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Ask HN: How to get boring once again?
Growing up in middle class family, I had almost no internet access till high school. I could read a book till hours and no one would bother me. I was not affected by any social media announcements or fast track news making my brain(tinkered by thousand years of evolution) go into panic stage. Life was more routined and controlled as I wanted to be. Less access to resources meaning I had to work around solutions and do things creatively without pressure of posting it on internet.

Now, I get distracted by so many new things coming up. Each new venue or event brings up a new opportunity. I am in my mid 20s and planning to get married. So, I have to invest in future like Mutual funds, stocks etc. I have to think about buying a house in next 10 years as the real estate prices are going up. I have a decent paying job but I have a fear that it will not be be enough for my retirement. So, I have either invest in opportunities like NFTs, cyrptocurrency, real estate etc. or start working on my own startup. I wanted to learn a lot of things but keep getting distracted.

So, how can I get boring once again? Boringly passionate about what I want to do. Is there any stream where I can work in and feel safe about it? Or Is it even possible for the remanants of Industrial Age to work in boringly passionate way as this doesn't suit work style of information age?

PS: I am looking for specific techniques, tricks or strategies which anyone has applied in their life and working for them. I am already going through the abstract advices on life goals, philosophy, values, beliefs etc.
I don’t think that’s the natural conclusion per se. The feature is just spec’ed from one side, the webapp side. It’s up to the browsers to implement some export feature to expose it to the system side. Maybe some simple generic browser extension can provide an export-as-zip feature.

There are still ways how this will not end in closed black-boxes.
That's pretty good. Especially if it saves energy on trains. but the cost is HUGE for 2 hours.
I think most if not every galaxy has dark matter so if it’s Dyson spheres that would mean that nearly every galaxy was colonized with Dyson spheres in the same way (except ours because we don’t have evidence of a galaxy-wide civilization).
The right answer:

https://roundcube.net/
I don't get it. So with Nix, every package I install will possibly come with its own dependency tree, completely independent from other packages. So instead of relying on distro maintainers who, say, check one version of OpenSSL, I'll be relying on the devs of each package. I doubt they will do the work, so either they will never update their deps, or update without checking them.

It feels like Nix is like npm for my system, and distributes the trust I put in maintainers between all the devs of all the dependencies. That's not what I want...

What am I missing?
The problem with eugenics is the coercive nature of it. People practice their own eugenics all the time - it's what we do when we engage in mate selection.

Genetic engineering of offspring is a very different postulate to eugenics though - eugenics is trying to control people's reproductive choice towards an outcome desired by an external party, whereas genetic engineering would be parents trying to get desirable traits for their offspring.

Technically I already did this when I had my first child: me and my wife got genetically tested for possible hereditary overlaps, as well as got as many screenings as were available when the child was developing.

If those tests had shown risk factors, we would have picked IVF or other options to specifically knock out those traits from being passed on. If the technology to select a bunch of genes in my child that favored intelligence, or lower risks of lifestyle disease were available, you bet I would've paid a fair amount of money to get that done too.
minimum_credit_score = Loan.joins(:borrower).where("loans.default = true").average("borrowers.credit_score")

if loan_applicant.credit_score > minimum_credit_score

decision = "approve"

else

decision = "reject"

end
> How would you know?

How do you know someone hired to drive a remote vehicle is being exploited?
I've written this before. The issue is not because it's functional at all. That's a proximate explanation that's just plain false.

Everyone I know that has tried Nix was a functional programmer first. Nobody had a good experience with Nix though.

If I could describe my issues with Nix it's that:

1. The syntax is odd. It's usually better not to stray too far from common programming languages if you want your language to be accepted.

2. You often find two examples which work individually, but they use a different way to do things, so it's hard to get them to work together in the same configuration.

3. A lot of examples depend on some specific functions, which are hardly explained at all. There seem to be a lot of these special functions that make it very hard to make a mental model you can work from.

4. The error messages are worse than C++ templating errors.

5. At least last I checked the documentation was really lengthy, but never gave a good overview of the language, only gave some inconsistent examples instead. In the end you don't feel like you learned something.
In most urban areas, parking spaces for cars are paid for by people who actually use those spaces. If you don't pay for the space you take up, you get a ticket. The same should be true of parking spaces for scooters if we want to convert one to the other (which I think is a great idea, by the way). Urban space is valuable.

If for-profit rental companies want to reserve some space for their own customers to pick up and return scooters, they should pay the city and/or whoever owns those spaces. They shouldn't be allowed to take a free ride on public infrastructure just because they're "greener" than cars. They've been using that excuse to push externalities onto the public for too long already, I don't trust them with any additional subsidies.
That sounds really nice! I wish we had train network in the US. Though I get the country is huge but so is Europe from tip to tip.
> I was only referring to the accepted fundamental truths about all human physiology

CICO is fundamental to human physiology in the same way that "people become indebted because they spend more money than they earn" is fundamental to economics: true, but utterly useless for actually addressing poverty or obesity. An attractive red herring and a dangerous one.

(It's even worse than that: at least we can measure income and expenses. Yet we can't measure caloric intake / expenditure properly.)
Maybe this is a stupid question, but is there actually enough raw material in the solar system to cover the surface of our star and build the necessary machinery to keep it in place, collect its energy, etc.?
I had a look at LendingClub data and indeed unsexy RF and GB were pretty good. This shouldn't surprise us though, because what are the likely predictive features other than how much the person makes compared to what they want to borrow? Sure, there's what they intend to do with it, perhaps adjustments as well for how high their income is relative to where they live. All things that a model can help quantify, but nothing terribly surprising either.

What's left is a bit of judgement as to whether an applicant is temporarily showing wrong data, eg if they're a student starting their first job, what is their income, low or high? But basically it means the bulk of cases can be done by machine and the loan officer looks at some corner cases.

Note this person is also an actual person, i.e. capable of being held to account. I once worked with a prime broker who decided to waive the red flagged checks on a certain client in order to win the business. The guy blew up badly, the bank lost money, and he lost his job.
It was never over 100,000 troops before, thanks for corroboration.

And it was not accompanied with urgent demands to undo all NATO expansion.
Removing the network connection might still work? Windows 10 could be installed and activated fully offline (activated via "slui 0x4" command that gives you 9 six digit numbers and tells you to call a number based on your location; after you enter them, you get 8 six digit numbers back to activate).

From another comment it sounds like you might not actually need to join a domain, it will just let you make a local account so that you can join a domain later.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30390857
There is always a tradeoff, we have sexual fitness but also survival fitness more general. There is a ceiling to each trait - in particular such as physical size there are significant tradeoff such as visbility calory need, skeleton strength and weight, etc. Presumably voice has less negative impact on survival so would be more affected by sexual selection, with the upper ceiling.

So a totally expected difference in difference.
> you would probably complain to HR

HR are sick and vile
So logging every request indefinitely and in detail wouldn't count?

The fact that you linked that page makes it seem like you agree that a CDN could collect user data.

So what would it look like to meet that bar, by your reckoning?
That page layout is extremely annoying
Hi everybody, author here. Firefly is a full-stack programming language in the making with colorless async/await.

Part 1: https://www.ahnfelt.net/async-await-inference-in-firefly/
Part 2: https://www.ahnfelt.net/async-await-inference-in-firefly-par...
Part 3: https://www.ahnfelt.net/async-await-inference-in-firefly-par...

I'd love to know what you think about it :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_forest
Several years ago, my friend interviewed for a software position at one not so hot company. He gave 13 rounds and then was told no.
In that case you may not even need to build a web based one. There's lots of nice DB GUIs which will connect over an SSH tunnel. If you're after a record editor, they're often enough.
I wonder what their splunk bill looks like, I imagine it’s not charged per GB =|
It is just one of those words, like never say never.

I think the article has a good point, it's not good for team dynamics if we are often and overly critical of other people's accomplishments. It is their baby after all.
This is brilliant! Being called a “file system access” api will confuse many people into thinking it’s about traditional file storage for “people” to use, like a file picker/save dialog. It’s not, this is about providing a block storage that can be used for other things.

The one I am most excited by is for persistent SQLite with proper acid transaction in the browser, not having to load the whole db into memory. Absurd SQL [0] currently does this by creating a VFS on top of IndexedDB. This would let it do it properly, and is likely to be upstreamed to SQL.JS which is the main SQLite WASM project.

0: https://github.com/jlongster/absurd-sql

Many new in browser DB engines are going to get built on top of this. Others that I could see happing are:

- Relm from MongoDB being ported to WASM and use this for storage.

- If I were Supabase I would be looking to create a “Mini Supabase” for mobile, and make it work in browser too.

- Couchbase Mobile as an alternative to PouchDB
ESA and 2nd Ave Subway Phase 2 are kind of the poster children of what's wrong with American infrastructure projects.

ESA was started in 2006 and planned to be finished in 2009 at the cost of $4.3B. It is now projected to be finished in 2023, at a cost of $12B.

Phase 2 of SAS costs $6B despite the fact that most of the tunnel actually already exists, and won't open until possibly 2029.

It's not even really about saving money to save money, but the high costs of these projects suck money away from other projects and needs. It's basically unfathomable at these prices for NYC to do something like Paris and build out 200 km (124 mi) of metro in the next decade.
you sound like you might not be a fully-committed capitalist, which could explain the hate you're getting, but that's just a guess.

i support what you're doing.

i'd advise to start listening to the Side Hustle Podcast.

guy seems legit smart, not a typical fake e-scammer, etc., and his general approach to becoming successful over time seems reasonable and not crooked. just my take.

outside of that, i think it's really important to stick with it, especially when you're young. you can do it when you're older, but i personally want to have a meaningful existence, and i feel like the best way to achieve that is by not working for someone else for most of your waking hours. and life is unpredictable, often too short.

also, you can work for yourself and still be plenty useless or worse, but it does seem you have a little bit more control over your future when not working for someone else.
Fresher Data Lake on AWS S3
Notion has many issues but Im not sure that viewing/editing on a watch and the lack of Siri/Alexa are very high on the importance list for most users.
The hunting example seems wrong. As you say, low frequencies carries well but are more undirected.

For driving hunts (? don't know the english term: where a large party fan out to drive the animal before them, towards a smaller killing party) the hunters needs to know exactly where everyone is. For this banging sticks togeather, whistles and clackers have been used since forever.

For stalking hunts, everyone keeps absolutely quiet.

In niether case the male voice is any real advantage.
I only had to read the summary to dissuade myself from continuing. Not interested in Twitter’s usage of vendor software.
It's not skimmed the article have a whole pararagrah entitled "Unicode To The Confusion" about that.

What you infer about sorting is better described as collation and is a separate set of problems.
https://www.unicode.org/collation/

There can be multiple collations for the same encoding and even for the same language inside the same encoding.

PS: As a matter of fact in some database like PostgreSQL you can define different collations for each columns if needed.
Pure blogspam. Before I even get a chance to look at the article I'm already being rushed with a "Subscribe to my newsletter" popup. I wouldn't be surprised if the whole thing is just an invitation for Notion to sponsor him so he'd stop saying nasty things about them.
... kinda like people who pretend that Zig is a competitor to Rust, and conveniently forget to mention that it does not promise memory safety.

I think that this comparison is unfair. First of all, the OSTree documentation doesn't pretend that it is something like Nix. It's an object storage for operating system images. Secondly, in contrast go Zig, OSTree most likely wider use/deployments than Nix, since it is used by Fedora CoreOS and Fedora Silverblue.

That said, even though Nix and OSTree are not very similar. For users, there are similar benefits: an immutable system, atomic upgrades/rollbacks, etc.

I think it is also much more likely that OSTree gets into the hands of millions than Nix.

(Disclaimer: I like Nix a lot and am a contributor to nixpkgs.)
It's funnier for Magic: The Gathering players. Seeing a sentence like "grist employee" is hilarious.
See:
https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Grist
Type systems are half of the equation, but what do you do when the algorithm is wrong? Type systems don't constrain you from writing incorrect solutions to the echo cancelation problem...you need real world data and runtime tooling for that. This is where IDE type tooling shines, nobody cares about the editor or the code in the end...
Auto completion also has the perverse effect of APIs developers relying on its existence to build large APIs that would be hard to use without autocomplete. I once counted 232 methods for a UI button in Java available through the auto complete menu. There is just no way to use that API by RTFMing, but with auto complete, you can just search for what you need as you need it.

Alot do the reason Java is the way it is is probably because auto completion gained in popularity at the same time it did.
From the Ginger Bill website "It is designed with the intent of replacing C"
There's speculation that supply chain issues forced their hand in removing radar, so it's likely something they had to do in order to keep moving cars. This was likely a rush job. Imagine killing radar on existing cars in a rushed manner.

They shipped cars without USB ports up front for a few weeks.
Yes, it's Lego not Legos.
You don't put it on the surface of the star; you orbit at a distance far enough away to maintain a reasonable temperature. Current solar panels are about 300 grams per square meter, but there are much opaquer materials than silicon, so you can probably get down to a hundredth of that. A sphere at the radius of Earth's orbit would be 2.8e23 square meters and thus at 300 grams per square meter 8.4e22 kg. Earth's moon masses 7.3e22 kg, while Jupiter masses 1.90e27 kg. So there's at least five orders of magnitude more raw material than you need.

If you happened to live in a planetary system without adequate gas giants, you could probably find some way to scoop mass off the surface of your star or capture it from coronal mass ejections, then use fusion to transmute it into the materials you need. Even Sun is 1.90e30 kg, and it's rather small as stars go.
Indeed, Dyson spheres would need to release some amount of waste heat, due to the laws of thermodynamics. If there were too many of them that heat would be visible (at least to infrared telescopes,) so we know that’s not the explanation for dark matter. Same with dust and other non-luminescent matter- it’s all way more visible than dark matter has to be, somehow.
Probably not. I was under the assumption we could build a Dyson swarm however.
if i remember correctly, the self hosted version of baserow doesn't have all the features that the paid version has, which is something that made me a bit apprehensive about using trying it out
We shouldn’t push a positive mindset on those in poverty
> other than a philanthropic effort by the founders.

This is 95% of the reason I want to have non-trivial sums of "spending money".

That might be $1000/mo I can throw at whatever I want, or, in the case of Stripe, something that can be easily rolled into accounting books, but counts as "experimental philanthropy".

A defining feature of the modern world is that power bows before narrative and memes.

Stripe (or, rather, individuals associated with Stripe) seem to be happy to contribute in ways to making it more likely that some of their views of the world are more likely to happen, simply by amplifying certain voices, in a fair and transparent manner.

Related: it might be that you don't mean to be dismissive of cool things about founders taking efforts to be philanthropic, but it sure comes across that way.
What does actual AI work look like these days?
Flatpak. Sandboxing taken to it's (il)logical extremes. If you like random data loss, confusing package manifests, low-performance and generally broken software, this is the way to go.

Reality check: since the Steam package is broken so often on NixOS, I ended up using the Flatpak on NixOS instead (which works like a charm).

It's a uniquely bad format, almost worth spinning up a Linux VM to try it for a laugh.

I am not sure what you are talking about. It's actually a really nice format that uses OSTree.
There's plenty. The vast majority of the 'shell' would be solar concentrators - basically aluminium foil or something like it. You can make a LOT of that by dismantling a few asteroids, never mind a planet or two.

Isaac Arthur's youtube channel goes into this in some depth (and is generally excellent, IMO). Here's an episode on Dyson Spheres:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlmKejRSVd8
The problem with 'natural' eugenics to me seems the 'un fit' castoffs.

Seems we could accomplish the same thing or better with science and genetic engineering.

While likely still restricted to the rich - at least at first - it doesn't have the oppression side to it.

But that thought experiment can go too far too. like elites giving themselves more and creating an even more lopsided world.
Thats because my point is compelling enough
If you want to impress me, tell me also the results of these:

- Performance against a fair dice
- Performance against a group of humans trained to predict bank managers' loan decisions
I think that Nix's time will come in some years. Without features like flakes and command line tools with better UX, it's still too hard. These things are in the pipeline, but at least for me, Nix doesn't feel quite polished yet.

I'm using it on my servers though, and the experience is great when you don't have to do anything that differs too much from the "standard setup".
Waiting for the Russians in Ukraine
But if commenting on public information outs you as a kink shaming not at all nice person, why should anyone trust you with sensitive, including potentially kinky, information? What if a cuffed user shares their kinks on the platform, and then goes and runs for office somewhere?
Was there any practical value in Columbus discovering America? If the Aztecs had instead sailed to Europe or Africa and discovered them, would that have been of any practical value to them?

It's difficult to imagine a discovery that would have more practical import than the discovery of an extraterrestrial civilization.
Linux, niche?! Idk where you’ve been, but Linux is ubiquitous and runs everywhere.

It’s about scale mainly.

A nixos host can be viewed as a solid state environment, in some respects. At least from a systems management perspective.

If you scale up to more than one host, that you want to keep in a completely manged state, nothing really beats a model like nixos (or guix, although I lack experience).

Having the complete system state of n machines, where n > 1 nixos is hard to beat.
I have extensive experience with tools such as ansible and salt, but the state management of nix is just unbeatable. It’s, IMO, “how it’s supposed to work”.

And with nixos you usually don’t have to nuke anything - a new system generation is enough.
Yes but isn't the optimal policy novel information?
What kind of eugenics are you proposing? I know that the notion of eugenics has got a bad rap but I'm a bit concerned with your wording because it seems to indicate that you have in mind the kind of eugenics that gives the whole notion a bad rap.

When you say 'we could do some eugenics' do you mean the kind of top down, centrally planned by absurd edict shit that we saw from central Europe in the early 20th century that was influenced by North American culture that lingered well into the mid 20th century?[0]

Or do you mean the kind of self empowered eugenics of the late 20th century where women found themselves with newfound means to decide their reproduce destiny for themselves?

What are your thoughts on the burgeoning 21st century development where currently upperclass people are finding themselves in the economically viable position to select and potentially modify embryos for implantation?

How do you think that we as a society should bridge the gap between where we are now with eugenics and where we could be, and how does that tie into where you think we could go as a species either interplanetary or beyond?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provincial_Training_School
i d be more interested if the ai made a better financial decision than the managers
You can even write a vba macro to roll up your formulae for you.
The only flag of the world that is shredded by design
Goodhart's law strikes again.
How do you find one? Is it similar to a black hole where you can detect the gravity, but can't see any of the energy coming from the covered sun?