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Are there any good CLI wrappers over Git that make it more accessible and consistent? The only one I know of it Gitless and it looks like development on that has stopped. (Also I don't know if it's actually considered good)
I don’t see a decline of comedy - just a decline of comedy movies. TV produces funnier material than Hollywood these days, and so do informal online spaces.

My diagnosis? The “theatrical Hollywood movie”, as a format, has become too expensive. Despite it never being easier for anyone to record video, theatrical productions have never been more expensive to produce, market and release.

And so they are first and foremost a financial investment, with all the modern consumer-analytics-driven optimization that comes with that. It sucks the life out of a project. It’s a safe, risk-conscious decision for producers to steer clear of edgy material.

Put simply, there’s too much money at stake. TV is cheaper, and other formats and mediums cheaper still. And those are where you go for jokes today.
It may also be just random failure of some components that were simply costed to be less than bulletproof on their "low to midrange" model. Or a software issue as suggested by another poster. No evidence of any sabotage was presented.
If you’re doing more printing, you’ll come out ahead buying inkjets + ink + paper (factoring cost of all the consumables, here). Except for the smallest sizes (like 3.5"x5") which can be churned out by Noritsu machines at high speed—it’s hard to beat the price of 3.5"x5" lab prints.
Yes, we're talking about California.
As an aside, it's nice to see that you're on HN, David!
Because sometimes people need to reinterpret data as an array of 8/16/32/64 bit elements. Sometimes people also need to reinterpret things as a structure.

This is independent of how many bytes the underlying platform can address. If we have 8 bit processing code but the platform can only address 16 bits at a time, it should be up to the compiler to generate code that works. Compilers already do stuff like that in other circumstances.
I don't know anything about this sort of regulation, but it might be worth noting that the PEA does indicate that SpaceX will be seeking a permit from TCEQ (on page 42 of the PEA)

> SpaceX would apply for authorization under the Oil and Gas Standard Permit with the TCEQ and adhere to any permit conditions

https://www.faa.gov/space/stakeholder_engagement/spacex_star...
Re: Printer drivers, you mostly don't need them any more, because almost all printers will now ingest pdf directly. You can bypass cups and your driver and talk directly to the printer using nc:

cat myfile.pdf |nc printername 9100
I used to play that. Good game.

Preferred background music : Pink Floyd : Atom Heart Mother
> Now with regional markets you have lots of utilities and private entities competing. Once massive amounts of cheap renewables (armed with subsidies to boot) entered the supply mix, it pushed out the most expensive generation to where instead of running ~24/7, they began running far less.

What this really means is that their cost function is broken.

Power plants really have three types of costs.

The first is the construction cost. This is a sunk cost for anything that already exists.

The second is fixed operating costs. This is things like property tax and security and maintenance, which you could save if you shut down the plant permanently, but you don't save at all by having it run at e.g. 50% capacity.

The third is variable operating costs. The cost of generating the incremental MWh, given that the plant is operational. For fossil fuel plants this is dominated by fuel. For nuclear plants (and renewables) this is basically zero.

Only the second and third should be a factor in whether a plant that already exists gets shut down. But more importantly, only the third should be a factor in where you buy power.

If you have a nuclear power plant which you're paying to keep operational but not consuming 100% of its output, you did the math wrong. (Or your electricity prices are regularly zero or negative.)
It says that they're no longer going to cater exclusively to people who get their worldview from a multi-millenia old fictional book.
The typing reeks of a front end dev doing something fancy at the cost of UX.

Like when people add artificial loading to show their really cool spinner.

Infuriating. Have it toggle on/off not fast/slow.
Or behavioral (possibly driven by departmental policy) differences in LEO community between states. Or...lots of other things.
Second French Plan for Open Science [pdf]
> i tend to see like and dislike buttons as too simplistic.

Same here. I’m still a big fan of star ratings in iTunes, though I’m not sure if they do anything or influence playback. I have a pretty eclectic taste in music and only want to hear certain songs once in a while and I give those songs get three stars. (Sorry Donnie Iris if you are reading this.)
Apple Music does this for half that price.

- Rating and tagging

- Upload and download your own stuff if you want to (marketed as iCloud Music Library)

- Works offline

- Discovery services available

- API exists but mostly used to implement web players for some reason, works fine in desktop apps too, on top of that the current state of your music library is always available as an XML file even when you don't use the API at all.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/applemusicapi/
I was speaking directly to the well complex, not any future power plant. The EPA is definitely involved in that.
That I agree with. But the illusion that we're going to get through this unscathed if we all just pull together is at this point in time more harmful than helpful.
I don't disagree with you but that last bit was quite unnecessary.
Same here. I like Christopher Tin (e.g. Baba Yetu) and therefore for 6 years I've had no way to tell Spotify I don't like 8-bit video game music.

No amount of skipping or "I don't like this artist" seems to convince Spotify to stop offering me variations of 8-bit Tetris themes or MULTIPLE 8-bit Cowboy Bebop Tank! theme variations per every single Discover Weekly. I'd be thrilled to even get a 2% hit rate on music I like.

Seriously Spotify: two separate "Tank!" versions per Discover Weekly is too many.
A particle – a “ghost” was discovered from a black hole at the South Pole
It happened to me with someone that loves Simple Plan. I only noticed in those end-of-the-year lists that Spotify prepares. A bunch of Simple Plan stuff on most played tracks.

I changed my password and it took me almost an year of listening to my songs to Spotify stop recommending me Simple Plan and similars.
Listening to metal gets a lot of recommendations for me in languages I don't understand much of. You would think Spotify would have a way to not change languages between songs at least.
> what I actually desire is a way to have aribtrary parametrisable contexts, something like a generalized version of http://www.jot.fm/issues/issue_2008_03/article4/ ; having two is already a good start.

I actually wholeheartedly agree with that. I've wanted something pretty similar for a long time. I just also wholeheartedly disagree on constexpr having been a good start on that.

> Incidentally, I have had multiple cases where things that could obviously be computed at compile-time weren't optimized in such a way by clang or gcc unless I did [...]

And this is one place we circle back to my argument, which is that implicit constexpr should be the default wherever possible. That way you don't e.g. run into situations where you forgot the keyword by accident, because you won't need it to begin with.

> well, because I disagree. If the name my function is e.g. strlen I definitely don't want a strlen_constexpr and strlen_nonconstexpr pair of functions, I want the good choice to be made depending on the context I'm in ; I want to write "strlen" in generic code and have the correct thing happen no matter what.

I think you misunderstood the proposal then. I was saying those functions would be only called directly for tests. Everywhere else, you'd use your strlen() with std::is_constant_evaluated() (or whatever) dispatching to one of those two functions, which would be implementation details hidden away from the user.
NixOS' saving grace when it comes to the learning curve is that experimentation is extraordinarily safe, thanks to the declarative config and rollback functionality. If you don't know what you're doing, you can pretty painlessly get away with just fucking around.
Oh thought they were burning the gas for more base electricity.

This does make sense, but it is odd that the existing gas market is not sufficient.
I've heard it observed that there are a class of people too thick to be stupid and I now have a point of anecdata in support: my girlfriend's beloved Uncle Geri, who had Down's Syndrome and was also the only of her maternal uncles not to be a blatant racist. It seems the folly of racism required mental faculties he just couldn't bring to bear. I think a lot of stupidity is like that, it requires a certain threshold of intelligence to look at a set of options or perspectives and choose the wrong one for a dumb reason.
I've been reading through the S1 this afternoon and, among other little interesting tidbits, found this quote:

> one of our business strategies is to supplement our small core team of generalists with a large number of specialist contractors, managed by third-party vendors, from around the world. For example, we rely on certain third-party vendors to provide a specialized on-demand workforce to provide 24/7 real-time chat support and free phone onboarding for every Expensify.com member.

My read on this is that they have a pretty large force of external vendors. We know[0] they used Mechanical Turk heavily in the past for receipt parsing, and elsewhere in the S1 they talk about using contract softrware devs. My guess is that between outsourced software dev, outsourced customer support reps, and outsourced receipt parsing, their actual workforce is at least double their FTE count.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15796189
Space research and development is a huge part of sustainability. It is literally our only chance to move some polluting industries off Earth, at least long term. (I do not expect to see it happening in my lifetime.)

Reusable rockets are a huge progress in space research. People long thought them outright impossible or impractical. And aside from SpaceX, no one has them yet.

ESA's model of throwing away the entire Ariane at each launch is the very opposite of sustainable. It is an expensive waste of money propped up by French military interests.

(Not that the ULA, the Russians or the Chinese do something different.)
DC Changes Superman’s Motto: No Longer Fights for “The American Way”
> Not understanding the trade-offs and not being able to make informed decisions about different approaches will be a problem. We may not have to write them ourselves, but we should certainly understand how they're implemented in my opinion.

I agree. My argument is that they are no longer something everyone needs to know how to implement to be considered “can code at all”.
Exactly, I (but not a boomer mom level consumer) bought a HP Black & White Laser on sale from Walmart with Toner for 1000 pages, all for $49. Whenever that toner finishes (I bought about in 2019), new toner is again $49. Way cheaper.

Any occasional color print goes to walmart or cvs or staples (exactly 2 times I have done that since I bought this printer).
This is the #2 feature I most want in every music streaming app

(The feature I most want is an interface for tweaking the rec algo to my liking - at minimum, for being able to crank up its adventurousness. Rec algos are depressingly conservative as a rule, I guess because most customers are the kind of people who eat at McDonald's when they travel abroad, stay at package resorts, and complain movies have gone to shit because they can't find anything they like on Netflix or Hulu)
> A "ghost gun" is a political buzzword for "gun not manufactured by someone the local government has leverage over".

Or a gun that has legally required markings removed (CA defines it this way, wouldn't surprise me if a few other states did).
Surely you know by now that Elon/SpaceX will get its fuel no matter what, even if it means trucking the fuel there, seems to me your best case scenario will increase net emissions.

Protecting the environment is not the point of this stunt, is it?
I was not thinking about gas wells at all. I have no opinion there except I thought we were doing the Sabatier reaction process to prep for Mars and be carbon negative.
Dozens of Scientists Could Be Fired After Judge Won't Halt Vaccine Mandate
There are many instances of frame-to-frame discontinuity that I can't explain other than by a lack of object detection and labeling. It would be less wrong to use the color from the previous frame even if the lighting changes than to use an entirely different hue for the same object.

Only things like TV screens and other displays (and some interesting objects covered with micro surfaces that can cause light interference) can change color that rapidly given the same color incident light.
Police offers in many departments can retire after 20 years with a life-time annual pension >100% of their current salary.

If you look at how much you'd need to make to be able to save to have a pension this large - the average police officer in most major departments is getting paid close to an equivalent of $400k per year.

Public pensions are out-of-control generous.

I imagine the majority of police officers would gladly take 2x the pay and no pension and end up working until they're 65 like everyone else. So is it even really benefiting police officers?? It's just a massive drain on the public purse.
It was a joke referencing another comment in this thread, but it got flagged, so it was probably coinsidered bad taste.
Affleck, in this metaphor, is one of the VIPs who get to enjoy the entertainment of the game without risking anything.
Is it a true upload or some crappy file/fingerprint matching?

Most of these services aren't ever true uploads and do matching to save time, bandwidth and space.
Ironic how the article begins with picture that plants an idea about a certain such film in the reader's mind yet doesn't mention any of the well-known films of that writer and director.
This and your responses below remind can be applied to handicapped parking or handicapped ramps (ie, they aren't used by most users therefore we shouldn't have them).

I prefer and use the dislike button when it exists. I don't care that 51% or 99% of users don't use it. Further, I want to send a concrete signal. Skipping a song doesn't mean I don't like it. It might just be that I didn't want to hear that particular song right now. Even if I skip it 10 times in a row that doesn't mean I don't like it.
But honestly, even consumer inkjet printouts suck, compared to photos printed on a professional machine.
There were a few. Legit was another.
An option to hide all podcasts would significantly improve spotify's recommendations. I don't listen to podcasts (though I have accidentally clicked on one, when a podcast interviewed a musician I like... blech). Why is my screen filled with podcasts multiple times per day? I like the music recommendations, "so and so artist radio," etc., but they make me hunt for them.

Also, while I like a broad variety of genres, I only like listening to one at a time. I don't want a rap mix to be invaded by a Bach sonata. And yet...
Flutter Reactive and Bloc Traingin Wheels
Predictable bit streams that look random are useful for communications. Satellite navigation systems like GPS for instance use such streams where the whole idea is for a receiver to sync up on on the bitstream.

An example where no one even cares exactly what the bitsream is can be found on motherboards where a bitstream is used to jitter the system clock to spread out any radio interference caused by the motherboard.
Check out Navidrome [0]. It's the closest one that I've found. It supports the Subsonic API so there are plenty of mobile apps and probably some desktop ones that work with it. I use play:Sub on iOS.

0: https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome
Has it not caught on in the US? You can print as a service nearly everywhere in the country, at places like Fedex Office, Staples, Office Depot, etc. Photo prints can be done at drug stores like CVS and Wallgreen’s (not all locations, though).
Propeller efficiency drops off with increasing blade count.
I used to host my own Java based one for a while out of my house. Worked OK on my phone.

The software just wasn't as good of an experience of just having my trusty 400gb sdcard.
See my tip here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28889001

Vigorously shaking the cartridge might also help sometimes.

And regarding starter cartridges, you might need a reset gear: https://cartridgeamerica.com/ctg/brother-toner-chips.php
The inherent problem with inkjets is the ink drying out over time, requiring replacement even if you only use it occasionally.
I wasn’t blaming anyone. I was just stating a fact. Americans consuming less energy is not going to prevent countries like China and India from consuming more energy coming from dirty sources such as coal. Americans consuming less material on the other hand can decrease carbon output in China but that will mostly like just be replaced by material consumption from the fast-developing nations.
Because the CLI is actually terrible, to the point that academic papers have been written about its terribleness. An intro guide doesn't come close to fixing any of that.
Beware, Termux + vim uses too much battery in my old phone
Yes, but you still need to design, assemble and test the particular equipment you want to use, unless you can do with off-the-shelf components.

And contemporary off-the-shelf components that perform the Sabatier process aren't probably meant to operate outside the Earth.
Spotify had both thumbs up and thumbs down button a while ago. It even asked why do you thumb down something:

Wrong Rec
Do not like the artist/show less
Do not like this song
Heard it too many times/pause for a bit

etc...

It got removed... as the whole functionality (Radio) got phased out, and the new stuff didn't incorporate it.

Employees changed, and moved on to other companies, and the new that came didn't think it will improve things. etc... and the feature got forgoten.

I think a lot of people in here are asking a 'reset my recommendations' feature. And that did exist as well at some point. Not sure why it got removed/it is not in production.
Check your wakeup settings. I've have to use corporate Windows machine and for some reason they're all setup to wake up on some wifi/ethernet signal.
I would bet people are staying on over 50% given the acceptance rate and self selection there, but that's 12M in revenue even at 100% active paying and 10% acceptance rate.

That's 200K per employee - server costs. Seems like they're likely near break even, but even if not, they aren't burning a ton is my bet. VC's would be head over heels for that audience for even just a whiff of influence or monetization being dangled in the future.
> I cancelled spotify recently when I had a guest in my car who proceeded to play all her favorite music on my account.

There should be an Incognito mode on every music streaming service for this reason.
Dye sub at home is more expensive, per photo, than going to the lab.

You might get refill for 100 photos for like $40, maybe a bit less. Then you pay for the paper. Limited size options. Looks great, though. Drugstore prices are around $0.25 and local labs are around $0.40, which are more economical options.

I’ve only ever used dye sub for photos that needed immediate turnaround.
IIRC, there is no longer a waste gas flare at SpaceX's facilities. They are doing methane recapture and recondensing.
OIDC support's been merged, which would likely help with that?
Indeed, we are way off topic.

But the use of technology to oppress, torture, and kill people is a worthy issue to discuss.

And funny you should ask about kids in Gaza. Netflix just released a collection of films. Look for "Palestinian Stories".

As for what it's like for children in Gaza, it's not too good: over 60 were killed recently in the latest round of bombings. There's even a Netflix doc about it: Born in Gaza.
Out of curiosity, what kind of embedded device has only C and asm support? Usually, the compiler used for these is gcc which, for a really long time is written in C++. It shouldn't be hard to use even go on embedded now. Also Rust gets rustc_codegen_gcc[1], so you will be able to use it everywhere.

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/tree/master/compiler/rustc...
Used this to expose a nextcloud on my natted/dynamic IP address. Works like a charm.
> [package managers] are already an overengineered and under-delivering solution in my opinion.

This is kinda nuts to me. Every time I use a system that doesn't offer proper package management, it makes me wish I had a decent package manager. What do you think is better than a modern package manager for solving the same problems?
If you tell me a programmer wrote a thing in a month, and another programmer wrote a similar thing in a year, I'd assume nothing about either, because there’s too many parameters at play.

If a project took only 1 month, I’d be very cautious with calling it easier to work with, because it likely means fewer tests (leading to lower velocity long-term) and fewer hours spent by other developers trying to understand it, and giving feedback on how to improve legibility.

Creating something quickly can be really important in specific contexts, but actually KEEPING something flexible to work with, hard to break, and easy to understand is more important when dealing with software that’s supposed to last over many developers and a long period of time.

Maintaining velocity requires you to spend more time on keeping the code base healthy.

I find the notion of being a fast programmer irrelevant in a business-context. Because there I think it’s more valuable to be a programmer that can ensure business goals are met on time, ensuring the correct problems are solved, ensuring contracts aren’t broken, while still keeping the code base professional (i.e. well-tested, clean, consistent).

Being a fast programmer is great and all, but being reliable is the more favorable trait if I had to pick one. Both require huge amounts of active training.
It hardly matters now, but before you do anything with a guest, you can start a private session to make sure their history is ignored. Still a very weird feature to omit; I'd reckon that most people would use history deletion at some point
Of course they can't add this: they're too busy rebuilding the UI so the (I assume) new Art Director can climb the corporate ladder.
Under STP and 1G, yes. Mars isn't at STP or 1G, so they can't assume that the Earth-standard machinery will work without modifications. This is a reasonable thing to experiment with.
How would variable length arrays, for example, help with releasing a mutex on early returns from a function?
Path (YC S19) Is Hiring Founding Engineers to Automate Gen-Z Finance
My dismissal is based on a many-million digit customer base and online real world data. Sorry if a few hackernews users feel they want a dislike button, most users don't and if you give to them most users don't use it. I don't mind disagreement but dismissing real world data from this industry is sort of silly to counter with 'because I want it you're wrong'.
It uses Instagram to “verify identity”.

So is this Just another Facebook territory in disguise?
I'm very much interested in reading these articles as well. I don't see a reason why they can't be posted publicly.
The navies also use fuel enriched up to the level of a nuclear weapon, supposedly about 97% for the US navy [0] making more energy dense designs possible. Weapons-grade are usually said to be above 90%. Wouldn't want those reactors placed in unstable regions.

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20070209223424/http://www.nti.or...
So you're just a typical No-Mars skeptic, got it.