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Hi HN!

My name is Roberto and I’m the founder of Ferris, a social network that lets you plan and join real life activities with your 20 closest friends.

The idea is to give you more friend-time with an app that makes easy to plan activities:

- Spontaneous ones like a coffee on the next break

- Blurry ones like going to the movies someday/somewhere next month

- Repetitive ones like going running during the summer

- Planned ones like a concert this Friday

As an introvert, with a family, and in my 40s I have found it very difficult to have time with my friends.

Existent options have their limitations, which is normal because they are not trying to solve this problem:

- FB events or Google calendar invites feel too formal, there’s not really a way to say “I’m going for an ice cream in 10min, who wants to come?”.

- Messaging apps have a conversational flow and it’s difficult to keep the conversation centered into a topic.

- Email has too much back & forth

Ferris offers an easy way to create activities in seconds and invite your friends, with low pressure to accept. The feed is basically a list of activities where you’re welcome to join. As you can imagine, this list is short and the app is more a tool than a destination with endless scrolling.

Speaking of endless scrolling, I’m also trying to solve some of the problems exposed in The Social Dilemma, so I created something where you’re the client and not the product (freemium model).

I’m very happy to finally ship this. I have been working on it for the last 4 years… in the current form, but my original idea is from 2012. This soft launch is a big step for me. If I’m honest I’m terrified, it’s not my first time launching something, but it’s my first time creating something non-trivial as a side project.

I hope you could give it a try! Inviting your best 3 friends could help you to see the dynamic.
One distinction is that CoPilot is only trained on open source code. It transfers value from the most self-less people to profit oriented people. No such distinction exists for art.

Actually I think it should be up to the art community to decide how they want to deal with dall-e. I know that musicians have a very complex system for dealing with samples, and arrangements and lyrics. As an outsider I have barely scratched the surface on how it works, so trying to understand the why is hopeless.
10 years of Amazon robotics: how robots help sort packages, move product
The ReMarkable tablet supports this natively. And, IIUC, the purpose of the margins is for notes; the ReMarkable also supports inserting blank pages into a pdf for note taking.
> So the message is clear - shifting to a more plant-base diet is the single
biggest way an individual can do to reduce their environmental impact.

A "more plant-based diet" is not a vegan diet and no environmental organisation is saying that everyone should go vegan to save the planet. But we've been through all this already.

> So the point is - these products will help people who like chicken nuggets or
burgers - transition to a more plant-based diet.

And keep them for ever in the thrall of a food industry that wants to sell them shit and that doesn't give a flying fig about the environment, about animal rights, or about peoples' health or culture.

The food industry is responsible for the destruction of the environment and the torture of animals that you pretend to care so much about. It is responsible for the destruction of food cultures and for the destruction of farmers' livelihoods and way of life. And yet, you are very happy to cheer this same food industry on when it produces more industrial shit just because they don't have meat in them? Why?

Because you don't really care about the environment, about animal suffering, or about peoples' lives. That's why. You only care about one singular subject: meat. Meat meat meat meat meat. That's all you can think about.

> The way you argued and the way you continue to ignore scientific evidence points
to an 'intense uncritical devotion' and you choosing your current username - cheese_goddess - seems to suggest you match this line 'exhibiting excessive enthusiasm'.

Pfffhahaha. That's just a laughable attempt to try and turn the tables on me. It doesn't work because I don't have any ideology, I'm not the one trying to tell people what to do, or not do, and I'm not the one trying to guilt trip people into accepting my ideology. And I'm not the one who is trying to twist science and activism to my own ends.

But you are. Because you're a fanatic, a zealot, a follower, a cult member. You don't like it? Get used to it.
An automated system could be made for this.

Imagine two tracks side by side. Now have a mechanism above that lifts goods off one train and into another. The mechanism could work on moving trains such that a 30 mph train could unload all its cargo and have it all loaded into a neighbouring train also moving at 30 mph.

Such a mechanism would be expensive, but only needs to exist at cargo borders, and the cost would be dwarfed by the value of the trade it enables.
Did you miss the first part? The original copyright owner is explicitly saying in their terms that you get ownership.

You’re just restricted by contract to pass on said ownership if you sell.

It’s like a house with a homeowners association. Can’t ditch the HOA by selling. Still own the house.
Your HN handle is from 2016 and has 508 karma. You could probably learn a lot by trying to explain stuff here in comments and see if it clicks with folks.

Benefits: You get prompt feedback as to the quality of your writing. You may build a reputation.

Downside: That feedback may not exactly be sugar coated.
spam account, flagged.
I don't think certifications will make a significant difference from the HR point of view (maybe in Enterprise) but one thing I observe in my network is that some people really benefit from certifications purely because it boosts their self-confidence or help them get over a nagging case of impostor syndrome.

I find that these people feel lost when you tell them they'd be better off just being curious and learning by doing the thing itself. They tend to find comfort in systems like the belt system in martial arts. So, if you feel this way- it might be worthwhile to pick up a few certifications just for yourself.
It's not FUD, man. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59214544

Native American Brittney Poolaw was sentenced to 4 years in prison by Oklahoma in Nov 2021 for a miscarriage in a hospital.

The court said her meth use constituted manslaughter, not drug addiction.

If the mother smokes cigarettes, drinks alcohol, etc and a lawyer can show a reasonable expectation that this can harm a fetus and the mother can be reasonably expected to understand this risk and know doing so could harm her fetus, she could now be prosecuted for manslaughter in those states.
3 recommendations:

1. Write more.
2. Write clearly.
3. Know your audience.

We're writing for engineers, not for entertainment. Release a technical article every week.
Wow interesting. I got the security specialist one (work wanted me to and they agreed to pay for it). It was almost entirely memorizing what amazon product name corresponds to what generic name. And a bit about ACLs. I was left feeling it had basically nothing to do with my job or relavent skills.
I wrote this two years ago: https://camilomatajira.wordpress.com/2020/05/05/my-most-prec...

Anki is great. However I am getting a little bit tired after the years. I now use it more as my knowledge base.
Basically all of the UNIX world.
Clicky link to the blog summary: : https://ooni.org/post/2022-doh-dot-paper-dnsprivacy21/

Does it have links to all the other versions that you posted?

Perhaps you should expand DoT and DoH in the fists lines of the text here, so it's easier to understand.
To a large extent, yes. But when you find yourself stopped at a red light on a steep upgrade, and some idiot behind you decides to wait for the light three inches from your back bumper, things will go better when the light turns green if you have a decent mental model of the physical mechanism of the clutch. Sometimes you want to let those abstractions leak a bit.
Sentence Embeddings have a problem, the reason sometimes Dall-E2 fails
>The same as everywhere... due to a war and pandemic.

Yes, Europe is at war. Good reminder of the massive social instability occurring on the continent. Scary place to be right now.
When I left high school for college (to pursue engineering) I was quite envious of my friends in the liberal arts - they were assigned papers all the time and I had no outlet for writing (something I enjoyed quite a bit).

I have realized that written/technical communication is a great differentiator.

I journal every day but specifically to your question I would say just start writing.

Knowing your audience is key. I usually include an executive summary section at the top of any design document or product requirements document for a high level view of why people should care. Then I dive into a background or history to give context. At the end of the day it's a narrative and follows similar arcs - just with more direct prose and specific facts. I'll also drop this resource here from the Pragmatic Engineer newsletter. [0]

[0]: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/software-engineer...
I'm curious if those algorithm would be usable with existing DSLRs.

But I think that the app might do more than just taking a few pictures and calculating stuff on it after.

Is there any CMOS magic it does like reading the chip in a way that it's not the same of taking a few pictures?
driver's license?
It's hard to relate to this position, that sees no value in enabling people to take custody over their own money, in a form more useful than physical cash.

Peer-to-peer finance is what the crypto industry is enabling, and you really think people are worse off from being empowered in this way.
> ... protect minority interests

"As practiced, to have minority rule" FTFY.

So what about the minority interests of gay people? Trans people? Enslaved people? Let's not forget that "states' rights" as an argument was famously used to justify chattel slavery.

Those pushing "states' rights" aren't the least bit interested in protecting minority interests. They're only interested in protecting their own interests. Period. It's "states' rights" when it serves them and a Federal issue when it serves them.

> If voters in a state don't want interracial marriage to be legal, should people outside the state have a say?

Yes. if you even have to ask...
I think in a way you are both right. This argument goes both ways. I’ve seen developers have so little understanding of the code that they needed to add logs on every second line of it. I’m talking about stateless pure functions with clear inputs and outputs, here you should only have to log the input, possibly also the output, the rest is reproducible. Some would call this tracing, not logging.

The best systems are the ones that log just enough, but no more, whatever that means can be difficult to quantify. I find logs that are informative or actionable to an operator are the most useful, if a log entry appears more than once a minute and this entry is only useful for a developer of a particular submodule, it’s too chatty and likely an indication this module is not understood enough. If a system is doing its job it should for most of the time not say much. Getting to this state of log nirvana does however, as you say, require the best of developers.
Have you tried an LG Gram?
I got myself one, it is one of the closest laptops to a macbook air M1:

- extremely light (my 14 inch is a little under 1kg), you'll absolutely feel the difference when holding it vs holding a macbook air M1, and it is very significant.

- great screen

- amazing keyboard

- the fan is very quiet, but the laptop can get a bit warm under load

- the touchpad is lacking on windows but is amazing on linux (I mainly use ubuntu / pop os)

- expect 9-10 hours battery life in most use cases, it sometimes goes as high as 14h+ if you're simply surfing the web/reading or as low as 6 hours on heavy use

When installing a linux distro, in some rare cases you might need to tweak a few bios option just to start the installation, but everything after that works out of the box.
>> exerting over the system when the system has been fine-tuned to make it easier for the human to do less, and for the operator to accept the machine’s judgment.

>Is just incredibly bad faith nonsense. Or extremely ignorant. It's hard to tell which.

When you talk to the military you have to remember that many levels of military are regarded as drones that go through motions and that much of what goes on is assumed to be defined without critical thinking. When things deviate, they ask for directions from higher levels where critical thinking occurs. This is different than assumptions you typically make with end users, you assume your system is being used by people who actively think, question, and have varied needs.

In this light that argument makes a bit more sense, these are just processes that you're refining to make the process more fluid--"the human is a necessary evil because we lack the technology to do these and need meatsuits to execute" sort of thought process. Point there and shoot here, etc. When you think of much military action in this context, that people follow orders, execute predefined processes and don't think, this argument makes more sense... if I have biological robots why not replace them with faster non-biologicial robots? I completely disagree with this ideology but it's pretty deeply seated in the military from what I understand.

The issue is people arguing for HITL (human-in-the-loop) don't want drones who don't think and they assume they're able to intervene and say "no" when something absurd, unethical, or ridiculous is thrown in the mix. They want them to consider when someone says, fire a missile here, what are the implications of that to some degree. That if on their radar they see a playground full of children they might reject that order or improper information, give feedback and even ask for more confirmation.

I find the majority of the arguments presented in this article pretty weak, but don't feel like dissecting them all. The first does look at life through a Tayloristic perspective of efficiency above all else which I think is a fundamental problem humanity is facing everywhere, not just the military: the questioning of Taylorism and utility theory perspectives that dominant the world today, instead seeing a need for balancing the needs of humanity and considering things humanistically in a world increasingly ruled by the former.
e-book reader is the one exception in which a tablet offers a leading experience.

Even there, I'd argue that Android is the worst part of the platform.
The National Association of Rocketry which supports model rocketry clubs and such has a tiered certification for High Power Rocketry (HPR) which is where you get into building very large models and packing your own motors. These certifications involve the usual written exam, but you also have to design a rocket in your target class- and get the design reviewed, and then build it- and get the build reviewed for safety, and then fly it. Since it's more than a book -> test certification and involves an actual hands-on engineering project, I'd consider it a fun one.

https://www.nar.org/high-power-rocketry-certifications/
Amateur radio license. The experience is more relevant to my job than any corporate training I've ever done.

Note that "experience" means "everything I've done with the license since getting the license". Don't fall into the "achievement" trap: reading a book so you can pass a multiple choice test teaches you precisely nothing, unless you go out and start to apply the rote memorization.
If you have an old MacBook lying unused, then Ubuntu tends to run out of the box on them. It is a lot lighter, so even though my 2014 MacBook Air is unusably sluggish with macOS, it runs Ubuntu 22.04 great.
It's a warning system so it probably sounded a warning.
I have also seen this. A large number of certs on a resume (more than 4) is the most consistent negative signal i have seen.

I assume part of the reason is that certs are expensive and not well respected, so the only reason you would get them is if you had no other options.
But without it, how would you explain your own subjective internal experience?
Is "absence of monetization" a value? Do we expect this with any other business other than the ones on the internet - news papers, magazines, local community events etc.

Absence of monetization, to me means its a hobby project funded by you and not a business, that also perhaps means it has not kept up with the competition - think servers, performance, websites, mobile apps etc. Maybe avoiding ad based monetization could be what you are talking about but then you still got to pay the bills some how, so unless you monetize, I don't know how a business would survive. Considering this, I don't think its a surprise that your users are on the decline. Besides, doesn't everyone like to complain about ads online but very few really want to pay for alternative paid services anyway e.g. email, navigation, private messaging etc
I agree with 1 and 3, but IME using inheritance to model taxonomies is usually a big mistake. It can work well for things inherent to the system (Iterable -> Sequence) but it falls apart when you're trying to model the real world (Mammal -> Dog). It's essentially about whether you're making stuff up, and can choose to operate within the bounds of the type system to get its benefits (the first case) or you're trying to describe something real and any trade-off is actually bad (the second case). It doesn't help you to be unable to express a portion of the problem, but in exchange you get something that doesn't apply.

Commentary on an excerpt from an interesting blog series: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/361176
I can't say either way because the hacker news hug of death means I can't read it!
I am sorry this article is terrible - it's at best a reflection of views of the Economists journalists idea of what the y consider 'liveability' - which they don't feel like sharing with us anyway.

At worst, this is an infomercial for the data components they gathered, which they use to come up with these aggregate stats.
OEMs sometimes will do things like use different Wifi modules (among other things) on the same exact model and it can be somewhat luck of the draw as to what works well with Linux.

Distro choice also has a big impact. Like I tried Guix on my P14s and haven't been able to get Wifi working even with the latest non-libre kernel among other issues. Literally EVERYTHING works perfectly on Ubuntu 22.04 despite in theory non-libre Guix having a newer kernel so something must be going on there.
I wrote a paper for this, but it was rejected. It's not surprising why; I only had a few days to do it.

Anyway, my paper is at https://gavinhoward.com/2021/10/my-whitepaper-about-github-c... .
Nonsense. You'd still end up with subscriptions and inability to integrate anything beyond what the deign to allow. Kinda like their efforts thus far.
Make sure you don't forget display nits. So many laptops not made by Apple are so dim that you don't want to use them. Apple is at 500 nits with the newest Air with an M2 chip. That's positively bright!
Commercial driver and pilot could maybe be better described as licenses. Those have recurring medical requirements, and CDL holders can be picked for drug testing at any time. Strangely most of the flight docs are ignoring the FAA disqualification item of taking a medicine within two years of it being released. At this point, most commercial and military pilots should be grounded for taking the new virus shots. The two year requirement is reasonable to protect flying public from things not found in rushed medical studies, like heart attacks.

MSHA part 48, or others, is useful to be allowed to be unattended on a mine site. The scope and size of some mines, and the operations and equipment, are something to experience. Of course, the mine owner must want you to be there.
I did get the occasional asshole comment in my Wordpress blog. Much happier since I moved the thing to Hugo and disabled comments - not like I really care much about what others say, and my tiny blog was not a super popular gathering place anyway.
Video finally going the way of images.
Cool that they are happy with their setup. The author tried the Lenovo Duet Chromebook, which I also have. I agree that the resources on the Duet are light weight for running Linux containers, but I find it very useful nonetheless. To be honest, when I travel with the Duet, I usually SSH into a remote server, but, I do something’s locally. I would like something like the Duet for twice the price with more computational horsepower. The combination of zero-hassle ChromeOS with good Linux container support (also no hassle) is a time saver.
I can only read his short fiction with few exceptions. He got to the point where he would take 50 pages (exaggeration, but still...) to describe, I dunno, a room. Okay, so the room is important, but is it that important?
The ancient attempt of a 1d embedding of political ideologies is doomed to fail, however anyone tries. It started out in revolutionary France in 1789 to distinguish between the supporters of the king (conservatives, on the right) and supporters of the revolution (revolutionaries, on the left). It was good enough for that, but it's not for very much else.

The most sensible minimal extension (to 2d) that I know of is to distinguish between how much you value personal freedom on one axis and economic freedom on the other. That still leaves out a lot, but is the best indicator of which side you'll likely to end up on regarding most political contentions, given the simplicity of the model.

There are actually two popular models of that kind, the Nolan Chart (example quiz [1], your spectrum is the vertical axis) and the Political Compass (example quiz [2], your spectrum is the secondary diagonal).

[1] https://www.theadvocates.org/quiz/

[2] https://www.politicalcompass.org/
Obviously states can restrict certain kinds of commerce but you might be surprised how limited that power is. The Federal government has pre-eminence when it comes to not only interstate commerce but issues that affect interstate commerce.

I present to you Wickard v. Filburn [1]. A farmer (Filburn) was growing wheat on his own property to use as animal feed. Said wheat wasn't being sold or transported across state lines.

> The Court decided that Filburn's wheat-growing activities reduced the amount of wheat he would buy for animal feed on the open market, which is traded nationally, is thus interstate, and is therefore within the scope of the Commerce Clause.

I personally think this decision is overreach because it technically means almost anything falls under the Commerce Clause but hey, that's the settled law of the land (until it isn't like Roe and Casey).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
There is no cop-out. I use git, with pleasure and gratitude, for everything, because of its excellent design and performance. It appeals to my intuition, and I like the interface. You are entitled to your opinion, but not to confuse it with objective reality.
The concurrent reindex operation only impacted breed indexes.

There's no known impact to brin or gin/gist indexes as these haven't seen major changes in recent versions.
Note that there are 2-3 posters in this thread spamming it with their opinions to push a certain narrative.
My accounting qualifications helped me leave a physical trade for an office job, where I learned about ERP systems, re-discovered coding and got into a hybrid tech/finance job.