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Having used several Google OSS projects I would NEVER consider using an OS from Google.

The documentation structure is often atrocious, the are always dozens of recognized but unresolved bugs, those bugs often remain for years, the documentation often is not updated to reflect the state of open bugs so code samples and tutorials are often broken, the bugs are resolved slowly, non-Google pull requests are often left to die on the vine[0], no road maps, the Google employees use an internal build system and the external packages are often broken, and these three words: "Not. A. Priority." If your bug is not an internal Google priority you are basically out of luck. Hope you like maintaining your own patches, for years.

I'm not saying that OSS projects from other large projects don't have similar problems, I'm saying that every Google project I've depended on has had all of these problems.

The idea of my OS being run like this? Absurd.

This just is a guess, but, I'd wager that most Google OSS developers just wanted a fancy corporate job and got stuck interfacing with the public on an OSS project. I don't think that most of them aspired to be OSS developers and it shouldn't be a requirement.

[0]: Just today a two year old bug that I've been watching was closed by merging a pull request that was first opened in early-2020, closed as stale in mid-2021, and re-submitted/merged this week.
Very good point, and explains exactly why there should be no extra time on these tests. Give everyone the same time, same test, see how they do on the curve, and then you can make accommodations for disabilities ie 'how do you do among students with your disability or disabilities.
> So please, for your own sake, do not help those propagandists in any way, because they don't play by the same rules as you do.

They don't. The question is, what do we want to do about it? Do we want to keep playing by our rules, or start playing by theirs?

If we continue to play by ours, do we lose, or do we win?

If we adopt theirs, do we win, or do we lose?

Note well: I am not claiming that I have answers to these questions. But I think the questions are very important.
What are some possible ways to invest a few hundred bucks, for getting interviews with intended customers? I'm truly curious.

Or do you mean he should have invested into a designer to create mockups?
“Over the next nine months I would quit my job, write over 200,000 lines of code”

That stretches credulity. It’s, like, 750 lines of code per day, working every day.
There are many games like this already. Not including ones already mentioned, here are a few more off the top of my head...

1979 Revolution: Black Friday[0], Iranian revolution

21 Days[1], Syrian refugee crisis

A Golden Wake[2], Florida property boom

Bury Me, My Love[3], Syrian refugee crisis

Through the Darkest of Times [4], German resistance under the Nazis

Way of Defector[5], North Korean defection

There are a bunch more historical narrative games you can find, if you're into that sort of thing. I don't really have time for these conversations about how modern games are boring and predictable, that just shows the person hasn't bothered looking outside of the AAA bubble. There has never been a better time for computer games than right now.

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/388320/1979_Revolution_Bl...

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/607660/21_Days/

[2] https://store.steampowered.com/app/307570/A_Golden_Wake/

[3] https://store.steampowered.com/app/808090/Bury_Me_My_Love/

[4] https://store.steampowered.com/app/1003090/Through_the_Darke...

[5] https://store.steampowered.com/app/658660/Way_of_Defector/
I agree, it DEPENDS, but wanted to give my counterpoint.

You can waste a lot of time chasing capital when you should be building a product. I have seen founders spend years chasing capital, to get 500k and support 2 developers for a year.

Offshore talent allows you to shortcut this issue entirely if you so choose.

40k out of pocket can save you that time plus 15% of your company, and get you the same product.

You eventually will need funding, but this let's you get a working product and customers when you go looking for it.

I think more founders should consider it, especially if they don't have VCs on speed dial or a product VCs don't readily understand.
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>> It's kind of interesting how every single time that some kind of fraud damages the system, not only is there no effort to fix or revert back to an undamaged version

Enron

The Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002

The bill was enacted as a reaction to a number of major corporate and accounting scandals, including those affecting Enron, Tyco International, Adelphia, Peregrine Systems, and WorldCom. These scandals cost investors billions of dollars when the share prices of affected companies collapsed, and shook public confidence in the US securities markets.[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron_scandal#Sarbanes-Oxley_A...
If you want to play chicken with the SEC like they're a D&D DM you're rules lawyering, be my guest.

Because while they may not prosecute often, I'd still rather stay off their radar.
After the Man in Black retired from being the Dread Pirate Roberts, he had time to visit them all.
The whole point of a union is to have a way to challenge management effectively if their work conditions are worsened in the name of "efficiency".

This comment drastically underestimates the amount of capital spent on suppressing union activity, it's not as if they're operating in a vacuum.
I think it depends on the moment it happens. When I managed a larger team I could get a bit of communication overload. I'm trying to juggle ten requests at the same time, prioritizing who/what needs answering/updating and generally making sure I am unblocking anyone/everyone.

So when I see "Hey" I rarely see it as polite. What I'm thinking is "What do you want!? Spit it out!". IMO, politeness would be something like "Hey, I have a question about X, is now a good time". That at least I can prioritize. All I want is a tiny bit of context to the "Hey".
>In the long term deploying hydrogen infrastructure is pretty similar to managing natural gas which we already do at scale.

100%. absolutely. wrong.

Hydrogen destroys metal pipes, makes them brittle. It leaks thru solid metal steel walls. Hydrogen fires are invisible. Explosions can launch you into the orbit.

It's nothing like methane at scale, and will most likely simply be converted to some hydrocarbons.
I grew up in a very rural, working class community. There was a mill in town, and a factory two towns over, and all the kids in my high school were pretty much expected to either work for those two businesses or go into the military after school. That's what probably 80 out of the 100 kids in my graduating class did. We didn't have AP classes and Rowing Club and Mock United Nations and all that upper-middle-class qualitative stuff people jam into their college admissions. But we did have access to the SAT and I crammed for it and knocked it out of the park. If it wasn't for the SAT I probably would still be slummin it in that same town (minus the mill and factory which have long since closed) and would not be here on the west coast working in tech.
Metal studs are popular for replacing 2x4s in walls. They have a lot of advantages over standard white pine.

They're still more expensive, but $11 (metal) vs $9 (WP) is less of a premium than the usual ~2x.
> You are the boss of a company of one

Nitpick, but companies have limited liability, natural persons do not. It's for that reason that I would probably never get hired if I actually was an employee of a "company of one" (formed me for example). Companies would obviously prefer to contract with me directly, not my company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_liability
Surprised this is so new to people - ESXi has been free for years and is the basis for every VMware setup out there. People have been virtualizing MacOS since it was called OSX :-)

Using VMware Fusion in this way does sound useful in that it sort of replicates the experience you get with vSphere (for managing the VM's) which is really only something corporate clients would be using and is definitely not free.

That being said you could really do this with almost any hypervisor running on a machine at home (or in the cloud, or anywhere) and then connect and control those VM's from a laptop with internet. RDP, VNC, Teamviewer, Citrix, Horizon, whatever - it is just basically us coming full circle back to the dumb Terminal to Mainframe connection but over the internet.
This used to be the case in New York too, but those laws were repealed in 2008. It seems there's been a trend since around then for municipalities to slowly repeal alcohol blue laws as a few other places followed suit over the next few years.
> Nintendo charged $9.99 for this game. The response was absolute evisceration in the ratings. Mobile game players EXPECTED a F2P experience...

Just look up "Super Mario Run" on your favorite store and what you will see is "Free", not $10. In fact, I am not sure if the actual price is mentioned anywhere on the store page.

So of course people expected a F2P experience, because that's exactly what's on the store page. If Nintendo was honest, they would have published it as a paid app, with the price clearly visible on the store page. Maybe with a separate free and clearly labeled demo, as it is standard practice for one-time payment apps.
This was in 2004. I was 17, they were in their mid 20's.

I know that one was training to be a dental hygienist, or at least wanted to be training for that. The other few didn't share as much, but they all knew each other so maybe it was the same thing?

I highly doubt I've harmed anyone by enabling their hygienist to get where she was without knowing the formula for the volume of a cone. As far as I'm concerned the gumption necessary to hack your way in is worth just as much as the gumption needed to pass authentically.
If there was another maintainer willing to help they would open enough helpful PRs to get noticed and be granted a privileged status.

I review issues on openapi-generator and I can easily say 90% of them are result of user not reading documentation, unrelated shit like "how do I x in docker/gradle/maven". I think author here has strong points and I support him as a maintainer, but i would also be also annoyed as a user.
The plans are there! I focused on implementing the absolute necessary parts of every layer before taking round-2 for the more in-depth implementation. I actually have both the linked thread and the article saved aside to study when I'm ready to implement certificate-based authentication. Knowing Gitea already has it implemented, I had plans to study their implementation to know what I'm venturing into. If anybody else is interested in picking it up, please feel free to tackle it! I'd love to see that PR.

I've created tracking issue: https://github.com/mohammed90/caddy-ssh/issues/10
Indeed, insider trading benefits everybody by adding more information to the markets, leading to more accurate prices.
The Raddest Man (2015)
MIT is private unlike most of the other land-grant schools.
My number one Slack tip is to use the All Unreads view (which for some reason needs to be enabled in preferences).

Bonus tip: it’s not available on mobile which means I now basically never check Slack from my phone. I can’t decide if the Slack devs are hopelessly overworked or genius for _still_ not offering it on mobile. Check the time stamp: https://twitter.com/slackhq/status/798631873911980032
Setting up a 10b5-1 plan with your broker when you don't have material, non-public information, and your broker follows the plan is the way to trade in employer stock with a solid footing if you regularly have material non-public information. (Such as, in this case, a major change in business metrics).

Your company may not permit regular employees to setup a 10b5-1 plan, I think they need signof by corporate legal; and in that case, any trading that happens in your account could be considered insider trading based on your knowledge when the trade executes (or possibly when it's entered/while it's open... details are sort of fuzzy), regardless of if you or your agent made the trade, or even if the trade was automatic due to margin or something.
>You can publish whatever commodity price trends you want but it has almost 0 to do with end price.

How about retail price data published by USDA?

https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/DataFiles/52160/cuts.xls?v=...
There's base2048 [0], which can cram 11 bits into each code point, or 110 bytes into 80 characters.

[0] https://github.com/qntm/base2048
>It is our contention that a large number of things may now go wrong due to the fact that RPC tries to make remote procedure calls look exactly like local ones, but is unable to do it perfectly.

This is precisely where I feel like there has been substantial progress. RPC frameworks like Cap'n Proto do an excellent job of providing network-aware APIs that give you precise control over network IO.
How can you believe it is? I'm legitimately struggling to understand how you came to such a misguided conclusion.
That's what the 2008 crisis was at its root -- too many people, at all levels, who'd forgotten to be alert for danger and mistakenly assumed that the recent past served as fundamental bounds of future possibility.
The worst is when some project or library is extolled as being extensively documented and you find out it's just doxygen autogens.

Awful.
> There isn't grade inflation.

That depends on your definition of grade inflation. I think most of my undergrad classes at MIT had a median grade somewhere in the B range, maybe B-. Edit: I know some people consider a non-inflated grade curve to be C-centered.

I came to MIT with more than a year's worth of credits from the U of MN, including 6 trimesters of honors level math[0] (multivariable calc, linear algebra, diff. eq.). I had all As, except a B in my Intro to World Politics class. My senior year of HS, I was actually taking a bit over a "full course load" at the U of MN, plus 1/4 time at my HS.

I could sleepwalk through nearly straight A's at a pretty well regarded school's honors program. I was a B/C student at MIT. I like to think that a lot of it was that some "wise" uperclassmen had sat me down my freshman year and explained that once you had a degree from MIT, nobody would ask for your GPA. (The were wrong, BTW. Work for those grades.) I taught myself most of a CS degree while earning a degree in Mechanical Engineering. However, I was also too slow to put my ego in check and admit to myself that I really needed to work hard.

[0] https://cse.umn.edu/mathcep/about-umtymp
Teaching only statistics and no calculus is how you end up with people such as Tai reinventing high-school calculus and attempting to use statistical methods to validate their “method”.

https://math.berkeley.edu/~ehallman/math1B/TaisMethod.pdf
Your argument makes no sense.

Lots of people have to push lots of buttons they’ve never pushed before for nuclear war to occur.

Lots of people have to change their entire lives to prevent climate change.

Do you see the difference?
this is the cheapest I see right now on ebay for dual port card ($35) so perhaps a bit higher than what I remember from a year ago (I guess silicon shortage effects everything).

https://www.ebay.com/itm/265592690915
Make Money Better: model to help poverty, our planet and economic health
What do you think? Does this currency model have potential? I'm curious about what others on HN might think. Are there other similar models out there?
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I agree. And what Tom didn't realize is that Doctors aren't financially incetivized to give better healthcare. There is no money in it for them. If anything, return visits because of a partial prior resolution make more money.

Now clearly I'm not saying that doctors try to give bad diagnoses for profit (because they don't). But beyond a certain minimum bar, and on a purely financial basis, improving diagnostics or prescription accuracy doesn't not make a medical practice more money. And the responses here illustrte that.

Now, whether that's the right/wrong incentive strucgture is a whole 'nother discussion. And I personally can't think of something better than what we currently have - but it is a truth of the current system.
They lost me at suggesting that a future ArXiv should be

> Web-native and web-first

Absolutely not. It should be "physical paper first". Any long-term archiving cannot rely on electrical devices for viewing archived material. Electrical grids fail. Technology changes. Even if ArXiv is not a print archive, the material in it must be, first and foremost, printable in a consistent manner, and with the authors targeting the physical printed form. Of course, one would need to actually print ArXiv items to physically archive them, but still.

Now, of course archiving data is useful and important; and large amounts of data are less appropriate for print archiving. But that should always be secondary to the archiving on knowledge.
This complaint is addressed in footnote 10 of the article.

It would be great to design a test that's less gameable than the current version, and we should certainly try to do that, but the current version is already less gameable than basically anything else colleges consider for admission.
patio11 has done more than one twitter thread about enjoying Dyson Sphere Program.

(it's not sort of my thing but if it's your sort of thing I suspect his endorsement is more relevant)
Basically, if you've read Snow Crash you'll be disappointed, and if you haven't read Snow Crash, you should just read it instead.

I tend to agree. Although, in Snow Crash, not much happens in the metaverse. Most of the action is in the real world.

I was hoping for a Snow Crash movie. That project has been in and out of development hell for years. (It would have to be heavily censored. "Mr Lee's Hong Kong" would annoy China, "White Columns" would annoy the woke people, and evangelical Christians being a front for a cult created to support a scam would annoy the Trump voters.)
I always scoffed at how Google said they were holding back GPT-3 to protect the world when it was always clear that they were trying to protect the emperor for being seen naked.
> Could this really be true?

In the years following the Second World War, a timeframe that could be construed as ‘many decades’, I’d call it true.

Unless your reading of the referent is ‘all humans everywhere’ in which case, it’s probably debatable. Either way, it’s bad.
At a house we owned where the well had run dry, we hired the guy who ran the local water treatment plant to come and dig us a new well. Sure enough, came out, dowsed, and duly a backhoe dug down about 10 foot, and we had our new well.

This is in N.E. Scotland, back in about 1991. The funny thing was that my dad was a total skeptic on this, and such other 'discredited' things as spoon-bending, and even he had to admit the guy had some not easily explainable talent.
> SEC’s complaint alleges that despite receiving a company policy that prohibited them from insider trading […] trade[d] Twilio options and stock in advance of its May 6, 2020 earnings announcement while in possession of the confidential information

Isn't it illegal regardless of company policy? That's such weird phrasing.
> still no connection tracking!

Seriously? Is it not possible to have stateful firewall rules for IPv6 traffic? Or is it just NAT that won't work (I don't care about NAT, NAT can die)? I was considering getting a microtik router but this would be a dealbreaker.
For lack of better avenues, I'll repeat this here: Don't use the hand-optimized assembly code that comes with zlib. It will read out of bounds given the right input data. By default, this affects the VS solutions, but please double-check your build. More info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30084771
You don't need a single payer system for this. We have a solution today via quality metrics. There are a number of quality metrics from places such as NCQA. They attach performance in these metrics to payments (or penalties). ACO's are one example.
That's the one. Although Gran Bolivia is also in America, parts of it have fairly high wages, and it hasn't been the common meaning of the name "Bolivia" for 200 years.
It's a nasal spray for preventing and treating covid.
Ask HN: Added Yubikey to Google account and Chrome clears cookies weekly
Ever since I added a Yubikey to my Google account, Chrome has been clearing all my cookies weekly. I have to login to every single website again and again.

Anyone else experienced this?

I dual boot Linux/Win11 and use profiles in Chrome for work and personal. It clears cookies in all profiles.

I've tried to delete/recreate the Chrome profiles and again login to all websites but the issue persists. Just now it cleared everything again.

The only extension I use is uBlock Origin (with a bunch of whitelisted websites and this list doesn't get erased when the cookies are erased).
Did you mean Google or OpenAI?
I can .. somewhat agree with that.

Not to disagree with your general direction though, but i don't honestly think i could boil what i do down into 2 hours. On paper? possibly. In practice i spend far more time thinking about problems, taking breaks from problems, etc - than i do actually writing the solutions. But i'm not claiming i'm any good heh, just that it often takes me hours and hours.

Your assertion is generally correct i think in efficiency sake. Ie when i put in 14h days, i'm exponentially paying a higher tax on my efficiency by putting in extra hours - i'm over worked and tired, i'm far from my best. But i still think i can more work done in those 14h than i do in 8, or especially 4/etc.
Try the VSCode remote SSH extension. You'll often forget that you're actually editing on a remote machine.

The interactive debugger works and everything.
There was a time during the first shut down when my company decided to reduce peoples hours and also reduce their salaries instead of laying off more employees. I end up working 20 hours a week (instead of my normal 35) with a reduced salary (and I was even able to collect partial California unemployment benefits for the remainder of the reduced hours under a special program called Workshare).

Honestly it was amazing - made me really want to find a job that was less pay but also that low in hours. Working less than 40 is nice but once you get down to 20 you have whole DAYS where you can do whatever you want. You sometimes start work at noon or end at noon and then have the remainder of your weekday to yourself or in the company of others. It was an odd experience seeing my neighbours and friends going through so much stress and pandemic related BS while I was (temporarily at least) having revelations about how much I wanted to work in life. Fortunately and unfortunately it was very short lived.
“16 Shades of Grey” – Building a Psion/EPOC32 Emulator (2019)
It depends on your definition of the problem. The problem I would like to solve is ensuring that everyone perceives the market as fair, i.e., not tilted toward parties with access to privileged information.
I've used the diluted povidon-iodine solution (Betadine) with great success for myself. Not as a spray but as a gargle and nasal rinse with a neti pot. This was during the delta wave and I had a sore throat and 39.5C fever. The rinsing pricked in a good way for a few minutes and then subsided, at which point all viruses seem to be quite dead. Next morning I was completely better.

I do this for the the flu as well. It starts in the nose and throat and if treated early it won't make it's way down into the lungs.
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While I really hope that Web3 brings alternatives to todays online economy, I also hope BAYC and the likes aren't that alternative.
Presumably this is so they can't claim ignorance and receive a lighter sentence.
Software for scheduling, accounting, payments – sure. He was trying to sell a service which would suggest medical advice for doctors to give to their patients.