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Shameless plug, but if you're looking for a cheap VPS and don't want to run the backing services that might be required by the application/whatever you're trying to host, I'm working on something to offer some basic (and later advanced) managed services on Hetzner.

I think Hetzner's great (it's definitely the right choice in here), but it is missing some features we've come to expect from low cost but robust cloud providers (DO, Linode, etc) -- Managed S3 storage, simple Database as a service, etc. I'm working on a sort of... proto-cloud that can sit on providers like Hetzner, OVH and LeaseWeb and offer this functionality.

My thing is called NimbusWS (https://nimbusws.com), but there are other things:

- Elestio: https://elest.io/

- Symbiosis: https://symbiosis.host (they offer managed k8s, they run on Hetzner IIRC)
I think having an OOTB standard library that kind of targets production ready functionalities like Golang does would definitely be the real game changer for me. With Go I can do everything leading up to using a database driver for web dev without installing a single external dependency. I know D has Vibe.d but Go has net/http which is production tier.

Don't make me work to build something by forcing me to research every piece of it. You can do all sorts of things in Go out of the box that get you building production tier work right away.
Now would be a good time to donate all of the money spent on the administration instead on to paying postdocs well?
The guy who figures out how to get something useful out of people harvesting their carrots in Minecraft will become insanely wealthy.
And what value has been created?
James Clerk Maxwell united electricity and magnetism with a pen and paper. Einstein discovered special and general relativity in the same way.

Has theoretical physics advanced enough now that such pen and paper discoveries are all but over, and the only way to continue making progress is to dedicate an ever larger share of the global economy's productive capacity to building larger and more expensive experiments?

What if we build a $200 billion collider that finds nothing?

What if a $1 trillion collider is needed to continue making progress?

That could be a line out of Asimov. "And so eventually the entire economy was exclusively focused on the construction of larger and larger particle accelerators. There was no room for anything else. Medical research was stopped. Movies stopped being made.Improving the lot of mortals was abandoned as a policy. The only thing that mattered to the 30 billion humans alive was to build and pay for the next accelerator."

Obviously an extreme extrapolation. But what if? Should we just ... give up on particle physics?
Huh? "Polo"! How elegant. Too bad the evidence for it seems to be basically hearsay.

Maybe someone digs up a German source? Would be a cool addition to the Polo's Wikipedia articles. (The German Wikipedia says it's after sport not after the polar wind, but it's entirely unsourced.)
It has little in common with the Indian situation, since the Bank of England will exchange these notes indefinitely. Other banks will usually also accept them (at least for their customers) for several years.

It's routine, it's happened to 13 notes since 1990: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_England_%C2%A320_note
> So, in other words: write a specification document and then build.

I don't believe this is what the article is saying at all. I interpreted the headline that way, but the article seems to be saying to hav a goal upfront (written) and write docs along the way, also using the process of writing text as a way to clarify thinking.

See comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31751399
See also Bill Bryson. I think it's a bit unfair to criticise these types of books for not being 100% academically rigorous (having citations etc). They're generally ok as entertaining introductions to new subject matter for the reader. After that the reader can then go looking for more authoritative writings of the topics being explored that tickle their fancy.
I like this because I value alignment.

Writing (and meetings) offer the chance to get aligned.
I think "nightmare" is a bit sensational. The LHC's purpose is not to "find X" it is to take measurements over a novel range of conditions. The new data is what we're after.
“The most false thing about opioids is that they are any one thing.”

That’s fair. A better way to say what I mean might be “our opioid therapy protocols aren’t very good” or “we’ve relied on opioids in ways that cause more harm than good”.

There are situations where opioids are the obvious right answer. I have a similar anecdote, having to beg for an opioid refill when I was suffering from post-op pain.

While I admit I don’t know the details, I wonder if your knee pain is one of those situations where opioids aren’t close to an ideal solution, but we never actually developed an ideal solution because it was easier to throw opioids at every pain problem. Now opioids are no longer allowed and you get to replace opioids with nothing.
Yeah, i heard that about the US.. that hospitals in some places ask parents directly to do the circumcision after birth as a "default option", and parents have to "opt-out" of it. Really sad and barbaric.

Where i live (small eu country), there were some movements to make it illegal (unless medically needed), but it didn't pass, not to offend certain minorities.
People as a whole have about double as many female ancestors as they do male ancestors. The last century is a relative abnormality with monogamy and chastity outside monogamy being pushed for the sake of social stability, along with not as much war killing off most young men.
Static fields can get in the way of testability very quickly, in my experience. Even static methods can if they draw in dependencies.
Ask HN: Fed Rate Hike today – 50, 75 or 100 BPS?
Any predictions on how Fed will react and the possible impacts and outcomes of the Fed rate hike?
Neither, I simply don't see how it is relevant (or even very "intelligent") to stick a categorical "stupid"-label on HR.

HR is a bit like IT support. Some companies will have a lower standard when hiring for such roles, others will have as high or possibly higher standards when hiring SRE's than when hiring developers.

And even if it should be correct that SWE's score a few points higher, on average, than HR managers, I see no utility in making a fuss about that. To the extent that it has a market value, salaries will reflect that.

Now, should HR staff start to act unprofessionally themselves, things change. For instance, if individuals within HR start to advocate for lower wages to or other actions against individuals or groups they feel resentment against, then that is a problem.
If you did a full PhD in what sense did you 'scrap' it? You just didn't do the defence?
Well, we also blow up billions in missiles that achieve nothing. So, why not smash some particles instead?
It’s like complaining that all movies are cookie cutter now, because you’re tired of Marvel superhero movies.
That’s not achievement of Java language, but Java platform.
This isn't DRM. A party is verifying your actions as legitimate and not a bot. There is nothing stopping the Linux/BSD community from implementing something similar.

https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-private-access-tokens-...
As far as I see, Scaleway egress is 75 GB free every month then €0.01/GB, so not completely free.
There's a (draft) RFC with contributions from four companies. It's not, despite what this dumpster fire of an article implies, some kind of Apple-specific innovation.

https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-private-access-tokens-...
> I hadn't understood how the people on the team thought about web development and it wasn't a better fit for them. They didn't feel like there was a problem, so a solution didn't make sense.

There's got to be a limit to this line of justification though. Lots of people have just plain wrong ideas about 'web development', so catering to their ideas doesn't serve anyone well (except, perhaps, those people, who in the short term don't have to learn anything correctly).

A colleague shares stories of his team who don't grasp the difference between GET and POST, don't understand the term idempotency, believe that 'web dev' testing only means 1 thing, etc. There's... 5 of 6 of them, and only one of him, so... much stuff ends up staying 'wrong', and the 'wrongness' in each section of the code ends up compounding 'wrongness' in other systems/features as they're being added. This matches how this team thinks about web/software development. But it's not in any way beneficial.
But how can writings and meetings align code that doesn't yet exist? Are you a believer that during writing of documentation, you can anticipate each code challenge and solve it ahead of time?
Es are shrinking because of pollution, warns environmental scientist – Euronews
I only have an amateur interest in physics, so I'm sorry if this sounds dumb, but I often think about what if we've reached as far as we can go within the current framework of physics? This is more meta-science than actual science, but what if we made some decisions very early in the development of physics and mathematics and we need to revisit those?
If building and paying for bigger and bigger accelerators would be the only things that matters for humanity, it wouldn't be that bad. First, servicing the accelerator is a major source of employment to the economy. I think it is a much better way to spend money than maintaining all the militaries in the world. Second, such a project will require a lot of highly educated personnel to run it, so it'll require a considerable investment in education.
They where using TSMC fabs, but obviously that's no longer the case.

Russia currently don't have fab that goes beyond 90nm (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikron_Group). There where plans to go to 28nm in 2030, but without access to western technologi that's not happening. The latest Elbrus is 28nm, so my guess is that they aren't made at all right now.

Edit: The latest Elbrus chip that Russia can fab appears to be the Elbrus-2SМ, which is a 300MHz processor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbrus-2S%2B
It's not surprising that a crepuscular ambush predator is less intelligent than pack predators, it would be surprising if it were the other way around.

It's fascinating the replies I get claiming I must be a dog person. It's really... telling... when someone conflates intelligence and moral worth like that. I like cats. I'm not going to pretend they're as smart as dogs just because I like them.
Endocrine-Disrupting Chemical Exposure in Womb Impact Fear, Anxiety Behavior
I don't use it, but C++ interop is explained here: https://dlang.org/spec/cpp_interface.html
Related: fingerprints can be hacked https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29306163
None of this is true.

Cloudflare does not know what device you're using.
> "this action was authorised by a keyboard entry sequence matching the admin account prerecorded sequence"

"keyboard entry sequence" is just a long-winded way of saying "password"; there's nothing wrong abbreviating.

However, even this facetious example was useful, since it's exposed a security problem: you're storing passwords ("prerecorded [keyboard entry] sequence"). You should be storing password hashes instead (using a slow hash function).

:)
> There is nothing stopping the Linux/BSD community from implementing something similar.

I don't meant to sound negative but wouldn't bots just be able to abuse any FLOSS implementation since they can then fake certain interactions with CloudFlare in the background?
"“Those who came of driving age during the oil crises of the 1970s drive less in the year 2000,” the paper found. The doubling of gasoline prices in the late 1970s saw that generation drive 3.6% to 8.7% less than those born earlier or later"

I can't find the paper, but when they say "born earlier or later" are they still looking at rate of driving in the year 2000?

If so, aren't they just comparing ages? People born earlier or later would just be younger or older in the year 2000, which likely impacts driving too.

Oh economics! You keep calling yourself a science, but you need to start acting like one!
FreeCAD 0.20 Released for Open-Source CAD Software
I never know what to think about reports on labour demand anymore, I have heard "there are no jobs", "there are lots of jobs", "noone is working", simultaneously all year.

I guess it all comes down to who is saying it. I guess most of the time it's the fact that the jobs are crap, but employers don't want to shift the social contract that creates the apparent contradiction, but who knows.
This makes it clear that people just want to do something useful in their lives. Why isn't real life building on this? What are the remaining differences?

Is it the extra bureaucracy involved in earning money? Is it the feeling of being exploited when working for someone else? Is it the pressure to economically justify anything we might want to do?

How much friction can we eliminate in work? What is essential, and what is not?

I feel that humanity would be better served if the feeling of achievement was coupled with meatspace usefulness, and not just virtual creation.
So lets start by NOT adding more things that snitch.
Copper is definitely not cheap but I doubt there's more than 0.5g in most passive RFID tags.
> Postdocs in general aren’t paid well

Sounds like everyone understands the issue... so why don't they respond by meeting the market price?

If you want to buy something like a tissue sample for an experiment in a lab then you pay the market price. You wouldn't think to offer 20% of the market price and then be puzzled when nobody will sell it to you - you just pay the going price, and it's part of the cost of doing research.

Why don't people apply that logic when it comes to costs for hiring people? Why is it such a barrier to see that that's just how much a person costs?
I once got excited about ExtJS, the way it created a desktop-like experience in the browser, and I said to myself, "I will learn this, all of it, I will become an expert. Tips and tricks, best practices, the works".

After six months of this, ExtJS 4 came out, which was essentially a totally new framework. Everything I learned was not only not applicable, it had to be actively unlearned.

The lesson here is: become good and proficient at something, but don't focus on becoming a ninja in one particular transient tech. There is value in becoming a Jedi of Unix build-in tools, or more persistent technologies like Git, for example.

Also, this is a bigger problem in the Javascript echosystem, where the hype cycles are more intense than in, say, Python. I checked out my Flask project from seven years ago and it's ready to rock.

I get the thing about constant learning, but learning in this industry used to be cumulative. Now it's a hamster wheel. You are learning how to solve the same problems, in a different, presumably in a "new" way.

People seem to be spending more time coming up with catchy names for their projects than making sure this is all sustainable.
Where do you think your understanding went wrong initially? You said you realized that doing anything in the old system was slow. Was it not actually slow? Was the slowness not relevant because there weren't actually that many routes? Were your coworkers resigned to having some minimum level of tedium in web development? Or something else?
> Statistically, couples who vet each other based on purely visual characteristics like height, body shape, skin colour and facial structure do not fare well in terms of relationship stability.

You’re talking about people finding each other physically attractive. What world are you living in where physical attraction isn’t the dominant deciding factor for finding a mate?
Supply and demand. We produce more PhDs than needed by either academia or industry.

Hence, the burden of post-docs just grow (I was talking to a biology PhD who said 5-6 years of post-doc was typical, for chemistry I've seen people do 2).
Well yeah, but you actually need cattle and have them graze there, or build factories, employ people and produce stuff there, so if bezos buys a plot of buildable land, he would get a 5 years (or whatever) time limit, to actually build and produce something there, or be forced to sell. If someone just buys land, and hodls it, without actually producing anything there, a 100% tax rate would solve a lot of problems.
The Higgs itself was conceived on paper and proven in the LHC.

Do we lack theories that can be conceived on pen and paper just the ability to test any of them?
In the same world where fascism isn't associated with the far right.

There are many possible axes to divide politics, in many (but not necessarily all) conservative politics and fascism tends to be projected to similar spaces and Soviet-style communism and socially-progressive politics to the same.

Once you start looking at multiple of these at the same time, things do tend to look quite different.
I think businesses are holding up wider V6 deployment. In a lot of them that I've worked with, you don't talk about v6 as it's either a thing no one wants to learn or has no value worth implementing.
I don't store anything but it doesn't matter because it doesn't change anything. Simply modify the sentence to include the hash conversion.

The storing password part is relevant for extraction of password from an already compromised system and fingerprints can be hashed just as well(and on Apple's implementation, they are). It's just irrelevant implementation detail that doesn't make difference for the security of the system in question.

In fact, fingerprints are actually more secure because you don't have rainbow tables for hashed fingerprints but you have it for passwords.
> We produce more PhDs than needed by either academia or industry.

I don't think so - industry can't hire enough PhDs. In my field (programming languages) shortage of qualified people is a bit of a problem at the moment! We wish there were more being produced.
These were private chats, a bit different expectations there.
The WSJ and some investment banks have said 75bp is likely. That's my guess, although 50bp is also possible. The Fed does not like to shock the markets, so I think 100bp is very unlikely.

I wonder how high Fed Funds will have to go. The Fed Funds futures market prices a 3.8% rate by May 2027. Historically, Fed Funds has risen to at least the level of inflation, which is currently 8.6%, during a tightening cycle.
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I think people would still try their luck with more desirable prospects and end up getting frustrated.

Another idea is having a moderator of sorts. The moderator would pick from the "applicants" that make it through to the prospect, and mean that only high-effort options are seen. Removes "hey" and abusive messages from the pool.

Maybe applicants pay a $5 fee which is refunded if they are not picked as one of a handful of dates.
Record audio in segments and compile it into a file
Missiles advance rocketry, electronics, composite materials, fuel chemistry, and precision guidance, all technologies we'll need more of in the future.
Anyone running v6 only and bridging to v4 on the edge?
Making games has a very low cost. In fact, a lot of successes in the beginning of the game industry were people coding up things in basic on an 8-bit micro in their bedroom. As someone who started hobbyist gamedev in the DOS era, I can assure you that games are easier to make, and with much higher level of sophistication, than they ever have been.

Even today we have notable 1-person successes: Undertale was basically all Toby Fox, Stardew Valley was entirely Concerned Ape. Both games are on Playstation 4, Switch, and Xbox One, which is just completely wild from the perspective of someone who grew up making hobbyist games in the 80s and 90s. When was the last time you saw a movie made by someone with a cell phone and adobe premier playing in a major theater?
> What's your purpose?

This is the key question. If you want to understand the mechanics of the economic and financial world at a macro level then I would strongly recommend, as a primer, looking at the explainers on the Bank of England website. And for more in depth stuff, the Federal Reserve website has links to a number of academic papers that cover quite broad topics.

I would expect that that, between them, there should be enough material so that you can start to more in depth studies using the appropriate terminology.

I noticed elsewhere you discounted The Economist, FT and WSJ. You really shouldn't. They all have very good articles that cover topics you won't see or are glossed over in more generalist media. They definitely have biases but in my experience (and I know a fair bit about finance particularly) the factual side tends to be pretty solid ie their journalists are knowledgeable.

I would also recommend Matt Levine's columns in Bloomberg.
I don't think you're a bad person.
> James Clerk Maxwell united electricity and magnetism with a pen and paper. Einstein discovered special and general relativity in the same way.

> Has theoretical physics advanced enough now that such pen and paper discoveries are all but over, and the only way to continue making progress is to dedicate an ever larger share of the global economy's productive capacity to building larger and more expensive experiments?

That's a bit disingenuous. At the time, GR was an unconfirmed theory not unlike, say, String Theory is today. Except it only took a couple of years to confirm by experiment.

Particle theorists and cosmologists have plenty of theories. But deciding which one describes reality best can only be done by data, no two ways about it. And yes, since most low hanging fruits have been found, experiments become harder and harder. Not to say more and more expensive.

Your conclusion is correct though, that at some point a society has to decide whether they can afford further progress.

Perhaps we also haven't found a theory as convincing as Einstein's GR because the math isn't there yet. GR was discovered shortly after differential geometry was formulated, and without it it would have been impossible. Similarly with Newton's theory and calculus.

So maybe what we need is the right breakthrough in math?
Wasn’t there an article a week ago about a new particle found “on a tabletop”?

Feels like I'm being hustled.
Porter (YC S20) Is Hiring Founding Engineers in NYC
I don’t think we’ll ever be able to eliminate friction from “real” work and therein lies the reason why these games are popular. Real work requires sacrifice, sweat, disappointment and all the rest. These games allow you some semblance of the gratification without the friction.
Matter is not ZigBee. I believe it needs a whole new radio.
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No, it’s just happening without much fanfare in the background. Most mobile networks are ipv6 first, for example. And since mobile is where most of the new deployments and growth are, that’s why they’re getting ipv6 first.
We probably wouldn't have the LHC now if the results hadn't been applicable to blowing stuff up for previous incarnations of it.
Sounds like a problem with the execution instead of the technique.

The alternative to thinking before doing is wandering aimlessly, which really isn't likely to steer you where you want to be.

We basically developed whole-ass treatises (and some unhealthy cargo cults) around people saying that the observe -> think -> do -> restart loop should be small and leave space for adjustments between each step.
Someone rediscovering waterfall?
Ask HN: What happens if MicroStrategy gets a margin call?
So its in the news that MicroStrategy took out a huge loan to buy bitcoin and that if the prices falls to ~$21,000 that they would receive a margin call on the loan.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/15/bitcoin-microstrategy-denies-it-received-margin-call-against-silvergate-loan.html

So the question is, what is the consequences of this? Will MSTR have to sell some of their bitcoin further fueling the sell-off? Do they just borrow against other collateral? Is this a big deal or a non-event?