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The Maven ecosystem partly solves the "the right java" problem, although it's not necessarily well known and not particularly great.

1. For selecting the correct JDK to use with standard plugins, including the compiler plugin, there's support for toolchains:

https://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-using-toolchains....

2. For ensuring Maven itself is run with the correct JDK, it is a commom recommendation to use the Enforcer plugin to specify the required JDK version and/or vendor, as well as the Maven version:

https://maven.apache.org/enforcer/enforcer-rules/index.html

3. It is increasingly common to use Maven Wrapper to supply Maven, which you seem to be aware of.

4. Maven will run with the JDK pointed to by JAVA_HOME, of course.
bootstrapping sounds cool and i’ve done that for many years. at some point you need money to grow because hiring people is super expensive and/or risky and marketing is not free either. so if you cannot generate enough cash to pay for that you are stuck. you are then basically still juggling all the work yourself perhaps with your cofounder and no investor will touch you because they think you are weird or don’t want to work with people even though the business is valid and the potential is huge given a investment. most investors are not very smart, have little operating experience and are not very good at listening. looking back i would never start a company again with my own money as the journey is brutal. i would rather have an investor on board, be able to hire people and pay myself rather than being broke for many years and working myself to death.
How do they do it? Are there different benefits tiers and stock options,
I thought 21e8 was the next Google.
what are "little red guards"?
I wonder what the greybeards that grew up on this science fiction, now in their 40s/50s?, think of the world we live in today.

As one of them (I'll be 49 in a couple of months), I expect there is a pretty diverse range of opinions among us.

Me? Relative to cyberpunk fiction specifically? I think the old adage "the future is here, its just unevenly distributed" rings very true. Clearly in certain sense we are living in "the cyberpunk future". But by the same token there are obviously regards in which we are not (so far as we know).

I continue to see Cyberpunk as stimulating and fascinating in terms of thinking about the potential of technological developments, while continuing to be a warning about the dangers of certain paths that we might go down (and in some cases, are arguably already headed down). While I'm not as anti-advertising in the general sense as many HN'ers, I will say I dislike the way so much of what we call "tech" has become all about finding ways to serve more ads to more people, more efficiently - as opposed to working on finding better ways to purify water, sequester carbon from the atmosphere, etc. And I believe that there are company executives out there who would actually authorize the deployment of Max Headroom style "blipverts" even if they were exactly as flawed as described in Max Headroom. Not all would, of course, but I expect they exist.

My relationship with cyberpunk is a bit weird though, because I also don't share the broadly anti-capitalist sentiments often associated with "punk" ideology. In fact, I'm very much an an-cap[1]. So while I enjoy this fiction, I don't always interpret the political bits the way some others might. And as much as I see mega-corporations as an affront to human values, human decency, freedom, etc., I see governments as equally so (or more so). Both are just ways to concentrate power and oppress people in my book. shrug

Anyway, speaking more generally, I think the world we livein today is amazing in many ways, and kinda sucks in quite a few ways. I see Khan Academy, Youtube, Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg, inexpensive but crazy powerful computers, ubiquitous bandwidth, hand-held computers (smart phones) that are basically straight out of science fiction, etc. as adding so much to our world and enabling so many things. But at the same time, you can't ignore climate change, pollution, poverty, rising sea levels, the recent surge in something resembling what you might call "right wing populist fascism", etc. and not be a bit bothered.

We can put men on the moon, but we have people living in cardboard boxes. It's frustrating because I'm convinced we can do better. sigh Sorry for the long rant.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism
CBT isn't CBD
My experience is that you should meet with a professional. There are more medications that just SSRIs. There are various skills they can teach that will help, and programs that can help if you don't want medication. They can also help you test what works for you, because this is not an area where everyone lands on the same answers -- you can collect piles of anecdotes of what did and did not work for others, but ultimately your solution will be unique.
Colloquial may be the wrong term, think "non-technical" instead.

> Using laymen terms such as "internet" in a headline yields more misinformation and confusion about what the system actually is.

No it doesn't. It's just a fact that "internet" has technical and non-technical definitions that diverge somewhat. That ship sailed a long time ago, and no amount of pedantic complaining will change it.

And frankly, it's not reasonable to expect laymen to understand how their applications work at a technical level (e.g. distinguish between the internet and the web). It's incumbent on the people who do understand those distinctions to adapt to their audience and the multiple definitions in use.
Obsidian is awesome. Thanks.

I guess in truth I have a handful of "requirements" - text based, able to avoid lock-in, able to sync, and cross-platform availability. Looks like it checks all the boxes.
The board seat was granted in tandem with a guarantee from Musk that he will limit the number of voting shares he amasses. I don’t think it’s an uncommon arrangement when an outside investor joins the board.
Right, but if I'm only running my own code, I probably don't care about that, right?
Buying the kagi.com domain for a search engine might be suboptimal SEO for people with some longer memories: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12200972
We exists, but it's complicated. A complete solution has more edge cases than what "stacks" have tools to work with. My gut feeling is that the contemporary approach to solving information problems is crazy nonsense. I'm working on something to prove myself wrong. If I'm not I'll make something available for a fee
I completely agree! I’ve been thinking about that a lot. I think not allowing exclusive licensing deals at all would be a huge win for consumers. Especially in streaming, but possibly in other areas too. I can’t think of a single reason it’s good for consumers — exclusive access to something on Netflix is ONLY good for Netflix. It’s advertised as good for me, but it’d be even better for me if other services also had it.

Exclusive licensing is just a way for the entire streaming industry to avoid competition. Are Netflix and HBO really directly competing if you have to get both to watch the content you want?

Sure, they’re competing for my attention with what I end up watching. But if I really want to watch something else, I’ll just get to it later. It’s not really either/or.
It is horrible searching for Nix stuff because of all the *nix stuff.

And yes, this is 100% Nix's fault
I think you're half way to why users stick to excel.

Without the calculator aspect it not really an excel clone.
They do for example I started to skim through Heinlein's Beyond This Horizon(original release in 1942) and it is pretty horrid, quite badly aged and disconnected... Although it is translation the comments by others aren't exactly praising.

Writing is like any pursuit, you just need to do it to develop and become better at it. Just like coding.
Know how you’ll find the next Google? Same way those of us over 45 found this one.

A respected friend or colleague will tell you that the next Google just works better. That’s what made Google search win: it just worked better. It’s now I found out about it and probably how you did if you’re pushing 50.

We didn’t care about pagerank or know what it is. That came after we used it and wanted to know why it worked better - or we wanted to manipulate he results.

We didn’t read a blog post telling us what’s good.

We were using another search engine and Google arrived on the scene and it was just WAY better. I was using alltheweb. Friends were using other engines. In weeks, everyone smart and productive was using Google.

Google/Alphabet may be a large company now, but never forget how they started. They were just so good we couldn’t ignore them.

That’s how good the next Google will need to be.
It's a mix of Python and C
> I'm not sure I'm ready to have SaaS models replace core utilities and tools locally.

This isn't something you can ever be ready for. It's so completely and obviously wrong. Just say no.
The advantage Amazon has is that their hardware isn't really their USP whereas those Arm devices were for Scaleway at the time. While AWS does make a song and dance about Graviton (and quite rightly, IMO) AWS can really develop and shuffle in whatever tech they want behind the scenes as long as it runs customer workloads.
Four achievements in 10 years isn't actually a lot, and two of those are just "they added more monetization."
Hangops.
The sad thing is that -- this is how I met almost all my friends. Through random conversations. I agree that random convos at work/school are much less likely to be MLM, but I always wonder about what i'm missing when I filter too much.

My best friend from college -- 25 years still -- is someone I met on line, waiting for lunch.

I get pretty annoyed with MLM sales pitches, but I dont think we should close ourselves off to the world with strict policies on social interactions.
I still find macOS Terminal to be noticeably faster than item. At displaying my keyboard input and shell output. It lacks other features, namely split windows, that move me to iTerm, but I do like how fast Terminal is.

> There's also the rumor that Terminal in macOS has had a handful of developers working on it, at best, over the years.

This but every app on the mac that isn't Safari.
Thanks for sharing, such a good prompt and story!
I meant that a professional likely has an end goal in mind for developing an exposure and can use any software to obtain the result they want, whereas an amateur is likely more reliant on the software to provide sane defaults that look good enough. I don't think professionals necessarily want a bland starting point, but they probably end up straying so far from the default settings anyway that having a different starting point is less of a hindrance to them.

Aside from that, the default settings and processing that the manufacturer applies may be undesirable for someone pursuing a more realistic and less "filtered for focus groups" result. All photography is illusion, but some want more control over the illusion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMMogOoWEbI
Simply. Yes.

The quality of The Verge each time I look at is in slow decay and in their stories they either keep reporting misleading stories with obvious clickbait. Anything involving serious reports or numbers in their articles leads to nonsense in the content.

The comments section is also riddled with illiterates and somewhat infantile takes on directly attacking a person (because one of them don't like the person) or generally lacking any intelligent critical thinking skills. Perhaps it reflects on the contents of the article as well. For example, in the Epic v Apple post, it contained dire misinformation itself [0] and they never covered key critical points in the article that was relevant to the lawsuit.

> Lastly, any recommendations on good mainstream day to day tech sites/blogs (as I won't be reading this trash anymore)?

You should try the tech sections in FT.com, CNBC, or The Economist. Compared to them, The Verge is garbage.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29170676
I think that’s mostly because he didn’t know anything about computers when he wrote it :)

“I was actually able to write Neuromancer because I didn’t know anything about computers,” he says. “I knew literally nothing. What I did was deconstruct the poetics of the language of people who were already working in the field. I’d stand in the hotel bar at the Seattle science fiction convention listening to these guys who were the first computer programmers I ever saw talk about their work. I had no idea what they were talking about, but that was the first time that I ever heard the word ‘interface’ used as a verb. And I swooned. Wow, that’s a verb. Seriously, poetically that was wonderful.
“So I was listening to it as an English honours student. I would take it back out, deconstruct it poetically, and build a world from those bricks. Consequently there are other things in Neuromancer that make no sense. When the going gets really tough in cyberspace, what does Case do? He sends out for a modem. He does! He says: ‘Get me a modem! I’m in deep shit!’ I didn’t know what one was, but I had just heard the word. And I thought: man, it’s sexy.”

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/11/william-gibson...

His other inspiration for cyberspace is presciently metaverse-like:

The idea came to him from watching kids playing arcade games – "it seemed to me that what they wanted was to be inside the games, within the notional space of the machine" – and an advertisement at a bus stop for Apple computers. "Everyone is going to have one of these, I thought, and everyone is going to want to live inside them. And somehow I knew that the notional space behind all of the computer screens would be one single universe."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/sep/22/william-gibson...
It's amazing to me that Pinterest hasn't been sued for this, despite having much more blatant examples of copyright infringement that don't link back to the source.
AMD Confirms Its GPU Drivers Are Overclocking CPUs Without Asking
Another vote for Wise.
> We're talking about private affairs between adults. Could be a perfectly happy couple.

Sexual relationships between bosses and subordinates are seen a bad idea by many organizations. For the subordinate, is difficult to have a consensual sexual relationship with someone who is managing you, who is in charge of what you do on a day-to-day basis, and can decide whether you are fired or promoted. The power imbalance seeps in to everything. And then even if that was possible and there are no consent issue, there is the other looming accusations of preferential treatment. Did the subordinate get that promotion or that more lucrative assignment because they are sleeping with the boss? Finally, if these office relationships break-up (and many, many of them do), the resulting fallout can be devastating to the organization's productivity and legal liability.

For these reasons, many organizations make it a policy to require that these kinds of relationships be disclosed and prohibited. If a boss and a subordinate truly fall in love and want to live a life together more than anything else, then they can try to find alternative roles in the organization where one person in the relationship doesn't report to each other.

So that is the rationale. Agree or disagree if you want, but many organizations choose to have this policy. The second-order problem is what do you do if someone who is in a position of authority flagrantly violates an official, explicit policy? What other policies are the violating? Do they also think it is OK to charge personal expenses to a work account? People who are in power and who think the rules are meant to be broken often find their way into rationales to break all kinds of rules. They are a liability to the organization.
One of the great lines from the Conan the Barbarian film (1982): "Two or three years ago it was just another snake cult"
"What was going on here? I saw three possibilities:

1.They wanted to be friends.

2.They wanted to have sex with me.

3.They wanted me to join their religion."

I would add the following to that list:

4. They wanted to sell me something.

5. All of the above.
Plex probably has changed this, but a couple of years back it asked for my Plex account on the clients when my Internet went down. It let me login from localhost, and I had to disable login for my LAN so other clients were accepted. IIRC later Plex Inc also was down for a short while, and many people complained on the forums that their servers couldn't stream if Plex Inc. was down.
It’s a policy - a set of rules. It’s only a problem if you say something and don’t do it. But even then, enforcement is most likely to come from interested parties like payment providers, who couldn’t generally care less as long as it’s not their data that’s compromised.
Project-Based Work = Freelance + Equity
The writing is beautiful, but I think Neuromancer has failed to capture a modern audience due to some of the stylistic choices Gibson makes (I’m not necessarily arguing they are bad decisions - I personally enjoyed the style - although I think one could argue that).

For instance, Gibson frequently skips exposition, and he delivers the narrative with a disconnected, stream-of-consciousness feel that is meant to evoke the sense of disconnection when “channel-hopping” or digging through large amounts of information on the internet. Combined with the frenetic pace of the story it can be confusing if the reader isn’t paying close attention. I’ll add that this was also Gibson’s first novel.

Compare to Snow Crash, which has a pulpier writing style (it was original envisioned as a graphic novel) or even The Matrix, which has a tight narrative. Those are more accessible to a mainstream audience.

Edit: formatting
The 217 million active daily users? It is "only" $~80 million in the US, I'd love to know how a quarter of the US population using it daily represents an insignificant user base.
The author has a very well articulated and defended fear.

They're definitely not a crank, even if they've arrived at a wrong conclusion, which I doubt.
What counts as customization? I might agree that most people don't care to change font sizes or colors or even themes but they might want to be able to tell Google to never return results from a particular site. Is hiding results from a site customization? Is it the sort of customization that would overwhelm a user if they saw it as an option?
Yeah that’s usually the tell they are fishing too hard for insecurity or major life problem that needs a solution. It’s not a problem 1 on 1 but you don’t want to get stuck sparring against multiple opponents
> Battery storage systems a couple years ago were very expensive, but prices are crashing and safer tech like lithium iron phosphate are becoming more commonplace.

Unless you live in a mild climate and/or have a full Passivhaus-level construction and/or live in a very small building, there are no current batteries that will get you through a winter of heating.

I live in New Mexico, have some of the best insolation numbers around (outside of Arizona), generate around 93% of my annual electricity use, including heating (air source heat pumps) from a 6.6kW PV array. A battery system large enough to store my winter needs built with any currently available technology would be completely untenable, both in terms of cost and size.

I pay $7.71 as a monthly connection fee, and I get back my excess summer production as "free kW" during the winter, an arrangement I much prefer to being paid directly. The "free kW" are a 1:1 match for my over-production.
i have been using the macOS Terminal since macOS X was a thing (with different capitalization) and since its origins in NeXTstep since around 1990.

I suspect it's the same codebase, but don't have a proof of that.
My feeling is that a lot of people work in dangerous workplaces, where mistakes can and do kill people. The miltary is one of those workplaces: if you look at the stats[0] you can see that ordinary workplace injuries absolutely dwarf combat-related injuries.

Even in wartime[1], the number of deaths from enemy action rarely exceed those from accident.

What makes this worse is that the military is a pretty dangerous workplace. Even in peacetime, the US military typically loses more people to accidents than any other profession (I suspect a lot of this is down to people being 'on the job' even when they're not, but even accounting for that, the stats are bad).

If you compare the military to other institutions that do similar things the military doesn't look good. If you have an underperforming car plant that keeps on maiming employees, and the last two car models were both hideously expensive flops, then you don't go around telling people that they 'don't understand' the special requirements of your institution. You reform. I think a lot of the people in the US military are on that page already (judging from the stuff I've read about the upcoming overhaul of the marines), but in general, I think militaries would be better off if they were way more open to civilian criticism.

[0]: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/96-103/pdfs/96-103.pdf
[1]: https://dcas.dmdc.osd.mil/dcas/pages/report_number_serve.xht...
To be perfectly honest, I cannot even remember making that change, but also couldn't find any info on whether Firefox or some extension may have done this. I will leave it disabled, however, because its purpose seems to be analytics, and opting out of (at least some of) them this way seems like a good idea.

Since disabling it this way removes the `sendBeacon` function from existence, you should just be prepared to properly handle its absence.
If a company refuses to open source its software that it operates as a service, you should assume the absolute worst. The burden of proof is on the companies, to prove to us that they aren't spying or using their software as a tool for a government to spy. This applies to all services, including cloud providers.

It's the same with governments. Non-transparent governments which do not make its reports and internal statements public should be assumed to be committing massive crimes. It's up to them to prove to us that they aren't.

Why should I trust an organization that hides reality from me to not abuse its power?
I don't think asking hn for medical advice is a great idea. Find a qualifed doctor please. Every case is unique! It can be really hard to find a good therapist. I went through like 5 before I found one. The key was finding a therapist that actually specialized in CBT (a lot of them say they so and they are just lying).
Fred (Federal Reserve Economic Data) Adds Interplanetary Datasets
Warp engineer here - Thanks for being an early user!

While folks have mentioned here that shells have powerful line editing capabilities, I've found that a lot of people miss this. We want to allow a broader set of people to be productive in the terminal. And FWIW, a lot of developers - with varying amounts of experience - have resonated with the text input.

Personally, I'm a heavy vim user and I've never gotten particularly comfortable using the shell's line editor.
It is evil by default. Paying beta testers, or giving them a free, opt-in version with telemetry is the ethical route. Being ridiculously, over the top clear about exactly what you snarf off the end user is the ethical route.

You are not entitled to access my machine, and that shouldn't be casually dismissed with "don't worry, we're not doing anything bad." You're creating potential vulnerabilities, and by implementing identifiable patterns, reducing the security of your users.

You shouldn't spy on people, and when you do, it's wrong. Remotely inspecting people's behavior is spying.

Your software doesn't need to phone home. It doesn't need automatic updates. You don't need to spy on people to develop good software. That's toxic nonsense.
We don't handle the booking, we redirect you to the travel site that we found the best price on. Many online travel search agencies and metasearch sites can put together itineraries the airlines don't offer directly.