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Former defense/intel contractor here (currently co-founder of a start-up):

Fuck No!

The Federal acquisition process is an absolute nightmare that favors incumbents. Innovation in this sector is extremely difficult, because contracts are super specific, down to requesting/stating the exact technologies to be implemented, rather than a higher-level capabilities based RFP.

https://www.acq.osd.mil/DPAP/dars/dfarspgi/current/index.htm...

It's a nightmare, it's a quagmire, and it needs to be fixed. Until then, anyone who invests in a start-up in this space is out of their minds.
> I'd be surprised if anyone got a promotion based on their WinGet work. There has been no significant adoption of WinGet in the market.

Because it's an terrible implementation of a package management. Don't get me wrong, it's better than nothing but still...

For instance:

- we can't pin packages (there's an open issue for God knows how long) Problem with that is that if you do "winget upgrade --all" it will upgrade all your programs even those that you don't want to upgrade. The alternative is simply upgrading one by one.

- Some programs have a problem with their version (GOG Galaxy for instance). Winget simply doesn’t know that there’s no newer version available and keep trying to upgrade everytime you do “winget upgrade –all”. This, in turn, make the previous point more annoying as I can’t say to winget ignore “GOG Galaxy” and upgrade all the other packages.

- Some programs are downloaded from websites that are probably heavily throttling downloads from winget, this make downloading qbittorrent (20mb) takes a LONG time and usually failing.

I have no idea of how to fix these issues as I'm just a user but there's a stark difference between using windows winget and apt or pacman.
> Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in your country.

Wow, seems like the technique is very effective!
No one encounters 10 misplaced scooters in a 3-4 minute walk, and it would take under a minute to move a single scooter. That's a very unrealistic hypothetical.
I considered this a few months ago, but it's a bad idea for a few reasons. One is that it increases the load on archive.org. (There are a significant number of bots, and adding 30 million new links for them to spider is no small thing.)

The more important reason is that it's hard to do programmatically. For every link, you'd want to link to the most recent, active archive entry. As far as I know, this isn't easy to determine.

Have you ever had the experience of going to archive.org, plugging in a url, and seeing that the most recent one is actually dead, but then you can go back in time and find what you're after?

It's easy to say "Well, that's ok. Take me to the dead link, and I'll go back myself." Maybe. But with Dan's exacting standards, I somehow don't think that'll pass muster.

The ultimate reason this probably won't happen, though, is because people can do it themselves. It's not hard to copy the link and visit archive.org. Every other link (past, flag, hide, favorite) is there because it's hard to do.

EDIT: On the other hand, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30384630 shows a way it could be done. I didn't know about the date wildcard feature.
The older I get, the more I'm into plug-and-play.

For everything.
Steve from GamersNexus said a few weeks ago he might have just managed to catch "a big fish" in hiring...
> Why not soccer team for that matter? That seems closer to development then any vehicle racing anyway.

Perhaps unintentionally, a good analogy for traditional software teams. Eleven players, one or two stars, the other players mostly looking good because they can pass the ball to the top players.

In the end, all analogies suck. Pair programming is a pretty unique situation in the workplace, it works great for some people, others will never like it. It worked for me because I was kept on task. It may have slowed down the top performer but that person appreciated the company. Overall I think it made our team of 8 at the time more productive than they’d have been with separate assignments, and it really helped with team cohesion.
While true, it's also of course true that much of the desert in the world right now is man-made, a result of desertification due to human activity. The Sahara has virtually wiped out the Sahel. Some of this is natural (though, of course, it's debatable whether we want to simply allow "natural" processes) but a lot of it human driven. The Gobi is even worse. Even processes that take place at a breakneck pace are still barely noticeable in a human life, so most people are the prototypical boiled frogs.

And indeed, we learn that Herbert's inspiration for Dune was encroaching desertification in Oregon (largely caused by humans) and the geoengineering efforts to create a green belt to stem the tide.
Are you aware that if you loan your vehicle out and it's used in a crime you're liable?
How we created an animated short to explain and promote our product suite
I use LXC containers as my development environments.

When I changed my setup from expensive Mac Books to an expensive work station with a cheap laptop as front end to work remotely this was the best configuration I found.

It took me few hours to have everything running but I love it now. New project is creating a new container add a rule to iptables and I have it ready in few seconds.
Given that the rental scooter market is concentrated in cities, and that the roads where they're used are typically limited to 30mph or less, unless the person is actively throwing the scooter at the car, the cause of a crash would be an inattentive driver rather than a poorly-positioned scooter.
I appreciate the dissonance just fine. I live here and face it every day when actually interacting with people. We go out of our way to support them as much as we can (buying furniture and things for those who cannot afford it, proving financial and emotional support, and just hanging out with them).

As I’ve mentioned now several times, I’m not blind to it. The UAE has engaged in many poorly made decisions, however I was simply trying to engage in some conversation about something the western media doesn’t often talk about - the positive things the UAE does. If your response to that is, “the UAE is entirely negative, why engage in anything positive”, then I’d suggest seeking information on the positive things the country has done for others. Maybe it’ll broaden your horizon and bring some nuance. I’d state more positives here, but I keep getting called names, so I won’t list any more positives.
Cool project! Though I have to say it’s kind of funny to see a powerful microcontroller with custom firmware used for something that you can get cheap, dedicated ICs for. Capacitive touch is easy to do with any number of ICs, no firmware required.
Political will, yes, but if you think people aren't willing to receive help and all the resources we need are there you are so misguided my friend. We can't even fund student lunches in many states. The primary problem across the board is lack of committing resources. Similarly child allowance tax credit was literally lifting people out of poverty but we don't have the political will to renew it.

People accept help when you give it. This why quite embarrassingly one third of GoFundMe campaigns are to fund medical expenses that wouldn't even have happened with a decent healthcare system. Don't come to me with this argument when literally millions of people are resorting to begging on GoFundMe.

If a child goes home with a coat and comes back without it, they probably have bills and a financial situation at home so dire that they sold the coat.

How is a family of four making $25k/yr supposed to deal with a $120k medical bill when they lack health insurance because this gig economy and the 3 shift jobs they work don't provide it?
Yes. As long as the pulp of the tooth is healthy.

From what I've read, there's a tradeoff with time prior to removal however. The earlier in your life you take them out and freeze them, the higher their regeneration factor is. The DPSC (Dental Pulp Stem Cells) should always be there as long as the tooth is alive.
Based on your first comment, I already knew you were neither intelligent nor being reasonable, but this comment also shows you have no idea how even basic things work.

The Federal government in the US controls the borders and a Federal agency, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) enacts border policy. Just as in every country in the world to legally enter that country you must pass through customs and passport control in any airport, seaport, border crossing, or otherwise. Whether that's in Florida or elsewhere.
> I have long suspected this will happen Anandtech seems to have trouble getting editor to stay

Wasn’t Ian associated with Anandtech for 10 years? That seems like a long enough in today’s world.

Also please note that working for Anandtech gives you a lot of profile and publicity. Other people in the industry may want to snap you up!
I mean do we really need the scooters at all in a country with 71.6% of adults overweight? A walk would do some good.
It is definitely easy to go down the road of relativazation.

* On reading: For most people we need better role models than our parents. For sexuality this is probably even ore true.
* Every person is not so different. It would appear that sexual dreams are in variation of 10 different "universal" ones.
* Studying the underlying dynamics is not about trying hard, indeed it is the contrary. You probably don't even know why the comment "Don't try to hard, just listen and be patient." is merited? If you read you will ;)

You would probably be one of these people who find it natural to talk with women, court them, etc. Congratulations. It is like a heiress telling her poor friends not to study hard to get a job -- just get money from your parents!
Teltonika 4G routers can be used as gateways at least for SMS. They run OpenWRT and you get shell access out of the box so you could potentially get voice working too.
There is conflicting information about how bad is the Internet for kids[^1], but assuming we find out it is bad, and kids must be disconnected at any cost or (put something terrible here), then it could be a good business idea to create "parental suburbs" in the middle of nowhere (say, mountainous region scarcely populated with very bad weather) with no Internet access. Because only family with kids would ever like to live there, the kids themselves would get plenty of kids in the neighborhood to play with. And goats and border collies. Beats Meta.

[^1] I for one think that more physical activity would be good (and that can be achieved with VR, but that's not neither there nor here), and that girls and boys tend to like more the athletic type of the opposite/same sex (/sighs)
I've been meaning to do something about those troll comments because they were posted several years after the original threads and people are still getting confused by them. (Needless to say, Arrington wasn't Arrington.) There were 500+ comments all posted within an hour, obviously by script. They were dead not because they were voted down, but because we killed them years later. I thought that would be sufficient but it wasn't.

I have a hunch that was what prompted pg ("I never write a line of code unless I have to") to close old threads to new comments.

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30387562
> there is little chance you will not lose weight (barring severe health problems).

And you will probably either have severe health problems, either have a reduced metabolism to the point you can’t properly function on a day to day basis.

You’ll either give up, the pendulum will swing the other way and rebound your weight, and people will blame you for being too weak.

Or you’ll push through, lose your job and/or continue develop eating disorders, hopefully you’ll realize you can’t go on and give up, or you’ll get medicated, with side effects affecting your appetite and weight ingestion, might still end up rebouncing and get blamed for it.

You’ve got a snow ball’s chance in hell that you can keep your intake very low and be fine with it for the rest of your life, but then you’re probably already healthy and pretty normal weighted, because I don’t think anyone who can just stop eating extra would stay overweight for long with the pressure we apply on obese people as a society.

All of the above is really just par for the course for people who get told “just do CICO”. People for which it actually kinda works don’t usually need to be told anything in the first place.
In both scenarios you have a massive entity with near-infinite resources acting like it's so underfunded it can't take care of it's own shit.
> Novel writing is complex, chess is complex, art is complex.

Well one thing you need to consider is that most software is not written in small, artisian batches but at scale. Pairing is one way to promote doing development and all the things you mention at a greater capacity than the individual.
Pop Culture Has Fallen Out of Love with the Nuclear Family
Maybe, but if someone steals my car and uses it in a crime I'm not. And in this hypothetical, the company didn't loan the scooter to the person who caused the car crash with it.
Agreed. There's very little actual science in this article, it just jumps around a bunch. It's peppered with phrases like:

- "Many -- or all -- of these things may be true."

- "Let’s consider this lure for a moment."

- "I can’t know that they were representative, though I did seek out people with a range of experiences."

- "Some observers have suggested..."

There's a huge amount of positing that something may possibly be a cause, often at best backed up with research that shows that it exists (as opposed to evidence that there's a strong correlation or any kind of scientific testing to indicate a causal relationship). There's also a ton of "person X says Y in their new book, could they be right?".

I don't understand where the praise for this article is coming from, if this is actually where the research on dating behavior is right now, then it's pseudoscience. I honestly would have expected HN to be a lot more critical of this, I've seen articles with less conjecture than this one get torn to shreds on here.
No, that's not what he's saying.

Put in a scientific context, it's correct to say that people whose genetic history is derived entirely from african ancestors are biologically distinct from people whose ancestor left africa a long time ago and then evolved in the regions they resided for long periods. We see this from genomic sequences as well as visible phenotypes (which is what most racial classifications are based on).
To be clear, I don't think this is okay. My comment is more pointing out that the article goes out of its way to act as if he's innocent only to later reveal he was actually convicted of the crime by a more trustworthy entity. It's a criticism of the article, not a justification of the treatment of this individual.

It's clear that debtor's prison, en total, is unethical. It's also illegal in most of the Western world. And for cases where someone is imprisoned for any crime, the sentence should match the crime, and the treatment within prison should be humane.

My latter commentary is about the risk factors that this person knowingly took on doing business in that region. I personally, having traveled extensively, would never engage in business in the Middle East because I understand the nebulous way debt is treated in the region. Usury is illegal under Islamic law, and generally speaking debt is only acceptable in the context of direct personal relationships, which means any dispute about it is taken as a personal insult. Taking on a debt from the finance minister and member of the royal family of a theocratic dictatorship is not a good life decision.
Ah, the World Narrow Web strikes again.

A crotchety Chicago man who became notorious among commuters for riding the train with a cellphone jammer and a six-pack of beer now faces felony charges for using the signal-blocking device to get some peace on his way home.

Dennis Nicholl, 63, faces felony charges of interfering with cellphone calls using a signal jamming device on the CTA Red Line in Chicago, Illinois.

Dennis Nicholl was arrested Tuesday for using a cellphone jammer on the metro because "he was disturbed by people talking around him," his attorney, Charles Lauer, told the Chicago Tribune.

The 63-year-old financial planner for the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System had become well-known among commuters on Chicago's Red Line railway who noticed their calls would drop around the bulky, antennaed device on Nicholl's lap.

Some commuters also noticed a six-pack of Old Style beer at his feet, as seen in photos that circulated online for months.

Nicholl was finally busted after undercover officers set up a sting operation and deployed a plainclothes cop to commute alongside him.

The inconspicuous cop made a phone call and, when it dropped after Nicholl turned on his device, he handcuffed him at the next stop.

Nicholl admitted to police that he "gets annoyed at people talking on their cellphones while riding on" Chicago's transit system, according to the police report.

Cellphone jammers violate federal law and can disrupt all phone or radio signals in their immediate surroundings, causing calls to suddenly drop. People who use or sell them in the U.S. can face prison time and significant fines — up to $16,000 for each violation, according to the FCC.

The judge on Nicholl's case dubbed the cantankerous commuter the "cellphone police" and set a hefty $10,000 bail.

Nicholl's lawyer said the man was harmless and just trying to get some peace and quiet on his ride home.

"He might have been selfish in thinking about himself, but he didn't have any malicious intent," Lauer said.

Nicholl posted bond and left jail Wednesday.
That is not the law. The law is that such theft is a misdemeanor which caries up to 6 months of jail time and a fine of up to $1000.

They are not prosecuted in San Francisco because the DA chooses not to do so.
That’s another use case which works way better under somewhat modified FreeBSD (PlayStation) than under Linux.
It is easy only to talk in abstract terms. Don't be a dick -- what does it mean? Nobody knows, unless they do. Some well intended people ended up in very bad sitatuations while always thinking they were not dicks.
I sincerely believe the incentives are out of whack. In the US, at least the only way to "win" parenting is to not play. We should refuse to have children at all.

My hope is once we see total fertility rate shrink below one, we will start to see proper support for parents and children with things like paid paternity leave and medicare for all enshrined in our laws.

That being said, I absolutely do not condone frequency jammers and were this to happen in the US, I'd argue a minimum of six months in jail is an appropriate sentence.
Not just that but they want to do independent validation work. They have dipped into it a little on the main channel already with cable and display testing but it seems they intend to go much further.
Yes, it seems like that's a good reason to switch to a better board, if this is something you're interested in using.

For example, a Raspberry Pi Pico is $4 and has 2MB. There are many other nice options from Adafruit or Teensy.

I see that the Uno R3 is a popular product on Amazon but I don't really get the appeal.
https://www.lawsociety.org.uk is the professional association for lawyers in England. Any reputable firm will be registered with it and you can search the register for some potential firms to approach. Edit: It's not the regulator that's a different body.
I find it kinda amusing that the New York Times lead reporter on cybersecurity has a book out literally called "This is How They Tell Me the World Ends" and we're on the worlds premier hacker forum pondering about the point of safety in software languages.
> It is sort of sad but BSD is bad at publishing news and tutorials.

Say what?

https://www.freebsdnews.com/

http://undeadly.org/

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/

https://mwl.io/nonfiction/os

https://nostarch.com/catalog/linux-bsd-unix

https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/
It's interesting that it now appears that the RTS genre is not dead, it just went on hiatus for a while. AOE4 came out recently, Frost Giant (a new studio from the people behind Starcraft 2 and Warcraft 3) have got a game in progress and now this.

As someone who has got back into SC2 (both playing and watching Pros) recently, this is all great news. The games industry is better with a good variety of genres and not everything being first person.
Of course you're not immediately "disqualified" from providing meaningful information if you don't have skin in the game. However, the current state of pretty much any science-related-to-food is woefully inadequate (remember the food pyramid? and how fat was evil and going to kill you? And don't even get me started on carcinogens and meat). At this present moment in time, people who are actually trying and living on keto (, in particular those with diabetes) are actually on the bleeding edge of food science.

I personally have friends who manage Type 1 & 2 diabetes with little-to-no insulin on Keto, and I'd hate to see people being turned away from at least researching a lifestyle that could significantly benefit them because a well-respected member of the community said it was "dangerous" (and often, deferring to doctors can be not helpful for reasons mentioned above - I wish people would at least research for themselves).
Why would an individual spend money on clothes, meals etc. to get spend time with a partner going through dating first base, second base etc, when they can just do it all online?
While I like this promotion system, I think it lacks something like what the military calls "billets". If I'm a principal engineer and I lead two teams of engineers to deliver projects then I should be compensated for my knowledge as a principal engineer, then I should be compensated for the magnitude of responsibility of being a team lead. They are, in fact, two separate things.
A Web Around the World, Part 4: From Telegraphy to Telephony
Ask HN: Is there an FOSS digital wallet?
I am not comfortable using proprietery digital wallets mainly for privacy concerns, is there one that is open source and local first?

Searching on f-droid does not return something other than cryptocoin specifics, what I am interested in is loading all the NFC cards I have on it and use my phone instead of carrying all my debit cards and NFC tags together.
I also have ADHD and find pair programming is great for me. Having a person that I am working directly with helps me keep on task and prevents my brain wandering off to do other things or scattering around a bunch of tasks.

Sometimes it helps me to have an external force help direct my focus.
How do you just disappear into the woods for a month or more? Don't you have rent or a mortgage to pay? When you get back, how do you resume life? I presume you're not regularly employed (This isn't a negative thing, I'm not making a value statement, I'd also like to be irregularly employed), but if you're self employed, how do you get your clients to accept that there are just whole parts of the year where they can't reach you? Is it just generational wealth that allows you to do this?
> There are more fundamental issues that need to be addressed first

I mean maybe so, but if I knew what they were, I'd already be doing them. This advice doesn't seem like it could help anyone.
When I was in highschool in India, our school had installed jammers everywhere to try and prevent the use of cellphones by the students.

This was done in part because a sister school had a student sex video make the rounds and it had gone viral being shared via Bluetooth in schools.

Anyway what they hadn't accounted for was that our school was right next to a cellphone tower.

Anyway it was a mess. You'd walk down a hallway and randomly go between full and zero bars.