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Ask HN: What are the best platforms to follow fellow developers?
I have always used Twitter to connect with my developer friends, keep up with what developers around me are talking about and to make myself also followable, but this has become harder and harder to do as time went by. Most of my timeline consists of random tweets from people I don't follow, and no amount of fine-tuning appears to fix this. Even if you manage to disable likes and retweets from everyone you follow, Twitter starts spamming your notifications with "recommended tweets" which manage to be even worse than the likes. There's a "don't show me this again" button, but I'm convinced this does nothing but increment an integer at some analytics metric that nobody is keeping track of.

Which platforms could I use to achieve what I'm looking for? I want to know what certain people are talking about, but I have zero interest in any form of social media features like recommendations and networks. Is RSS my only hope?
Clearly, we're not gonna reach any conclusion in this debate of what it means. So what's more fun than stop arguing over definitions? Polls, of course! Here is one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29811603

Once completed, we have our answer :)
Did someone who uses mushrooms steal your girlfriend? You clearly have no medical, biological or neuroscience background, yet keep spewing the same bad faith arguments.

I've taken a look at some of your previous posts - you come across as consistently obnoxious and uninformed yet willing to post an uncompromising opinion. Google scholar is great if you actually want to search for evidence that may counter your view (which you don't seam to).

For anyone interested in a good faith discussion on psychedelics and creativity, there are several articles (although the reductionist approach may not be the best one on this topic), but here's an example:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105381192...
found thanks to a tweet by Steven Strogatz: https://twitter.com/stevenstrogatz/status/147877288671019418...

> A companion paper for Kevin Buzzard’s (@XenaProject) upcoming talk at the International Congress of mathematicians
That's where I got the books. I did find a Pascal book (but of course it was vanilla Pascal and not the Turbo Pascal compiler I got ahold of), and a Microsoft BASIC book but it didn't cover anything I was interested in (mostly games/graphics).
Wood pellets largely solve this.
How is reporting illegal activity to the police a vigilante act?
I've also been running 21.04, though, and had all the issues I mentioned above in that environment.
Similar to No. 5 about Everest, I believe the "Quincy" town in Massachusetts is pronounced differently than the "Quincy" in "John Quincy Adams".
I lucked out in a Kmart finding this one:
https://www.amazon.com/Machine-language-beginners-programmin...
If we're talking about chimney efficiency then we should talk about including heat exchangers within the chimney walls.

Jamie Hyneman of Mythbusters added one to his house and talks about it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T3nIk3S8Wc
I don't think MLID has said anything besides that there won't be a Zen 3 Threadripper, because Intel still doesn't have anything that comes close to Zen 2 TR.

Now, a Zen 4 Threadripper is extremely compelling because of DDR5 and PCIe 5.0.
This post [0] summarizes the early research on omicron hospitalization risk. The preprints linked are now like 2 weeks old, so probably there is better data available, but I haven’t come across any analysis yet.

I’ve been reading that ICU utilization is markedly lower with omicron, but I haven’t seen any statistical analysis yet decoupling prior immunity from the intrinsic virulence of omicron. Still points toward lower severity in general.

Keep in mind the uncertainty factor is high on these studies, and also that omicron seems to be spreading first among the younger population. But these estimates put omicron between 40-70% less severe (in terms of hospitalization) relative to delta. So maybe a little less severe than original, maybe a bit more.

0: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YBB9yZNJuz5j8hLdP/omicron-po...
Ask HN: How to view list of flagged HN posts?
Was thinking it would be interesting to see the sort of posts that get flagged. Does anyone know a way to view a list of posts that get flagged? Would love to mine the list for trends for curiosity sake.
Let's include HDMI while we're at it
Which, of course, is you. Not only are you the sole dissenting voice in this thread, you disagree with the article, and the broad consensus. While there are plenty of cases where a thread, an article, and a general consensus are all wrong, you have absolutely no ground to stand on to claim that everyone else's claims are extraordinary and your claims require no evidence.
I remember leaving the computer on to download 650MB overnight, which used to be an ISO for an operating system. It was usually finished sometime the next day.

And 60MB would have been a couple of hours, not bad to wait for some software.

It wasn't prohibitive to do this.

Indeed, I seem to be back at square one, as downloading a AAA game for me once again takes about a day.
Surely canned bread is as old as canning.
Because enforcement and deterrence is too light
I feel like a lot of the complaint here is why logging systems typically have levels? I use the following philosophy. Typically PROD would run at WARNING or maybe INFO, and never at DEBUG unless there's something happening that we can't figure out how to reproduce locally. DEBUG is really for local analysis, in which case you don't really care about overlogging.

While ERROR level logging should immediately generate alerts, it's still useful to watch metrics on the WARNING level to see if something is potentially heading towards ERROR-level failure.

ERROR / FATAL: The application failed to execute the business operation.

WARNING: The application had an issue executing the business operation, but has a fallback -- for instance, retrying. Might still result in an ERROR later, if the fallback operation fails.

INFO: Document the successful exit of business operations and decisions. This typically helps you determine where in the process the failure occurred, and what might need to be repaired if you decide to manually rollback the operation.

DEBUG: Document the entrance of business operations and decisions, along with any additional technical operations, decisions, and values that might be relevant.
> That was possible on nearly all laptops some years back.

Not necessarily in this size class/with this chassis design. "Ultrabooks" as a class haven't been nearly as user-serviceable as you're suggesting.

> made by a single company, few variants; Bays might be the most proprietary

Eh. I'm not terribly worried about this given that they're TB3 or TB4 (to wit: PCIe) and provided with reference designs[1].

I have to admit, though, that I couldn't easily find IBM's old expansion bay spec or proprietary connector... or for that matter, HP's, or Dell's, or... well, yes. Bays sure are proprietary. To extoll the virtues of somebody else's bays and in the same breath deny these is at best misplaced nostalgia. :)

[1]: https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/ExpansionCards
Thanks for sharing this! Always interesting to see the tech stack for one-man projects like this
Full stack means they don't want to pay for specialists. So you will now be expected to do three people's jobs:

Dev Ops
- Backend
- Frontend

You'll also be implicitly on-call at all times despite that fact never being verbalized.
Wouldn't that naturally happen once you make mistakes without a license?
There's an entire field and organizations that study and develop contstruction technologies...

https://www.buildingscience.com/documents/insights/bsi-001-t...
Show HN: Birdsong-find people that love the same music (Spotify) (alpha users)
Looking for alpha users! See the last paragraph.

Yesterday I randomly found a person on Spotify whose playlists I love. It's as if these playlists were made by me; I love them and now I have at least thee new good playlists to listen to. I immediately knew that I want to replicate this experience-finding people that love the same music as me. In the afternoon, I coded a simple web app.

The app is very simple and halway complete but ready for users. The currently implemented part works a bit like Tinder selection:

1. you are presented one song you recently listened to a lot
2. a 30 second preview of the song starts playing and you are shown the song's cover, name, and artists
3. you must rate the song with either:
- NO: I am sick of this song/I hate it
- MEH: it's OK
- LOVE: I loveee this song, it gives me the chills
4. repeat-go to step 1 with the next song

See a screenshot here: https://twitter.com/touch_marine/status/1478772993602080775

The rest of the app (the half not yet implemented) will take this ratings and match them with others. You will get a list of matches and you will be able to go to their Spotify's profile and listen to their public playlists.

I am looking for any users that would like to give the app a go. Unfortunately, I have a limited API access which means only 20 people can register and I first need to enter their Spotify email into the Spotify Developer Dashboard. To register send me your Spotify email to scout at touchlabs.io or on twitter to @touch_marine (https://twitter.com/touch_marine).
Not true, you can pay 33% or more and still save money on overhead, head count, and shift changes. You see this in the US despite overtime laws, where it is still better to pay a worker 150% for the extra hours.
I used to travel every week as a consultant. I did this for about 2 years.

The goruck GR1 26L bag is easily the best one bag travel bag imo.

I'm 6ft tall 200 pounds and I can fit a week and a half of clothes in the bag depending on the weather.

After I left my consultant job I took a couple months and just traveled around Europe with it. Trains, planes, etc.

The open flat design is critical for good packing.

The bag still looks the same as when I bought it. I've had it and traveled with it extensively for ~5 years. It's a buy it for life product.
None of that implies that COVID was the cause. It could just be a coincidence.
As a Frenchman, it's also what we are taught about the French Revolution. One of the goals of the attack on la Bastille on July 14th 1789 was to seize the weapons there and march upon the rest of Paris and Versailles.
Filing a false police report is a crime. Building a tool to facilitate that would certainly open you up to civil and possibily criminal penalties.

I don't see how "civilian made" has any bearing on the applicability of video evidence.
Startup[0]: A Silicon Valley Adventure by Jerry Kaplan

Story of how and why Go Corporation failed. This startup was one of the early tablet computer maker.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Startup-Silicon-Adventure-Jerry-Kapla...
> He edges along the stationary vehicles until he is parallel to a car. It is well over a minute before the driver looks up and spots him – and the camera strapped to his baseball cap.

Traffic wasn't moving at the time.
1. Be rich
2. Don't not be rich
3. Make sure your kids marry in a way that keeps the money in the family
4. Build a castle/house of stone.

Congratulations, you own a castle
Yeah, if I’m standing completely still in a traffic jam, I’ll be glancing at my phone every once in a while, and nobody is going to convince me that this guy is doing a public service.
Cloud Deploy: kickstarting a Compute Edge project just got easier
On the other side, I live in NYC, and as a pedestrian I've actually had way more bad experiences with cyclists than drivers. Especially now with the advent of e-bikes. They move so fast, and most ignore all lights and traffic laws. I've nearly been barreled over by cyclists probably a dozen times, and feel like getting hit eventually is almost inevitable.
I have eight options available to me in mobile safari other than using bookmarks to use any search engine that exists.

It is easy to conceive of reasons why a company would not want to enable native UI elements to rely on external services without having vetted those services or established a relationship with them for recourse in the event of issues. It is harder--though not impossible--to conceive of ways to avoid these issues.

If I add an arbitrary default search engine via URL, and that search engine is later compromised or serves up garbage or malware, that's a problem for Apple, even though we'd all like to believe we're above-average users who wouldn't blame Apple for our own choices.
> Which clearly doesn't have the same meaning to all people.

Evidently :)

To maybe be able to consolidate the definition, I created a Poll: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29811603
> Why Tony Blair is singled out, for something in hindsight, and the other 411 people are given a pass?

My very simplistic understanding is that he is singled out because he was responsible for pressing on it and the thing was voted based on the “evidence” he was presenting.

My understanding is also that Bush, Powell, Rice and Rumsfeld are treated equally to Blair by some people.
Running a bundler/transpiler in the browser seems to be the goal in itself, but if you’re asking why that is useful: to allow developer tools to run in a browser, without a backend. Their products are dev oriented, so they can save server time this way.
In my experience, the you.com apps and overall search results aren't affected by SEO the same way that some of the other engines are, which is why I think their results work for me
Thank you! My dad quoted it all the time, but I didn't know where it came from lol.
I currently use an abundance of apps to track each of my different habits so I'm thrilled that there's finally a place where I can do it all in one place. Amazing work team!
It's really comes down to wether you think exceptions are an everyday thing not. I like going by the dictionary definition of the word "exception" which states that they are not.

Out of curiosity, in what languages are error return types non-idiomatic?
> employable in the capitalist sense after 6 or so month

Bad developers, bloated software and technical debt go hand in hand and eventually bite back.

The world needs more good developers, not just more developers.
I am an American, born and raised here. It's a great place, people are great. Just like anywhere, there are good people and bad, there are kind people and mean, there are helpful people and not helpful.

Over and over I encounter good people with views that I don't agree with, that would help me in a heartbeat and I would help in a heartbeat. If you fall victim to the mentality that everyone sucks, guess what, everyone will suck in your eyes.

Personally, I think the modern western culture is pretty sick, there's a ton of narcissism, people are sucked into their fake worlds behind their media screens. That doesn't mean they are bad people, it means that the incentive structure of western society is fundamentally broken. Don't confuse bad people with people who are under sway of a broken media system.
Yup, that's when I stopped reading. It's clear the author has little practical, real world experience with building. In another comment I pointed out if he started watching Matt Risinger's YouTube channel he would see that things like his concern about bricks and moisture have been solved problems, with even better solutions that handle the issue better while decreasing construction time and cost.

Also is 1000 years really necessary for the vast majority of housing? There has to be a balance to these things and that seems like way overshooting for most needs.

Rather than shooting for something silly like 1000 years, how about focusing on building to climate of the area the home is in? I'm thinking of the picture from about 4 or five years ago of the major hurricane in Florida where an entire area is wiped out except for one house that looked practically untouched. The home owner spent about 20% more and got something that survived a major hurricane. 20% more is far more feasible and will get at least some people's attention - but what this person is advocating is a complete non starter for any kind of broad adoption. The costs are just too great.

Another example is all the above ground housing in tornado prone areas. We should be building partially buried houses with domed earthen roofs - no sharp edges sticking above the ground for wind to get under or drive debris into at high speed. Would be simple to implement - partial in ground houses have been a thing since the 70's and had their share of problems but as time and experience builds, we have techniques and new materials to make their construction pretty routine (and they can still be light and airy inside despite being partially underground). The real problem is people - a major culture change is required to drive acceptance of different home styles. Good luck with that. Maybe if the government stopped handing out disaster relief funds unless the funds required people to take steps like the above to prevent future disasters on the same scale - might be the only way to get people to think more of long term consequences.

The tales of the grasshopper and ant (and the cultural analogs) are thousands of years old for a reason. It's far easier, short term, to be a grasshopper :p
crypto evangelicals are either get rich quick folks or sound money advocates. The former sucks but they are in every investment cicle.

The latter's religion has been based in seeing governments bailout bad actors with 0 consequences & devalue a currency astronomically over a 100 year period. Salaries are not keeping with the rise in asset prices which means the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Buying a house in CA as a millennial is laughable.

Bitcoin or a gold standard is the only system that encourages a thriving middle class economy and keeps the government from poor policy decisions. Bitcoin seems to be better than gold since its mobile, transparent, finite. But i'd welcome a return to a gold standard with open arms.

I believe that 1) not all solutions can be 100% perfect for all problems an 2) a medium of exchange created by the people is our only hope to keep the gov/fed from enslaving with us debt forever 3) Judging what should/should not be able to use electricity is a slippery slope.
On the engineering side, there aren't any good reasons. Engineering didn't put in all the effort to implement the add-ons APIs on Mobile only for it to be restricted to such a small set. It's product management's decision.
I'm working on a project right now that uses __init_subclass__ and it works great, but takes some tricks (like having classvars with types set) in order to get mypy to cooperate. But it's way easier to reason about than metaclasses.
I browsed his channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/CyclingMikey/videos

Regardless if you agree with his actions, Most of the cases are in red light \ traffic jams...
Is there anything else in your life that you are not forced to do, but you do with consistency? I will take a wild guess and say “no.

I think you are asking the wrong question. From where I sit you have a discipline and consistency problem. Not a “I can’t build a product” problem.

Building anything in life takes time and patience. The reason you never finish anything is you don’t have those traits developed.

For all these years, what you have done is played with technology and learned new things. You didn’t actually try to build a product.

While the first is very valuable, it’s completely different than the second.
Assuming we are talking about innate and not cultural qualities:

If I do not assume we optimize for the quantifiable, I must assume either (1) we optimize for the unquantifiable, (2) we do not favor one way or the other (innately), or (3) human nature has changed over a very short (few thousand year) time period.

I was trying to rule out (1). (3) Seems pretty easy to rule out purely on our understanding of evolution. And (2) would follow after ruling out (1) and accepting the original assumption.

But onto this:

> Can you think of a historical period in the distant part where there is evidence of a preference for quantification?

Tax law.
Hire more people have several shifts. Increasing pay when you're maxing people out already.
The author's premise seems to boil down to 1) don't have errors and 2) "simply" make sure that your APM system has sufficient context to identify what went wrong. Of course, both of those are pretty impossible and they ignore the similarity between creating a constant flow of information for later use (logging) and creating a constant flow of information for monitoring (not logging). I could go on and on here.

The "real" point seems to be that logging should be useful and consistent, which I agree with.
You're right, and that's definitely a concern for a lot of users. The idea is you should be able to set any WireGuard configuration file setting from the server, including PostUp and PostDown, which are just arbitrary commands.

However, we're adding a switch for this pretty soon which will allow disabling the edit-ability of those fields.
I grew up in a 600 year old house. That isn't particularly unusual in the part of the UK I was born in. The village church is 1200 years old. There's a chapel not too far away that dates from around 600 AD.

We're not going to change it much. We fix it when it breaks.

Most of North America (or at least, the bits I've visited) seems to be fixated with new buildings of sometimes questionable construction standards, and they tend to get replaced fairly regularly. One of my Canadian friends told me that "People prefer to live in new houses". Here, the opposite is much more common.
Wi-Fi Series X/S
Are you using the official tree-sitter grammars as-is? Or tweaking/writing your own to support your use case? From what I've seen not all of them are suited to structural editing, since the emphasis is on syntax highlighting.
A price is a signal and serves as incentive to produce the good. Setting an arbitrary low price for anything is a bad idea.

> If you want to "let the market fix it", poor people won't be able to afford electricity.

If you want to give poor people electricity, just give them money which they can use for electricity or whatever else they may need. The solution isn't to pretend that electricity is cheaper than it is. Not only does it create issues like miners exploiting the system, but it also encourages wasteful uses of electricity, removes a valuable market signal and removes autonomy of those poor people you're trying to help. Maybe they would trade off some electricity for better housing. Instead you're making the decision for them.
I have been laughed at by passengers in my car before for using my turn signals when no other cars were around. That really blew my mind the first time. Why anyone would try shaming someone else for adhering to safe driving practices is beyond me.

If you just use them all the time, you don't have to remember to use them in the right situation. That was a concept more than one person I know couldn't understand.

This was in California with other licensed drivers.
Sure. I'm not suggesting it be used to this effect; I'm noting the generality as an interesting point.
The clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS-zEH8YmiM
> running add-ons in a separate process as on Desktop isn't possible, because on Android secondary processes can get killed at any time, which add-ons aren't set up to handle correctly

That's true (though it will probably improve as WebExtensions evolves toward service workers), but engineering wasn't hung up on that.
I wonder how many companies are bulk ordering M1s for their employees? And how much that is a factor in shortages?
It has a strong following on HN. Personally, I haven’t heard about it anywhere else.
I have yet to come across an old house that I did not want to gut. To update wiring, plumbing, gas lines, central air, siding, roof. By the time you are done, you are only saving on replacing the frame, but tearing down a frame of spaced 2x4s and plywood sheets are not that much waste in my experience.