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Please don't post shallow indignant comments to HN. They're lame, even if you're right, and they make discussion quality significantly worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
https://archive.is/RJQQX
I wonder if there’s money to be made in the application of ML/NN’s for an app that uses your phone camera to tell if snowfall on a slope is within avalanche conditions, along with an unmanned drone that’s able to drop a cannonball or whatever to induce the avalanche pingable from the app…
Graduated with a degree in economics and because I liked the subject but didn’t want to go into more school for a PhD or teach and I didn’t attend an elite school (even if I did it wouldn’t have mattered) I didn’t get into the high flying world of high finance.

So returning home after graduation someone told me about a role with the state as a SQL an analyst. I studied SQL for a few days and didn’t get the job but when I reached out to a recruiter who was looking to fill a junior DBA position and asked if I knew SQL I said I did. (Hubris, complete hubris). I barely got the job — my SQL was super weak.

And from there I learned like a sponge and had various jobs from DBA to data warehouse dev to Python developer to SRE and now as a data engineer.

So hubris plus a recruiter plus a junior role with low expectations was my foot in the door.

(Edit: prior to this at 12 j took apart my father’s 486 and put it back together before he got home from work for the day. It was our only computer. And when it worked I fell in love with hardware and computing.)
>IRC is not immune from this kind of childish meddling.

IRC is just a protocol, Discord is a service provider.

I'm in no control over what Discord deems appropriate and they can terminate my "server" (Guild) that they're letting me use at their own whim (or by accident) with little to no recourse.

I can run my own IRC server or use a variety of preexisting IRC networks which typically are fairly lax on over-enforcement unlike Discord.

>Just a few months ago freenode underwent a hostile takeover and unlike most Discord communities, it is probably not coming back from that BS.

Similar to Discord, Freenode is a service provider.

Should the folks who administrate a IRC network have goals that don't align with you (or there's a hostile takeover which changes the operation's goals) you can connect to a different IRC network, this is largely what happened in the case of Freenode -> libera.

If Discord decides to nuke your guild there's not an alternate discord to connect to, they must switch to a different client and service.

If an IRC network decides to nuke my channel I can just switch to a different network.

Overall the likelihood of a well behaving guild on Discord getting nuked randomly is low, but regardless of Discord or IRC you should still have alternative methods of communications and not put all your eggs in one basket. You don't want to lose connections with all of the people you talk with because some moderator or IRCop got bored.
> As it became obvious some officials were willing to lie, this opened the door to many people having no idea who to trust.

> I believe public trust in leaders and institutions is at an incredible low, and I’m not sure how it can be repaired.

I’m not sure you can conclude that the ability or willingness of people to trust anyone is the thing that has weakened when so many people who boastfully distrust traditional mainstream experts also do trust some extremely specific set of claims from some random YouTuber or talk show.
You’re still paying for it somehow. Be it in security or privacy.

But that’s a trade-off everyone makes, and for a lot of people it’s worth it.
Forget even needs. I don't blame employees for playing the game for whatever reason, as that is the game management has, though its actions/neglect, decided that it wants played.
Stats say different.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/738868/vegan-vegetarian-...
Yes, the adage a "dropped argument is a true argument" remains true for many (but not all) forms of high school debate. That said, there is wiggle room in that an exceptionally stupid argument is not considered to need much response, but it should be touched on.
Perhaps this will be clearer: (1) Don't interpret my post as snarky (2) don't judge my comment as thoughtless and non-substantive when a thoughtful and substantive interpretation to my laconic comment exists (as you have become aware).

I heard you have a rule about that. Maybe you could lead by example.

>Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
I think in an ideal world, I'd have my split keyboard sit in a custom fixture with an apple trackpad placed where my thumbs rest as per my MacBook pro.

On mbp i never feel need for a mouse.
The Didactic Novel
The founder left then they were bought by Zynga and shutdown within a year. I agree. I loved the site and check up on the founder from time to time on twitter.
How is this news now? This isn't a new thing
Neither Einstein nor Feynman. It's just one of those quote memes that get stuck to famous people because those are the most likely attributions to get repeated.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2019/10/19/barmaid/
Show HN: NFT Sales Bot – sell something on OpenSea, ping 1000s of apps
You bring up a falacy here which I see a lot.

>> "If they put even a portion of the funds they would have spent into funding said free projects"

That's not how govt, or even private, spending works. Govt spending doesn't say "hey, we saved money not buying windows, let's donate money to the Linux foundation". Assuming they save money at all (after retraining, support etc) it simply gets put back in the pot to be spent, or wasted, on the next thing.

Donating from govt funds is really hard, and is frankly just too much like hard work.

It's the same for business. We use free software all day long, but money saved there goes to lots of things, actually contributing to Open Source is an uphill battle.
That was interesting. Surveys are not that reliable though, and the outcome depends on how the question is being asked.

I found this 2020 survey by Pew Research which I think paints a more realistic picture [1]. It has a larger sample size [2], and IMO it asks a more objective/specific question.

Among "Conservative Republicans", 59% responded that they support expanding nuclear power plants, in contrast with 35% of "Liberal Democrats". Interestingly, for "Mod/lib Republicans", that number is also below 50%.

You might have a point though. My personal observation is that there has been a slight shift among the progressives, but not as much as the graph by ecoAmerica suggests.

[1]: https://archive.is/2iEHj#selection-1253.0-1253.154

[2]: I think the sample size is 10,957.
This is just the tip of an iceberg. Virtue signalling is at the core of everything nowadays.

Meaningless verbiage in speaking and writing, full of current memes, current useless abstract concepts and other bullshit.

Piles upon piles of useless, redundant abstractions, tons of bullshit code as in J2EE or current node_modeles mass idiocy.

And the real virtue is in making minimal, just right, as close to "what is" as possible, and almost no one of current imposters could do or even understand this.

They think Haskell is about monads lmao.
If anyone is looking for a well-maintained coloring package, check out Chalk (https://github.com/chalk/chalk)

I'm one of the maintainers (https://github.com/sindresorhus).
Does anyone remember zug.com from the 90s?
I think the two key texts here are Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs and Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism, specifically his riff on “market Stalinism”:

> The idealized market was supposed to deliver ‘friction free’ exchanges, in which the desires of consumers would be met directly, without the need for intervention or mediation by regulatory agencies. Yet the drive to assess the performance of workers and to measure forms of labor which, by their nature, are resistant to quantification, has inevitably required additional layers of management and bureaucracy. What we have is not a direct comparison of workers’ performance or output, but a comparison between the audited representation of that performance and output. Inevitably, a short-circuiting occurs, and work becomes geared towards the generation and massaging of representations rather than to the official goals of the work itself. Indeed, an anthropological study of local government in Britain argues that ‘More effort goes into ensuring that a local authority’s services are represented correctly than goes into actually improving those services’. This reversal of priorities is one of the hallmarks of a system which can be characterized without hyperbole as ‘market Stalinism’. What late capitalism repeats from Stalinism is just this valuing of symbols of achievement over actual achievement.
hi folks, i made this as part of January's "#BuildSell30" hackathon. by integrating Zapier + Discord, the tool is a lot more flexible than simple pings in a chat community.

i'm not really trying to make $ from this so if you want a free account, just add "?coupon=free" to the billing page URL (then refresh the page).

Ryan (@ryanckulp)
> Couldn't agree less. Having used Hinge vs Tinder. It's a huge ergonomic difference.

Indeed that comment read like an unashamed sour grapes excuse.
The only thing different between Tesla’s and GM/Toyota/Volkswagens manufacturing processes is the marketing. They all use the same equipment.

Most manufacturing lines (robots, presses, equipment) etc are built by dedicated machine builders (not unlike ASML for chip fabs). This is a very mature industry.

GM, Volkswagen, Toyota, etc, would build 8M vehicles a year, across dozens of products lines, and refresh their vehicles ever 3-4 years. Tesla just approached 1M last year. Tesla is not a major customer in this space yet, so in some cases they just bought a small machine builder to make there lines for them. (Although granted equipment manufacturers do love to list’s them as a customer for the “cool” factor).

An electric car is way simpler to manufacture. Think of how many moving parts are in an engine and transmission alone. So many in fact that engine plants and transmission plants are there own separate 3M+ sq ft facilities. I would think the decreased manufacturing time would come down to this, because from what I have seen Tesla plants run way less efficient than any of the established auto manufacturers.
Sulake (of Habbo fame) built something called the Electrolobby Game Jam and I remember being a kid and hearing about it on Tech TV. It was probably made in Macromedia Flash.

I never got to try it! I wish there was an archived page of it somewhere but it was an online multiplayer game environment, too, so I don’t think it would have worked without the server.
In clockwise from top left: input, wireframe, textured output, normal map. Sliders to right changes parameters such as art styles, shapes, shadows, rotation. Author seems to be a developer behind an easy-to-use humanoid 3D model making tool VRoid Studio, says the work is a personal hobby project.

What I feel interesting is semantic connection I can see, that contrasts geometric disconnection that are obvious, between top left and bottom right. In my opinion, this short video summarize syntactic aspects that many anime-style style transfer glosses over.
I posted this a while back and it echoed a lot of the same sentiments of your comment. Wondered whether it was just a relative junior complaining, but evidently not.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/pzofk7/t...
It's on Spotify if you like audiobooks
great post title, didn't deliver.
Yeah, sorry, I'm blaming more on Poettering than is really fair. But firewalld is closely coupled with the overall systemd architecture and the projects are interconnected.
"Asceticism" is probably a better term, I would guess.
Correlation doesn't mean causation. Solitude, substance abuse, stress and economic hardships are all known linked causes that tend to drastically increase death rates. Drug overdoses killed nearly 100k people last year alone, not even counting the indirect or unreported deaths

Also you're comparing apple to oranges. Contrary to most Western countries, New-Zealand focused on sealing their country away, meaning they didn't have to have harsh lock downs for a long time.
When you don't have anything, you don't know what you don't want. Once you've owned a thing, you have a better perspective of the actual value you derive by owning it. In most cases, people like the idea of owning a thing more than actually owning it, but that is difficult to distinguish without a lot of experience owning stuff. Consequently, maximalism is a natural phase for most people and many never have enough money to find its practical limits.

Minimalism, the rich people kind, is what happens when you've sampled the limits of various things and realize nothing will make you care about 95% of them. So you discard that 95% without any risk of FOMO because you've been there and done that. This is the peace of mind that allows them to focus their time and money on the 5% of things that do matter to them. These kinds of minimalists don't have much stuff, but what they do have tends to be extremely high quality and functional. It is a difference between economic minimalism and domain minimalism.

The trajectory from forced minimalism to maximalism back to intentional minimalism is not going to be inexpensive for most people. Like many people, I followed this trajectory to its logical conclusion. Looking back, it isn't obvious to me that it is possible to skip the maximalist step. It provides critical context that allows someone to understand where not to minimalize, which will be different for every person.
There's the opposite to be argued too - going fully remote over the pandemic has negatively impacted the kind of office sociopaths whose contribution was ONLY performative work.

There's one or two I used to put up with pre-pandemic, you know the types, management brown nosers, desk dropping all day long, and trying to command attention where it's simply not warranted. They've dropped off the radar altogether since they can't perform their schtick in person.
The number itself is meaningless without giving some baseline. How many is 'many'? As compared to what? Also notice judgemental assumption creeping in, whether intended or unintended, that this is certainly a bad thing: Those many unmarried people, they surely should be married, shouldn't they?
This exists to some extent with harvesters and planters who travel to suit the season/region so the machine gets used much longer each year than it would on one farm.
I’m a hobbyist videographer and I’m not above setting up my lighting (3-point with octobox, strip box, and hair snoot) and camera (a7s iii with G lens) as a webcam to impress. I’ve recorded a few instructional videos at work with it, set it up for the first couple weeks after acquisition to meet the team, and I’d use it for job interviews if I was looking.

It’s not why I have the gear but… “smoke ‘em if you got ‘em.”
Pdfs open in Firefox just fine.

So I presume your emphasis is on only. Are there any features in a pdf that lock it to Adobe reader? Is anyone (govt? ) using that feature.
Stage6 was ahead of its time, and budget too, I’m sure.

I remember how cool DivX was at the time, but you don’t hear much about it now since other standards have succeeded it.
The "sparks joy" part gets the most attention, but if you read her actual writing her advice is keeping things that are useful OR "sparks joy". That is, she's just saying to really think about your stuff and consider whether it's actually either useful to you or something you like. If it's neither, then consider whether you really need it.
The systemd "culture war" is just a side-effect of the hegemony server Linux enjoys over desktop Linux.

A very small percentage of sysadmins really care about what init system is running on their servers. If you look at who's forking distros and making systemd-free variants, and look at who the vocal anti-systemd users are, they're overwhelmingly desktop-focused users. But this is strange because desktop Linux barely needs an init system at all. The long-running daemons on a desktop Linux system only need be started on startup, if they crash, restarting them is unlikely to leave the system in a workable state anyway.

However, because server Linux dominates the Linux ecosystem discourse and distro news, people have an inflated view of how important these components are.

So my take-away has been: it's safe to ignore systemd criticism, since it's overwhelmingly coming from hobbyists who have no real use for an init system anyway.
I don't personally like the pricing model for energy in Australia and I can't wait for the realities of the 5 minute bid and future battery use like FCAS. But that said, even if this was a public utility model like I think it should be, and not this quasi free market (it's a highly regulated and very distorted market at times) price models like this would very probably work, and apply to balancing the energy supply and consumption.

Demand management as a virtual generator is interesting too. Supermarkets and shopping centres have huge HVAC which can bid in and out to consume surplus power into water chilling or heating and use it for its thermal qualities later.
Just today: “Youth suicide attempts soared during the pandemic.” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29859149

We don’t have the figures yet, that’s why we think lockdowns helped. But cholesterol doesn’t kill immediately. Alcohol doesn’t kill immediately. Loneliness doesn’t kill immediately, it slowly settles as friendships got destroyed in anger during the pandemic, and new meetups didn’t arrive, and the guy becomes homeless 5 years later. It may take years, but a lot of human misery will have been triggered by choosing lockdowns. We don’t even have the figures yet.

> severely limits the spread of an airborne virus

Yes, while we’re locked, and then it just takes weeks to recirculate as normal. It took >1 year to get the vaccines, only a 1 year lockdown would have solved us, therefore it is …not a solution to anything to lock people down.

Not a secret that solitary confinement in prisons is used to destroy someone. Lockdowns made a lot of people completely crazy, particularly the people you don’t notice immediately. But who cares, we’ve solved Covid! Wait, we didn’t.
Survivorship bias. Most fail quickly, the only ones that make it are the super dedicated couples.
I've been on the other end of such reviewers. Building community and engaging in it takes a whole ton of seemingly non-core work, but community-of-practice research is totally a thing, and for folks who empirically study innovation, one of the best approaches in practice. Likewise, it's common wisdom by systems researchers to invest in platform early to get compounding results later. Two of my best projects, include two awarded top of the year / decade in my field, came from the former, and colleagues made a few $B companies from the latter. And yet, reviewers assume they know best. Just because it's not your approach...

(And yes, I spent time on logos, websites, and whatnot that never make it into papers: it all adds up and you never really know what is ok to drop until after the fact. More so, the paper is the worst form of result and better as just a stepping stone, IMO: a paper is the failure to do anything more meaningful & expansive, like a community of practice or company.)
I have plowed before with tractors of this size. (Actually, the tractor I drove was larger.) The article doesn't cover it, but I would be curious about the real world logistics of such a tractor. For example, how does it know about the soil conditions and thus whether to stop or continue plowing? (Plowing wet soil is not good.) How does it sense when there's a flat tire on the plow? How does it sense when a duck foot (aka blade or chisel) has broken, come loose, etc.? What's the UX of starting or stopping it and transferring to another field? I would love to see how it handles trees, telephone/electrical poles, ditches, fences, etc. when driving and plowing. These were all things that I had to deal with or pay attention to.
If you want to build search in Python you can get a very long way using the full text search engine built into SQLite, which is available in the Python standard library.

I have some tools for using that here: https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io/en/stable/python-api.html#...
At a Danish conference (during the raw food craze) a well-meaning chef served Elderberry smoothies for breakfast, within an hour it had a devastating effect on 60 of the attendees digestive systems, not to mention the venue toilets.
Marie Kondo’s systems work great for a small segment of the population, but not for everyone else. For most it is more aspirational, than attainable.

For everyone else I’d recommend checking out Clutterbug: http://clutterbug.com
This is the organizing system featured in HGTV’s Hot Mess House.

(Full disclosure: I am related to the founder of Clutterbug as well)
Huge only because he seperated commits for each header. Just about 100k, less than a typical filesystem.

No logic changed, he just removed unneeded deps, split some headers into 2. Other patches are harder to review.

But the crux is to test against all the configs, and the burden for external patches. This will require a major bump to 6.
Comparing Python 2.7 - a release of software - with programming languages (Python is 30 years old and I'm not complaining about the use of it), human languages, and systems of mathematics makes no sense.

When discussing teaching C to beginners, no one is insisting on bringing up considerations for the C compilers of 1972 or their dialects. When discussing teaching new speakers of English how to ask someone their name, no one says, "yes, but in old English you'd need to say 'Hwæt hātest þū?'". I can't really come up with a pithy dismissal regarding Euclid, but not to get too metaphysical, the idea that Python 2.7, C, or English - human constructs - are comparable to Euclidean geometry, which is a sort of immutable construct of logic and/or human cognition, is just plain bizarre. Ideas are timeless; software isn't. I don't begrudge us for using Unix per se - it's a damn fine idea after all - but as elegant as it is, there's no good reason to be running V7 these days.

Or, to return to a different OS: again - in the year 2000, Windows 2.1 was 12 years old. Would you have said then, "there's nothing wrong with using Windows 2.1; after all, English is 1000 years old and we still use it?"
Innovators making profits - this is the premium we have to pay for exploration. On the other hand, if we rejected exploration everyone would be worse off. Just take a look at innovation in communist regimes.
I'll never understand the peculiar mania Kondo seems to induce in people who seemingly willfully misunderstand or misrepresent her. Even in this thread you have people who have clearly never read what she's actually written or said but are attacking her based on vague things they've heard.

She's not preaching minimalism, or any particular aesthetic at all. She's just saying to really think about your stuff and consider whether it's actually either useful to you or something you like. If it's neither, then consider whether you really need it.

But that's up to the individual. If they find they like or need their spaces filled with things, great. If they like a minimalist space, also great. Whatever works for them.

She just urges you to seriously think about your possessions and your living space, because it's so easily to mindlessly accumulate without really considering how you want to live.
You can already choose to not be spied on by apple or ms. So this law changes nothing there.

You will continue to be spied on by the NSA either way so the law changes nothing there.

What the FSF is really saying here is that they wish to remove the choice you currently have to be spied on or not.