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Recently, prison labor use has been on the rise.

Maybe losing UBI for N months could be a new standard punishment for certain crimes or a condition for parole. We'll let you out of prison early for good behavior, but no UBI for 2 years, forcing you to take those jobs no one else wants.
Missing from "after" is something that contributed to my career success – when you encounter problem, and you will, many, when you (small bugs etc) or your team (larger issues) solves it - stop and play it from the beginning in your head. Go through every step that you remember that you or collegues went. Pay attention to what you should have done instead, what you should have tried, now that you know where the problem was. What were the obvious things to check. What was waste of time. What kind of binary search you should have done. This alone can boost your performance above average quickly. And the weird part is that almost nobody does it; just do it and you'll see.
yes, rich people are moving to texas. for the same reason I like to be in colombia. wealth inequality is great if you're the one on the wealthy side.
Spring is largely "Java: the missing parts", implemented in a very poor way. It's semi-standard, even though it's not part of the core language.
>but why can't you issue your own card, on your own bank, and process your own payments?

>How are people going to find out? It could be an online only thing.

Ok, I guess you're asking about the creating a non-Visa non-Mastercard credit-card? If you're avoiding all mainstream payment networks of Visa/Mastercard/Amex then your problem really reduces to an internal OnlyFans ledger accounts. Sort of like the old days before credit-cards where each grocery store had their own "ledger accounts" for each customer.

If so, to simplify it, you really don't need the complexity of creating a "OnlyFans credit-card" as the problem reduces down to establishing direct payments to OnlyFans (e.g. bank-to-bank electronic funds transfer). This might be an option. E.g. Amazon has a way for customers to enter bank account numbers and routing info for ACH payments from a customer's checking account: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...

I'm guessing that OnlyFans entertained that idea for a few minutes and concluded less than 1% of customers would willingly enter direct bank account info so that OnlyFans can bypass Visa/Mastercard. Whatever the tiny percentage is, it's a drastic enough reduction in customers to make it unviable financially for both the content creators and OnlyFans.

If we're not talking about direct payments but back to the idea "credit-cards" as in an "OnlyFans credit-card"... we're strongly implying transactions on the mainstream networks Visa/Mastercard. Otherwise, there's no reason for the extra layer of complexity of "credit" and issuing a "card" to go with it that can only be used at one service.
Got it.

I wonder if that ambiguity could be resolved using contextual type info? I.e. if one of the two interpretations fits the expected type, use that. Otherwise, type-error.

Maybe that would be confusing, not sure.
I had always heard the problem wasn't necessarily the knowledge, it's more that starting a bank from zero in the US is extremely labour-intensive; something about having to get licensed by every state with its own slightly different set of rules.

The SOP seems to be to find some dinky bank with an established license and acquire it to get a seat at the big-boy table. I suppose, then, it inevitably leads to a culture clash as the "Bank people" can say to the "Tech people" that the moment they stop playing ball, the whole thing crashes down.
I remember the sqlite via static host discussion, but I don't understand what you mean by "the possible limited available storage issue". Can you explain?
The stage when terraform read the reality to compare it to the current state is called "refresh". It can optionally be skipped.
Seconded on Ebay. I feel more confident buying from the same seller - or just a seller with many many reviews - than the increasingly dubious Amazon experience.
This forum will launch anything decentralized or federated onto the front page.
It's been under research in Hawaii for decades.
Gradle is not fast. I want to pull my teeth out every time IntelliJ decides to launch my application through Gradle rather than via the IDE directly because of the added boot time.
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Putin for another 20 years. Nothing more, nothing less. God I hate that phrase. Of course there's so much more to it ffs.
> Nevertheless the titular question deserves to be raised. We heard no end of derision for Sweden's outlier approach when they were having a rough time of it, but now things are better - radio silence. Why? What is behind this?

Things are better due to vaccinations having been administered fairly successfully.

It would be unwise to accept the numbers presented in this article without any skepticism, in particular given that the author is very transparent about their agenda (discredit mask usage). The numbers are very cherry-picked to precisely fit their argument.

First off - herd immunity was never the strategy to combat COVID-19 in Sweden. We had some forms of restrictions, we mostly just strayed from the 'majority' of countries, if you will, by not mandating that some businesses shut down, and by not making mask usage mandatory. Notably, we also do not mandate quarantine for arriving travelers - we merely encourage it.

Sweden, their response to COVID-19 and the results of that response are most accurately discussed in the context of our close neighbours. It would be inaccurate to measure against other countries with wildly differing cultures and economic situations, it's making too much of an apples to oranges comparison. The death rate numbers in that context (which as you may note are conveniently left out by the author) speak for themselves - Swedens death rate per capita is around 3 times as high as the next neighbor, Denmark (1434/million vs 449/million), 7 times as high as Finland (190/million) and 9 times as high as Norway (157/million). These numbers should be expected to more or less converge now that we have vaccinated at fairly similar rates, and hence comparisons of recent numbers, as made in the article, is fairly useless.
You are distorting the numbers for political ends. The majority of those deaths were among urban immigrants or elders in care homes, both of which are unusually large subsets of the population in Sweden. Sloppy math does not save lives.
In my 10+ years as a JS dev, I’ve seen this pattern in numerous code bases. Inevitably it leads to bugs and confusion.

Currying can lead to code that looks simpler, but I believe it hides real complexity in a non-obvious way. Well-named wrapper functions like ‘logNow’ can be great, but arbitrary curried functions are too tricky to keep track of on teams that include juniors, backend engineers and experienced senior FE too.
"Frauds $200M to AT&T" should be something like "defrauds AT&T of $200M." The "to" is particularly confusing, I thought the headline was saying AT&T _gained_ $200M.
For all we know a few choke point suppliers could say let's be like De beers and manufacture more scarcity of something like Neodymium or further down the supply chain buy most of a resource up and sit on it.

Uncertainty of the future supplies could have some companies stockpiling materials so they can keep up with their contracts and not worry about more COVID disruptions to their own operations.

I'm not saying any of that is real but generally there is no public knowledge of supply chain. The secrecy of sales leads, output, and prices might be the only thing keeping them from being undercut or priced out by another company.

Also all the stock market woes for a company if the public found out their output is crippled ahead of any shareholder reports.

Maybe you can get data from something state owned or a trade group insider news?
It's coming: https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/10/21/215154...
In the german town of Staufen im Breisgau the City Center has risen about 12cm since a drilling operation in 2007, which led to many cracks in buildings.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staufen_im_Breisgau
BSV and Bitcoin (BTC) are incompatible protocols, so this is just a straight out lie. Sure, it can be added to BTC as long as there's a use case and concencus for it, but so far there isn't.
This is a meme. Yes, you need to change something about the state of the world but that change absolutely does not need to be launching a product. I work in the Core organization, which builds tooling for the rest of the company. My org within that has among the highest promotion rates (even to high levels) in the company and the primary thing we focus on is the sort of grungy "keep everything functioning" work that everybody says is anathema to promotions.

It is no secret that Google's product strategy is a mess. But I'm not convinced this is caused by the promo process. For communications strategy I think it is instead the following:

1. Messy code stacks make surviving tool deprecation a problem.

2. Google seems to be bad at staffing for proactive protection against maintenance work. If a product is working, staffing dwindles to match the maintenance load. But if suddenly a huge mandate comes along like a stack switch, it is not easy to get the heads you need to handle that spike in maintenance. Instead, the product gets triaged or dies.

3. It is really hard to push past 1B users of anything, and growing populations outside of the US and Europe are not desktop focuses, encouraging a "mobile first" solution that leaves desktop integration in the dust.
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Yep,if you can do the how, then you’ll learn the why
I would love to hear your problems with Premiere haha.

Definitely agreed on the lack of usefulness for dynamic linking.

The most I've put Premiere through its paces was a 23-minute short film. I learned a bit of After Effects for it, and that integration was nice.

Not sure if Krita is aiming to replace AE as well, and I imagine that's a much tougher job than just creating a nonlinear editor. I have a lot more problems with AE than Premiere, much of it comes down to Gimp-style UI kludginess.
Don't forget the largest two contenters in the room, mailcow and Mail in a Box.
I’m guessing you had great parents?
The 40 or so unix utilities I have Lisp replacements for, have binaries on average 43% smaller than thier C equivalents. When you do a fair comparison and add the whole C tool chain and libraries, then they also compare well to the small programs with the whole Lisp runtime.
Easiest way to go viral on TikTok as a sexual harasser so it seems...
Seems like you're talking about designers, not artists. Designers make products whose endgoal is money, artists make artworks whose endgoal is meaning. The intrinsic value of an artwork comes from human > human communication. AI is a tool.
A shout-out about the mentioned Open Route Service, which is IMO fantastic.

I wrote a small mapping app to do navigation when we moved cross-continent a few years back. I didn't want to have to worry about trying to pull map data over the Internet, since I wasn't certain that I would even have Internet during the journey. I whipped together a small app using map tile data from OSM (great project), got the directions in a usable format (GeoJSON) from Open Route Service (great project) and rendered the entire thing with OpenLayers (https://openlayers.org/), a JS library (great project). We had a USB GPS tracker¹ hooked to a laptop that tracked our route/position.

Open Route Service also includes other things in the data that are nice, and given more time, probably worth taking advantage of. E.g., there was road grade information, which is nice when you're hauling your life behind you in a truck, since then I can tell my driver what to expect.

(We also did occasionally use Google Maps on the phones, too. For some tasks, that was easier.)

¹hardware GPS is so much nicer than phone. Near instant fix, vs. both our phone's 30s to several minute fix times…
It seems the thing you need to pay for is the app, it's free to use on the web?
In many cases you're correct, but there are brands with fully US-based supply chains. E.g. https://gettees.us/pages/materials
From the tail end of the presentation I'd expect UFS2 isn't a potential bottleneck (I'd naively expect it to be good at huge files, and the kernel to be good at sendfile(2).) Is that your opinion as well, or are there efficiency gains hiding inside the filesystem?
Being familiar with how N95s differ from cloth masks in effectiveness against extended aerosol risks, it is reasonable to question the effectiveness of ‘masks’ worn by the general public indoors.

The fact that the public is still not widely informed about this is telling, since we have known since ~ July 2020 that this virus is aerosol stable for hours…
I’ve been quite surprised by the attitude of local employers who are utterly contemptuous of workers not knocking down the door for what are essentially dead end jobs.

I’ve even remarked on occasion that hey, if you had a lousy job working for someone who took you for granted and something happened that changed that you might not rush back either.
How is this distinction relevant to whether or not tallying wedge issues is sound methodology for identifying elites?
The loop only has 8 iterations. Doesn’t look particularly turing complete.
I care about the economy, because the economy is people. I support mask wearing and vaccination, in part because widespread use of those measures would make more oppressive restrictions (like forcing people to stay home) unnecessary and allow most human activity to continue uninterrupted. Prioritizing prosperity is fully compatible with taking the pandemic seriously!
Easy solution: pay more. Easy to get people to go back if they get paid well enough! At some point, the employer will find enough people to go back to work - and that point is what (economically) the job is worth. A lot of people realized their number is higher than they thought because their alternative was not as bad as they thought.
Is that really your concern?

That surely depends upon both the individual’s role and the culture in the organisation, but I tend to agree with the original author. As a developer, I can often provide better results if I’m aware of the context and not operating in isolation. As a manager, I get better results from the people working for me if we’re communicating openly and often enough to address any questions or problems quickly, and this applies to software developers as much as any other field.

Of course this matters more as you get more senior as a developer or perhaps start to take on hybrid roles like tech lead or software architect. However, in my experience the principle works very widely, except maybe for juniors who have enough to learn already and new starters who are still finding their way around.

No doubt there are some projects where for legitimate security reasons there is a culture of need-to-know and compartmentalisation of information, but I suspect that across the industry as a whole, variations of wilful ignorance among developers do far more harm than good. It happens at large scale, like pigeonholing developers into narrow roles and trying to make everything possible into someone else’s problem. It happens at smaller scales, like being too dogmatic about pretending we have no idea what we’re going to be working on a few days or even a few hours later and stubbornly refusing to make any allowance for it in code we’re currently writing.

That kind of culture can become toxic and unproductive, but it can often be fixed by sharing information more freely with those who might find it useful and then having those people take the extra context into account when making their own plans and decisions. A lot of the points in the article here could be specific examples of that general idea, and IMHO those are all sensible advice.
Thanks for the detailed answer!

It's already there. The piratebay already serves me movies at 200 MBps with almost zero infrastructure cost. It's probably more a licensing issue like you said.
Apologies on the long delay. I forgot I had posted. :(

I meant my point mostly tongue in cheek. Redundancy is not necessarily bad.

I do have trouble reading your sentence, though. The change of voice in a declarative sentence to interrogative without a stop, is kind of jarring. In that one, I'd leave off the quote and question mark, I think.

That all said, I think I mainly agree that it is all guidelines and mostly driven by reasons we no longer remember or care about. The rule I remember hearing was that the smaller character of the period was preferred inside the larger character, as the period was prone to break if done in the other way.
In my native language, "to russian it up" is an idiom meaning "to fuck things up".
There are some huge missing "before" items: document what you're about to do (possibly also in plantUML so it can easily evolve together with the code), ask for efficient pair reviews (about your strategy, your implementation, your observability plan, etc)...
The points made in the video are valid regardless of how many viewers their channel has.
I think the gig economy is a serious issue in need of federal regulation. Companies are managing to convince people that they should trade benefits that have been won through labor disputes over the decades for “flexibility” whatever that means. When you break the veil you see they are just skirting labor laws.

Another issue is that unions have lost their strength and have been vilified. Although they are not perfect, they are a critical part of forcing companies to maintain positive work standards. This is where people need to stop complaining about their plight, and stand up for themselves. The laws and systems are in place to support it. People just need to motivation. We’ve just seen this occur when workers voted against unionization at Amazon against their own interests (also demonstrates that claims of massive worker unhappiness just don’t ring true)

As for copy-left, wikipedia etc. Those were donations made from people’s hard work, so again nothing comes free. Such donations should be treasured as such, not taken for granted. I and many others donate significant sums to Wikipedia and the like to promote their existence.
That sounds like the last-mile the GP is talking about?
Isn't that more inline with how old some researchers say the sphinx is?
> I’m yet to hear an UBI proponent explain to me how those jobs would get done

The people that need them done would offer sufficient pay to induce people to do them [0]. If the need isn’t sufficient to offer enough to do that in the presence of a sustainable (non-hyperinflationary) UBI, then the job doesn't need done and the fact that it is happening now is just a demonstration of the exploitative nature of the current economy (which includes features like time limits and behavior testing that mean that not everyone means-qualified gets means-tested support.)

[0] which UBI makes easier, at the same maximum benefit level, than traditional means-tested welfare, by not cutting benefits rapidly with outside income.
There’s a lot of politics involved. All the students want to take CS classes because they understand it can be a path to a high lying career. This leaves other less popular departments scraping to justify their existence.

Basically the gap in demand is huge, but the gap in funding can never be proportionate because it would mean other departments barely get anything. So the CS department is perpetually underfunded, but e.g. the philosophy department probably has more money than it really needs based on natural demand (demand is artificially propped up by required courses)
> Terraform modules are always a few steps being from the upstream public cloud offerings.

My experience has been the exact opposite. Usually Terraform offers support for cloud services long before the vendor provides an SDK or supports it with their own offering (e.g. Cloudformation). There are still dozens of AWS services, for example that have no CF support offered by AWS.
Mail in a Box requires around 512MB to 1GB of RAM and it's a decent all-in-one solution. I currently run it on a very small DigitalOcean VM.
We've been working in the banking industry for almost a decade now. I don't think any of our customers have ever expressed serious concern about technology companies breaking into their market and taking deposits from their institutions.

Business banking (esp. loans) is where I see virtually zero competition emerging any time soon. The complexity and value proposition around managing these kinds of customers is extremely nasty compared to the consumer side of the shop.

This whole thing is a fairly complex equation, but I would boil the barrier-to-entry down to a 50/50 between regulations & customer needs.

From a customer standpoint, the most meaningful specific deposits are going to come from your most painful customers. Our clients are not looking for victory in numbers with razor-thin margins. They prefer to find whales obtained by way of exceptional customer service.

When it comes to money, customer service matters a fuck load when you approach a certain level of stakes. I don't think Amazon and Walmart are prepared the engage their customers in a way that will distinguish them from the incumbents. Walmart is already host to Woodforest National Bank (their largest retail partner), who is only able to serve a very narrow band of the consumer banking market. I can see a potential partnership emerging here. I don't see Walmart doing it on their own, and I certainly don't see it taking the market by storm. Amazon, even more so.
Hum... Are you talking from the point of view of a developer working in a feature fabric?

If so, ok, your work will become much better if you ask those questions, but the party paying you does not care about it at all. You are just expected to deliver this feature.

But if you have any amount of goal alignment with the people that will get the software (as little as wanting them to perceive your work is useful), you will get much better results by having a picture of what your software is supposed to do. If you do not have access to this information, it's relevant to be aware that you are not receiving all the tools you need to succeed.
> Do the regular rank and file posters on this website believe that covid was a massive global conspiracy?

I guess no.

> either HN has such a strong individualism bent that the community is willing to gamify mass death for profit, OR that it’s incredibly easy to artificially boost harmful propaganda

There is a third option. A lot of topics are discussed. We discussed from the Higgs's boson to the Em-Drive (but for some reason, nobody likes to discuss Giant Magnetoresistance). It's also interesting to discuss what is the best strategy during a pandemic.

I think it's too soon, and to get the answer we must wait like 10 years until the dust is settle, the government of each country changed so much that they are not covering theirs asses or using the death as an electoral weapon, and also get better computer models.

It's interesting that in the heat of the moment each country tried a different strategy, from almost complete lockdown to almost no lockdown. I remember trying the simulator in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27763873 The "full lockdown" is very tempting, but the money used there can be used to other thing, like giving food to poor people, in spite it's not an option in the simulator. It's a very though decision, and I'm relieved that I didn't have to take those hard decision in real life.
What exactly is your point? That it's inferior technology because it's unpopular?
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I've had many a 3 1/2" disk apart, and the "spinning bit" was in fact not rigid.

Perhaps this was during my early college days and I could only afford the cheap ones.
A hoarder never throws anything away because it "might be useful". That is not a useful criteria for choosing language features.