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I don't understand the logic behind this line of reasoning - Based on the sentiment and 2 reasons above, you should have pulled all your money out of a bank so you can control your cash.

So have you? or why haven't you?

> In a cashless system, your money does not belong to you.

This doesn't work in reality because most people don't hold the majority of their money in cash form. You're already 95-99% cashless.

To me the above arguments are a better reasoning for crypto-currencies and their actual use instead of pure trade instead of fear of becoming 'cashless'.
> I’m at risk of paying 5% to get my own $100 out of my bank. Or, I can pay with a card for $0 for unlimited transactions.

But isn't that actually pretty comparable? You don't see the few percent extra you're paying with the credit card because it gets hidden in the price. It's probably not all that different than what you're paying to get cash from an out-of-network ATM (I just get cash back at POS).

To be fair, usually the cash buyer also gets screwed into paying for the convenience of everyone else using credit cards. For a while that was actually written into the merchant agreement, to favor credit card usage and ensure hefty profits for Visa & MC.
The problem with the diet part is that a local municipality has the ability to make a decision that will affect the entire country. To me that is problematic and weird.

The idea that you mention on charging them more and higher would indeeed be interesting be it not that the highest politicians aided in lobbying for a preference treatment that would save them quite a bit. The way it’s setup is that the population would eventually be paying for this addition for the net as big power consumers are extremely heavy subsidised up to the point that the heaviest users don’t pay any power taxes after a certain point.
It seems that every case of endometriosis comes with a horror story of years, if not decades, of being ignored or not being taken seriously
Purely as an ignorant outsider here, but now I've seen Roblox and Fly.io have either crippling outages or an inability to scale due to issues in Consul. It's not a good look.
Denmark as that was their secondary location i belief.
Why would a gas station offer discount for cash for any reason other than to avoid it going through the books and hence avoid obligations like paying tax or their staff a proper wage?
I would counter this by saying that Americans have never paid that much attention to hard news, especially political news.

What has changed is that news networks (primarily Fox and CNN) realized this and pivoted into entertainment without giving up their branding as "news".

Being upset about this is like being upset that people watch reality TV instead of documentaries. Yes, reality TV is theoretically "documentary" content, but it's not taking viewers away from Ken Burns.
> This is a fantastic example because your manager did essentially the opposite of what this author would have wanted. The author wants managers to have no tolerance for people who perform poorly, moving to do something to get the poor performers off the teams of the high performers.

This is not how I read it. You have to do your best as a manager to train your employees and live up to what Andy Grove said in High Output Management. You must set a high standard and it is your job to get your reports to that standard the best you possibly can.

But when your reports cannot or will not get to that standard despite a huge investment in training and clear direction, you have to move on.
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I always find in confomfortable when using "my engineers".
I mark the transition as Y2K exactly.

It was basically right at 1999->2000 that you had internet stores completely melt down on Valentine's Day and Mother's Day.

This was the point where the Internet was escaping being some weird techie thing to being something that non-technical people were using.
No mention of the ultranationalists America has been funding in the east for the last decade. No mention of the Christchurch Shooter who trained with Azov. No mention of the women found raped and murdered with swastikas cut into their corpses in the Azov Battalion commands center filmed by the Russians this weekend.

I'm all for calling a Nazi a Nazi, but in this case, can we at least call the actual Nazis Nazis?
If you're saying it died before it went to 25% of the world's population as a userbase, then you are using a definition of "death" that no one else is using.
We are launching a platform to create ephemeral environments with ease.
We want to enable developers to create the turnkey environments so that they can preview every PR before merging it.

With automations like
1. Auto-deployment on every commit
2. New environment for every PR on a branch
3. Termination of inactive environments

we provide a unique ability to test PRs among peers, potential customers & users without shooting up your cloud costs.

We have web platform and IDE plugin and a CLI to easily fit into your development workflow.
I'm not sure this is true in practice. Thinking about firing people is already kind of hard, so a lot of people think about and do other stuff they hope will improve the person. What's actually hard is doing something effective to improve the person's performance.
Is that at a bank? Does a manager drive it there?
Thank you for your feedback! :)

> Would be cool to eventually have a recipe where you import the crate, then program the deploy in rust

This is actually one of the goals and already somewhat possible since v0.5.0 (i'm at v0.8.0 now, working on the test suite to reach 1.0.0) if you don't mind writing shell commands as strings in Rust :P

The currently available tasks are:

- info: to get what's in the inventory (and later infos about the remote host)
- exec: to run a (templated) shell command
- upload: to upload files or render templates
- download: to download files

With this, you can already upload archives, extract them, create systemd files, start the service, etc...

It's a bit more manual than with ansible/puppet/... but it works :)

I think, at the moment, a more correct comparison would be with Fabric[0] in Python. I have some ideas for post-1.0.0 relying on TCP/IP tunneling through the SSH session (docker builds on remotes, querying remote services hiding behind an SSH bastion, ...), I'd love to hear more ideas though :)

[0] - https://www.fabfile.org/
This isn't a personal attack, we all live our lives differently, but in my opinion that attitude is holding back a lot of people. It used to hold me back. People who 's main social life is their coworkers, rely on the structure to keep them healthy, need the commute because it's their only quiet time, etc.

Everyone can have all of these things and work from home 100% of the time. It requires greater self awareness, self control, and communication with your family.
That can be easier said than done, but if its accomplished it is in all ways better than relying on wasting a large portion of your day in a building you wouldn't otherwise want to be in every day.
For most people, it doesn't matter at all if their email address is posted publicly like that. Any email address that someone has used to sign up for services for years is going to have been leaked anyway. There's very little value to just a plain email address with no password, no context, etc.

If you posted your (let's say) Gmail address on HN, the spam level of your inbox wouldn't change. Gmail might work a bit harder filtering out some spam, but it would be lowest-common-denominator stuff that they easily recognize.
I don't think one requires ADHD and/or short-term memory issues to struggle with serializing their internal state verbally without disrupting said internal state when it's sufficiently broad and deep in complexity.

This is literally the problem with interruptions and open-office floor plans for knowledge workers. There's no effing way we're all ADHD-addled goldfish. Decades ago my senior cube-mate liked to tell non-engineers who walked into our cube asking questions unannounced: "like I tell my wife, we're in here balancing a stack of plates in our heads, and you just walked in here and knocked them all down."

You're right about it being a house of cards, and the industry isn't doing us any favors selecting for people who can chat about it vs. arrange the metaphorical cards high and get the hard things done.
Hey, just FYI, v0.8.0 is out with the tag expressions "serve & backend" etc... :)

On my way to the 1.0.0 by implementing the automated test suite!
Exactly. Government policies created an economic crisis. Then government policies exacerbated the economic crisis by doing things like eviction moratoriums.
They'll just use firestore
>While I do not foresee this being adopted in the US I won't put it past lobbyists to try.

it will. and it would only take a few years of concentrated brainwash from the telescreens for the people who will oppose that to be branded as the enemy.

and unlike the few other principal things powers that be want to take away from us - privacy, freedom of expression, gun ownership, there is no right to bear cash, so they can take it away anytime.
I often wonder how much higher googles stock price would be if they used that money to buy back shares.
I've seen a lot of examples of this, having been parachuted into a few failing teams. The most effective means I found of getting "hard to work with" people who genuinely wanted to be better, is to give them some freedom.

One pattern that I saw quite a bit was one team member being a bit more technical (rather than business focused), so they tended to cop a lot of the internal questions that caused them to context switch a lot. It increases their frustration levels and drops their performance. One effective way to solve that is to acknowledge what is happening, and put in some boundaries so the other team members know that (for example) Tuesdays-Thursdays you need to really be stuck before you bug XXX about your problem. It makes XXX feel better about the situation because not only has it been acknowledged they are a key team member, it also makes sure they get some quiet time to really get stuff done at their own pace without having to switch jobs all the time.

The other team members, knowing there are a few boundaries now, tend to become more self sufficient so you end up with a better performing team overall, and one that isn't so dependent on a single person.

Obviously there are other patterns that end up creating "hard to work with" people, but the example came up so often I think it's worth writing about.
https://opensource.truthsocial.com/mastodon-current.zip
>I wonder if your logic was because of the larger pneumatic "tire gun" style things. Anyhow, sorry for going off topic!

No apologies needed :)

And yes - the only impact drills I'd ever seen were pneumatic, so I made the (wrong, but (hopefully) understandable) jump that the battery-operated one was for the same type of work :)
I want to make sure I understand what separates a consultant from a salary employee, freelancer, or even just an entrepreneur.

It's all about your personal brand, to a large extent. If maintaining such a beast (with the help of requisite doses of self-promotion now and then) appeals to you, then consulting may be your thing. If it makes you go "ick" or "meh" on a certain level (and your aren't already saddled with acclaim / visibility based on your storied accomplishments thus far) -- or you'd really rather just code -- it may not be.

And also: as an employee or freelancer, your "client" (really your employer) tells you what to do. As a consultant, you are valued primarily for your ability to tell them what to do. Actually it's always a mix in every tech job above entry-level, between advising and just doing. But consulting definitely involves a much heavier tilt to the advisory side.

A small change in mindset that can have a huge impact in the kind of work you can get, and the image that people have of you.

You can also bring that mindset into regular jobs too, of course. You just have to be kind of oblique about it.
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I'm curious what kind of things do you want to ship that you can't ship on Nomad?
Not sure when you worked there, but I’ve seen that you have to enter a number that’s displayed on the device logging in, and the authenticator app shows the location of the device attempting to login as well.
The /r/selfhosted announcement [0] had some more information about it, including links to issues where the fork-plans were discussed.

This is a great reminder for me to migrate ;)

[0]: https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/tbcuf0/announci...
I think the argument is that it should be trivial to host on github / github actions, or anywhere else, just like any other sane static site generator.
and has anyone inspected what they both do on Wireshark etc?
I bought a bar and bartended there. Which is basically just forced practice.

Remember Carol Dweck. People aren't just naturally good at things like this, they practice it a lot (maybe inadvertantly).

You can make huge strides with focused, purposeful practice
cool! I hope we go all self driving in my lifetime, i'd be so stoked to not have to worry about my young boys driving when they become teenagers :)
You assume self driving will be any cheaper. I doubt it.
The fraction that you mention is not a fraction. It’s equivalent to the city of Amsterdam. In addition that 160mw number is hard to source and just a Google gives me various numbers already. The national news channels always mention the number equivalent to the inhabitants of Amsterdam, so if you’re saying that the addition of a power consumer equal to the capital is a tiny fraction than I find that rather curious.

Your theory is good as a theory but in practice not. The entire power grid is currently not setup to hold a location so perfect for Facebook. If they cared about the environment and the power grid they’d put it somewhere else. As it’s currently it’s the pupation that would be paying for this addition for the grid and there are plentiful other interesting economic things to do with that kind of power use.

Honestly the fact that it’s Facebook does matter but way less than you think.
It is not a stretch. This is why many hospitals require staff to wear an N95 (a hard shell mask—not a surgical mask—in order to prevent as little leakage as possible) underneath a PAPR. PAPRs (with the exception of the CleanSpace Halo if using a special adapter) do not have source control. (I personally use an Optrel e9000x PAPR with an N95 underneath for source control. If not able to use a PAPR such as on an airplane, I wear a valve-free P100 mask [MSA Advantage 900] over an authentic KF94 mask [see: https://behealthyusa.net/ for KF94]. Yes, I am immunocompromised...)

This Dyson device does not have source control, and yes, it is a super-spreader device.

There is proof that such devices are super spreading tools: hospital administrators wore a blow up costume in to a Kaiser Hospital ER and caused a huge COVID-19 outbreak.

This was when contact tracing was in effect in California.

See: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/03/us/kaiser-san-jose-outbre...

Comments on r/Medicine subreddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/kpjs8s/inflatable...
YouTube series: Let it Rust: Video version of the official Rustbook docs
Switching to EVs would improve health in the US
This has everything any campy 1980s movie about the poor old lady losing her house because <something evil> will evict her unless she pays back <largesum> by <deadline>.

But read this carefully. In real life, that "evil" private corp. wouldn't buy the debt, foreclose, and "steal" the equity if there wasn't equity to steal. The lady should have taken a regular (or reverse) mortgage, etc. and paid the relatively tiny tax lien and would have come out $200K+ in the black. The fact that she did not understand or was unable to do that does not erase the fact that she owed and did not pay her taxes. Can you imagine what would happen if "I didn't know" or "I was stressed out" was an excuse to avoid taxes?

There's nothing unique, unconstitutional, or immoral about any of this. Sad, yes, but that should be solved by education not law. And in one form or another it's the same everywhere - you don't pay your taxes, you will get screwed!
I don't think anyone on my TV really believes that nuclear war is a thing that can happen? If they thought it could happen, surely they wouldn't constantly argue for escalating conflict? Surely they don't really want to melt everyone's children? That seems very antisocial?!

Ukraine is not part of "western society". Numerous Western politicians have had off-mic moments in which they admitted that dangling NATO membership was only ever meant to bait Ukraine and Russia into a ruinous proxy war. Which has now occurred.
Doesn't really look like a downward spiral to me.

https://i.imgur.com/Ww8jYKK.png
> The problem with the diet part is that a local municipality has the ability to make a decision that will affect the entire country. To me that is problematic and weird.

If the prime minister is deliberately pushing it to the local level, I still don't see what the issue is.

Also is the local municipality in charge of getting them electricity? If they're only in charge of allowing the construction then that's fine.

> The idea that you mention on charging them more and higher would indeeed be interesting be it not that the highest politicians aided in lobbying for a preference treatment that would save them quite a bit. The way it’s setup is that the population would eventually be paying for this addition for the net as big power consumers are extremely heavy subsidised up to the point that the heaviest users don’t pay any power taxes after a certain point.

So the actual problem is the high level government?
Exactly. I manage a CI infrastructure for a mobile game company (28 macs, a few Linux and windows VMs). I still can‘t use docker because our main development box is still macOS. We are slowly moving this to Linux. The reasons why we are still using macs as the main build machines are manyfolded. I know that android SDK and Unity run on Linux but our whole company came from a iOS first model and still uses macOS as the primary development box. But even docker would not help 100%. I have a strong emphasis that the tools run locally as well. And we have a mix of build and development tools. What I mean is that one and the same basic script should be used both during CI and differently with other parameters during development.
Jenkins is our build executor. The whole build is setup with gradle as it had 5 years ago some very nice properties over other tools (self bootstrapping, robust plugin system, lots of libraries available). We build everything around this and only use Jenkins-pipelines to kick of said gradle jobs. But I would prefer a nicer solution. Ah we manage the machines with ansible (Mac, windows and Linux) I guess redhad had not thought about the fact that someone took the Multiplattform claims to the test. I can say it is kind of a nightmare to Code playbooks and roles against three different OS types.
For those who don't know, paperless is a Document Management System. More information in the docs [0].

It’s the 2nd fork, with -NG being the first one. They each rose up when the former version became unmaintained.

[0]: https://paperless-ngx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
As someone who lived through the fad, but never managed to see stereograms[0], this hurt my soul a bit. There's so much cool stuff I'll never be able to experience!

[0] well, once on a Pepsi can in the UK in the '90s.
We're doing OK though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn3KWM1kuAw
If that standard is applied equally that’s fine with me.
I worry about Debian’s future. The infrastructure of the project is slow moving and baroque. Not many people want to learn it to become maintainers. Michael Stapelberg’s blog post about leaving Debian describes the general issue of using tooling and process with 1994 leverage to tackle problems with 2022 scale, does not sound fun: https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2019-03-10-debian-windin...

I tried to get into Debian package ownership while a student, but came to realize I would need a substantial financial incentive to interact with Debian’s machinery. I spent a while running FreeBSD after that.
Modest proposal: pass a law that requires members of Congress and the President to do their own taxes using only the materials the IRS provides. No external assistance of any kind.
> Training people on site to do it is possible, but it’s a huge shift for an industry and unlikely to finish very quickly.

Training people to pump gas is possible but slow and a huge shift? Are you from Oregon or New Jersey, by any chance?
Tell HN: We raised our US$1.5M seed round at US$13.5M using our own product
The company I own has a meeting less than once a year. We're at about 15 months right now.

It's a bar.

Not all companies have or need a lot of meetings, but maybe it's more relevant to your line of work.

I'm sure there's great variation in tech, too. I was a web dev and one company met every day, one met every couple of weeks. Both functioned well.
That’s not how that works at all. There’s clear precedent that employers are allowed to require specific degrees.
Using previous years' returns as templates, it takes me about 5 hours to complete state and federal.
I can only speak for the U.S., but "required to actually do the work" has nothing to do with whether or not I'm legally allowed to set a requirement for a job.

There are protected classes/categories that can't be part of the employment decision, but outside of those, the employer is free to set whatever criteria they want for the position.

If I run a plumbing company, I could say "all of our plumbers must have a computer science degree," and I can't imagine there's any legal reason I couldn't do that. I'd certainly have a recruiting problem, but not a legal problem as far as I'm aware.
> When I use cash to pay my mechanic for something quick, they give me a discount and round to the nearest $10.

And then they pocket the money and never give you a receipt, right? You do know what that's called? =)
Dont worry, by moving into VR they are totally going to turn the ship around.
This is one of my favorite things about Thanos. We run Prometheus in multiple private datacenters, multiple AWS regions across multiple AWS accounts, and multiple Azure regions across multiple subscriptions. We have three global labels: cloud, region, and environment. With Thanos's Store/Querier architecture we have a single Datasource in Grafana where we can quickly query any metric from any environment across the breadth of our infrastructure.

It's really a shame that Loki in particular doesn't share this kind of architecture. Seems like Mimir, frustratingly, will share this deficiency.
I’ve had poor performing peers. Then I had enough situations where direct reports (through human bias or lack of context) were wrongly convinced that their peers were holding them back.

First I realized that perhaps I had misjudged my own peers.

Then I started focusing on providing more context and cognitive bias (behavioral economics) training to my teams.

It’s too easy to just think your boss isn’t holding someone accountable.