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Ask HN: Unconventional places of business to rent a desk?
HN crowd, have you ever sought to rent co-working space at an unconventional place of business, like a car dealership, restaurant, or hair salon?

I am relocating to a new area soon and I prefer not to work in typical co-working hubs like WeWork due to, let's say, bad culture fit. Has anyone had success renting a desk or small office from a business that doesn't normally host programmers? Whom did you rent from, and how did you pull it off?

I'm looking for ideas.

Thanks!
My brother underwent this surgery, and not only did the weight come back, he developed a serious drinking problem (he's in recovery now). Apparently, this a known side effect. All it really did was make his life much harder in the long run. Hunger is more that the physical feeling of fullness.

source: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/alcohol-abuse-linked-to-...
There’s a fixed amount of sunlight hitting the earth every day, but not a fixed amount absorbed. A solar panel captures more heat than a white surface that bounces most of the light back into space. So the act of solar-powered a/c would still result in a net increase in global heat, unless you put the solar panel on top of something that was absorbing more heat than a panel does. I have no idea of the actual practical math of this - like does a black roof absorbs more or less than a panel? But solar energy isn’t impact free, even if we set aside panel manufacturing.

Once the heat is captured by the solar panel, I think you’re right using it for a/c is neutral - just moving heat around.

As for burning stored energy, that has to play into the heat dynamics of the globe. Like if you release it all at once it stops processes that would remove it from the atmosphere (animals and plants die), and it creates runaway heating feedback loops. there is some level of burning stored carbon that the planet can buffer and absorb and results in no change in global temperature. So burning stored energy in excess of that is a big problem. Like how you can sit or walk without noticeably sweating, but running causes you to have to actively cool yourself by sweating.
>America went basically all out trying to stop Vietnam, then one of the poorest countries on earth, and got nowhere.

This is ahistorical. The US in no way, shape, or form when "all out" trying to stop North Vietnam. It was a poor country, but it was heavily armed and resupplied by the USSR and China, including leveraging some of the newest fighter jets, SAMs, etc. the USSR had to offer.
Thank you, I really appreciate your help with this.
Even incuding Chernobyl, Fukushima, and other nuclear disasters, pollution from coal has taken far more life-years from humans than nuclear energy. Our record with nuclear is not perfect. The technology is not forgiving of mistakes. But we learn from every failure and adapt. It's like passenger air transport in that way.
Well west is unwilling to supply modern tanks so Cruise missles look to be def. of the table. Ukraine is even short on basic armored personnel carriers and even regular consumer trucks widely used by military (mostly supplied by volunteers).
This is a somewhat heretical opinion but I don't think having a formal specification is particularly important for programming languages today.

It was very valuable, say, twenty years ago, when there were most programs were written or compiled using multiple closed source implementations of languages coming from competing companies. There were real economic incentives for the implementations to diverge from each other in ways that harmed the larger ecosystem. A formal spec was a forcing function to make those implementations compatible.

Today, programmers simply won't use a language whose implementation isn't open source with a very permissive license. This makes it very hard for an organization to deliberately make the implementation incompatible with others because other organizations and users are able to either avoid the incompatibility by forking the implementation if they don't like it, or making it compatible by using the implementation if they do.

I still think it's very valuable to have a committee with members of all implementations that helps drive consensus for where the language should go. But the document itself I see as secondary to that human process.
Indeed. I’ll get to that in Part III (or IV if it’s too long). And it’s why I’ve tried to point out evidence of actual use rather than just the diagrams themselves (though those are at least a start when it comes to subsequent improvement). Safety is certainly a big issue, and Savery’s engines often struggled with it (for the expansive phase of operations). As you say, it’s about the “too often”!
The real deal is either you become a creator or a consumer. Apple’s (original[0]) ethos is giving more to creators - so naturally everything is around making the most advanced techniques accessible (think desktop publishing and lotus, now Swift and SwiftUI).

0 Somehow it’s currently twisted into a supply and demand narrative, missing the real why
The Festival Wristband That Monitors Your Drinking
any tips on creating cocktail recipes, or good cocktails to make at a party? I want to learn to make fun cocktails now that the standard starting price of a cocktail in the DC area is $12-15 (way too expensive for my taste) but don't know how to start. Buying liquor is easy because it can be used in different cocktails, but I want to avoid spending a lot for some ingredient that only works in a single recipe
I think 1 down year has more of an affect than your crediting, although it does depend on timing.

If you're given a 4 year grant for $X and during the first year, stock/options/whatever equity form drops 25%, then you now need to wait for the company to grow 33% to get back to your original target comp.

If that same situation happens except the drop happens in year 4 of a grant and you're above your target equity, then you'll be ahead only if the company has grown more than 33% since your initial grant date.

Now let's say you're granted an amount annually. And it drops 25% your first year and you plan to stay 4 years. Your equity portion of pay goes down for 1 year and then it goes back up. Now on year 2 you're given 1.33x the number of shares you were year 1. So let's say the company goes back up by year 4 to the original price and it steadily climbed back. If you sell at time of vesting, year 1 you took a 25% loss, year 2 you made some sort of gain. Year 3 you also made some sort of gain.

Let's say you held all vested stock and decided to sell at the end of year 4. Well your 1st year is flat but it's a loss due to opportunity cost and inflation. Year 2 has gone up 33%. Year 3 has gone up some amount as well. Year 4 probably has as well (assuming equity is priced at the beginning of the year).

I'd have to run real numbers to understand this, but again, I think people under estimate the affect a drop has. 4 year grants up front are just more risky and more of a gamble since you've basically bought 4 years worth of stock at a single price (e.g. you're timing the market).
If Europe gives in now, then it is certain that it _won't_ stop there. It would mean Russia can do whatever it wants, and will.

It's war. We have to win it. Yes that is expensive, but Russia commits genocide in the areas they occupy, so there is no alternative.
You don't have to imagine, it is commonplace around the world. Lots of tax revenue from countries all around the world is distributed to different areas of the country/world (obvious e.g. foreign aid). If the amount of tax isn't excessive, allows everyone to have a good standard of living, and is resulting in something positive, why not?
There's a handful of literal GUIs that load too, for instance, setting the date and time or using task manager. There's some literal GUI screens present... just not many.

Note that there is an even more stripped down version of Windows Server without all of these GUI elements: Nano Server! It has no local logon capability at all. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started/...
OK, we've squeezed an 'earlier' in there.
The War Economy
100% I switch between Go and Python a lot and even with Go mods detractions it’s still so much simpler to have everyone using one package manager built into the standard toolchain
I don't see the goal being extermination at all. If that were the case the tactics used would be much different.

Control, integration, subjugation, colonization, there are a lot of other words that are more fitting without the "genocide" hyperbole.
I left last year after working there for ~8 years.

It's night and day; EA when I left was a great place to work at. Work life balance was a priority, a lot of communication from execs, coworkers were great.

My only gripe with them is the revolving door of contractors, QA and devs alike.
Thanks for explaining that. I always wondered how sichuan pepper could cause such a different reaction to regular black or chili pepper, and now it makes sense
Or ERPs like opengov for government.
We could, and we could also build cars that run on peanut butter. We don't, because there is no point to it, because it costs too much, and because it solves problems that have already been solved.

It's not going to magically make inflation or interest rates go away. You are correct that the legal system would still be around, and will still be able to do pretty much everything that it's doing now.

It's not illegal, because it's not actually in the realm of the SEC. What you describe - the background implementation of finance isn't an investment, it's just boring clerical work. [1] If there were a better way to do it with blockchains, people would adopt it. Unfortunately, blockchains do not solve the hard problems in this space, but they do make the easy problems both hard and expensive.

[1] Yes, it's regulated, but the regulation allows for improvements. The regulation isn't the problem - getting everyone's workflows that are accustomed to how this clerical work is done is the problem! Nobody will switch to a system that's not better, and blockchains are not a better system for this [2].

[2] And if they were, no currently existing blockchain would be a better system for this. If stock clearing or whatever would somehow work better through a blockchain[3], there's no reason to do it on a blockchain that has already been pre-mined, and is being traded around by speculators. Why pay them a first-movers tax, when you can just fork and spin up your own? The hashing power of anything but BTC and maybe the ETH networks isn't sufficient to prevent attacks on something as important as this - so the existing coin ecosystems have zero value for this usecase. The organizations adopting this would have to control the hashing power, as well - and at that point, why pay third-parties for it?

[3] It wouldn't.
And Russia had poisoned a West-friendly candidate even before and generally meddled with Ukrainian elections. Let's not make this look like it was started by Ukraine...
for me it's lack of map/reduce
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kinda lose the setup / steady state benefit for child processes.
Probably, yes. But note that ref counters will leak memory in the presence of cycles.

You need to either ensure that your pointer graphs contain no cycles (in which case you could probably also model it using ownership) or have some strategy for discovering and breaking those cycles (in which case ref counting isn't buying you that much).

In other words, if your data is naturally modeled using ref counts, then, yes, Rc is great. If not, it's not. And it's probably worth noting that most managed languages don't use ref counting, so the set of problems that are naturally modeled that way appears to be relatively small compared to tracing GC.
Europe announced a REPower initiative to speed up investments in alternatives; the problem that they have is that no one wants to build more LNG infrastructure because that's a 20+yr commitment to gas that has some environmental impact and want to go full renewable but this is quite slow to do (and of course is hugely dependent on China which controls the processed critical mineral market). Also, German environmentalists especially do not want to build nuclear facilities, so the options for the government to respond with are limited.

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_22_...
The question here is how much can you disambiguate between the impact of GC and the impact of differently written code plus differently optimizing compiler backend (where Go is still very simple but Rust uses LLVM). If for example the Go code used goroutines and channels in those places where the rewritten Rust code uses asynchronous operations, that alone may account for substantial differences in performance.
Also anorexia and other Medical comorbidities. A
Many cancer patients have trouble keeping weight too
Another one is that ancient Mediterranean traders used what were essentially futures contracts to trade wheat and other grains.
Jambu (Acmella oleracea) is native to southeast Brazil:

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:9...

Also known as: Electric Daisy, Paracress, Eyeball Plant, Toothache Plant, Jambu, Brazilian Cress, Sichuan Buttons, Buzz Buttons, Tingflowers, Novacaine Plant, Phak Khraat Hua Van, Brede Mafane, Agrião Do Para, Peek-a-boo, Spilanthes acmella

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acmella_oleracea
I vaguely remembered that the doubly-labeled water method was pretty neat, but I looked it up and it is as neat as I remember:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubly_labeled_water#Mechanism...

It's like plugging yourself into a power meter, except for cellular respiration
The "spikiness" of crime in NYC is extreme. I lived about two blocks away from a housing project which had a low but steady rate of assault, rape, and even the occasional murder. You wouldn't know it on my street and I never felt unsafe. I think the density of the city and relative lack of car mobility makes crime extremely non-uniformly distributed compared to most other cities (where everyone drives).
Of course there is, one of them was the founder of our space program.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun
Not necessariliy. Sustainable wood harvesting for fuel was common even in medeival europe. Once forests were cut back, coppicing was used:

https://acoup.blog/2019/07/12/collections-the-lonely-city-pa...

https://acoup.blog/2020/09/25/collections-iron-how-did-they-...

That second link is all about charcoal production for steel making. Once you have steel and charcoal, you can make steam powerered anything.
I’ll throw in Turrican II level 3-1: https://youtu.be/-TSjfMNAXwU
This is awesome, now if someone asks me what a promise is, I can say "it's an argument to pledge about which system resources I am declaring access to" and watch their faces glaze over. "No I'm talking about the async promise..."
I largely agree with this.

But I still think there was something unique about the legal entitlements in 17th century England that didn't really exist in previous eras. Previous versions of complex structures were still family oriented, or had to put up with local power brokers, or were a fiefdom unto themselves.

Like, you didn't see James Watt build a fort and hire goons to protect his assets. But that would have been a completely normal requirement of establishing an organization in the Roman world.
Ongoing issue with indexing in Google Search
What are you looking for with regards to security?
Slight awkwardness with the spoken pronunciation.
People in management are also employees/workers, too. I'm not sure that just because they also happened to be management changes anything. If anything, that ought to make it worse.
You kept focusing on the scumbag thing though. Seemingly more than web3. At least three comments specified having issues with the scumbag specific issue as if it’s some insane social faux paux and even if it was, this isn’t some fancy dinner. All of this is why it’s so curious

No one said that’s the only thing that makes him a scumbag. Do we now need to dutifully lay out all our arguments for why someone might be a scumbag before saying so? That seems like a really high bar to push for. It would take far too long to do that each time especially as proponents for the person can just demand more arguments and proof.
> the sanctions are obviously backfiring on Europeans and not hurting the Russians by any objective measure

I’m not sure that’s an accurate summary of the situation.

> "If the goal is a quick and complete collapse of the Russian economy, then no, sanctions are not working because the Russian economy is still functioning. But if the goal is to weaken Russia economically over time, then sanctions are 100% working."

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/01/1109033582/are-sanctions-actu...
Similar to substance abuse problems, people with overeating issues often have to "hit rock bottom" in order to gain sufficient motivation and discipline to sustain a permanent behavior change. This often takes the form of a serious medical crisis, or losing a valued personal relationship.
In Russia homophobia is such an integral part of society and day to day life (due to prison culture) that those horrific, dehumanizing and derogatory words you’ve mentioned are actually considered “pejorative rather than grossly offensive”

N-word as well. Ordinary Russians will fight tooth and nail for their right to use this word.
I don't think it's fair to blame France, they have long been pushing for nuclear as evidenced by their energy sources being hugely reliant on domestic nuclear rather than foreign energy. It's really been the German greens hellbent on holding back nuclear across the EU.
She called my bluff. She’s okay with it!
I do live in Europe and lived in various European countries, that being said the apartment buildings could also have a similar solution (their own solar panel/wind turbine/geothermal) OR simply do that in a more localized way (each city has their own solar/wind farms). Combine this with more regulations regarding energy saving/consumption (promote more efficient electric devices).

In the end I see it as having multiple independent energy-generating clusters (each building, or each city, or each country) and sharing excess energy outside the cluster only when needed.
Ok, I'll revise my statement: it doesn't make sense to live in Manhattan if you're not making at least $200k/year consistently and you're over the age of 30.

It might make sense if you're 24 and you're happy living with roommates in a $3k/month studio that has been converted into a 3-bedroom (which I have actually seen).

And if you want to have a family with 3 kids, then you'd better be pulling down $800k annually.
> The Russians have lots and lots of these in the form of Kalibar and Islander missiles that they launch from ships and mobile launchers and it seems to be making all the difference.

Do they still have them or have they used most of them up?

IIRC, for all the attention they get, the US has surprisingly few cruise missiles and would use up its stockpiles pretty quickly in a war like that in Ukraine.
The Correlation
Check out /r/noburp.

I couldn't burp for most of my life until I taught myself.
BMI is pretty good for populations.

If you are standing in front of your doctor and he or she is telling you that you are obese because of your BMI score and not actually measuring you (like with calipers), I’d probably look for a new doctor.
Heat pumps are not an alternative in the next few years because there are not enough available on the market. I know someone who wanted to buy one for his house in Germany and the waiting list is more than 1-2 years right now.
Ugh, that is demoralizing.
> When the next news came it was not about a reprieve; it was another acceleration: twelve hours six days a week, 9am to 10pm.

What amazes me is that there's someone out there who thinks that this type of "crunchs" would improve performance. Do they ever really improve actual performance ?

I have been in (non-videogame) software companies that did this (never as an employee though), and I literally saw people staring at their computer screens doing absolutely nothing. Not even browsing Facebook or whatever, just... staring. They would do that for the majority of the day. Probably sleeping with their eyes open.

I have the impression that adding hours like this is like adding manpower as in The Mythical Man-month way... it can only slow down the project, never speed it up.
Yea reading HN comments gives me the impression most of the readership has never had to manage anything of complexity beyond their "homelab".
They probably could be producing 30GW of nuclear energy by now if they'd spent as much as they did on 58GW from solar and 56GW of wind combined.

(Yeah it's about that expensive).

Im not sure if shifting that allocation would have been such a good idea though coz theyd now be using even more gas and coal.
Oh my gosh; this is a truly awesome hack!
The issue is that if Germany is building pipelines and importing cheap Russian gas any other country would be at disavantage if it were to build a more expensive alternative. It would not be competitive. It is like some small country would tell the U.S that it's not wise to offshore electronics manufacturing to China. The small country would not be competive if it were to manufacture at home or in the U.S. Tomorrow China starts a war with the US and you could say that the small country is just using the U.S as a scapegoat because it didn't build an alternative in the U.S.
This asserts that Russian aggression would transcend across NATO-borders. Is that a given?

1. Party Z invades Country U.
2. Continent C denounces the invasion of U and sanctions Z.
3. Z retaliates against C.

Does an act of retaliation (weaponizing Gas) from Z towards C count a declaration of war? Because if not, who exactly did Russia declare war on? Europe is many things, most prominently a continent and an idea. Was Germany declared war on? If not, is it reasonable to assume that Germany will be declared war on, and if so, which escalations from which involved party would lead to that?

(As always, I don't have strong opinions, just trying to make up my mind on what to expect/how to read the situation)
One great thing about the Rust books and tutorial -- you can easily enjoy them offline, right out-of-the-box.

I learned the basics of Rust on a long plane ride with no WiFi. What a great way to pass the time!
>which is attributed to Alexander Graham Bell in most of the world and to Antonio Meucci in my native Italy.

The US congress did vote a resolution that cleared the matter (in 2002, a bit late I would say):

https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/volume-148/iss...

But in this case Bell and Meucci weren't much disparate sources.