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russellbeattie sez> "..could you talk to your fellow conservatives and ask them to stop threatening the lives of their fellow Americans?"<

I don't know any conservatives who are threatening anyone. But I'm talking to you and so I ask that you tone it down and quit promoting paranoid BS. If your news stream frightens you, then I suggest you take Joe Biden's advice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-mztxHgYQo

(pretty good song, eh!8-))

The URL you posted

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/12/us/politics/republican-vi...

mentions no particular killings. The article states that threats are being made from the right. It fails to mention threats and real violence from the left(e.g., BLM rioting, etc.). The article is a slightly better-written continuation of the river of bullshit being posted on this HN topic today.

Also, consider your source: nytimes is shifting further and further left each month.

Dang needs to step into this gusher of BS and cap off the well. Why is this topic not yet closed? It is clearly not useful to a rational person (yes, yes, I have ceased to follow it), it being little more than a venting of anger on all sides, esp. the liberal side.

Or maybe this HN topic is a honeytrap intended to lure out whackjobs from all sides, so our friends in 3-letter agencies can practice using the Internet tools that Snowden et al gave away?
> balancing binary trees, time/space complexity of sorting algos .... I needed knowledge like it, but you can look that up as well)

In my experience, it is now about knowing how to do these things but when to reach for them when solving a problem.
these exchanges are casinos for hopeless millennials and zoomers

the tokens are more like casino chips than money or stocks
Net is actually the one game I prefer to play on a computer, as I find the keyboard controls particularly useful for it. I think Signpost or Magnets are my favourite to play on mobile.
Streisand Effect in action
I realised that and it makes me sad.
Kelp is on the way: Why we should all be eating seaweed
When you follow the restrictions on stackless coroutines, the coroutine can, as you mentioned, elide stack allocations for the "child" coroutines. If you want to make a call that can't have its stack allocation elided, you explicitly tell the runtime to spawn it as a top-level task.
I don't think this is universally true. Developers (myself included) often just do what they want regardless of what they're told and in a consultancy it has to be billed somewhere. Here, a client was cost a lot of money. But it might not have been directed by a manager!

At large corps like MSFT and APPL, this behavior is often lauded by the hacker community because it leads to wonderful things like PowerToys and GraphingCalculator.
Does anyone else have a long list of dense material like this that you have an intention of going through someday? Do you ever end up actually doing it?
Why does Apple hate the scrollbar?
This is interesting to read, because it seems both client and vendor had trouble managing boundaries due in large part to a contingency-focused or future-focused decisionmaking style. Some would call it bait-and-switch on the vendor's part, but this was speculative territory for them too, and pretty obviously so based on the blog post.

The need to constantly work in favor of anticipation of future events effectively locked out their ability to execute on established agreements, creating an oscillating wait-and-see pattern.

It's rare to see this happen on both sides of a business agreement. However if these two sides came together again I'd expect to see a similar pattern, not that I'd blame anyone. To work around such an obviously favored perception would require a very difficult change in individual psychology with a lot of focus on practicable alternatives.

A very thorough writeup op, thanks for sharing it.
I think if it creates a substantial disincentive for fuel efficient transportation we are going to end up making global warming far worse as we go to many more smaller vehicles for most transportation.
What is the best payment-structuring model to best align the interests of the person requesting the work, with the person doing the work, while also de-incentivizing things like scope creep and simply "one requirement ends up taking too long and should be considered for dropping prior to completion"?

Is it half upfront, half on delivery?

Is it fee-per-milestone?

Is it hourly rate?

Is it some hybrid of the above?

When a requirement must be dropped, who pays for the hours already sunk into it? Would it be both parties? (by charging half the normal rate)
Typically you’d need opposing groups to be in a shared physical space without enough room to stay away from each other comfortably though.

Cities, for sure, and there were low level versions of this kind of unrest, though nothing that got too widespread.

But where would the ‘civil war’ happen in this scenario now?

Online? If so, hard to cause much actual blood here.
I think in part the problem is that he is an owner working with an agency, i.e. they're all employees all the way to the top.

like this agency said, "we usually work with larger clients", i.e. we expect that all interactions across companies involve people for whom it's just their job.

BUT, they got (what seems like) the actual business owner on one side, not some dissinterested executive.
ah, makes sense, thanks for sharing :)
Additionally, https://devdocs.io/ has comparable coverage, works offline as a website, and can be installed locally.

And https://zealdocs.org on linux.
Why do you insist on using Google?
“I don’t think we’ve learned general principles yet about how to deal with human norms that you have to respect,”

That’s only in phase 1.

Afterwards when humans are outnumbered by vast bot swarms, and all their content and capital is vanishingly tiny, these norms won’t matter. Also, human participation won’t matter, and will likely be similar to the paralympics or women’s tennis (but orders of magnitude suckier).

Entertainment for a tiny niche of the market (humans performing for humans) will not be an economically significant space, kind of like classical music today or better yet renaissance music.

EVERYTHING you are used to online — including these comments - can already be convincingly deepfaked by adversarial networks trained on throwing bullshit at a wall and seeing what sticks. And this bullshit can actually be a superstimulus that outperforms genuine human interaction. What is missing is decentralized botnets swarming at scale to gradually and unrelentingly amass karma points across the swarm, and use them to move sentiment, markets etc. but that’s coming. Afterwards it’s onto subverting democratic systems with sybil attacks, as well as judicial systems with parallel construction and deepfake “evidence”.
This is my own personal preference but I honestly can't stand medium. It started off ok, but now It's too bloated and I can't read many of the articles people link. I use an addon to force myself to put in a password if I really want to see a link someone share on that and several other paywall sites. It gives me a chance to ask myself, "Did I just get baited?" If the answer is yes they do not even get a referrer click.

If there was an addon similar to Teddit Redirect [1] or Nitter Redirect [2] that made the site more usable by stripping out most javascript and removing the paywall then I would probably visit it more.

[1] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/reddit-to-ted...

[2] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nitter-redire...
Very cool!

I remember when kicking the tires on postgrest/postgraphile that I found validation and error handling to be one of the less intuitive areas. Not the actual field-level constraints, but how to adapt it to fit a fast-fail vs slow-fail model.

When I had attempted before, the only ergonomic option was fast-fail (the first check constraint violated would bubble the error upward) rather than slow-fail (collect all invalid fields and return the collection of errors, which IME is more common on average web forms or api requests).

Looking at the single code file and tests, I see only singular field errors. Has a more ergonomic approach to validation-error collection been developed other than writing a large function to iterate the new record fieldwise against the schema?
With the takeaway I would agree with finding a sole freelancer, or a small team 1-3 rather than an agency. Freelancers often scale to agencies to make more money off bigger clients that can deal with scope creep and huge bills.

I've done freelance work similar to that (redesigning w/ bootstrap), and I found having a set price for the completed work has worked well for me.

On tracking, I worked with a consultancy a while back and had to use self-tracking tools like toggl, and it was a dealbreaker for me. I absolutely hate tracking (billable) time, some places do it down to the minutes, it's madness IMO. It was frustrating because a problem could be solved in 2 mins, but required 1hr of research/experimentation, when do you start the timer? Oh and you have three other clients, and whenever you context switch you gotta quickly do it in the tool so it tracks the right client, etc. it warps the brain IMO and stifles creative play/thinking, especially when you're docked for not having enough billable hours, even though in a normal full-time job things would be swell. After I left, I had to readjust to not always think about my time per task and felt relief and clarity again to solve problems with an open-ended mindset.

I think devs should resist this micro tracking tools, they're used by agencies to exploit their employees and their customers—IMO it's no different than an amazon warehouse tracking their employees every move/micro-break.

Edit: Like others have mentioned here, name and shame, they scammed you! Lesson learned, but 46k is a lot of money, and for a lot of small businesses that could have been enough to tank the owners financially, so you may potentially help out others by attaching their name.
With a verifiable credential that is ZKP-able, you could ensure the system is not gamed while alsp ensuring the reviewers aren't doxd.
Amazon Care[1] launched a few years ago.

[1]: https://amazon.care/
Good for you for posting this. This is something a lot of people wouldnt want to talk about but I'm sure people deal with all the time.
Sure, the list of supported providers can be found here https://docs.tryvital.io/wearables/providers/Introduction and the list of supported device models here https://docs.tryvital.io/wearables/providers/Introduction#fu...
Its an unpopular opinion but no. Much as we cannot stop drowning in water with more water, we cannot extinguish climate change caused by technocratic neoliberal consumer capitalism with more of the same. The effort must exist outside a market. it cannot be commercialized, it exists as an inefficiency, and it remains a corrective action to right some of the most egregious hubris of mankinds existence on this planet. ideally it should be done in silence without marketing, discipline without aggrandizement, and with remorse.
BBB supposedly too.
Einstein did not derive E =mc2 first
Me too, 1 month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31827449

I was finally lucky enough to find someone on Fiverr. I will be using Fiverr a lot more now. Upwork and Toptal have been a total disaster for me.
average plugins for average car buyers
Yes, but that’s just transitory.
Several shark sightings in Cape Cod and Long Island prompt beach closures
>>I'm not normally super paranoid about data privacy, but this doesn't feel good to me.

Well, the conspira-cynic in me notes that Amazon has a 10 Billion contract with the USG for various data housing for many intel/defense arms of the USG...

So, theres that...
>Within six weeks, we narrowed in on a concept we all liked.

Interesting: 14-th concept in the list is pretty much Telegram's logo
If your support staff got used to Zendesk, the alternative is massive turnover and training a new workforce
You’re right, I misinterpreted your point being about absolute age extension, not relative
Eminent domain is close to dead in the US. We nearly always lack sufficient political consensus to use it. It is partly why new infrastructure projects are increasingly rare and significantly more expensive.
Looks awesome! I also want modern computers that are more understandable from bottom to top. Like you I feel like hardware simplification has to be one of the first steps. You might be interested in my project, civboot.org and github.com/civboot/fngi
> Then don't use this particular app?

And when your employer / school / insurance provider / other requires it, what then?
The asterisk here is that they teach social media / libel / defamation law. At this point I know tenant law as well as one can, but yelling about them by name on the internet would likely play into their hand.
It's been a long time since I've done that kind of work, unfortunately. I still do have projects that I can be productive offline, most recently in rust ('cargo doc' is really amazing for this kind of thing).

It could be rose-tinted glasses, but I'd love to find a way back to the distraction-free coding days. Focus is by far my biggest battle these days, especially when running up against seemingly bizarre deficiencies (most recently, lack of unsigned 64-bit int support in postgres).

Hitting these kinds of walls almost always causes me to go wandering through distraction sites because I can't bring myself to build a bridge over yet another small discrepancy.
Oof, this pains me personally. That $46k pricetag just about matches the salary I was earning in my first full time job while still attending college more than a decade ago. I was a web developer and between a designer, a content gatherer/editor, and myself, we banged out one or two complete websites a month. These were no simple sites either - dynamic, Drupal based, custom theme, stage/prod, self-hosted order forms, newsletters, other interactivity and even training the owners how to use Drupal.
Ah, so it's just the MDM enrolment/control that stops with Lockdown? IT still works with Supervised Mode?
Is that https://www.moonlightwork.com/ ?
White could win without zugzwang!
Because white starts. After the first move, the position is no longer symmetric, so it doesn't help black to skip to switch sides.
They already have it in copious forms from other laws. So basically - it's another showboat law, which is the point of the whole comment.

Seems you missed the point.
inflation is dependent upon what money can buy, the amount of money, and the velocity of it. I agree generally with everything you said, with the addition that the euro supply had rather significant ~7% "leap" in early 2020 (in addition to the trend line of compound growth). I don't think the effect of this "money printing" effect can be discounted either.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/921364/value-of-m2-money...
Hey nrp, I recently saw this video [1] which showed some major battery life differences between the i5 and i7 for Alder Lake which really took me by surprise. (22% battery on the i5 vs 38% on the i7 after a couple of hours of playing video)

Is the difference similar on the framework laptop, and if so, is this a driver problem for the i5 / better under Linux and expected to improve as big.little utilization gets more robust or just a case where race-to-idle really hits?
Would love to hear professional input on this since you've probably worked pretty closely with these cpus in the last few months!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-y8ElW473s
Peak HN, everything is about America.
Probably a better investment then the 8 trillions spent globally on the 20-year war on terror: https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-09-01/costsofwar
You say that as though no one outside of a market economy every burned coal or clear cut a forrest.
Touchscreen option, pretty please. I live with the fixed RAM and general lack of repairability of my Surface Laptop 3 for that sweet, sweet 3:2 display w/ a touchscreen.
You're mistaken then. Monolith is just project organization. Think microservices and then realize the monolith is on the other end of the spectrum. It's in the name.
There’s a lot of subsidies for chip production in eastern Germany. So it seems like you can do something like that under the EU rules.
Thank you!

Some suggestion for the next roadmap:

- a Dockerfile ( The dockerfile helps me a lot in trying out new technologies )

- info about the compatibility with new PG15

- CI/CD
“It should be legal, protected speech to speak ill of a company. They aren’t people, they’re not even really objects from a certain point of view.”

In some ways they have it better than people. All the rights but don’t get punished in a meaningful way when they do wrong.
The new version of the website breaks some fundamental - and easily fixable - rules of web design: No changes to links on hover, and dropdown menus don't appear on hover, only on click. If OP reads this, really recommend fixing that. It should be easy.

Also, agreed with those who are saying that it's OK to stand up for yourself as a client. It's hard managing clients as an agency, and it's good to have empathy for people you work with, but that doesn't mean you can't push back on added cost or expanded timelines.

Frankly, when someone tries to charge you more for something that is within the scope of work you already paid for, you can simply say no. Likewise, when someone tries to charge you for something you didn't agree to pay for, say no. That is maybe what needed to happen here.
> I hope I don't have to stop using One Medical. I'm not normally super paranoid about data privacy, but this doesn't feel good to me.

Sounds like you should stop using One Medical.
Rebuilding One Street in Ukraine
I'd strongly recommend against a platform like Fiverr. I spent some time doing various odd DevOps and Linux jobs on there. I basically had to charge next to nothing for my services because the sheer amount of other people doing the same thing (probably to a very low standard). Despite this I thought building up my reviews would be a good way to increase my prices and still get work on there, which it was. Unfortunately the attitude of quite a large percentage of the people who hired me was just absurd. Difficult language barriers in many cases, endless disputes over deliverables, constantly changing requirements and even some cases blaming me for things completely out of my control. What I was hoping would eventually lead to a nice little side business of odd sysadmin type things just made me really stressed and frustrated and I realised why I work for a company where there's a barrier between me and the end user and their insane demands.
> Nobody considered that rearranging the layout and colors of the checkout buttons would have such an impact but they did.

I hope this was two decades ago because people absolutely should know by now that doing this has the potential for a huge impact.
Yup. Here's a mental model you may find useful: in Nix, the process executed by the build graph is always purely functional. But when you run `nix-build`, it has to compute the build graph, and that is not necessarily functional. Nix flakes provide a functional way to generate the build graph
Beloved monarch butterflies now listed as endangered
Not a recommendation, no affiliation, but Angelist maintains a job board for startups

https://angel.co/jobs
Warning: specious venn diagram.
Very nice. I've been working on a vim-style web design tool, that lets you build websites directly using really in-depth keyboard commands. One thing people will need is a tutorial.
^ This

Supercooled water was something I thought of later, but I didn't think about the presence / lack of bubbles from normal freezing.
would be so cool if it was though
> Developers (myself included) often just do what they want regardless of what they're told

I don't believe this is true for adhoc work. There's often pressure to get a job done under time under budget to maximize profit. It's one reason I much prefer working for a service based company as there IS room to do what you want and push boundries.
When I was a recruiter I did this. It was difficult though. It worked best when the dev had a specialized skill set. In 2015ish a lot of companies needed native ios or android devs in Chicago. I had 1-2 folks who would dive in, build a mobile app, then leave. They were awesome. Clients were okay with it because they needed something fast and it wasnt their core app. I remember doing it a few times with vue, ember, and react (early in the react days) as well.

We were a lot less likely to be able to talk a company into doing that for a typical full stack dev.

That being said you will probably have to talk to a lot of recruiters to find someone who has the right relationships to do this. Like 2 out of the 80 recruiters at the company I worked for would have gotten you to me. The rest would have pressured you to interview for a full time role. That is just at one recruiting agency.
Is this your definition of consciousness?

> What I mean by "soul" or "consciousness" is the common usage of the term. Essentially, this person would be claiming that he can move a participant's essence or frame of view (with memories, personality, etc.) from a human body to a digital one. At least, that's how I would interpret it, and I don't think the average person would be that far off.

If so, the issue is that you've defined the unknown term ("consciousness"), in terms of other unknown terms ("essence", "frame of view", etc.), which doesn't actually resolve the problem of grounding the word "consciousness".

For example, to some Catholics, the "essence" of a person is their soul, which is tied to the body granted to them by God. And so, the salesman in your original question is obviously lying, because by definition, their "essence" is tied to their physical body.

The only reason the question is difficult to answer is because it's a metaphysical question. There is no physical definition of consciousness, or frame of view. So whether or not your "consciousness" shifts when you use this machine entirely depends on how your metaphysical beliefs define "consciousness".
The article is written as though its sharing scientifically backed best practices rather than as an opinion piece. That should come with a much higher bar for how the claim is backed up.

There's a totally reasonable opinion piece here if the author chose to go that route. Mention how they were curious how airplane ventilation worked, found out its usually disabled on the ground, and that it seems like a reasonable trade off to mask up on the tarmac just in case.

Going the route of claiming its absolutely going to work needs more than a few out of context quotes from professors and those in the industry. Heck, even just sharing the existing studies of airplane ventilation efficacy would be a start.

What studies do I want? For a claim so specific, I'd want to see studies of airline ventilation efficacy with a plane full of people breathing hot air all flight, not just general specs of air exchange rates and type of filter used. I'd also want to see a comparison of no masks vs masks on the ground vs masks all flight. I'm really not sure how we could have such an apparently clear benefit of masks whilw the plane is stopped without more specific data than ventilation specs and anecdotes.
I like the original one better too. Theres a picture of the product at the top instead of an abstract diagram, and it reads as more honest + less sterile.
It's always pseudoscience.

AI models correlation(Measures(X), Measures(Y)).

Marketing sells it as using a theory of how X causes Y.

In this case, we want a machine to acquire a causal model of how its actions produce effects, by measuring X and Y itself under its own actions.

There is no AI that does this. What we have is a machine "with the answers already" (ie., no need to measure) that has a correlative model.
how does one contact you?