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> A stackful coroutine framework would probably have allowed for the same without requiring WASM

Interestingly Rust actually had this built in originally, but it was taken out of the language since it could be added back in as a library, and the devs thought it was important that Rust did not hide any costs from the user.

Which I can certainly buy. Especially once you consider use cases like embedded development. That said, it'd also suuuuure be nice to be able to opt-in to something like that and avoid the async headache.
I was “gifted” as a child. As a result I never studied for school and didn’t take it seriously. Then I failed out of my first year of college and had a breakdown about how I was gonna be a complete failure in life. That changed everything. It taught me that in a competitive world, intellect and “gifted” doesn’t go very far if your also not willing to put in hard sustained effort. In retrospect, I was very very lucky. Lucky to learn the lesson at a young enough age. And lucky to grow up in a society (USA) that believes in second chances.

I’ve met others who weren’t so lucky. I’ve met people that still thought they were “gifted” and “special” after reaching the workplace and then were utterly confused why no one agreed with them and nothing went their way. They never learned humility or how to work within an organization’s culture.

Surprising how damaging a few little words can be..
I'm not interested in investing in solar power. But I wouldn't mind owning solar generating capacity that covers my family's energy needs; I don't think I need that routed to my own home. That's what the power grid is for.

I've been thinking about this kind of "solar condo" or "solar co-op" for a while. City people use energy, and might want to know that their personal energy usage is positively covered by solar.
That's so cool, I'm only a casual VMWare user and had no idea.

With things like this possible, and possible for a long time now, it honestly makes me cringe at how absolutely terrible (slow, inefficient, unreliable, complex, not robust) the typical modern software stack is.
Interestingly enough, I'm not so sure this is the case.

I've been mentally toying with the idea of an in-house pre-paid school psychologist and mandatory annual screenings for all students. We already do this for hearing and vision screening, and sometimes even dental screening and care.

That or there are other ways to create intervention opportunities. There are many proven mental health therapeutic interventions that could be implemented in a classroom format. Lots of self-journaling to various prompts, etc. The class can focus on stress management strategies, organization, and other sorts of long term planning, reflection, conflict resolution and other life-success skills. Self-assessment quizzes could be administered to screen for depression, anxiety, dark-triad type stuff and then results evaluated by an actual psychologist with appropriate followup as needed. I just about guarantee that would do more to prevent school shootings than any gun control proposals on the table.

For the amount we spend on schools to have school resource officers (like providing extra opportunities for students to have run-ins with the law is helpful?), and all the security and surveillance infrastructure, and ridiculous admin costs, I think it wouldn't be nearly as expensive as you might think.
> we've sold a few $100K worth of panels to accredited investors

(Accredited investor with solar experience here) - On a commercial scale that's 1 or 2 installs. Good for getting your feet wet with solar but what you're proposing is a different game entirely.

> Per 'doers' - my point is that 'doing' is not taught in engineering school or consulting or Goldman Sachs any more than it is in product design. In that sense it is an ethic, not a credential or professional discipline. I think we are more or less simpatico here.

"Doing" is definitely taught in engineering school in the context of doing engineering things.

I don't think anybody here doubts that you can "do" designs. The point is that the type of "doing" this startup needs has little to no overlap with the founders' experience. It's not enough to make hand-wavy claims that "doing is an ethic". Someone still has to do all of the business things and execution.
Did you think of focal?
`curl wttr.in` is my preferred `cal`
'Ebola is defeated,' says Congolese professor who discovered the virus
We make full schematics and board views available to repair shops under a confidentiality agreement: https://knowledgebase.frame.work/en_us/availability-of-schem...

In this case, we didn't see a request for it come in.

Publicly with no agreement required, we were able to share a sub-set of the schematic focused on the internal and external connectors: https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/Mainboard/blob/main/Ele...

Louis has more context on the latter in an earlier video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cJj8PUY0DU
neat. python or c++? also I tried to enter in my email into where it says "Get useful tips and updates in your inbox." and it is stuck saying "processing"
When did it occur to you that it was a "disorder" and not "normal" anxiety? How would you differentiate between the two?

I would be worried about labeling. Anxiety comes and goes, usually in waves, you can have periods where you're not anxious and periods where you are not
Fortunately, this has been litigated in a real court of law in the Epic vs. Apple case and the judge specifically said that Apple is not a monopoly.
Does Dunbar's Number Still Compute?
It’s also used in the north no? New York even has a baseball team featuring it, which may be more or less positive depending on which borough you’re from.
Tell HN: Cloudflare prevents transfer-out of domains, sets to 'pendingdelete'
A recent post that has grained traction this afternoon is about a user who’s account was wrongfully terminated by Cloudflare due to false positives, and his inability to get in touch with support through normal channels. As per usual, the Cloudflare PR spin doctors(who monitor HN for any mention of the company name using a script) quickly turned up in the thread and had the users account restored before they got too much bad press for their mistake.

However, the worst part of this fiasco, was that this thread shed light on a far more terrifying issue regarding CloudFlare. The problem is that allegedly when they terminate your account you are unable to transfer-out your domain names. Allegedly, and perhaps far more insidiously, CloudFlare sets them to “pendingdelete” status. Meaning not only can you not transfer out your domain to another registrar, but the domain will expire after a short period of time and can therefore be sniped by an unscrupulous third party.

This post is a warning to the community: DO NOT transfer any domain name to CloudFlare that is valuable or important to you. Because at any time, your account can be terminated for no reason (“false positives”) and you will not be able to transfer your domain to another registrar. You will probably be unable to get them to reinstate your account so that you can transfer-out your domain through the normal support channels because they totally stonewall you("The suspension is permanent and we will not be making changes on our end."). You would either need take them to court to get your domain name(but by then your domain may already be permanently deleted/expired or sniped by a 3rd party) -OR- make a big stink on HN in order to summon someone with actual authority in the company who can remedy the situation.

Relevant thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31573854
On the subject of ship salvage, WIRED ran a dramatic long-form article awhile back that makes for a very gripping read if you have the time, telling the story of the team that does this for a living and flies halfway around the world following a 4am phone call:

"High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas: The Race to Save the Cougar Ace"

https://www.wired.com/2008/02/the-race-to-save-the-cougar-ac...

https://archive.ph/lGHpn

No disrespect to OP, this BBC article is good as well but fewer chilling details : )
At least to me, the intent is clear. Companies that recently went public via SPAC are at risk of failing due to the nature of SPACs and current market conditions.
If only Amazon sold a dedicated ebook reader…
Off-topic, but google-fu is failing me: wasn't there a similar project posted here a while back, that instead shipped a binary + a virtual file system that mirrored all local resources to a remote host so that the entire process could run there? IIRC the author demonstrated it running an ffmepg transcode?

edit: Got it, after a while: https://github.com/Overv/outrun
A bunch of my coworkers from a previous company went to a startup that did a SPAC IPO in October. Went from $12 to $1 since then. Seems like these all went down at literally the worst time possible lol
> Interpretation is one thing, but never do they decide to throw in a bass solo.

I'm now imagining the conductor in the middle of a Bach concerto calling out "Take me to the bridge" and pointing to the 1st trumpet player for a solo.
I had been using Xournal++ for several months, and it was amazing. The only problem is that it cannot select and copy texts from the PDF, but this is scheduled in the next release. Looking forward to it.

For hardware, I'm using Wacom 672. It has pretty good Linux drivers.
Thanks for sharing this. It is a very interesting problem that highlights some of the technical challenges of working with modern event data, which happens to 'prefer' being semi-structured (i.e JSON is the most natural serialization format while creating events).

It's also something we're working on! Shameless plug - I happen to work at Sneller (sneller.io, open source at https://github.com/SnellerInc/sneller) that might be interesting to you.

A couple of key ideas - first, we bypass the need for any sort of 'semi-structured to relational' ETL/ELT overhead by running vectorized SQL on a (compressed) binary form of the JSON data which preserves its original structure. So we're schema-on-read first and foremost - you don't need to worry about adding new fields in the source JSON as long as your queries know of these new fields.

Second, we completely separate storage from compute. Unlike CH we don't use local disk as any sort of storage tier, and use cloud object stores as our _primary_ storage tier. So all your data (including the compressed binary version of your source JSON) lives in s3 buckets in your control.

Feel free to check us out and let us know what you think!

1. Github - https://github.com/SnellerInc/sneller

2. Intro blog - https://github.com/SnellerInc/blogs/blob/main/introducing-sn...
We can't give each kid one-on-one tutoring[1] which would improve children's education by 2 standard deviations. Yet, we still teach kids in classrooms. Let's not let perfect be the enemy of good(or better).

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_2_sigma_problem
Very good points. In the chorus, we were always told to watch the conductor, or else we'd always be late.

Amusing factoid: once I was in the audience at a musical theater production, and I could see TV monitors up high on the walls in the house, facing the stage. I couldn't see what was on them, but I'm pretty sure it was the conductor.

So those folks have to be able to see the conductor, too.
The rural bashing is the underlying given; how dare anyone suggest living someplace that doesn’t vote at least 90% like I do.
It's not a matter of opinion, there's been at least one court ruling on the subject. Have you read the court documents in the Epic cases? Apple and Google are both very explicit that the 30% fee is a platform fee. This is the reason why both of them are offering to remove around ~3% from the fee in countries where they're not allowed to force people to use their billing system. That number is their billing fee, not the 30%.
You can find developer first roles where the company puts a lot of time and energy into making developers the most efficient workers, but most companies are a cluster-fuck of resource management and you'll be lucky to find a healthy company that also puts developers first in this way.

In my experience, recreating staging as "production junior with caveats" comes down to cost and living with bad architecture/design. I'm not defending the practice, but I do think it's incredibly common.
> under a confidentiality agreement

That's not so kosher for repairability.
There's owning the panel, but someone also has to own the inverter, the transmission equipment, the land (rent and/or property tax), etc.

If it is structured as a share of a collective, it might be easier to take those expenses out.
No. It's based on Gtk, but unfortunately it's Windows version does not have the Windows look and feel, so it feels a little bit wired.
I'm not a lawyer, but I used my real callsign when doing anything over the air. I used known protocols, no encryption, nothing commercial, etc. This was all against my own lab systems. I don't think I crossed any legal lines here. It probably would have been even better to use some kind of dummy load to further reduce the range of my transmissions but I didn't have anything like that to use at the time. I just kept my power as low as I was able.
C++ (I'm the developer).

I just tested the email form myself and saw the same thing, but my address was added, so yours probably was too. I'll be sure to fix that.
8. If I decide to can I come get my solar panel and take it to my cabin?
Given the Indo-Aryan character of the rulers of Mittani, it's easy to postulate that any similarity between Hurrian (the common language of the Mittani empire) and Sanskrit are an elite import to the former language, not unlike English words with a Norman-French background.
In fact, I'm friends with a French Horn player, who's subbed with almost every orchestra in the Bay Area. I'm pretty sure he doesn't get a rehearsal.
You don’t have to. There are literally dozens of companies that take the open source version of Android and make their own phones. You can source the parts needed from a variety of vendors and put the Amazon App Store on it.
Is there any substantiation to this claim?
Cities aren’t black holes that cause all job locations to collapse into a singularity. If density were allowed to grow you’d find jobs appearing in other places (and the biggest cities have this already - the jobs aren’t only in the central metro area).
I'm going to have to see what I can find about this incident. Sounds like the early days of phone phreaking. Awesome!
Seconding this, Will’s channel and forum are excellent.

Here's a nice overview of setting up a 30 kwh battery and inverters to charge/use them: https://www.mobile-solarpower.com/48v-complete-system-bluepr...
>OpenNewton is still a thing if you're interested.

Did you mean Open Dylan?
Netflix simply isn’t as competitive as other streaming services. When I compare the library available to me on services like HBO Max vs Netflix it’s night and day.

Netflix is only good outside the US, and even then it’s still nowhere near as good a value as Disney+ when looking at non US markets (looking at STAR content etc).

The only reason I have Netflix is as a bundle with my T-mobile service in the US. I’d cancel that (or at least reduce it down to the “free” subsidized tier) if they clamped down on sharing.
All good motivations, but from an investment standpoint it seems everything about this would be better served by a publicly-traded company that owns and operates solar installations. They could pay dividends from the return on the installations.

The way this is structured isn't great for retail investors. You're not really owning anything the way you would with a traditional investment. You're basically just giving them money and trusting that they'll continue to be in business long enough to pay it back. If they go bust, the panels and installations go to creditors and you get nothing. Great deal for their creditors, bad deal for you.
It taught me scripting at age 8. I will be forever grateful. The author passed away ten or twenty years ago, and the family decided not to release the source code, which I will forever be sad about. At least it still runs in emulators.
I agree, this is a logical next step. Definitely time off is warranted though -- burnout is no joke.
A team effort, it was.
Classical musicians need to sightread, so that pretty much excludes the blind.

Yes and no. I agree that it's very difficult for classical musicians who are completely blind, but there are talented musicians who are legally blind and make use of assistive technology. I know an oboist who plays very well in orchestra despite only being able to see two or three bars of sheet music at a time.

Bands are more manageable because the individuals all have separate lines and are supposed to be listening to each other.

I think the issue is the other way around really. Yes, the musicians in a band all have separate lines, but it's all very coherent -- a melody and some harmony. In symphonic music you might have 24 violinists all playing the same notes, but that's the easy part -- the hard part (and where you really need a conductor) is when one melody is bouncing between the 1st and 2nd violins (with supporting harmonies in the lower strings) while a counter melody is being played by the clarinets and French horns and the trumpets are furiously counting 57 bars of rest before they interrupt in 3/4 time.
They are a fantastic strategy, though if one happens to rob you of a lot of remaining words, you should undo it.
I've been playing with adjacent ideas in WebAssembly. The idea is that you can write a function that sends and receives messages of arbitrary Rust types, compile it into WebAssembly, and then snapshot and restore it (including across space and time) as you like.

It's very experimental, but I got as far as being able to freeze a JavaScript interpreter (compiled to WebAssembly) and restore it later. The code is here: https://github.com/drifting-in-space/wasmbox
Sad, because a couple decades ago, complete schematics were all too common and included with every electric product sold.
I think you and I have a different set of core beliefs, but I can expand on my side as well.

> To elaborate, it seems that for most of human history the value proposition for most people, as imposed by nature, was "work hard or starve". Somehow, sometime, we've decided that this value proposition was unethical.

For myself, that turning point is when food ceased to be a scarce good. When food is scarce, somebody has to starve and allocating by contribution is a reasonable way to do it. When food is so plentiful that we inefficiently convert it to crappy gasoline because we have so much (corn) and cram caves full of it (cheese), letting someone starve is more of a conscious decision than an incredibly unfortunate situation.

In other words, being unable to share essential goods is very different from refusing to share essential goods.

I'm willing to sacrifice a portion of my efforts so that people don't starve. The "work hard or starve" mantra has a nasty implication that people who can't work should just starve. If you're going to provide for the disabled, it's no longer "work hard or starve", and you need a new justification for why people who can work but don't deserve to starve. It becomes very morally murky and arbitrary.

> I assure you many people on earth would enthusiastically clean the worst filth in order to feed their families.

Many people on earth would also enthusiastically kill each other to feed their families. That doesn't make it a noble pursuit.

> This should not be regarded as degradation, but rather strength and triumph.

I don't see any triumph here, so you might have to expand on that thought. I guess they're triumphing over starvation, but that's not really a show of strength in a country with 1.4 billion pounds of cheese stashed in a cave. It seems like calling breathing a triumph over asphyxiation.

If they were paid enough to live a remotely decent life, that would be a triumph. Enough to afford somewhere to live, food, a little leftover to pursue a passion.

Working hard and foul jobs so your boss can pay you so little that you're almost jealous of barn animals, so they can then use the money they saved to throw you out seems very degrading to me.

Most people take better care of their household pets than we afford the homeless. Most dogs do nothing but emotional support, yet we feed them, take them to the vet, make sure they come inside when it's hot/cold. Cats don't even do emotional support, they're mostly a walking curiosity. Everybody's happy with that arrangement, but the homeless wanting a semblance of fair pay for shitty work is a step too far?
Never mind my peer's noise. Thanks for helping me understand where you're at. I kinda guessed that this really was a launch testing kind of scenario where you'd check for demand before fully "finishing" the offering. No problem, it's a good idea to do research before sinking your life into something no one wants.

I dont know if you heard of or followed sweater ventures. But this kinda feels like a similar niche, but w/ a solar angle instead of VC .
Except that it's completely impossible to buy one.
I get it. One way you can speed things up is to have hot water on tap (either installed, or a cheap, separate hot water appliance) and then use it for dried items like miso soup packets or oatmeal. Then you can add items to it, like pre-chopped vegetables or fruit.

The time it takes to prepare the chopped veggies and fruit in advance is one thing, but think about the amount of time you are now saving for soups and breakfast items.

This is how I think about things like meal plan tacos and burritos. I spend twenty minutes preparing all the items in containers, pack them in the fridge, and then I have fresh veggie tacos and burritos for four days. All I do is microwave the tortillas.

The salsa and the beans will go bad before anything else, so I make sure to use those up in higher quantities than the other ingredients.

I also like to cook a huge pot of basmati rice, Spanish rice, and rice pilaf in advance, so I can make all sorts of dishes for about three days just by adding the other items listed above. When you get in the habit of this, you’re only really cooking for one hour every four days using the same pre-made ingredients. It’s a huge time saver, so it doesn’t feel like cooking at all.
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It’s tricky when it comes to something like ADHD. Researchers in the field (Russell Barkley comes to mind), describe ADHD as a developmental disorder, with stunting that may be lifelong. Many problems associated with the slower executive control development are alleviated by starting medication early and building behaviors to manage time blindness and inattention. Also, in terms of effect size, there isn’t a better change in expected outcome for any medication/therapy in psychiatric care than using stimulants to treat ADHD.

The pendulum of public opinion on stimulant use with ADHD treatment has always been too fast, resulting in periods of over and under diagnosis. The lifelong negative effect of being treated for ADHD when unnecessary is much less than being undiagnosed, but the delay in the change of outcome makes it difficult to see. People with untreated ADHD tend to perform worse in _every_ aspect of life, from relationship maintenance, financial stability, professional and academic development, and personal happiness.

While it is wrong to simply give a patient the meds without therapy and observation, it is much worse to not do so when the medication is needed.
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I said this before. We need a linear system where kids learn at their own pace, with online tools and in-person tutoring and assistance when necessary. With the incredible amount of online learning and online forums, I don’t think we need structured grades anymore.
Haha, wow. A classic NPM implementation!