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That's one interpretation of this article, but the other is that we can't really build anything big in this country anymore because of red-tape, regulations, and competing government fiefdoms.

From the article: "They point with frustration and embarrassment to successes in countries around the globe — particularly China, which has built more than 20,000 miles of high-speed rail in about two decades."

Sure - nobody wants a $100B high speed rail line between Fresno and Merced. But why can't we build what everybody actually wants - a high speed rail between SF and LA with a reasonable price and timeline? This isn't an issue of engineering, it's an issue of management.
Free startup idea: through-the-wall lithium battery sensing, for safety checks throughout the supply-chain..
If we had another spike in 2 weeks that turned out to be the worst so far, would you still say that? Everyone would still be done with it, and yet it would be objectively not over. It's not just about people acknowledging it exists, it exists regardless.
Here in suburban Australia, in my street anyway, there's several households that do it multiple times a week. My neighbour mows every other day. I had a neighbour in another place who was on his ride on mower every afternoon at 5pm. There isn't a daylight hour of the weekends where you can't hear a mower or whipper snipper (weed whacker in American) in the vicinity. I've really grown to hate lawns.
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Yeah, if you're running private services, then my point is moot of course, should have known :) Thanks for explaining though.
How did you power it from the vehicle? Not from the 12V outlet, right? Don't those stoves draw hundreds of watts?
Last year I mowed only 2 or 3 times in the whole year because my automower died and I wanted to try what happens.
The increase in insects and birds was incredible.
I therefore do not repair or replace the mower. Instead I only regularly mow paths through the garden so I can walk through it and a "central place" where I really need and use low grass. Only 2 or 3 times a year I mow all of the garden with the scythe.
> I guess my point is: Make sure the software you already have is configured the right way before adding more software on top.

Couldn't agree more!
> We should not reinvent programming languages. They have been expertly crafted to be the most powerful

I have to disagree here. Most of the popular languages are procedural and is mere evolution of writing for a machine--machine code, assembly, C, and scripting languages have the same structure.

I fully support new program building systems that breakaway from this. It could be in the form of DSLs (in particular declarative), visual programming, Excel formulas. This is still a kind of code, but not the procedural code which I think includes many incidental complexities not inherent to problems to be solved.
Then you raise the number of libraries in your program to some power > 1, due to the proliferation of versions. Hope you're using compile-time LTO with code deduplication!
-- Take over the new tab page with a local file (which I edit to have everything useful) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/new-tab-overr...

-- about:profiles is actually a useful way to manage multiple logins. I used to have one set of accounts in ff, another in chrome. But now I just have multiple windows open in different profiles (and themes to distinguish) each with different login states.
Is it dark complexions or everything dark. It might be that it is only when it is a a face you notice the lack of details.
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Capitalism was built on these racist systems like colonialism and chattel slavery. You can try to separate them, but fundamentally the GP is entirely right that the reason financial services are "suited" to britain is because of centuries of brutal exploitation of countries that are "suited" to resource extraction. Neither of these things are inherently true of the people or the places, they are direct consequences of particular political structures and violent intervention.

In the end, it's extremely profitable under capitalism for some people to be considered sub-human. That's not an accident, it's the game. Capitalism has never existed independent of this premise.
DLT = Distributed Ledger Technology?

If so, I’m curious — how does the amount of compute on these distributed networks compare to the cloud platforms, and what is the overhead resulting from the infrastructure protocol?

I’ve heard numbers to the effect of the global BTC network having a throughput of a couple of dozen transactions per second, for all the song and dance. Is there any hope of such networks realistically becoming compute platforms?
It's ironic because when I've worked in the office (basically all my life until covid) the management would often try to encourage people to more actively document their work in tickets or Confluence, and keep their ticket status updated in real time. It would seem that making the company remote-first would drive the exact changes that managers often want to make anyway.
Not too late. You've probably derisked the product side a but since you already have years of experience building technical products. You just need to learn the basics of running a business now, and get comfortable with sales and marketing.

I'm 32 and just started a solopreneur bootstrapped business. I have much more confidence now than when I was in my 20s.

The biggest thing is that I'm more patient now. In your 20s, it's easy to feel like you need everything right now. But as you get older, you learn patience. I'm still impatient at times, but I also feel more comfortable saying I'll spend the next 4 years trying things, than trying to race to success and giving up at the first sign of trouble.

From what I've seen, the people who start successful businesses in their 20s are from generational wealth and can afford the career risk, or their parents are entrepreneurs. Then you also have the people who have been coding since they were 8 years old, so by the time they are 20 already have 10 years of experience. Plus, code has the wild scalability of infinite permissionless leverage (as does social media), so it's possible to make millions from your bedroom as a high school or college student.

In short, give it a shot for a year. If you hate it, you can always go back to a job to learn from your mistakes on someone else's dollar!
Ignoring for a minute that this sounds like a sly promo for Squid Game (mentioned 10 times), we're all grown-ups here who have taken Econ 101, right? If demand is outstripping supply, the price goes up and tamps down the demand and/or induces more supply. Tamping down demand would look like studios churning out less crap, or at least confining it to their own countries of origin, which might be a secret win for everybody. Induced supply would look like translators realizing they can make a living at it, and switching jobs or even college majors. Holding the wage down artificially has the predictable result, a "shortage." Just like in tech.
Wendy Thomas is real though.
This is was a bit of a misinterpretation of the exchange in the viral tweet I think you're referring to. Consider as well that the other 7 guests, as well as the next three days' incarnation of the talk show, were all-in on pro-regime propaganda. Tthat Russia is just pre-empting an inevitable war against the US and NATO in Ukraine; that Biden has bioweapons labs in Ukraine; that the Americans launched their russophobic sanctions with the "special military operation" as an excuse, and an absurdly implausible excuse at that; also that said sanctions will hurt the Americans a lot more than they hurt Russians.
The state and the church in Russia are dancing and courting for a long time now, just short of having the Tsar anointed by the patriarch. But not in pursuit of spiritual or moral purity.
Allergic to what?
I didn't contradict myself at all virtually nobody needs dedup its not remotely worth the RAM cost for 99.9% of users.

Can you quantify what you are saying. What OS/filesystem? What minimum RAM requirements for what amount of storage?
Agreed, the trend of the past 10 years to jump into a life and death binary opposition is costing us our humanity.

Saying we are a remote company or a mandatory office company is an attack on the individual to be subordinate to the collective. The pandemic upended this cultural norm and additionally made unprecedented demands on the individual by the collective on a global scale. In context it is not surprising to see visceral reactions and people drawing battle lines.

A rough idea I would like to see knowledge worker companies follow some sort of flexible model (not hybrid). That might look like a small hub office. Space at the hub needs to be reserved and people who use it less often are prioritized for seats (regular visitors may find themselves working from home occasionally to accommodate others). Travel to the hub is a 0 friction business expense if you have a reservation. Ideally this allows easy adhoc in person collaboration, creates norms that include individuals working remotely while also providing an accessible professional/social environment for people that benefit from those spaces.

I'd love to see some creative collaborative problem solving instead of an all or nothing battle between artificial groups.
At what point did ICT (horizontal services) become "infrastructure"? I
use quotes, because at this point it is really superstructure in the
sense of Marx.

I think we should be very careful about casually using that word.
It is difficult to know what is true in this propaganda war. I posted a document and a link to an article that is one of many claiming it is true. We post things on HN for your consideration, not to control your thoughts. Hacker News is still part of a free country. Make up your own mind.
That's a good tip if you have a language barrier as well.
This sounds a bit like King Canute saying the tide won't come in. Everywhere my peers are, senior just means a step up from plain engineer/developer & sits at roughly 5-10 years. The name doesn't have to mean anything, it could be interchangeable with the level numbers at larger companies - ask finance people what Vice President means.
No, in some companies SMTS is a specific title a few ranks above “Senior Engineer” and a couple ranks below “Fellow” or “Partner” or whatever the company calls the ultimate rank.

Other companies use “Member of Technical Staff” as a generic job description in place of “Software Engineer”, “IT Analyst”, etc. Then the promotion ranks are called “MTS 1”, “MTS 2”, etc.
i don't think anybody is arguing that well-maintained lawns are nice. they're great, but they're undisputably a luxury.

the only reason for a law requiring other people to have a manicured lawn is to ensure that a neighbourhood is only populated by the class of people who both value and can afford that luxury.
I watched some of this recent material on the stock market here as a friend was like "Jon describes stocks like you do... gambling. You'd like it."

What I was left with after watching it was a program that was great at making uninformed people feel smug about not learning why things are the way they are and feeling a sense that Jon represents them.

I really would rather Jon just ask 5 whys with experts on "both sides" instead of "dark pools sound evil so they must be evil. They are called dark pools!"

It's still entertainment when we need education.
BlackRock had $9.46T assets under management as of Q2 2021.
I think it can somewhat work with flexible timelines. A full 2/5 days a week in-office hybrid is decidedly the worst of both, but a "we come into the office every N weeks for 1-2 days to handle major meetings in person" feels both more fair and less disruptive to all parties. Expand it further where folks living further away are maybe only expected to come in quarterly for maybe a full week.

It helps to keep up some in-person social constructs - you can spend time with coworkers at lunch, or going out for a group activity if you want, but keeps the majority of the day-to-day focused on making remote work for everyone.
My experience is that worked, traditional textbook-style exercises are the best way to learn and internalize this kind of knowledge. A combination of shorter exercises with longer open-ended tasks is good. Basically more or less what you'd get on a homework problem set in a university course.

Maybe the fact that this kind of work ends up being "spaced repetition" in some sense is part of why it's helpful.
Are we really equating technology relevant to our survival in different climates to keeping a manicured lawn?
They gotta sleep some time.
No, it is about having your considerationor needs heard and being able to participate as equal member.

It is also about being able to be effective. Because if they don't tell you things, your productivity goes down.
Wow that's pretty rude.
lambda (userland abstraction creation) is the essential capability difference between full-code and low/no code. it raises an interesting question, what is the customer value prop of abstraction creation? most products’ value props are about providing a toolkit of prebuilt abstractions OOTB so the user can just solve their problem using the same patterns as everyone else. The user doesn’t want to build new patterns. Composition is about wiring and glue code, there are more accessible ways to solve wiring than userland lambda.
> There's a subtle difference in examining the actual footprint of a human body, versus the environment that exists to support the humans.

Rule of thumb, human body footprint is negligible. The top 10% wealthiest humans account for 50% of GHG emissions, and top 1% account for 15% of GHG emissions. (See https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/carbon-emissions-ric...)
Personally, I'd love to just get rid of most or at least part of my lawn and replace with growing food, like Rob Greenfield. anyone interested in turning their lawn into a food growing yard, should check out his work: https://www.robgreenfield.org/
In practice, even most office jobs are remote. Everyone is wearing headphones & don’t want to be disturbed, so you gotta Slack them. If even one person on the team is in another office or at home for the day, then the meeting is over Zoom. For any type of 100% onsite job, when is it even 50% onsite anymore?
"Huge dirt field" is not the only alternative to lawn. I would NEVER live somewhere where some busy-body group of Karens can tell me what I can, can't or must plant on my own property.
90% of Brazil's population is <60yr old.
I don't understand this fetish with thin phones and laptops.
Google fallback is opt-in, Bing fallback is automatic.
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I dont think the west was especially interested in a regime change for the most part.
Why?
Nobody cared. Russia has to sell its ressources anyway and its cleptocracy is unable to transform the economy into a powerful contender. Its going to be fun to see russia as a chinese vassal and how china will put up with Putins paranoia and egomania.

Putin is just like a bigger version of Kim Jong Un who needs to be coddled and given a place on the world stage otherwise he will generate some stink one way or the other.

Those NGOs have been in russia since the fall of the SU and it was the russian state that changed and turned hostile to them. I dont think that this has been anticipated at that time.

Can you please describe a plausible scenario to me where an NATO invasion on moscow generating from ukraine does not end in a nuclear holocaust, same as from the baltics or any other place?

Yep, the US response during the cuba missile crisis was a pretty insane shitshow. Thankfully cooler and wiser heads in the SU were able to defuse the situation.

Putin already told G. W. Bush 2008 that ukraine was no real country and he spent the last 8 years trying to fix that historic mistake.
I was thinking rethinking the supply chain to avoid shipping batteries assembled in cars, or having ships designed for lithium battery fires.
Eh? Practically everyone in Rome (the city) lived in insulae. Essentially the upper middle class on down. And the empire was pretty urbanised, particularly in Italy; out of about 14 million people in Italy in Diocletian’s time about a million lives in Rome. There were other large cities, too, with insulae; indeed contemporary commentary sometimes notes that the insulae in other cities were larger than in Rome (presumably because the height limits that were imposed for safety reasons usually only applied to Rome itself).
Spam I feel has a very clear definition. Unsolicited emails from accounts and websites you don't know.

What about propaganda? Is VOA propaganda? Are white house press releases propaganda? Every news service has a bias, some stronger than others. There is no clear line as to where propaganda ends allowable information begins.
Creeping thyme is not native to americas, you might wish to avoid that particular plant.
Sounds like something out of a Douglas Adams novel.
Ultra-rare wolverine photographed in Yellowstone (one of a dozen in 2.2M-acre)
I just hope in decades to come I don't see this headline

"Turns out Li ion batteries are worst than fossil fuels for future of Earth"

Pretty sure over a century ago nobody thought that these Fossil fuels are going to screw the Earth so bad.

Our civilization has come so far but we do have stupid tendency to abuse natural resources and let future generations deal with consequences.
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This is great. I always thought that GoF patterns is largely obsolete in 2022, it would be nice if the author agreed and has a list of GoF patterns that really dont make sense any more. Builder was one I thought should be included but OP seems to think its relevant (though different).
Have you ever considered what percentage of software that gets written actually stands the test of time? Failed companies, products, teams, projects, ideas. Sometimes it's great software that's replaced by something worse because of economic forces out of their control. It is depressing.
> I think there's an need for forcing service providers to group IP blocks by the nationality of who rents them.

Would neither help nor work, as there's TOR and VPNs to access your servers from anywhere in the wirld.
Since you’re in grad school perhaps it’s because you are living in an American college town? Where I spent my pre-college school years we would run around pretty frequently.
Add rabbits. Wild rabbits look after themselves (no need to cage them or anything), and will keep grass down to a height of about 2 inches.

They stay within about 50 yards of wherever their 'home' hole is, so they won't run off (although their offspring may!).

You still need to mow about twice a year to get rid of plants the rabbits don't like to eat, which will otherwise grow into bushes.
> Capitalism was built on these racist systems like colonialism and chattel slavery ... centuries of brutal exploitation of countries that are "suited" to resource extraction.

Daron Acemoglu's Why Nations Fail handily disproves that argument. Latin America, and Spanish colonization in general, was built on those exact same things to a far greater extent and for a longer span of time; and today it is, by and large, a thoroughly anti-capitalist economic basket-case. The two are only loosely related to each other, and the correlation might easily be in the negative.
.NET MAUI, the cross platform toolkit, will going to be released in a few days.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/maui/what-is-maui
If it's not possible to house homeless people in them, the factoid is completely uninsightful
We’d have bee abundance if there are less lawns.
Our interview process is painfully slow and broken
To share the other side of the coin. Your experience, while valid, is not actually the norm from what I've read and experienced. I had 4 Ryzen chips since the initial launch in 2017 and none of them were as stable or fast as my current 8-core Intel system. All subsystems tested faster as well, including storage performance. I'm someone who buys and has the latest and greatest side by side.

Random IOPS is off the charts faster on Intel my 1:1 tests between real-world system with the same drive. I had mediocre (but suitable) experiences with Athlon chips 22 years ago, with the same basic outcome: great CPUs, mediocre platform (chipset engineering etc).

I understand your emotions about AMD and Intel, you may not be "wrong". I have no strong feelings on that, just want what works. But for holistic engineering my 40 years of PC building experience is persuasive towards Intel products.
I just found out about tab stash, very interesting, and lighter weight than tree-style-tab for mass management
I use NewPipe frequently. It's rumored that Vanced was sent a cease and desist (which seems pretty likely). Out of curiosity, what are the chances that NewPipe will face the same fate?
Wine does that thing where it traps errors to a log instead of killing the program. Great for compatibility.

Probably not so great for security. I’d expect most cases where Windows switched from being lenient to being strict are exploit mitigations.
+1 for "LANscapes". LOL!
shout out to "Tab Stash"
Seeing the amount 50k written out like that today, it seems like a pretty good deal. It looks like less the amount of annual equity that an entry level software developer makes. It's the price of a used truck, a kitchen remodel, a really nice family vacation for a month, etc.
> It is textbook knowledge that some bacteria can generate methane enzymatically

Archea are not bacteria, so can bacteria actually produce methane or is the introduction wrong?
It has been claimed Mario is based on someone that worked for (edit: rented property to) Nintendo. Not sure I belive that though.

https://www.npr.org/2018/11/02/663372770/mario-segale-inspir...
I really dislike mowing in general, so mow as little as possible. Yes, I have the worst looking lawn on the block, but I also now have less grass and more diversity in "weedy" plants. My quote is "if I wanted to be a land lord, I would move to England" when asked about my lawn.
A TV also shouldn't need an operating system that takes 30 seconds to boot up and gets laggier over time until it crashes and the TV becomes unusable. There's much more to a dumb TV than just a "smart" TV with the internet switched off.
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They have to build up their endowment to compare to other elite schools, they can't spend it on students.
I wonder what the circumstance will turn out to have been.

> With his brother Craig, Renaud spent years "telling humanistic verite stories from the World's hot spots," including projects in Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti, Egypt, and Libya, according to his website bio.
At work, I use an Azure Virtual Machine that I scale up/down according to needs.
At home, I have a desktop with a GPU, running linux.
You can switch jobs. Or you can stick it out until the boss realizes that they are losing employees to companies that didn't mandate in-office, and undoes the mandate. It's really quite easy.
This is quite odd take given that everywhere I see, young people want to go to office and older one are happier home.

While yes, older ones are more afraid of hybrid setup ending up punishing workers from home, because that pattern was visible even before pandemic. However, everyone at home thing was awesome for middle aged people with families or hobbies.
Well... As a favour in return (:]), though the code is still early, what do you think of Godot 4 when compared to 3? I'm trying to finish a project with 3, because I know how unstable the master branch can get, but wonder if 4 will be worth the hype?
I disagree that IPv6 will be feasible to scan except in unusual circumstances. There might be a case for scanning all of the low ranges ::1 through ::16 or so in the low 2001:: range, but even then you're searching for a rare needle in a haystack. Mass scans become quite impractical.