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Most startups and businesses will fail. Go look up that thread where antirez premiered Redis, and the one from the Dropbox founders too. Lots of naysayers or just flat reactions. If it was obvious what would change the world, we'd all be millions doing it. HN gives you a higher chance of seeing it than not, esp. the outrage machines that pass as newspapers and broadcast these days.
Thank you for sharing that! That's a good vouch for Heroku. I'll start with that then
> Maybe it'd be better if everybody used English

How about everybody just speak Arabic or Chinese? And we can all pray towards Mecca while we're at it, that would guarantee world peace, no?

One single world culture, no diversity, right? Just so long as it's _your_ culture?
This is only one piece of the puzzle. Another is the significant reduction in state funding to colleges.

In particular, funding cuts are somewhat cyclical, occuring during economic downturns. Higher Ed funding always looks like the low-hanging fruit to cut. Health and social services, corrections (prisons) and K-12 education are much more problematic from a political optics viewpoint. Higher Ed is, in some sense, still seen as "optional" in the sense that people can live without it and because colleges do have an alternative revenue stream.

I've seen colleges have funding for basic things like updating crumbling infrastructure pulled mid-summer when states finalize budgets and a 5-year infrastructure program from the state is cut off in year three. This makes it very difficult for budget planning, and it's not uncommon for schools to then have to put out a bond to finish funding things itself.

A third factor is a sort of toxic arms race between colleges to recruit new students. In the wake of revenue uncertainty colleges of course try to increase their their enrollment to boost revenue. It has turned into a negative sum game, a college builds shiny new dining or housing facilities to attract new students, and the school down the road loses enrollment & revenue as a result which means they need to spend money building such things just to not lose students. Meanwhile the old facilities were perfectly adequate though by no means luxurious. Students going through the recruitment meat grinder are then making choices based on whether or not the school has various food franchises on campus. Schools doesn't have a Starbucks or even a Dunkin Donuts? Can't go there!

I don't know the solution to that one. The first schools that did it gained a brief competitive advantage but now it's more of an equilibrium where all schools have to do it just to tread water.

Anyway, it's all much more complicated than simply changing the loan structure (which of course was a big part of things as well.)
I think the other examples are far more blatant. Politicians fund the military by far more than the military needs, to the point that the military doesn't even know what to do with it, but there's always conditions that specific military or NASA projects take place in specific states or districts for specific politicians. The tax cuts for donations are even worse. And neither of those are solving a specific problem, which is definitely the case with the crippling student loans.

That said, I agree with you on bankruptcy being a better idea. From what I understand, these loans are harder if not impossible to get rid of through bankruptcy than other loans, despite being far more crippling.

In general, I'd like a rule that all interest-carrying loans must be able to be eliminated through bankruptcy. Only interest-free loans should be exempt. Also: a cap on student loans to discourage excessive tuition. Tuition is just insane (and where is that money going? I hear plenty of younger professors are struggling too).
Depends on the community. For research, check your local university. You can ask around in relevant departments. Don't be afraid, some researchers are more than happy to collaborate.
Just an FYI. You should check the terms for arbitration in service contracts. A fiber ISP in my area permits you to opt out if you notify them within 30 days of beginning service.
SpaceX just launched the first 'crypto satellite'
> The money is going into a bottomless pit of administrative and bureaucratic overhead. Universities are caught up in a zero-sum competition for the top students (and athletes). To attract these students they invest in massive infrastructure projects (new buildings and renovations), often with the support of earmarked donations from wealthy alumni. These new facilities must then be staffed with administrators and maintenance workers. Along with the new facilities come new departments and schools of X and Y which also need their own administration.

> The short answer is: administrative bloat.

I don't get it -- you're saying it's "bloat" and bad that the competitive market for students is causing universities to invest in themselves?

You've actually convinced me that a large chunk of costs for nameless "administrators" might be going to useful purposes because investing in buildings and programs requires non-educational staff to keep things going.
>Why are you here?

Where else should we go? It is not like there is another forum like what you describe.
The time of UML came and went very quickly. No one misses it.

These types of diagrams are either not specific enough to answer any useful questions or so dense and insane that no one can read them.

If you have a business requirement with a decision tree it is probably a good fit for this type of documentation - write it down in DOT or asciiflow or something
This is what in-memory data grids can do, look at Apache Ignite for example: https://ignite.apache.org/
While it's unreasonable to expect too much from tech, as some of the most privileged workers on the planet, we do actually have an obligation to pay attention to whether the mission statement of the place we work is net positive. Don't help build a corporate panopticon just because there's a big number.
I use directories to organize my files.
Waiting eagerly for the world to pass peak peak.
Thanks for your insight.

To be clear, I don't feel like a tech worker. Tech/code is just one of the mediums I use for my writing.

In time, I hope I'll realize my purpose as being someone that inspires others with my writing.

But, right now, this is the best that I've got.
I use a 23.7" 4K (2160p) @ 200% and I think it's barely enough pixel density (180ppi), so I can't relate to this at all.

Apple's "retina 4K" LG Ultrafine 4K Display is actually 4096x2304 at this size, which is much higher density at 218.58 PPI.
Though it's still for sale, that is the 2020 model.
If you go to a community college for two years (nominal) and transfer to get a bachelors degree in two more years (nominal), you end up with the same piece of paper as if you had done all four years at that same place. Your bank balance (and life experience) would likely be different however.

Of course if you get through only two years, you'll (optionally) have a piece of paper, which might be better than dropping out of a four year school two years in.
Is it still mostly salads or is there hope for high-calorie hydroponics?
I spent a non-trivial amount of time trying to get Linux to boot on my [intel] Mac and when discussing with someone who had been dual booting for a long time, almost invariably when they realized I was trying to do so on a ~2 year old macbook pro, they would just go "ah, that's why" as if that explained all the issues I was having.

If I didn't already have a windows laptop for work, an M1 mac for work, an intel mac for personal use, and a dedicated gaming desktop, I might buy a system76 just to play around with various distros.
Hydroponics only makes sense for high price crops like salad or vegetables which make up only small amounts of agriculture. It’s way too expensive for the crops that provide most of the calories consumed by humans or animal feed: wheat, maize, soy
I think the point you are missing is it's a bit arrogant for you to tell people what they need. An electric truck with additional features to entice drivers to buy is how change is going to happen. Don't try to remove or restrict people. It won't work. Electric truck is one step in a correct direction of compromise.
Hadn't heard of Tornado VPS but it sounds like a good option for the VPS route. Than!
The VW ID.4 is very real competition.
I do. And the carbon footprint of building the thing is deep in the noise compared to the CF of the use phase of an ICE truck. In other words switching from ICE to an electric truck makes a dramatic positive difference for the planet if you account for both trucks' entire lifecycle.

I live in a rural area and I need a truck for hauling and for towing four different kinds of trailer. I drive my diesel truck sparingly these days because its CF bothers me. I'd trade it for an F-150 Lightning tomorrow if the F-150 was actually available.
Every gas truck replaced by an electric truck is an improvement over the status quo. Americans are in love with trucks, and the ones most in love with their trucks are the ones most primed by their media to resist measures to address climate change, so if this can get them on board with electrification then it will be an incredible victory.
I sincerely think that you are consuming too much material from social media and news outlets, so you think that the whole world is on fire everyday. Eliminate these things from your life and focus on local problems before trying to save the whole world.
I'm finding it harder and harder to find the originals, now they have mostly the ones with the soft centre (Budapest, Hungary).
My thoughts are that a laptop is your best bet for noise/power/performance.
The comparison to the Powerwall is certainly appropriate given the subject of the article, but I think the author should have also included the battery capacity and price of one of Tesla's vehicles to give a sense of how much Ford is advancing the state of the art.
My solution is this:

In point 2. the solution starts talking about probabilities without defining the sample space.

And this is why the solution is nonsensical. "One envelope contains twice as much as the other" does not define a sample space, so it is too early to start talking about probabilities.

If you say "the sample space is all pairs of natural numbers where one is twice as big as the other", then what are the probabilities assigned to each pair? They cannot be pairwise equal because the space is infinite.

So even if probabilities for (X, 2*X) and (X, X/2) happen to be equal for a particular X, they definitely cannot be equal for every X, so the "infinite swap" doesn't hold anymore.
I love that you use the EBC trek as an example for breaking out of a rut. I completely agree with your point about "work to live and not the opposite". However, I did Salkantay, Laugavegur, and EBC, and all these treks simply made me want to do more travel. Going traveling did not teach me how to consistently work a few hours every day on a side project. It did not teach me how to work whole days, month after month, on my own projects where I was my own boss during a sabbatical. Travel is good advice, but it can be distracting too.
GM is already shipping the Hummer. It’s just really expensive so they won’t be a viable competitor for most of the market until the Chevy version arrives.
I think the balance is just opposite in electronic devices.

As you mention, you can assemble a bike with all parts at roughly the same costs without that much of a trade-off. The example I was giving is more of the exception of putting a very performant/specific core part into a meh setup.

As I see it, in electronic devices it’s more common to have a very basic structure with super cheap commodity components, except that one corepiece that pushes the whole appliance’s capabilities far ahead. For my washing machine, the metal frame, belts and motors are cheap run of the mill parts that might not have changed for decades, and only the controller is custom designed to adapt to modern use. Or looking at rice cookers, a tremendous portion of the value would go into the pan and the controller, and the rest of the housing and heating structure is pure commodity. As a caveat, that might not be the case for high end appliances, where perhaps every component could be high quality, but I’m too cheap to confirm that.
Miss Manners says, the way you say somebody's name is, the way they tell you to say it. So in that vein, it would be boorish to object.
I've worked in tech for over 10 years. I'm here to stay current with trends & ideas. I quit Facebook and major news outlets several years ago; this is the only news I read besides The Pour Over.
I think it was probably more that cost alone is not enough reason to choose Linux, and if you can't afford a Mac it's unlikely you actually need the Mac for any Mac-specific purpose.
It’s a daily ritual that covers one of my core needs. That need is staying up to date with my industry. At the partner level of professional firms you are expected to keep up to date with your industry news. When I was focused on US income tax, that was
very easy. There was a few dedicated portals I would check each morning to make sure I caught all of the latest trends in the IRS, treasury, and other related entities (we did things called provisions in the context of public company audits requiring its own upkeep).

I transitioned to fin tech (web development specifically) almost two decades ago and early on one of my biggest struggles was keeping up with the state of the industry. I was checking dozens of portals and wasn’t even certain that I wasn’t missing anything because sometimes they would update the documentation without updating the version number!

Anyway one day I was at a Ruby meet up and joined a discussion where a senior was mentoring a group of juniors and he advised they all read HN daily to keep up to date on what technologies to pick. I checked it out, it served that need any my need, so I never looked back.

All these years later I still start my day off every morning with a perusal of the first few pages looking for Ruby/React/Python(in the context of vis like matplotlib) articles and then consider myself up to date enough (unlikely any major development I’m unaware of). And of course I come back multiple times per day looking for life style discussions simply because I feel the level of discourse here is generally much better than similar topics when discussed on Reddit.
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My guess is simply superstition.

I don't know if this is true (I heard it from a local), but for decades there was not a single ATM on the Falkland islands. The local bank said ATMs just don't work on remote islands. So a Stanley petrol station took the matter into their own hands and just bought one. ATMs don't care if you're on an island, you just plug them in, put money in them and then people take it out. I can at least verify that that part is true because I was there, saw the machine and got money out of it.

Another personal anecdote is an industrial application where safety critical updates had to be received on DVD-Rs that were routinely left unsupervised with untrusted intermediaries in very shady parts of the world. I suggested putting a message authentication code to ensure it hadn't been tampered with. The industry professional I was talking to would hear none of it, thinking the only way would be to transfer the entire contents of the disk over a very expensive satellite link to the head office and have it compared bit by bit. That MACs are a real thing that actually works, and that sending the data back and forth and comparing isn't actually secure unless a MAC is also used was like water off the goose.
Green hydrogen uses about 3x as much electricity per mile than just using the electricity directly in an EV. I'm not sure how that can have a smaller carbon foot print.

A Toyota Mirai weighs more than a Tesla Model 3, so there's no weight advantage.
>Honestly, the fact that every consumer hardware store sells racks upon racks of 50+ ft 16-gauge extension cord is obscene.

I can't help but face-palm at this sort of hand wringing. It might not be "right" but it works.

If the 16ga cords regularly melted people wouldn't buy them in those lengths, they wouldn't fly off the shelves, they'd get stocked in lower volume and you'd see less of them on the shelves.

The fact that they don't melt themselves even when used with fairly substantial appliances (large-ish homeowner sized table saws and compressors, all manner of portable power tools) is a testament to how conservative the official recommendations are.

>and was shocked to discover my lawnmower wasn't just safer but also visibly more powerful, which I didn't think was possible.

Voltage drop
And maybe a war in a country that produces a lot of wheat
Natural gas and/or propane is the best option for my home. Solar installation + battery is just insanely expensive compared to gas (6x at a minimum) and where I live offers far less reliability.
Trucks are classified into groups based up how much payload they can carry. The F-150 is Ford's 1/2 ton light duty truck. F-250 their 1 ton truck and the F-350 their 2 ton truck. If you want a 3 ton truck you are getting into commercial vehicles.

If you are discussing trucks and want to talk about gross vehicle weight you should probably clarify that is what you are referring to.
> These can either be located in the project root, or they can be stashed away in a dedicated folder such as scripts/. While the former can become quite messy, the latter is less discoverable.

This reads like gpt-3-generated garbage.
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Same, but I never found HN ugly. It is function over form, and I very much appreciate that.
Do you have any recommended resources for getting into home roasting? I've always been interested in trying it out, but I don't know where to source green beans without paying more than craft roasted coffee.
>people probably haven't seen a normal distribution before

And yet there aren't 17 meters tall people (avg adult male height back home is 1.7m)

Mind you, I consider the whole discussion stupid since it's an intellectual/creative job

Every. Single. Instance. Of trying to measure such things has failed at producing consistent results or results with predictive capability.

Talking about X times engineer makes no sense when you don't even know what a 1x engineer is.
To connect to cellular (2G/3G/4G/5G), you have to listen for a beacon from a base station. If you don't hear a beacon strong enough, you aren't even allowed to try to connect (as it involves transmitting a connection request).
> I also pointed out there was no out-clause in the contract for computer system failures

A good catch. I expect this oversight from the company's point of view has been remedied in the contract for new customers, going forward.
Less BS.

Less BS in the comments, less BS in the posts, etc.

Honestly, feels like what reddit _should_ feel like or at least used to feel like. When I engage with ppl on HN I don't feel like I'll get a bad faith reply.
Navegating to https://www.google.com/chrome/ in Edge fires a prompt: "O Microsoft Edge é executado na mesma tecnologia que o Chrome, com a confiança adicional da Microsoft"

Download works fine though.
The Ford Mach-E seems to be well received.
As literally always, nukes supported with coerced money.
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Yeah, you pretty much have to do that with any EV.

You don't want to frequently charge over 90% to preserve the integrity of the battery. Same with the bottom 10%. You don't want to frequently drive the car down to 1%. I think it's not a huge deal if you drive it down to 5% or so, but as an owner of an EV, it gets pretty scary to go below 10% before you charge if you're on a trip. If the wind speed/ temp/etc gets out of control, it can sap your battery before you make it to the next station.

Ignoring 20% of the battery is pretty much the standard on today's EVs.
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that the expected value is the same that is an outcome of all solutions, so just stating that is reductive.

What is at question is the reason for getting to the expected value is the same.
"fastest" is accurate. You can get more computation work done in less time given an appropriate workload. No matter what adjective you use, "fastest" or "powerful", you're always within a context of an intended workload.

Your argument is a bit like saying the fastest land speed vehicle isn't really the fastest because you can't go to the grocery store with it.
To me it seems super sized farms and corporate land is the main trend. Massive farms in easily farmed locations and the death of small family owned operations. If you try to run a small farm in marginal land it just doesn't pay any more. The new generations aren't interested either. I know my Wife's grand mothers old farm is abandoned, the land behind my holiday house used to be farm now its reverting to forest, meanwhile my Uncle's farm was merged with 4 others so is still family owned but a mega operation with low wage workers.
I'm here because I have a bad habbit of visiting the same sites when I am bored. Sometimes I like to make provocative statments, and anticipate people disagreeing with me which causes a small dopamine rush. For example, I might see you say something like

> I used to believe that startups were meant to solve painful problems

and then I'd respond

> If you ask me, startups are about outsorcing research and development out of larger, risk-avese organisations, so that they may fail outside but get bought up if they don't. The fact that a few manage to survive on their own is not the intention.

And I'd say this in full knowledge that ycombinator is about startups, and the site exists to attract interest to these startups inbetween other content.

So all in all I'd rather not be here.
The linked article doesn't say it's constant dollars, that's probably a far bigger change than it looks like.

Also, note that the relationship is non-linear: Suppose it really is constant dollars and constant costs and it really costs $10k/quarter/student and look at the numbers: $511/quarter in 1987, $2,848 in 2015--a 30% drop in funding leads to a 557% increase in tuition.
Reducing costs via layoffs may come with budget for temp/contractors but most medium/large companies put that toward staffing services that manage skill checks/etc. and supply capable people for specific tasks or projects. My company does this already and hardly has solo freelancers.

At the same time, those contractors can run 1.5-2x the hourly rates for existing staff so they are pushing to hire/promote to full time roles vs bridging a position that has yet to be filled, someone who left unexpectedly, etc.

More or less, the budget for filling gaps at medium/large companies likely will go to staffing agencies and not freelancers. Small companies likely will see an increase in demand for one off projects but it would still be a matter of funding those projects in the face of poor economic outlook.

Another thing to consider is that there will be an influx of quality talent though with a learning curve to stage their own freelance business. Companies may return to axed staff for assistance with systems or projects the ex-staff understand, even at a premium vs full time hourly rates. The increase in supply may flatten or reduce income for unestablished freelancers or limit growth for those with contacts.
> What if it costs $5M/year and the median income for graduates is 40k upon graduation?

Then it wouldn't be the best investment you can make in yourself. For now it still is. Yes, paying 240k to make more than a million more inflation adjusted dollars over the course of your career is worth it. Now it's probably not a great idea considering you can graduate at a much lower cost, but on the margin, yea, that's a good investment.