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> There are some engineers that are so good at solving problems that they can be dropped into any crisis situation and help fix it... Those are your PEs.

I agree that "the solver" is one flavor of the role, but I think there are a few other valid ones too. Many of the staff+ engineers I've interacted with fall in the "tech lead" or "architect" category.

https://staffeng.com/guides/staff-archetypes
He said it feels like it, since its got good support on it, and its pretty rigid, so much that it breaks userspace.
I think her own words about this proposal (government banking) sunk her nomination faster than any banks or opponents could have. Basically it came under friendly fire that she initiated herself.
Huh? What's wrong with calling the unzip binary? Using a library is only a slight optimization (though I admit -- it's better).

D-BUS???
Ask HN: How do you promote a newsletter?
I've been writing a newsletter for almost two years now, and despite hitting the HN's frontpage with a summary of it once [1] I've never had more than a few hundreds subscribers (the existing ones very rarely unsubscribe, so at least it's good).

If that were a simple website, I would probably take the classic SEO way and build up backlinks and keywords, but this one is different as I mostly write about things I've just learnt, so the target audience is "like-minded people" or "generally curious people", not "people who care about X".

I tried applying for a bunch of directories but that didn't help much.

Do you think there is a better way to gain more subscribers and eventually build a dialogue with them?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25582269
No matter your politics, the quality of life is going downhill in SF. Property crime is up, racial attacks are up and more concerning are the brazen daylight looting of stores which shows criminals have little fear of consequences.
Unitarian is a similar option. It's sort of like a book club, except no one ever has to pick a book, from what I understand.
The Rights of Way in say the UK are way older than your or anyone's farm. They are a form of returning back to the Commons that which was always part of the Commons. It's rather more complicated than that but that captures the general spirit of Freedom to Roam.

Some of the roads and tracks hereabouts are quite old. Many are rather older than written evidence. For example the Sweet Track (1) up the road from here is getting on a bit. I'm not sure if it still counts as a Right of Way as its a Scheduled Monument!

I live near to the Fosse Way (2) which is a bit more modern - a Roman road. Quite a few of the roads hereabouts are still called "Roman Road" which is surprisingly unimaginative. The county of Somerset is quite well known in the UK for having an above average of really odd place names, which is quite a boast, given the competition.

I imagine that you live in a land that can cram several UK land areas into one state. You may like your seclusion but I hope it doesn't belong to someone else 8) Provided trespassers errr ramblers keep their dogs away from your livestock and close gates and don't litter then all is good. To mitigate some of the side effects of rambling we have a few laws. A farmer has some legal protection when a dog attacks their livestock (3) Erm, I've just read the Act and it looks like only a minor fine. However, anecdotally, dogs worrying say sheep sometimes don't survive the encounter. I'm a massive dog lover (there are five in the room here) but they can't be allowed to worry livestock. We also have stiles, routinely provided to get over walls and hedges and cattle grids for similar reasons but mainly for roads.

Bear in mind that you too are a common person and your rights are probably protected by a form of Common Law - don't knock it and I imagine that you might have one of those new fangled Constitution things spelling out your Rights too. A Bill of Rights plus documented Amendments is quite a handy thing to have around. You could "take the fifth", I'd need a lawyer to even try to do a similar thing and I think that here in the UK "it may harm your defence if you choose to not say something that you later rely on in court".

Anyway, you mentioned seclusion ...

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Track
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fosse_Way
3. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/1-2/28
A lot of religion is an openly corrupt parody of itself. Joel Osteen, Pat Robertson, Falwell Jr. All of the scandals with the catholic priests and the subsequent cover-up. The catholic church and their genocide of indigenous cultures. The stadium-sized mega churches, and their millionaire pastors with their private jets.

A lot of culture has become more accepting while religion remains intolerant due to the initial texts being written 2000 years ago. The bible is pro-slavery, it is anti-gay, its values due not meet the standards of modern society.

We now have cameras and proof of everything. Proof of the supernatural has not materialized. It used to be easier to claim you saw an angel on the pulpit when people couldn't ask: "Where was your cellphone?"

I grew up in a rural community, I went to multiple churches growing up. I've been inside. There is intolerance. People love to say "hate the sin not the sinner" but that is cold comfort for a gay teenager who someone will invariably take it upon themselves to convert, or use their religion as a justification to persecute them.

At the end of the day, for me, there is no proof, and I see nothing to admire in the whole enterprise.
I assume Christopher Hitchens is someone of note within some atheist circles(?), but regardless: name dropping for credibility by association in the same paragraph as lamenting "thought clergy" is ironic.
this is indeed a thorny point and I agree with that
Definitely but unfortunately minimally. In a hypothetical world of 67% vaccine induced and 80% previous infection (hard to know the actual), we would have people more fearful of being around the 80%'s than the 67%'s. If so, we have a similar noble lie situation as the Mar 2020 "masks don't work", where we are so focused on getting the 80% to 85% (and other dilemmas alluded to by my previous comment) we are damaging trust with possibly worse knock on effects.
Regardless of the difficulty, an attempt should be made towards all or at least some of these ideas. Just speculating that it's too difficult and not even trying shouldn't be acceptable.

That said, I think plenty of this is realistic and achievable - just not with the voters we currently have. Maybe the next generation will be more compassionate and in my old age I can see the beginning of progress.
It most often results in being unable to find something I know exact keywords for.

I have used search long enough to remember having only literal search, and I never had an issue with it.
There are thousands of different graphs that correlate with that one. I don’t think I need to give the whole “correlation ≠ causation” line again.
> Who do you vote for in the primaries? Nobody cares... they should.

This is a mechanism that in the past limited polarization at the final election. Now, there's ideological policing-by-harassment within both parties.
From the thread, wayland isn't an improvement for most users. The thread says problems are made worst by wayland.
Surely we can just resolve this by looking at the actual complaint instead of trying to divine sense from some words like it's a party manifesto from Xi? Here it is, then:

https://ij.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Tennessee-Open-Fie...

The graphic on page 11 seems to indeed show the camera on the property.
In C++ there could be 7 or 8 different ways go about implementing similar functionality. This is powerful in that it lets you do exactly what you want because each of those ways is subtly different and sometimes you need each one.

Go's proponents think it's okay to be a bit less powerful so that there is only 1 maybe 2 ways to do something. This makes code at different companies more similar.

It also mean that a new grad can join the team, read the code, copy it, modify it some, and it's pretty much right. A staff SWE and a new grad will right very similar code in Go. In C++ it's anyone's guess how similar their code will be.
Huge no to anything that will require .unwrap() noise everywhere in the codebase. I use Erlang, my code does not have ".unwrap().unwrap()"[1] anywhere.

[1] https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/blob/64c54f8ad603df0c1d9da8...
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If your employees are remote, what legitimate reason is there for this? Do they just like being able to wield power over other people's lives?
There's nothing wrong with not being religious but to me it seems the ethics and morals void hasn't been filled. Doing the right thing even if you don't have to seems to be mocked these days. Someone buys 100 hard drives because a pricing error that person is cheered as a hero not as opportunistic. And really sports is the new religion it seems to be similar in mentality.
> Science appears to be growing it's own clergy, demanding deference as opposed to encouraging debate.

What are some examples of this? I'm also an atheist (although I detest the label) who was raised Catholic and seriously considered joining the priesthood. But a life guided by reason and rationality I've found to be so much more fulfilling than the guilt and fear that made up much of my Catholic life.
Please give us an example of an endemic human virus that naturally progressed to become more contagious and less deadly?
Having been to NYC at least, even drinking alone gets boring there. Albeit, people are way more talkative to strangers there at least. Here in the midwest in bars it feels like people will only interact with you at a bar if they know you. Stranger conversation is a rarity unless it's a random chill place.
I’m not sure about recently, but NYC has had a court-enforced housing mandate for decades now.
My interpretation: if you're 40 or older then (within some other constraints like where you live, etc.) your education was likely colored by cold war propaganda which still somewhat weakly insisted on dividing the world into 3 nearly exclusive spheres of influence (American, Russian, and Non-Aligned aka 1st, 2nd, 3rd), and that may have shown up in your education even though the concept was already pretty much already obsolete in the 80s.

I'm around that age, and Canadian, and I think it was at least brought up as the 'true' meaning of third world in my social studies classes, but it wasn't how people used it in regular use already.

Fwiw I think it's a term that there isn't really a lot of use in preserving, especially since its original meaning is so divorced from current reality. Current parlance for what people actually mean when they say third world is usually "developing world" which is in some ways better (it at least implies it's something that changes over time) but also carries a lot of awkward colonialist baggage.
> an excellent suite of built-in libraries

I love Swift and wish I could use it more, but I can't because it does not have an excellent suite of built-in libraries. Those are almost all Mac libraries bundled with Swift. Run Swift on a non-Mac platform and the tiny set of built-in libraries is glaringly conspicuous.
For every “next big thing” there were 1000 other things that looked like they would be it, but weren’t.
The only time I've seen the quote, or similar ones to it, trotted out is to imply that the person being addressed by it is ignorant or doesn't understand something. It's an easy way to dismiss facts or arguments without really considering or addressing them in good faith.
The situation we are in is absolutely a choice. We can choose right now today to move on from Covid. All we have to do is decide to stop being afraid of it. Accept the risk and move on.

Everything we’ve done in the last two years is not caused by the virus but our reaction to the virus.

PS: eventually even the most hardcore fearful will have no choice but to move on. Omicron is not the last variant and Covid will be with us forever. Expecting every member of society to treat Covid as if it is the only problem from here on out is not going to happen.

Get your vaccines. Stop being scared and move on. It’s quite literally as simple as that.
It's not a problem. We need a centralized, reversible system for payments.
If you dilute the word “nanotechnology” so far as to meaningless, sure.
I'm don't really have much to criticize here, aside from my usual cynicism (justified, IMO, based on Breed's general lackluster performance) that it's just words until we see actual results. But I'm cautiously optimistic that this could be the start of some change, assuming the political will is there among everyone required, and corruption, bureaucracy, and back-stabbing doesn't destroy the initiative.

I'm uncomfortable about loosening the surveillance statutes, though. Accessing random private business surveillance feeds should require a warrant. And I don't want government CCTV everywhere, period.
You don’t know SF politics then. The Calle 24 voting block in the Mission has way more sway than all the tech bros combined.

It’s not about money, it’s about votes.

Look at Rose Pak. She was a gatekeeper to the Chinese community in SF. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Pak
I did. Kennedy doesn’t care about the timeframe of the Soviet bit. He just wants a five second soundbite for his constituents. If he was talking to Bernie he’d bring up his honeymoon too. I’m also not a National Review subscriber so I can’t read the whole thing.

Also as another commenter points out the government can already control access to private banking like a spigot quite well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29559738
This isn't really a random company. Analogue is a company that is plastered across almost every tech/gaming site I visit right now. I think there is a difference between airing every grievance you have with everyone, and airing a specific grievance you have with a company that is getting a huge amount of coverage, if you are someone who is also reasonably prominent within the community that is being covered by the press and that is being targeted with this hardware release.

Because Endrift also isn't really a random person, she's in charge of some extremely public, fairly lauded emulators in the retro space. Analogue is releasing one of the more anticipated and public hardware projects in that space, and Endrift within that context is talking about their experiences with Analogue the company -- including some reasonably relevant details like that the company asked them to delay a release of an Open Source emulator.

Back when I was in college, people in my department shared what was being offered by companies that came over to job fairs trying to hire us. We talked about the hiring processes, the interview processes, and what their culture was like, because we were all part of a community of people who were going to be interacting with the same companies. Unless it was under NDA we didn't keep a ton of that stuff secret, we wanted the people we were going to class with to know what companies were worth pursuing and what companies weren't. So sure, this doesn't warrant a NYT article, it's not an accusation that means Analogue the company should be burned to the ground or something, but don't you see any value in a prominent voice in the emulation community talking about (on a personal blog) their experiences with a company that is a very public presence within the emulation space?

Some additional context here is possibly warranted that the author didn't share this post to HN, somebody else did. I feel like often with worries about things being "too public", there's a weird phenomenon where communities being open enough that people outside of that community can look in suddenly means that anything posted publicly is expected to be intended for a global audience or planned out as a potentially viral piece. But in the same way that I don't think the negotiation process here is worth as much debate as its seeing in the comments, I also don't think the author reflecting on that experience publicly is weird, at least not given the context of the general news about Analogue happening right now, and at least not given the context that this is the person running mGBA. I certainly don't think it's weird enough that it warrants publicly claiming that the author is lacking empathy.

> even how it's called a "hate story"

Someone else has already mentioned, but this is a reference to a video game title.
Well it's a fully auto hybrid, but often times I won't use high beams on a semi busy rural road because it's too much bother to turn them on and off every minute or so. Especially if you're going around corners and things like that, and someone appears.. at least with the auto dimmer, you can just leave them on and yes, it's a bit over-sensitive, but it still correctly dims them immediately when it needs to. More importantly, I leave the high beams on rather than get irritated and just turn them off, hence it's net safer.
I’m all for a monstrous building spree in places like SF. It’ll solve a lot of problems.

But - at the risk of sounding callous - why would someone down and out on the streets of the Tenderloin think, even if they completely sober up and clean themselves up, that it’s a long-term sustainable option to live in one of the highest cost of living cities in the world.
Seriously?

> Since a 10-bit order code, combined with 10 bits specifying a memory address, returned a string of 40 bits, the result was a chain reaction analogous to the two-for-one fission of neutrons within the core of an atomic bomb. All hell broke loose as a result. Random-access memory gave the world of machines access to the powers of numbers -- and gave the world of numbers access to the powers of machines.

That is quite possibly the worst description of addressing RAM that I have ever seen. The whole article attempts to relate addressable memory to DNA, evolution, and nuclear fission in a simply ridiculous way. Is the rest of the source book, _Turing's Cathedral_, this bad?
That's not really a society I want to live in, thanks.
> Codes of Conduct that prioritize belonging over, say, competence and truthfulness is not helping.

Example, please?
Do founders use crunchbase?
A lot of people in power don't live in the Tenderloin. I mean, take District Attorney Chesa Boudin. He lives in the Outer Sunset, which is a super exclusionary suburby part of the city that's safe.
https://4channel.org/biz/smg
Use function combinator write lexer
*lexer* more easy write it in go for pragrammer than use regular expression.
> If I was in charge I’d classify tech workers as non essential and not let them work. Make them go through unemployment for a while. I bet a whole lot of these privileged people would suddenly become a lot less “scared” of Covid…

Tech workers were classified as non essentials. That's why we got the whole remote thing. Other professions also got labelled non-essential and governments asked employers to put remote/wfh in place as much as possible and at some time made it mandatory. Being classified as a non-essential never meant you were de facto out of a job or prevented from working (Western Europe here).

> Make them go through unemployment for a while. I bet a whole lot of these privileged people would suddenly become a lot less “scared” of Covid…

Wait, what ? Why do you want to punish people who managed to keep their job because you don't like the fact they are scared of covid ?

I won't say everything I am thinking but wishing people to lose their job because you think they are privileged and they are scared of covid is pretty fucked up. I am making €1750 net a month, in IT, I have a master degree. I don't feel privileged.

> The amount of privilege that reeks from the tech sector is astronomical. I’ve never been more embarrassed working in t is industry than these days.

Then follow your heart and go work in the service industry in a supermarket.
Thank you very much. Reading into one of these now [1], and they're just outrageous.

[1] https://holdcbpaccountable.org/2013/12/12/no-312-cv-05186-n-...
When I'm deciding where to go for lunch I remember the tastes and smells of my favourite places and decide based on what I'm feeling like that day.
Foot's terminfo package is available separately on most distros. Foot has many advanced features like some Kitty protocols (for features adjacent to OSC-8 sequences) and sixel graphics, so it makes sense to use one.

If you don't want this, you can just use xterm-256color instead.
I'm not an expert on the wayland/xorg/xinput/gnome-shell stack, but unless someone smarter takes good measurements of various things (visual and input delays), I'd suggest

1). Xorg + gnome-flashback or Xorg + other non-compositing WM

or

2). Non-gnome compositor under wayland

As for 1).
Xorg b/c it can provide pointer movements at ~native speed via xnput vs Gnome/Wayland 60-240Hz. And gnome-flashback b/c it's a non-compositing WM, so there's no frame buffering (unless you enable it in nvidia's panel, or via TearFree in amdgpu).

As for 2).
Sway, I suppose, doesn't aggregate mouse movements, but
looking at https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/2021/12/14/about-gaming-... the author used some hack to enable "immediate" "drawing" under KWin. I'm not sure what's the default behavior of e.g. Sway - does it buffer frames?
If you're looking for something in this market, you should definitely checkout Rainforest as well. We've got a pretty generous free tier, plus transparent pricing. https://www.rainforestqa.com/
> Codes of Conduct that prioritize belonging over, say, competence and truthfulness is not helping.

What is your reasoning for suggesting that (i) codes of conduct are in tension with (ii) competence and truthfulness?
I think ironically it was other way around - they issued write in such way that due to quirk in genuine chip it was no-op but actually worked on the clone.
Have a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRNA_vaccine for an idea of a timeline going back to the 60s.
Someone baaaad from Europe
I worked in central SOMA from 1995-2002. In the 90s, the most prominent neighborhood fixture was the homeless shelter at 6th and Bryant, and there most certainly were homeless around there and human poop in the alleys along 6th, it was notoriously stanky. The northeast end of SOMA wasn't as ripe, though.

Things changed after the first DotCom boom and the advent of Pac Bell Park.
This has been my experience too, may possibly be from an old Android version. I never dug in deeper but one of these old beater phones I keep around for random around the house use is where I experience this Chrome : Firefox discrepancy.
Isn't sorry state of banking in US compared to pretty much everywhere in the world a compelling reason?
Religion is a human behavior, all of those things (and others) tend to organize themselves into religions. Lots of people are just in a primitive religion phase having left a rather organized one and formed various disorganized group behaviors which should eventually evolve into a set of new religions (which might well look a lot different than things we currently understand as religion just as monotheism looks a lot different than polytheism)
I don't know if its related, but I think of taxes. It may be rational for one person to not pay taxes, but if everyone was "rational" it would be disastrous for society.

> (In my mind Hayek is the person most associated with distributed knowledge.)

Why do you say that? What does it mean? I think of the internet, but not a person, I always thought of him as a free market economist. When I think of individual and society, I think of Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents where the individual can never be free.