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I don’t understand. Just about everyone rolls their own auth.

This is awful advice. I’d never trust my authentication needs to external providers who can hold my user information hostage.
Fabric uses Paramiko, which is GNU, which means the lawyers at my company said that I couldn't use it, since I would be distributing it to some extent (for use at vendor site).

Is it a dirty industry secret that most people/companies who use these open source libraries are violating their licenses, especially around the distribution? I always see great libraries posted on HN, but I don't see how anyone can actually use them, in a professional setting.
It's very easy for the school to fix this.
- The average grade is a B, class grades will not be accepted until compliant.
- Publish this policy so employers know this. For a school like Harvard they'll trouble themselves to find out. Employers will quickly learn that a B, or even a C, still indicates a pretty capable person.
> That's quite a statement. Go on, for most of the other languages, show me a web framework that's better than Django.

I think that’s subjective, so take this with a grain of salt. I do have a different opinion though. Also, my point isn’t to argue, but to encourage consideration.

I’ve used Django and Python quite extensively in the past and I would say that, for me, Phoenix/Elixir and Ruby on Rails are both better web frameworks than Django.

The reason I feel this way is that Phoenix/Elixir, for example, has much better dependency management and tooling than Python/Django (e.g., Mix is vastly superior to Pip, in my opinion).

Also, when I was using Django in the past, even the core team suggested using a different directory layout than is generated by default. This meant that every Django application I worked on had a completely different project layout. Both Phoenix and Rails are more opinionated regarding their project layouts. Some may consider this bad, but the benefit is I can go to any Phoenix or Rails project and instantly be productive because I know where all my controllers, models, views, templates, and contexts are going to be. I also like that Phoenix is much faster, more scalable, and makes better use of hardware resources than either Python or Ruby.

I think Python and Django are excellent, but I’d place them at #3 in my top-three list of web frameworks. That’s just my opinion though.
What Is Operational Machine Learning?
Hm.. for all the people downvoting, did you check out the research and article on risk of not aspirating/poor injection point? It seems like a legitimate concern. I can locate some more citations as well if you wish.
Yes there would be logistical issues if we tried to actualize this future today, rather than allowing it to naturally progress over time as I stated. Foreign culture is irrelevant, as you can bring people in to train them on-site and then let them go back home to work.. or send someone from here over there. Also remote workers will evolve to meet whatever is necessary to make the arrangement work because the financial incentive is HUGE and isn't going anywhere.

the point is that lower cost of living areas will promote remote work to transition there from high cost of living areas over time. The pandemic already showcased this.

Youre right that the end result will probably be worse than what we have today, but that will not stop it from happening. they will figure out how to be good enough
Interesting take that I haven’t heard before, outside of like Diamond Age.

If you were a betting man, what would your timeline be? When does computer generated imagery surpass camera footage when representing reality? When does a drama shooting in Toronto pretending to be New York just render the whole thing? Finally, do you think performances will be noticeably worse and we’ll all just live with it, or is the whole idea of actors having a harder time acting with greenscreens/mocap sets overblown?
Do you have any background in movie production? There is more to that industry than VFX tech. Yes, virtual production etc are ascendent, and growing fast -- but most of the production spending is still using fancy optics and traditional production. (And even for virtual production, the actors are still people.) I think this is a typical straight-line projection of the change in the industry that fails to account for the actual underlying dynamics.

But I wish your startup well. I hope you've hired filmmakers, directors, producers so someone on your team understands how movies are made today.

(Plus: there's lots of money to be made in downmarket production. More money is being spent on video production today than ten years ago. The industry is not dying.)
You're not alone. That article was the reason I stopped considering him a reasonable source.

>I’ll use lead-acid batteries as a baseline. Why? Because lead-acid batteries are the cheapest way to store electricity today.

That wasn't even true when the article was written. Pumped hydro has always been cheaper than batteries, and unless we've made some big improvements since I last checked the news, it still is.

>And lead is a common element, being the endpoint of the alpha-decay chain of heavy elements like uranium and thorium.

What's really incredible is that a physicist would make this argument. Lead is not common, and anyone with even a superficial familiarity with the process of stellar nucleosynthesis can easily explain why. A zinc nucleus needs to capture around 150 neutrons to produce a lead nucleus. All heavy elements are rare on a cosmic scale:

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

But the other glaring hole in the analysis is the lack of reference to prior work. Japan had already developed a grid energy storage system based on sodium-sulfur batteries in the 1980s [1]. I would expect a serious analysis to consider the existing state of the art.

These mistakes don't strike me as arising from a lack of competence, but rather from a desire to inflate the apparent strength of the conclusions.

1: https://ceramics.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1...
Froze for me on the loading screen on Firefox Mobile
This article is written in Arabic - so you need a translation
When I think of cities where people drive F250s, DC is the last place I think of.
Attempting to shut them down will prove (or disprove) their real value.
The government isn't exactly rushing to 4th doses. They could authorize it for under 50s right now, but there's little evidence that it makes a significant difference, so they haven't.

Also note that we still don't have vaccines for kids under 5.

If the government wanted to line the pockets of pharma more, there's not a lot stopping them. So it's hard to take blanket statements about this seriously. I'm not denying that this has happened in the past, just that it's a lot more complicated than any single conspiracy theory.
Markets are not oriented around innovation but around profit.

Innovation can eventually be produced, but it's an accidental sub-product. Innovation it's not the metric that markets are optimizing.
> It's not really news that people in high-level, high-paying jobs make the most money. This seems about as useful as saying there's a correlation between owning expensive exotic cars and high income. Sure, it's true, but so what?

It looks similar to saying that it's not really news that women make less money than men, so what? The article answers this question by saying that women more often work part-time or make less per hour than men. Why they do that is another matter - but that at least answer the original question. Similarly, that people in high-level jobs make most money explains why they have more money. Why they are in high-level jobs is similarly different question, which, like why women make less per hour than men, could be outside of immediate focus of the article. The article is about pointing to that - perhaps trivial, but maybe still underappreciated - correlation between high position level and compensation.

> That was a lot of solid foundation-building

Author admits that there is not too much research in hierarchical dependencies with income. So at least we have solid foundation (it would perhaps be worse if the foundation would be shaky) and as good as we (author) can have the outcomes.
As you say, growth, on Earth anyway, is projected to end. We should be planning for it. Instead nations are deferring and deferring by focusing on increased immigration.
>Cost and time savings of not doing location scouting, set dec, lighting, and blocking are huge

Yes this worked awesome on the Star Wars prequels. Some of the most natural and real acting I've ever seen. /s
20-30 years ago, a lot of large US cities were net losing population (and employers). At one point, after Teradyne moved out, I don't think there was a single significant tech company in Boston though I think the bio build-out in Kendall Square had started.
> Some of my smart classmates could not really understand the concept of limit intuitively.

that's because the way it's presented is silly. limits aren't the key idea, the continuity of the reals is.
Ask HN: Best book on modern cryptography?
For self learning, approachable etc ... any suggestions ?
It's not terrible, just looking for alternatives I'm not familiar with.

We wanted to use it for marketing automation but would have had to pay $900/month even after the startup discount [1] so we chose customer.io instead and it's been way better in every way. (Better product and less than a quarter of the price.)

So I'm wondering if there's another product I should be aware of for the CRM aspects.

[1] We have only a single automation workflow, but it needs to both send emails and trigger a webhook. So with HubSpot we would have had to pay for both the marketing and automation hub
Antecedents of Bullshitting
Depends on your threat model. If all you want is to get away from Google / ad-tech, ProtonMail is fine, as are many alternatives (FastMail, etc.).

ProtonMail is also probably fine(-ish) if you want to escape mass surveillance from US and allies.

If you're worried about a nation-state actor targeting you specifically, then no commercial provider will fit the bill.

Whatever you choose, my recommendation is to buy a domain name and use it with your new provider. It will make it much easier to migrate providers in the future.
Walmart Announces Drone Deliveries to 4M Households
I’ve used ECS in various games, and there’s a huge advantage in being able to “map out” your tick from a bird’s eye view.

Or, since each of your systems are relatively self-contained, your `update` function will more or less allow you to inspect which order they’re in and when they’ll iterate. I’ve worked on games where that logic has been hidden behind a bunch of vtables, and that made it unclear where/when certain logic was happening.
I believe I did fine conveying it. The last paragraph makes it pretty clear I know there are other solutions. The problem with the reply wan't the sarcasm, but not reading the whole message.
Only if you assume that the developed world has some special sauce that requires you being born here to work.
when i worked at the Capital One campus i thought they had it figured out. Lots of different environments, no assigned desks.

Some offices you could use for the day, some long conf tables.. some cafe style booths, rooms with projectors, areas with couches and coffee tables, heck even had a tree house you could book meetings in.

Personally i'd like the options. sometimes im heads down on a solo task other times i need 3-5 other people around.
I don't know why I waited so long to try it.

I wrangle a ton of raw and aggregate data locally every day. I've had a 10-year habit of massaging via unix CLI tools and pipes then moving to excel. I guess I didn't wanna write code. Funny thing is I love SQL.

But with `duckdb_cli` it's a game-changer. I'm truly truly impressed.
As usual, the lawyers win.
You’re being needlessly combative and hostile.
> can you buy it, if you are not a big coorp?

I wouldn't know because I 'found it online' (if you know what I mean).
It's more believable, but in theory there could be a secret store of unencrypted emails that have been sent to ProtonMail's email servers.
yes today. overseas is still behind on raw skill. they will catch up, and SWE does not promote complicated work - it does the opposite. it promotes the simplest code that works, because that makes it easiest to maintain.
I'm sorry to hear that. From a faraway stranger, I'd say:

• Your written communication, in this comment, and via a quick look at other recent comments, appears excellent. Whatever your other comms/awkwardness concerns, writing can be a channel-for-connection, & for productive-economic interactions, for you even long before other relationships & skills find-their-grounding.

• You're right to prioritize finding employment. The rhythm of doing something useful, with other people, at any scale, can have beneficial spillover effects on mood, self-worth, etc – even after accounting for all the day-to-day frustrations of imperfect/difficult teams/coworkers. Concentration on the work can give the other anxieties/injuries "time to heal".

• Beware over-focusing on any one opportunity, however. The world is very big. The kinds of work/teams/cultures available vary massively, so there is some work/team that's suitably fit to both your talents & weaknesses & future potential – but it may take time, & even many abortive relationships, to find. Give yourself permission-to-"fail" N times, and N+1 times – as long as any new info & practice is acquired each cycle, it's a success at sampling-more-of-the-possibility space. Try to focus on what the world told you about the world, good and bad, rather than primarily self-ruminations.

• Also, we're likely entering a somewhat more-challenging economic time, with more delay/rejection from employers – and you should remember that's nothing to do with you specifically. Don't let outside things not under your control falsely imply any extra negative-self-evaluations.

• Get "out of your head" with things like fishing, physical activity, outdoor activity, etc as much as possible. They inherently remind people of the larger world, of essential human capabilities to move and interact, even when any number of other things aren't working. All exertion helps build background capabilities, in the mind & body, even unconsciously – and even just "stewing-in-thought" usually goes better if you're moving, in nature, with varied (not overly-familiar) surroundings.

You're obviously at a low point, but the fact that you can see that, talk about that, and consider other things that might remix your situation means it needn't last too long.
It is in articles, and you will not have difficulties in finding anecdotal evidence. Of course, it will depend on the definition. It should be normal to believe that some can suffer semipermanent damages; it is more urging to assess and define the more subtle ones, for mild cases.

It is not clear (to some who follow the matter reasonably in their time) how permanent the damage will be, but for example the first article that results to a search, the "famous" recent "similar in magnitude to the effects of ageing between 50 and 70 years of age",

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S258953702...

mentions 10 IQ points lost in a number of patients months after hospitalization... They note: «it is very possible that some of these individuals will never fully recover».
I guess we’re pushing the point with modern blockbusters (Marvel/Star Wars) where more of the movie is animated then not. And Avatar is inverse Who Framed Roger Rabbit at this point.
That was just generic display advertising targeted by location and market research.

This one collects data about your usage of the device (and the mere fact that you were there at a certain time) and then shares it with lots of "partners" so they can refine the profile they have on you even further.
I was reading another thread about webscraping, someone mentioned CSS selectors being way quicker than xpath. I'm easy either way but apart from a more powerful syntax what other benefits are there?
I haven't pulled the patents, but they probably have to do with compressing the pre-debayered image. Apple sends Red a big check every year for the same patents; I believe they're part of ProRes but not sure.

Essentially, by compressing the raw RGB data coming off the sensor (where each pixel only has R, or G, or B) you avoid the data explosion of interpolating color values at each pixel. It's a technique for compressing raw files, and Red was early to the game.

Perhaps someone on here has more detailed technical info, I haven't actually read the patents, just talked to engineers close to the project.
I definitely wouldn’t, at least not without lots of convincing. Probably I’d call someone for you though.

Access to all of my personal info, my password manager, etc. If someone turned and ran with my phone, it would give me days worth of hassle to replace and recover things like canceling my SIM card, buying a new one, changing 2FA, trying to remotely wipe it, maybe provide info to police.

I hate how dependent I am on this little rectangle but it’s kind of just reality these days to have so much of our lives closely tied to it
What exactly can be done? Vote harder?
They got Kinefinity and DJI with this patent collection already, too, forcing them to drop ProRes RAW support.

It's quite ridiculous, really, basically any camera which internally records compressed lossless sensor data prior to debayering (any "internal RAW" format) is vulnerable to RED patent trolling.
This is something I've thought about on and off for awhile.

For completeness, I believe that the speed of light is a hard limit (and no I don't believe in any end-runs around this like warp drives, folding space or wormholes). Secondly, I accept the laws of thermodynamic.

Given this traveling between stars takes an incredibly long time. At a high percentage of c you get time dilation but that's not actually a practical travel speed for a few reasons:

1. The energy cost of accelerating to 0.99c and decelerating at the other end is extraordinarily high;

2. If you even can get to that speed, small objects in the interstellar medium become life threatening; and

3. Beyond about 0.86c gas in the interstellar medium actually creates drag making acceleration even harder.

Given the reaction mass problem, it creates a big question of how you'd actually travel between stars. The more you carry the more energy you need to accelerate and decelerate it. It's likely you'd need fusion at a minimum and possibly some far-future tech (eg antimatter, black holes).

So what do you do? Well, there are rogue objects not bound to any solar systems. We've seen some of these. We can't easily detect them so can only speculate on how many there are but it's likely to be a fairly large number.

So what if you opportunistically wait for one of these objects to travel through the Solar System and then hitch a ride? Imagine a planetoid 100 miles in diameter. That's likely all the resources you'd need. It then becomes less of an issue that it might not reach another star for 100,000+ years because your attitude is that this is a new home.

Obviously you still have to match velocities with this object but that's vastly easier to do with a bunch of people and equipment than it is with those same things plus all the same materials that are already traveling at intersellar speeds.
The city center can be gnarly for sure, but everywhere else is quite nice. Not sure how you could describe any neighborhood on the West side of the city as a "hellscape" for example.
> Technological progress is the result of ready access to fossil fuels.

This doesn't account for nations with ready access to fossil fuels who don't progress.
Road wear and risk to other cars and pedestrians don't scale the same way fuel consumption does.
I don't think that is what science agrees with. IQ correlates pretty strongly with educational achievement. You can disagree with IQ all you but one thing it pretty surely doesn't measure is work ethic.
The electric Hummer’s battery weighs more than my first car. It has a curb weight over 9000 pounds.

Heavy cars do more damage when they hit things, emit more brake dust, and cause more damage to roads. Exploring ways to reduce (or appropriately tax) their use should be celebrated.
> That is because, under almost any conceivable schema, it takes less energy and resources to sustain an individual for its entire life than it takes to transport that individual to another solar system.

I've thought about this in relation to colonizing other planets in our solar system let alone ones in another one. I'm of the opinion that we'd be better off building orbital habitats similar to the ISS and then iterating on those until they can house more people safely, become more and more self-sufficient, and we have the ability to put them into solar orbits and/or making them self-propelled. I always assumed we would populate earth orbit and bases on the moon first, then expand our infrastructure to be able to mine metals from asteroids and start building larger space stations outside of earth's orbit.

If Mars were more Earth-like I could see pushing for that first but I think we're getting ahead of ourselves. There is solid ground we can build on, but the atmosphere is almost non-existent, the radiation is incredibly high, water is scarce, it's a long way away, and there are two gravity wells to deal with. Unless we're talking about terraforming Mars, which is an even larger project than colonizing it, we're still talking basically people living in the equivalent of tin cans.

In terms of people living off of our home planet it seems to me that we could increase the population much faster in space stations and lunar bases than we would be able to do so on Mars.

If I were a billionaire space tech guy, I'd be working toward O'neil cylinders instead of Mars colonization.

I'm not a space scientist or an engineer, though. Or a billionaire, sadly enough.
What goes there? Anything that meets the specified requirements of that type
I was thinking there was some 10x programmer known only as Range that had joined.
> there's lots of money to be made in downmarket production

This is almost certainly what the commenter is targeting. I'd guess that and/or the adult film industry.
The Elysium is already here, it's just less separate than you imagine. The $100M and billionaire classes are quite good at wresting a higher standard of living for themselves, and naturally select for those who feel separate from and superior to the unwashed masses. They're not thinking they'll be dead by the time it matters, they are concerned about their offspring, they just know that their offspring won't be the ones suffering.

Large disruptions always create opportunities for a limited subset of people to do even better at the cost of everyone else doing much worse. The billionaire class is doing everything in their control to be in that elite subset, and so far they've been quite successful at that and there really isn't any reason in sight as to why their approach is going to fail any time soon.

Elysium is made out of people who live among us for as long as it is advantageous to them to do so, who can pay reputation consultants to keep the mobs with pitchforks away, who are pouring their money and influence into promoting a culture that makes everyone feel like the elite deserve their exalted positions and that if you don't feel that way, you're at risk of losing your chance of getting up there to be with them. And making us feel like that chance is real, it's just a breakout app away, and you'd better keep playing the game or you'll be driven into medical bankruptcy and your kids will get shot at school.
Interesting. I hadn't seen these before (not a NY resident and very rarely a visitor).

https://www.link.nyc/