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But raising wages is not the only solution. Reduce regulation and allow older people to get licenses to run simple daycares from homes.

A lot of Asian countries already do this.
> Most of us probably would go insane if we were to find out the truth

Sounds like a societal excuse to hide shit.
Yeah, I was in a similar place at one point. Check out the book in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6099623. The book is: https://www.amazon.com/Mindbody-Prescription-Healing-Body-Pa...

I don't know if it was the book, a placebo effect, or something else, but I got better after reading that.
Is “seeing how the sausage is made” a requirement for having beliefs or opinions on the matter?
And yet living standards are at least as high and quite often higher in most EU countries compared to the US.
Hey OP, really nice tool! I've been looking for something like this for quite some time now. As some other people suggested, I think it would be nice to be able to add custom investment types for different countries other than US.
Good writeup! It's an interesting gotcha because Postgres and SQLite docs expressly disclaim that their sequences/AUTOINCREMENT are gapless but experienced and talented programmers still use them as such. Is the type of thing that doesn't bite you until production.

Postgres docs--
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/sql-createsequence.html
> Because nextval and setval calls are never rolled back, sequence objects cannot be used if “gapless” assignment of sequence numbers is needed. It is possible to build gapless assignment by using exclusive locking of a table containing a counter; but this solution is much more expensive than sequence objects, especially if many transactions need sequence numbers concurrently.
> It still amazes me that one, the mirrors are sensitive enough to the deformation of Earth's gravity to have an effect and two, that we are now very good at compensating for this now.

I make telescope mirrors.

This problem was well understood since the time of Herschel. We just have better solutions now.

The fact that this is a space scope is irrelevant to the fact that gravity will cause issues. For any telescope, you have to account for differences in the way the mirror is deformed in manufacturing vs in actual usage, and the ways the deformation will change in usage as the scope is leaning at different angles. That is always a thing.

What is particular to the Hubble is that the load in usage is zero (which is unusual), so you have to think about it that way in manufacture. But deformations in manufacture are always an issue you have to account for somehow.

Look at it this way: there is an ideal shape that the mirror needs to have, usually a revolution surface of some conic section (parabola, hyperbola, ellipse, circle). The performance of the mirror will track the difference between the ideal surface and the actual mirror. The error allowance depends on the wavelength λ of the observed radiation.

Telescopes where the error is greater than λ/4 just suck, and are unusable. Good performance begins around λ/8. A great mirror may do better than λ/20.

For visible light, λ/4 is 100 nm, or 0.1 microns. That's 10 thousand times less than 1 mm. On that scale, the mirror is made of jelly. If you put it on a rough surface, it will deform. If you put your thumb on it, hold it for a minute so it heats up from your skin, then pull away, there will be a "mountain" left behind on the mirror, under your thumb, until it cools off again.

In many cases, the support structures for large mirrors are complex mechanisms that ensure the force is uniformly distributed across a large number of points on the back of the mirror. Even amateur telescopes built using the Dobsonian template use passive self-balancing support with 3, 6, 9, 18, or even more points, depending on the size / thickness ratio.
I didn't see it that way at all. Maybe because my home country has border issues and we've dealt with otherization from a young age. Certainly, nothing like the conflict he refers to, but I guess I have some personal context. I see someone who was genuinely baffled at the thought that there are good people of a particular ethnicity, when he was brainwashed completely to the opposite. The point about the 0.1% DNA is actually quite interesting. years back, I remember this white supremacist on oprah undergoing a DNA test and learning he had some black ancestors. It was a crazy moment where they realized that they were hating a part of their own identity - no matter how small it was. IMHO, most of the so called "manifesto" - can't we just call it a blog? - is milquetoast feel-good kumbayah stuff that has been said uncontroversially by other authors for decades.

As an aside, I think telling someone "nobody asked you for your opinion" is pretty rude. I don't think its constructive to put limits on people's freedom of personal expression in that way. It was a personal message/blog that they felt like getting off their chest. Google firing him just for this (if that is the case, I guess we don't know for sure) is absurd IMO. My sense is that it became a PR issue and Google just got rid of him rather than actually fostering a place where differing opinions are welcomed. This cancel culture is getting crazy.
I feel like your sense of it might be right. But even then, you can count the number of public sector "companies" (like Fannie and Freddie) on one hand, so it just strikes me as such a bizarre distinction.
> There’s a bunch of evidence of the physiological benefits to having a pulse.

This is such a great statement on a couple of levels. That having no pulse and being alive is even possible is amazing.

How basic medical observations are done for these people is interesting to contemplate.
I see Google got the DNC's memo. Gov't is asking private corporations to censor your SMS messages, because gov't itself can't. They want to censor every form of digital communication, period. We either have free thought and expression of ideas, or we all live under someone else's ideals of what those are, and most likely, if history has taught us anything....you won't like it but it will be too late. Your voice will just be gone, unless it's full of praise for whoever your "dear leader" ends up being. This isn't done. More will come. We'll hem and haw when we hear about it, but keep on keeping on...right off the cliff.

Free speech is not easy, but it is an absolute necessity unless we want to revisit some of histories uglier chapters, and all I see is pedal to the metal.

> And this campaign is far from a single-pronged strategy. According to Politico, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and “Biden-allied groups” – whatever that last phrase means – have plans to “engage fact-checkers more aggressively” and “work with SMS carriers to dispel misinformation about vaccines that is sent over social media and text messages.”

https://www.eutimes.net/2021/07/us-says-it-will-censor-anti-...
The parent comment says they "plead guilty to trespassing or similar petty nonsense" so I'd assume they weren't charged with "violent insurrection" and "mild treason."
I like using rsync to backup:

https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/hacks/src/branch/master/osxbackup/...
I've had no issues with Time Machine after about 9 years of continuous use. I've never tried to use the full-machine restore but I do restore individual files semi regularly.
> We should be able to implement services like these, that are free of ads, on globally distributed infrastructure, with no central authority, to have truly free-flowing information.

How naive. The reality is terrible, probably much more than what you can imagine. Let's assume that someone tries to find out teenager victims for cybersex trafficking at a massive scale on your proposed infrastructure with "free-flowing information". How will you stop them from doing so? Is it just a hypothetical scenario? No. This actually happened on Telegram, which refused official government's order to shut down the chatting room on a victim's request.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nth_room_case

Please don't underestimate how far average people's malice can go. Both private and governmental intervention exist not just because of "good intentions", but it come from the real demands from the society.
Twitch watch parties. Ok you do have independent control of the two video streams (at least on desktop, I’ve not used it a ton on mobile) but one slider is in the normal twitch position and the other is behind a volume button. Making small tweaks because of the streamer getting loud (I do use ffz’s compressor but it’s not a miracle worker) or cause the audio isn’t of the video is greatly balanced to begin with (looking at you Invincible..) is a pain in the arse… /me tableflip
I honestly can't believe the 64GB one isn't 128GB instead. I looked through my steam library and I have a lot of smaller games that would fit just fine on that.. but 1 AAA title would completely fill it. Plus, you don't get that whole 64GB, the OS has to take some of it. After the formatting and OS I'd be surprised if there was more than 50-55GB free space.
Looking for an easy way to self-host your own Web drive at home? Try HomeDrive:

https://www.homedrive.io
This might be reasonable if the aggrieved user has a right that Google violated. But that doesn't seem to be the case.
We are likely to have to tackle both climate change (warming), and mitigation. It's just that nobody has the authority and resources for it, before calamity strikes.
In one of the youtube videos, the uploader (piano maker?) comments that the real stereo effect of the piano is hard to capture in recordings.
Are we, as humans, entitled to a certain level of UX, or are we simply entitled to the ability to share information?

Because if it's the former, then yeah Google itself needs to be replicated and provided for all humanity. If it's the latter, well what does FTP not have?

I'm having a very hard time seeing how one specific implementation of any technology becomes so important that to live without it is to be deprived of a human right.
No, of course not. Every entity is allowed to manage how’s its property is used.

Barnes and Noble isn’t censoring anyone because it chooses to feature some books on an end cap vs. buried on the shelf.
I agree. It's not like those Airbnb's are popping out of nowhere. People are leaving that neighborhood and an increase of Airbnbs indicate that those leaving are folks that do not need to sell an apartment to go to another one - that is, concentrated capital is leaving the neighborhood.

I'd say that the article doesn't get the relation backwards because there's a time lag. I'd say there's a confounding factor causing the capital exodus early on and increase in violence later on. The problem is whatever the rich are inconvenienced by that is making them leave, and it looks like whatever it is it predates reported violent crime.
A Russian troll farm buys some election ads on facebook and it’s a national security crisis with years of investigations and hearings. Google decides to play god with the flow of information and I highly doubt they receive anything more than the slightest pushback from our political establishment. Our elected officials are asleep at the wheel.
Packet-Editing Games and Binary Protocols in Golang
I know exactly that pain! I wish that there was some way for an alert if I'm dropping super drastically.

I'm actually working on reverse engineering the dexcom share api in my free time to create something similar to sugarmate where you can get control of your data and do what you want with it.

But for the time being, have you considered using share2nightscout[0] and grabbing the info into your own control so then you can do the alerting and analysis that you want?

[0]: https://github.com/nightscout/share2nightscout-bridge
I've wasted enough time on this site explaining my position. Too few care about overcoming their own bias. However, one more time:

* Yes, cryptocurrency is overvalued with respect to its current adoption. That doesn't make it a ponzi scheme, tulip mania, etc.

* Yes, a LOT of people are more interested in getting rich from crypto than they are in the real benefits of decentralized finance. That doesn't mean there is absolutely no underlying utility

* Yes, current volatility impairs its value as a 'currency' for most people, however this will stabilize over time as adoption increases.

My nuanced opinion as to the value of (some) cryptocurrencies: Forced, un-directed inflationary monetary policy leads to wasteful spending and low standards with regards to investments. This is meant to preserve economic growth at all costs, but people refuse to consider the idea that economic growth at all costs may not always be beneficial for society over longer timelines. It somewhat makes sense in a vacuum, but not when you need to consider issues like climate change and institutional corruption.

If you believe this like I do, you don't want your money to be continually devalued to prop up failing financial institutions, nor to feed multi-sector speculative bubbles, nor to prop up (by way of low interest rates) poor investments. However, the FED cannot be trusted not to devalue money to preserve short-term economic stability. In fact, people in general cannot be trusted with this.

That is the value of cryptocurrency, to me anyway. It cannot be unilaterally tampered with. That is enough of a value proposition for me to prefer it over fiat.
As someone who hasn't seen it in the flesh yet, and doesn't "get" modern art unless someone explicitly spells it out for me, could you elaborate more on why it's so spectacular?

For example, Blue Monochrome [1] seems to my uneducated eye to be just a layer of pure blue that every wall painter recreates every time they paint a wall blue. Why is the Blue Monochrome piece more than just a wall painted blue?

[1] https://www.moma.org/collection/works/80103
Google turns over user data on any Google user instantly to the US government without a search warrant, including that of US citizens. Anything in Google is free for the taking by the feds.

There are already sufficient reasons to stop trusting them with your data. This is not the first and it won't be the last.

Google delenda est.
Well then 00-10 was the platinum age. Few behemoths, lots of smaller companies, less focus on marketing and money, fewer idiots online, a focus on hosting your own stuff from 0.

But I agree, platforms should be neutral. And people should still strive to control as much of their online properties as possible. Not just give it to Amazon and Google.
Oh yeah. Where would the world be without the SV innovations in targeted ads, social media and buying cheap stuff over the internet.
Work stuff Obsidian. I can only use my work laptop for work stuff so it doesn't matter if it syncs or not.

Private stuff DEVONthink with DEVONthink to go. Great search and sync across all my devices.
No code in Github. Not credible.
I haven't heard of this thing yet. Do you have one?
Host absolutely everything? Instructions on creating explosives, chemical and biological weapons? Some future doomsday weapon? Would you say everything should be available up to and including methods for any unbalanced individual to single-handedly kill thousands or millions? How about your personal details, ID, address, employer, medical history, surfing, shopping habits? Would you even be ok with hackernews piercing the veil of your "throwaways885" username and publishing it?
I'm sure you could find an image where blurring blue ruins it, and blurring red and green have no impact. This feels like cherrypicking especially given how trivial it would be to just show a bunch of examples.
Linear Circuit Design Handbook (2008)
I just took a close look at a new model 3. I identified how the damage occurred in about 5 seconds.

The coolant line runs right next to the rear sway bar and is visible from outside the vehicle. There is a basic plastic gaurd plate along the entire rear undercarriage. This 2020 model 3 has missing plastic body clip rivets in the area that is supposed to protect the cooling lines.

I was able to easy move the panel exposing the entire line on both sides.

A stick could easily get bound up in the wheel and whip right under it.
Satisologie IV:  Effort-to-Cash Transforms
This wasn’t loading for me. Here’s an archive link https://web.archive.org/web/20210716183740/https://cheapskat...
Congress Was Evacuated on Jan. 6 Due to Pipe Bomb Threat
.. Not Trump supporters engaged in "insurrection".
Thanks for posting this @rcarmo!

One neat tiny implementation detail of ArchiveBox that I just highlighted on HN today is our use of asymptotic progress bars when we don't know how long archiving a page is going to take: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27860022
Revisiting the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics
Maybe that's due to lots of fullstack devs who will use javascript no matter what?
I guess that will teach me for saying "or something like that" rather than going into detail.
I believe the main benefit is a constrained form of dynamic typing.

You don't want to lose compile-time type checking and intellisense, and you want to keep most of the performance benefits. But you want to be able to add data types without recompiling.
Who was Brett Glass named in the original “bikeshed” email?
I've read https://bikeshed.com/ several times over, but never bothered to look at who Bret Glass was. Well, four years ago, he published a rebuttal on quora.
A recent high profile example is the lab leak "conspiracy theory". Facebook block discussion of the possibility that Covid-19 started from a lab leak, but now scientists are seriously considering the issue.

Imagine if Google had this policy last year, and a scientist posted a Google Slides presentation about the merits of the lab theory (and imagine it was banned under the misleading "health" information umbrella) ....

Disclaimer: I use dropbox (mostly since they have supported linux since when I started using the service, and when I started using the service, the syncing was much better than google drive) But now I have another reason!
> I'm increasingly disillusioned with this world of hardware costing hundreds of dollars being considered geriatric at 3 years old. Requiring constant replacements mean that you don't really own anything, you're renting your whole life.

HDDs have always been considered a wearable part. SSDs are better but their lifespan also has a limit.

It's actually a selling point for things like OneDrive, operating your own file share has costs too, might as well shift these capex to opex.

> And since new hardware only supports new software, it keeps you stuck on the software treadmill too.

Part of the reasons is supporting older hardware requires back-porting changes. Or having N different versions of the same product in flight at all times.

There's a good reason some businesses are moving toward SaaS.
Since the article mentions Google as the outlier preferring Paxos, I may be able to shed some light from a few years ago.

The Paxos, paxosdb, and related libraries (despite the name, all are multi-paxos) are solid and integrated directly into a number of products (Borg, Chubby, CFS, Spanner, etc.). There are years of engineering effort and unit tests behind the core Paxos library and so it makes sense to keep using and improving it instead of going off to Raft. As far as I am aware the Google Paxos implementation predates Raft by quite a while.

I think in general if most other people use Raft it's better for the community to have single, stable, and well-tested shared implementations for much the same reason it's good for Google to stick with Paxos.
It doesn't matter if a technical person looking at it thinks it isn't valuable. If it has any marking other than "Approved for public release", the book will be thrown at someone intentionally releasing it - and rightly so.

If the MOD says it is classified, this person likely just ended their career and might go to jail. For a tank game's accuracy.

I mean sometimes people make bad choices, but Jesus, what a mistake.
Another wrinkle in all of this is that you can use free speech as a form of censorship.

For example, if someone says something you don't like, you can intimidate them into shutting up by, say, threatening to reveal their personal information, such as their legal identity, address of residence, and so on. On certain corners of the Internet, merely dropping dox is good enough to get randos (who won't even be affiliated with you, so +1 to plausible deniability) to harass someone you want to shut up.

A more technical variant of this is DDoS attacks. Instead of trying to intimidate someone into shutting up with threats of stochastic terrorism; you shout over them by sending a bunch of traffic to their site until the server crashes or they run out of money.

So even if you're a hardcore free speech extremist, you still need to embrace some level of "censoring the censors" if you want the Internet to actually be usable.
If good money and just not breaking the law are two requirements, then looking into certain niches might not be a bad idea.

Google calls these niches "sensitive" https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/3016445?hl=en.

Here's an example, an online poker statistics SaaS making $2.9M Gross/Yr https://feinternational.com/buy-a-website/50471-saas-recurri...
> If so google is actually scanning what is supposed to be private information.

Am I just too cynical or are you naive for thinking they aren't datamining absolutely anything they can get their hands on?
Sure, if you have one. I don't (I play games in bootcamp on an old MacBook Pro) but this perfectly fits my needs. I don't have anywhere to put a gaming PC in my apartment and have been considering getting a switch, but this is basically my dream machine.
Yeah, just the article implies privacy from the authorities is the same as from ad companies. PiHole ain't helping there.
I've owned one since release and the only time it's even felt warm to the touch is after charging from a low battery. I'm also not running renders or such on them, they're not really designed for that.

No ventilation means more thermal mass in the place of airways to absorb and disperse heat. I specifically bought this model because I am tired of fans in my laptops, which have failed multiple times or become loud to the point that I couldn't even have it in a meeting room without it being a major distraction. Perfect, guaranteed silence at all times from my electronics is a beautiful thing.
I recommend you Blitz.js written in React and Next.js for this purpose, there is even user registration and login ready, so you don't have to worry about that. Blitz.js is a Fullstack Freamwork inspired by Ruby on Rails.

https://blitzjs.com

New Blitz apps come with all the boring stuff already set up for you! Like ESLint, Prettier, Jest, user sign up, log in, and password reset.
Platforms are not publishers. The publisher of these things should face legal action (including the removal of their content). It's not for the platform to pick and choose.
Don’t forget the lizardman’s constant either - likely a decent fraction of that was mistakes / trolling.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and...