounds and measure well over a foot long. They’re also surprisingly resilient: They can survive in severe conditions and can weather winters in bodies of water that have frozen over, living for months without oxygen. This quality, Bajer said, “makes them really, really tough and allows them to dominate certain types of ecosystems.”
Auto-Autocomplete: Generating Docs and Autocomplete at Scale
Murphy's law on the web: what can be tracked, will be tracked.
That's pretty bleak given the amount of debt that you have to take on these days.
"The technologies used to achieve the goals of the Regulation need to be the least privacy-invasive, state-of-the-art and can only be used for the strict purpose of detecting and reporting CSAM, not for any other purposes"

I'm from the UK and, given what we know has been happening for a decade or so (mass snooping, collection, analysis), this actually does give me some pause for thought. In theory, this closes a loophole the Tories/UK state have been pushing at as a justification for ever deeper intrusion for years now. Obviously it won't apply here anymore since we left the EU, but this bill by itself doesn't fill me with utter dread.
https://www.dw.com/en/lufthansa-investigates-the-science-of-...

TL;DR it tastes better at altitude.
Bulldogs that could breath properly were dead ends in the gene pool. One should be careful with what is selected for in the "Darwinian perspective".
Thanks so much for the feedback. What price do you think it should be?
I honestly don't fear that. Times are different.

Google wants the web to succeed, whereas Microsoft saw it as a threat. In addition, in the case of stagnation it would be relatively easy for a Chromium clone to fill the gap.
Moreover, we don't even have a concept of "hourly" wages or work measurement.

- Salaries are decided monthly and unless you are an hourly billed consultant, you cannot negotiate your working hours to be lesser.
- Part-time jobs do exist, but only low paying labour intensive jobs which won't leave enough energy for you to be working 2 jobs.
- Shifts are again meant only for such jobs as described above.
- Employment agreements explicitly prohibit you from "working" to earn in any other way. Getting a passive income is okay, but you cannot work / render services elsewhere to earn.

From junior to senior level employees, almost everyone in all sorts of jobs is overworked. Average workday last close to 10 hours, excl commute et al. Pandemic and WFH have worsened this if anything.
VQGAN+CLIP seem to have this dream-like quality where they generate images that are evocative of your prompts but don't actually picture them.

I find it fascinating because in some cases it's not as obvious as "lump of white fluffy matter" = "sheep" but it still manages to evoke the prompt into our brains.

I'll sometimes get an unrecognizable blob but quickly asking my SO "what is this?" she will get it... unless she consciously looks at it!

Fascinating.
"Jewish culture"? WTF?

If you continue to post ethnic/religious/racial slurs, we will ban you. I had to warn you about this just recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27612363. In this thread you managed to tar multiple groups with ugly brushes, not to mention crossing into personal attack. Seriously not cool.

We've cut you massive slack on HN with this account, considering how often you break the site guidelines. I do that because you've posted quite a few good things. But if you continue to break the rules we will have to ban you again. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this properly. Particularly please stop it with the nasty racial/religious/ethnic/national stuff. I'm repeating myself, but that's because it's important.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27828363.
but literally the most important when you need to attack air gapped machine
On a normal bike the area where your foot can get caught under the bike is limited to the bit in front of the pedals. That's very bad when it happens but the chances of it happening are very small. On a recumbent that area is pretty much everything forward of your hips and when it goes wrong you're in a feed-forward loop that you can't break out of with a normal physique.

As it happened: hit a speed bump, right leg slipped off the pedel, foot hit the pavement, leg was sucked under the bike at the forward speed of the bike. Ambulance ride, quite a bit of time in the hospital waiting for a slot for the operation, 7 hour operation (pretty long for something as simple as a leg fracture, which turned out to be a lot less simple once things were opened up and accessible because some of the bone fragments were too small to be reliably fixed in place). Almost five years later now and I still have two 30 cm chunks of stainless in there and a large number of screws to hold it all together. Intermittent pain (usually associated with fast temperature changes) and needing to 'warm up' for quite a long time in the morning before I can get around without discomfort.

Avoid recumbents.
> That being said, I do think reddit admins backpedaling on something that blew up in their faces to be a much more likely explanation.

Given the linked takedown notice, I'd be surprised. I can't imagine phrases like "If you failed to pay the compensation will face strict verdict from USA Jurist section." and "Then, We hardly advised to takedown the mentioned services also." would be in an official request from Reddit (claiming "1 Million American Dollars" also sounds a little odd).
> Sure, they would love for you to be a cheap outsourced dev shop, but that’s why your CEO needs to push back and sell the vision of the company.

The issue with this is that it means your software won’t meet that clients requirements.

If you want to go into the enterprise space early rather than pivot their later, you can’t start by point blank refusing requirements from your first big client - particularly as you don’t know what customers want yet (or more accurately - your customers are telling you but you are saying it doesn’t meet your vision).

The problem is that if you want to break into enterprise and aren’t willing to make things bespoke, it probably means that your MVP is going to be huge for certain types of software.

This isn’t a rule for all types of software and things like infrastructure provisioning / internal IT tools are different - but I can see where he is coming from.

It’s also different in terms of selling to the SMB or consumer market, where the requirements will either be less-varied (consumer) or the customer will generally sacrifice a lower match to their functional requirements to save cost (SMB). This of course depends on how mature the market is, and in a mature market the MVP gets bigger (for example, word processors).
Here's a problem I didn't realize existed since my iPhones have been on vibrate for the last ten years.
Last time I read anything about that from a heretic economist it sounded like the oil industry has priced out most other core businesses.

Difficulty their population has also grown 5X in 50 years. Which is not good considering they have little else going on economic other than oil.
For synthetic fuels: yes, absolutely... but it requires economical carbon capture, which GP was saying we maybe shouldn't invest in, in favor of emissions reductions (and if we want net zero, it'd have to be direct air capture, probably, rather than point source, because in this theoretical future, the coal power plants or whatever are all gone). Anyhow, whether you frame captured-carbon fuels as "you capture carbon and then burn it again so it's neutral" or "you burn it, and then deal with its emissions by capturing it again" is sort of arbitrary, and the latter is basically what I'm already arguing for.

Biofuels seem mostly like a crock, honestly -- the ones we can produce now compete with food for arable land and would do so more aggressively at scale, and the ones that wouldn't do that (algal fuels, maybe cellulosic fuels like switchgrass) still require fundamental R&D to make the economics work. And again: even if they did work, this is a solution where you're burning fuels and emitting carbon, and then remedying by capturing again, this time with plants. So again: it's carbon capture.
I belive you mean Fog Creek. Foghat is a blues rock band.
I did until they broke all addons without warning a year or two ago. Completely unacceptable in a consumer app.
to answer this, research needs to look at the factors causing divorce. a father not helping to take care of the kids could certainly be a factor. if the mother feels that the father is not helping she may be more willing to get divorced because it won't make her life much harder anyways.

a father bonding with his children may also be more willing to avoid divorce.

but are these really significant factors? only research can answer that.
How do you then grant Firefox write access to your Downloads folder, read access to folders on the fly when you want to upload a file, “general area only” location information, access to the microphone and camera only during video conferencing, etc?

You can do some of this with groups, but that’s difficult and runs into limitations pretty quick for even comparatively simple use-cases. And making a bunch of custom ab-hoc groups requires root access on top, when ideally a user should be able to manage fine-grained control without escalating their own privileges.

Traditional POSIX file permissions are a huge blunt hammer that don’t scale well to the fine-grained type of access that things like iOS let you configure.
Kind of an interesting question. Initially, I'd say, "That won't work because resistance doesn't tell you anything about the efficiency of the speaker elements in the headphones."

But how about complex impedance? The phone could measure that instead. A perfectly inefficient speaker -- one where you're holding the diaphragm in place with your fingers, maybe, or where you've removed the magnet with a hammer -- will have a reactive component. It'll look like an inductive load if it's an old-school speaker with a voice coil, or a capacitive load if it uses a piezo transducer.

In either case, a perfectly efficient element that radiates all of the incoming energy would look more like a pure resistance, much like a properly-matched antenna at RF. So there might be some room to implement your suggestion, given a bit of R&D effort.
Maybe you often add too many things and get into a complexity nightmare that way. I often err too far the other way, skipping working on boring-but-important groundwork features, I try to press on without them, making life too hard for myself. I tend to justify this avoidance as I’m keeping the system ‘simple’ but then I end up stupidly creating more complexity to work around not having the sensible/useful thing I’ve been avoiding adding.

So for you, YAGNI is a useful corrective notion to try to keep in mind. For me it’s playing to my worst instincts. This is the case for all one-sided and unbounded advice like YAGNI. It is useful for people who need to hear it and harmful for those who don’t.

I prefer the idea of “everything should be as simple as possible, but no simpler”. The last bit is crucial for me and is missing from “YAGNI”.
Your body is flexible because it needs to be able to move and assume myriads of positions.

This means that it is not very good at bearing a load without moving; it has to work hard to keep those flexible muscles, tendons and ligaments still.

Maybe that's why planks world records are set by people in their 60s and 70s. Because most of their flexibility has been lost due to aging.
We've banned this account for religious flamewar. That's not allowed on HN, regardless of which religion you have a problem with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
No, it's not the most important.

The most important was clearly obtaining the PLC zero days to infect the physical machines. It's unclear to me why you choose to be so explicitly obtuse but in any case, for your own personal edification, feel free to read some details on how it went down -

[0] https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Stuxnet

[1] https://www.wired.com/2014/11/countdown-to-zero-day-stuxnet/

[1] https://www.hsdl.org/?view&did=792239
Effective infrastructure for efficient development workflows
Building software products of any kind is hard enough. Doing so without the support of powerful infrastructure that enables efficient workflows is even harder. Yet, many teams are suffering from the absence of such infrastructure, forcing them into very much inefficient workflows with substantial time and effort going into synchronizing the work of different engineers, tracking down bugs, and getting back to tasks later that were already thought to be complete.