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> my Latin teacher told me that America was declining and falling just like Rome, and that was back in 1995

> No, America is not collapsing

A collapse is different than a protracted decline and fall.

Historians could make a lot of similar points about Rome still being a successful superpower in the 3rd, 4th or even 5th century AD.
Russia downed satellite internet in Ukraine
Lrvick now controls the NPM 'foreach' package which 2.2m packages depend
Congrats for also winning Eve
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> banning normal capacity magazines

Why is this an issue?

> random arbitrary features on rifles

Why do you need:
1) pistol grip
2) bayonet lug
3) telescoping or folding stock
4) flash suppressor
5) threaded barrel
6) grenade launcher
7) muzzle brake
8) muzzle compensator
9) thumbhole stock
10) foregrip
(source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_New_York#Overview)

I live in NYC and none of the above bans are an issue for home defense or hunting. When I asked my green beret friend what to buy for in-home defense he simply replied "A mossberg or benelli pump action and a box of bird and a box of buck shot. Load up two rounds of bird and the rest buck. If the first two shots doesn't stop or scare em off, the buck will."

Most people I know who complain loudly about these bans are the types who like cosplaying gi joe and tell me things like "holding a gun makes me feel powerful." This is why I support theses kinds of bans, to keep high capacity killing weapons out of the hands of the mentally ill.
Debit card transactions can and normally are instant. The fee maxes out at 1-2%.
You'd think so, but lately I've found it to be quite handy. Over the last couple of days, the UPS has notified me that the voltage coming from the wall is a bit off, oddly high (250-256V). netdata is nice and even graphs it out to me so I can pinpoint exactly when and how much the voltage deviated from normal.
I don't think it's an issue of making middle-sized businesses "cool", I think it's an issue of capital, right?

The reason "VC" or "bootstrapped from zero" (both are the author's words) are seen as the two available paths is... because they are seen as the two available paths.

Where do you get the funding to do a "middle-sized" business? The OP goes into this a little bit, but it seems to me that's the thing at the center of the whole discussion.

If people saw that it was feasible to find funding for a business that could grow faster and/or with less personal risk than what he is calling "bootstrapped from zero" (or is sometimes pejoratively called a "lifestyle business"); but without giving up the control that you do with VC funding -- of course people would be interested in starting a business like that, the appeal is obvious, right? It doesn't need to be made "cool". But, how? OP suggests "New non-dilutive funding sources are now available for revenue-generating businesses", okay, more on this, and hopefully it doesn't sound like a pyramid scheme or scamming retail "investors".

The things OP links to sound like... loans? OK... So this is just a variation of "bootstrapped from zero" where instead of just taking out credit card debt and loans from family and maybe a line of credit at your bank, you access loan products intended for new businesses? Are they secured by personal property? This doesn't sound so different from "bootstrapped from zero" to me, like these new sources of debt are going to make an entirely different business plan and category of business possible?

Then he moves on to advising that investors fund these businesses... in ways different than VC? Which would mean... without taking significant equity? Or without trying to maximize their payout? They're going to invest just planning on making money from dividends instead? And investors are going to do this because... it's been made "cool"?

I would love there to be more stable medium-sized sustainable businesses that don't pursue growth at all costs, treat their employees well, treat their communities well, etc. I feel like the OP weirdly seems to think the reason they aren't is becuase it's not "cool", rather than because of the economic factors. Businesses need capital, those with capital want to maximize their profit. So the two paths are either try for a capital-intensive startup that tries to give VC what they want; or you try to minimize the amount of capital you need by finding a way to start very small and have very slow but sustainable growth (the "bootstrapped from zero" "lifestyle business"). Making it "cool" to do something else does not solve these economic constraints. What might is talking about, say, changing the tax code to encourage a new type of business model or investment, or providing government subsidy for it, or something. Am I missing something?
Right, though I suspect this would nevertheless not happen if between the two of us we were familiar with the works I referenced.
The answer is highly variable and depends on what you want out of a game. In my opinion, it is essentially the pinnacle of the MMO genre, largely because the economy and content are all player driven, which is what in my opinion makes it continually relevant and fascinating while also very inaccessible to most people. It is interesting and appealing to a large number of people in the abstract, but of that group only a small number will be able to get much enjoyment out of playing it.

I do wish we could get more games in a similar vein. I wonder if there is an opportunity out there for an MMO that lives somewhere in between the hardcore player driven sandbox of Eve and the more common, mainstream theme-park MMOs like WoW, if such a game is even possible.
Your website design is delightful!
What do you mean? When converting real money to...?
'67...wow. I'd bet I understand the reason for that kind of training. Folks who remembered (for instance) the Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal (14–15 November, 1942) would still be serving. And the vast differences in the performances of the battleships USS Washington and USS South Dakota in that battle. Admiral Lee, aboard the Washington, had an incredibly detailed understanding of the ship and its systems. He made "Sink enemy battleship while taking no damage" look easy. Vs. the South Dakota's massive screw-ups in her electrical switchboard room - just before the battle got interesting - converted her into a helpless, easy target for enemy fire.
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It's deeper than that. The courts have ruled that others can't have your organs to survive even if you're dead. Hence why we have thousands dying every year on waiting lists and tons of useful organs, blood, and tissue being incinerated and buried.
I do live in SV, not wealthy to start with, and rent my home. About half my comp is equity and it goes to paying down student loans, savings, and the like.

At current housing prices my rent is 1/3 of a mortgage payment. Buying in this market doesn’t make sense.
He played the meta game. Get more new players to play more and longer gives him more and bigger targets later. The same reason I wouldn't totally whoop my friends at smash brothers back in the day. If you just barely win, you may win more games, because newbies aren't discouraged.
You had me at "My own toilet all to myself". I understand not everyone in the world is loathe to use a public restroom, but Jesus H. Christ, people use public restrooms like apes in a zoo.

Not to mention, My loud, clickity-clackity mechanical keyboard (which isn't allowed to leave my office on punishment of death from my wife - I have the silent one for the living room gaming rig).

I can run a couple of rigs at the same time, and work when the meeting I'm in doesn't particularly pertain to me, even though I lead a small team - which means I'm invited to meetings, but only have to listen to a quarter of what gets said and still have to get work done.

My team generally had their heads in the screen all day, anyway. We're fairly socially awkward and loud talkers/laughers, which means we annoy everyone when we don't communicate via Slack... which is almost every team I've worked on (I'm the worst offender, yes).

I understand remote doesn't work great for every team, but for A LOT of software teams... and we work with an accounting and ops team, it works great for all of us =/
Yep. Not to mention it's objectively not true: I worked at NASA for years, most people working there aren't rich, it pays less than most other engineering jobs. One of my parents worked there and we weren't rich when I was growing up. Nobody was paying for private schools or tutors or things... I had a stack of cheap books from a used bookstore and a handful of surplus nonworking computers that would have been thrown out.
I'm not going to discuss merits of the mechanics.

What I do know is that I can plug in terms and filters (typically dates / video length) to turn up something relevant most of the time.

Given that most of my searches are for lecture / podcast type material, that tends to work reasonably well for me.

Recent/current major news is of course a shitshow, though it can occasionally be useful. Increasingly I turn to major journalism channels for that information simply because the chumming around no-name submissions is so abysmally bad.
I don't use pyenv and have multiple python versions installed (and use them via venv per project). If you don't need to designate one as a global/system Python (which I don't), is there any reason to use pyenv?
Thanks! (I didn't realize you were the author).
Don't accidentally mislead yourself with graphs
Start with Investopedia articles. Here's one on currency pegs, and why most governments don't have free floating exchange rates.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/currency-peg.asp
> hope some Googlers around here can can do something...

Has google ever escalated a low-level issue mentioned on social media, without the need for a huge tweetstorm combined with bad media coverage?
More like the occupation of Germany.
Thank you. I love this.
I think I actually learned this lesson from my failure to build a billion dollar startup with Labdoor (this story is in the post). We would've been better off raising less money and going for profitability earlier. Labdoor made it to the middle class the hard way, and I'm trying to help others avoid some of my pain.
I could call the US government spending trillions on this pandemic the last two years a conspiracy.

It seems pretty outlandish given US track record of doing things in the name of public health. US food subsidies are for the unhealthiest food, healthcare policies result in the worst health outcomes at highest cost, protective environmental regulations have been stripped away hurting public health. Yet this time… it’s different. That seems like a crazy conspiracy to me.
Bubble Tea: fun, functional and stateful way to build terminal apps
Eve Online is the real Metaverse
I use bookmarks. It sucks that you can't organize your subscriptions into folders.
Maybe Musk can plan his summer house there and post some pics to Twitter?
> I'm trying to split SMB into two categories.

The fact that SMB is literally two categories (Small and Medium Business) but effectively one category is a great way to capture the frustration here.
Interesting will have a look, thanks!
Check the UEFI and disable it there.
The terror of someone else showing up in a system you thought was empty while you're carrying something super valuable.
I agree - usually what I am looking to read about!
> We Need a Middle Class for Startups

You mean a bourgeoisie?
? Nothing I said about that assumed those employees would accept being 'second or third class employees'.

They're going to be 'employees'.

Now - they will be paid less - yes (maybe that's what you meant?)

But that's a function of supply and demand.

They will absolutely accept 'less' because it's where they sit on the supply/demand curve.
I've seen bigger dances..
https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/extensions-vid%C3%A9...
Vendor and audit your dependencies. You shouldn't rely on GitHub to protect you from security problems.
Ask HN: How do you monitor your comments for replies?
I've been on HN for a relatively short time, and have had an account for even lesser time (>1 year). I was curious - how do the veterans, and new(er) users of HackerNews monitor their accounts for comments as there are no "notification" channels?

What I generally do is - keep account->comments tab open and periodically refresh. I'd imagine there are more efficient ways about this though.
Thank you. It was Bob Sproull.
If they're simultaneously just like us and far better at it than the rest of us I believe there is a mutual exclusion here ...
How is it not binary? There's no reason to obfuscate the issue. All you need to do is to answer two questions:

1. Are human beings _human beings_ beginning with conception?

2. Is it ever licit to kill an innocent human being intentionally?

W.r.t. (1), if you answer "no", then the second question is moot. It may still be the case that abortion would be morally illicit, but that would be a different question. If you answer "yes", then you must answer the second question. If you answer "yes", then you are a utilitarian/consequentialist. The conflict has largely shifted to the second question over time.

(For the sake of clarity, the word "intentionally" is important. Treating an ectopic pregnancy to save the mother by removing the affected implanted tissue will result in the death of the unborn, but this is not an intended consequence, only a tolerable side effect given what's at stake. These sorts of situations are not the subject of the abortion debate.)
> soon living

States will pass death penalties for abortion, and at least one person will be executed.
They might dislike the low participation in the meeting (camera off) because people just tune out and do work when they're supposed to be paying attention.

I much preferred when people were clearly in or out of a meeting (myself included).
I guess my point is I always feel like such advice is really just a bunch of hot air (so little or no substance) and not really advice at all.
Eating cholesterol doesn't raise your blood cholesterol level.
Why should a young person learn woodworking or metalworking? Because, even if they never do anything with it professionally, it still comes in handy when they just want to do something. Being able to envision something and then make it real is really cool.
If someone has been massively successful, that means they know how to be successful. It must be the case they have something of value to say. How can you make the argument they have nothing of value to say?
Wait... I still see a "Dislike" button on Youtube. I'm not on often, but I have one now.
Does that simplified model also include simplified avionics, radars, weapons and so forth? I've looked at some DCS vids on YouTube, and it looks cool but very complicated.
Except the majority of the citizens who have largely discarded its use or holding of it.
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This is also about job security. Technical people often have a record of what they have done. Think commits and PRs. Managers don't have this. Their job doesn't produce anything tangible, this is not to say that it is useless. There are good managers and bad managers, with the majority falling in the latter category.

Being seen in meeting rooms filled with people, talking to them, and pointing to things on a powerpoint presentation can give other more senior managers (who determine their position and compensation) the aura that they are hard at work and making things happen.

This of course is not very strong reasoning.
"A captain is given a wide latitude in how to run Their ship."

Though, after a quick google, it seems that the US took until April 2022 (a fortnight ago) to get their first female Captain. I'm slightly agog it's taken so long.

https://www.forces.net/services/navy/royal-navy-history-firs...
I don't know, we call it navel-gazing in English?
I use to get a ton of 'clip' video recommendations which annoys me. Plus, any videos by channels I've subscribed are basically drowned out.
This is an amazing read, but damn is it long.

I was happy to reach the end of the page, only to see "for chapter 2 click here". Guess I am going home late today.
Show HN: Collect tips from people that don't carry cash
I don't think I'd be where I am today if it wasn't for sitting physically next to people and watching what they do, picking up on non-verbal cues etc. I love working from home, but I also have the mentality that we all need to "pay it forward" sometimes, so I tend to spend a couple of days a week in an office with (typically) more junior engineers who may not even have space for a desk in their flat share. The "I'm alright, Jack" WFH crew really get on my nerves - it's a disappointingly selfish mentality.
i use zsh, but i often invoke bash just to make sure some behavior is "normal" rather than zsh-specific, or specific to how i wrote my .zshrc last decade [and haven't changed].

i don't think it's about the newfangledness; i think it's about the potential for subtle differences in syntax which scare people away from zsh.
Fascinating, the way the original comment was written I thought it didn't show up or something
I did just that. A screwdriver was my soldering iron, I recycled the solder and the rest of the parts from circuit boards salvaged from old electronics found in the garbage. Electronics can be as cheap or as expensive as you want it to be, and there is a small chance that you will learn faster at the ultra-cheap end because you are essentially reverse engineering all kinds of stuff.
> some of them talk about their gorgeous cars for the sake of talking about their cars

> My coffee machine is all mine (Gaggia Babila)
I've thought about getting into the crypto space on-and-off for the last six months. Were there resources that really helped you with the transition? What would you recommend for someone with a lot of dev experience?
> However, in statically typed languages, people wanted to deserialize data into static types that don't support the concept of "undefined." This was the beginning of the end, because deserializing into a static type is actually a bug for an API that has an evolving schema

No, that's just a bug in your type.

data FieldPatch a
= Value a -- A value unmarshable to type `a` was given, apply patch
| SetToNull -- null was given, apply and patch to null
| Undefined -- field was not set, do not patch
| UnexpectedValue RawJSON -- optional, allows manual handling of unexpected types

You can do this in things like Java too with interfaces if you can tolerate openness, or if you want closed types like in the example, through the visitor pattern.
Yup, I think the housing market got totally overheated on the back of RSU values going through the roof.

Now that even Apple and Google are well off peak, I’m super curious what happens next.
This is all you need to know. Connect all parport data pins together and connect it to suitable relay. Preferably 3-pin relay, so the Wifi-power-on is the default state.

$ cat wifi-off
#! /usr/bin/python2
import parallel,time
p = parallel.Parallel() # open LPT1 or /dev/parport0
p.setData(0xFF)

$ cat wifi-on
#! /usr/bin/python2
import parallel,time
p = parallel.Parallel() # open LPT1 or /dev/parport0
p.setData(0x0)
> I don’t support abortion in the case of rape or incest

Fundamentally this means you are fine with children giving birth to children. Today, usually when an 11 or 12 year old girl is raped by her relative or authority figure, the pregnancy is aborted and that little girl is allowed to move on with their life. After this decision comes down, abortion will be criminalized to the point of charging it as homicide. Young girls will be forced into social isolation at a young age to bear children that may in fact be their siblings. That, or they will undergo illegal and dangerous abortions which will end up killing them or putting them in jail for 30 years. Either way, the "Save The Children" crowd think they won one for babies, but the horror stories are just beginning.
"I just wait for the downvotes to appear in the top bar"
What should be compared is what comes out of the canons and NATO can afford to widely use those 100x more expensive ammo.
Yeah, I know that the effect is minor, but the same foods that have a lot of cholesterol, also tend to have a lot of fats and whatnot, so it's not a bad idea to moderate.
How is the management class supposed to manage technical work they ultimately grow out of touch with? An individual isn't going to be able to project power across an ocean, so why do they need you in particular? Sounds like a race to the bottom as far as the notion of becoming a manager to outsourced labor, I'm doubtful there is enough management work to absorb an influx of former ICs.
I might just be legitimately stupid. I find the JSON immediately readable.
I see what you are saying. Yes, violence begets violence, certainly. I would also argue that while not defending the morality, the violence against scabs are done by rogue individuals while violence against picketers are coordinated by using companies known for strikebreaking. The company typically yields a much stronger threat of violence than any individual union individual can, and has more sympathy of the "law."

The history of it is quite fascinating. Here's an example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-union_violence_in_the_Uni...
And property taxes pegged to the value of the home in 1985!
My question is why does everyone with the next CRUD SaaS app think they need to hire the “best people”?

I’ve seen plenty of job openings where companies want “ninja rockstar 10x developers” to write what ends up being something that anyone who knows the latest MVC framework with three years of experience can do competently.

And most “entrepreneurs” who own franchising are barely middle class and “bought a job”. The average fast food franchise, convenient store averages about $70K a year and that’s with the owner working insane hours and putting their family to work as free labor.
xps laptop for work

xps laptop for home

microsoft surface

gaming rig 5900x with a 3070

gaming rig x2 - most likely will be utilized as server

3 older laptops floating around the house

macbook air

synology NAS
Good article from a few years ago, but it still stands up.

https://nothingventured.rocks/what-startups-can-learn-from-t...
Yeah, this. When you come back to look at the code 6 months later, you are effectively 10 years more junior than you were when you wrote it. Write accordingly.
This is probably a silly question - but what are the complications of mitigating dust sticking to devices like solar panels on mars?

My inexperienced mind thinks of things like windshield wipers, maybe some electronics to oppose the static forces of dust sticking to the panels?

We sure can't send someone over there every 6 months to wash the panels off, that's for sure.
When idiots experience stress as a result of making bad choices that's not "horrific". It's a good object lesson for them to be less gullible.
Same class != Same level. I think most math people feel a sort of kinship with mathematicians past and present, but I can't pretend I'm any good
That is a problem with representation and not a real problem. If you have multiple rows in a db, and want to update a row, do you send all rows or describe precisely how to update the rows? No. you send an update and a predicate on which rows to update.
I think this needs a lot more scrutiny.

What did we really know about the ocean in 1899, which is when part of the data starts? Are they just using mathematical models of 1899? What's the margin of error for such a case?
So what you're saying is that per the leaked opinion, a dead woman has more rights than a living one?