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My local library could learn something from this layout. I'm afraid that most of us taxpayers can't afford a renowned British architect like this. My library is designed more like an office space, and comparing these with the article, I can see the flaws too.

My library has a hodgepodge of flat tables for 4, easy chairs, a few carrels, study rooms that can be reserved, a cafe with a dining area, etc. The computer labs are like sardine tins. This British library was designed thus because everybody went to the library to read books and write on paper, but since my library includes packets of vegetable seeds and tickets to museums, everybody goes to the library to do all sorts of disparate things, so the furniture must be versatile enough to accommodate everything, while discouraging sleeping.

Libraries formerly observed a strict code of silence, and this floorplan appears to cater to solitary readers, so a library, being filled with solitary patrons pursuing their own research goals, does not serve as an analog to a workspace with teams who collaborate and communicate actively.

The worst jobs I ever held were in call centers. I pity everyone who phones me from a call center because I can hear the cacophony behind them. It was truly impossible for me to concentrate or hear myself think. Working alone in a modern library is a little better than that.
After reading all that I feel like the main danger in my house is a IDE drive with an old install of FreeBSD on it.
MNX acquired[1] SmartOS (and Triton DataCenter) earlier this year from Samsung. We're continuing development and have continued with a bi-weekly release cycle.

[1]: https://www.mnxsolutions.com/triton-faq
would you announce the same warning if they were an anti-meat advocate? I see a lot of bad science and even worse popularization of studies on the vegan and anti-meat crowd.
Nutritional science is a great example of this. There are “thought leaders” spearheading different nutritional belief systems (ideologies?) that completely disagree with each other and all back up their claims with what seems to be recognised well-done science. And they all have a long list of real world success cases showing that what they are promoting works for some people. I have moved from one extreme to another, from vegan to keto, finally realising that there is no one-size-fits-all solution for everybody. You have to try different things (vegan/keto/…) and get the medical/blood tests done to see if it works for you. If your health improves doing X then you are moving in the right direction.
This thread is already filled with incredible tools and inspiration. To balance that: learn the art side, not just the programming.

If you're interested in the visual domain learn about image composition, colour and perspective. There is milenea of knowledge on these topics. For audio work, learn about music theory, or for atonal areas sound design and exploration of noise. For motion, explore material on animation and film. This extends to poetry, fashion, architecture and the multitude of other domains that let computation and creativty combine.

These will all give you a tour of aesthics and techniques that you can then use to help shape yours. You can then learn (or build) the generative tools that help you realise this. This doesn't need to be a sequential process, but don't just focus on this last step as you'll miss so much of what may be influential to your work.
FYI they are covered in "man giteveryday" which is mentioned in the second paragraph of "man git"
No, it also works when non-optimal designs are very common in the market. (Not helped with the fact that especially in electronics many brands have decreased in (perceived) quality, so even if something performed well people don't necessarily trust that newer versions are too, which makes actually good brands also less sticky)
As people get richer, they can and will afford better food, including from suppliers with better reputation.

As people get richer, they also often tend to demand stricter regulation, but that doesn't necessarily mean the regulation is the driving factor.

The Chinese market for eg baby formula might be a good example. On average, baby formula consumed in China today is less dodgy than it was in the past.

A big part of that is because everyone in China who can afford to will use imported baby formula. Places like Australia haven't really changed their regulation much, but their products made up a larger share of the Chinese market over time, just because more Chinese became rich enough.

In parallel, driven by the same public sentiment that drives the import business, Chinese authorities have enacted stricter and stricter regulation for local baby formula.

In this case, consumer preference is driving a move towards higher quality. Competition from overseas suppliers is a key factor in helping consumers vote their preferences with their wallets. Regulation plays a trailing role at best.

Of course, when you look back in a few decades and compare the quality of baby formula in 1990 vs 2050 in China you will both notice an enormous increase in quality and increasingly strict regulation.

It will be very easy to spin the story that the regulation drove the increase in quality.

P.S. For a similar example, have a look at https://www.econlib.org/find-the-date-of-osha/
> I'm willing to bet that most people running Arch or Gentoo are still using quite a bit of 'Debian resources'/assets.

More like the reverse, the Arch Wiki is the best so everyone uses it. Although for some topics it makes sense to take a look at Debian or Gentoo wikis, too.

Not sure what other kind of 'Debian resources'/assets you had in mind.
Java is free but Oracle still sued. No one has a problem with ZFS, they have a problem with its owners.
Citation needed.

See what I wrote for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32373369 and also have a look at https://www.econlib.org/find-the-date-of-osha/
The recent Reason Interview with Nick Gillespie (editor at large) featuring author George Dawes Green[1] had a brief discussion about Green's publisher hiring a sensitivity reader. Green discusses his fear going into the interaction based on what he had heard from other writers and seen online. However, his reader loved his book and had thoughtful notes that he was able to use to tighten up a character and make her more believable. He come away thinking that it's a potentially useful tool if the author, publisher, and reader come into the interaction in good faith.

[1]https://reason.com/podcast/2022/08/05/george-dawes-green-why...

[*Edit] If you're into literature, or are a fan of Southern writers at all, the linked podcast episode is really worth a listen, even if you don't care for libertarians or Nick Gillespie in particular. George Dawes Green is really interesting to listen to.
this comment is so over the top I'm assuming you forgot the /s

Also a bicycle beats nature's best solutions for carrying large masses long distances and the phone I'm using has all sorts of supernatural powers.
Regarding building a custom keyboard like this: I've always been worried that custom keyboards like this, using TMK/QMK, would be detected as a hack or exploit by some anti-cheat software. Is this a reasonable concern or am I being overly cautious?
Let’s just ditch this whole “fiction” thing. It will be easier.

One can also challenge ideas. One doesn’t have to just bend over and accept intellectually unsound notions as “cultural appropriation” lying down. Respond: “like the alphabet? Foreign foods? The issue wasn’t copying Native American bread recipes, but rather killing them and stealing their land.

Am I required to eat certain foods and listen to certain music based upon my genetic heritage?

Feeding the hard right red meat is the devils work. I’m all for human rights and respect for others and not trying to presume to know how others live or think.
Identity politics is the gateway drug by which the right wing wins hearts and minds.
Drop the identity politics emphasis and support the “all sorts of humans are humans with equal rights to yourself” angle.
That’s what any humanist ideology must do in 2022
Four hundred programmers, all in the same room, tapping away intermittently at their big, loud, mechanical keyboards. Swirling about the room as some people start cranking out the code at high speed, some pause to think and debug. You can hear when the whole team is in the groove and bringing that Lines Of Code metric up, but the sound of that one person thoughtfully, slowly, refactoring, and deleting reams of now-obsolete source vanishes in the rattle.

Nobody speaks. Nobody plays music. There is just the Clacking.
I’ve recently started following a few webcomics that are phone first. I’m sure they’ve been around a while, but it was novel to me to have a story set up as a continuous downward scroll. There isn’t as much flexibility as you get with a comic spread, but there are still interesting tricks that contribute significantly to the overall feel and pacing of the story.
Which is the BS company? Pluribus or Arista?
Not only that, the split was ca. 20 years ago, from FreeBSD 4.8. They're massively different now. DragonFly also uses NetBSD's pkgsrc system (having initially used a fork of the FreeBSD ports tree), so there are significant practical userland/sysadmin differences too.
I created all of the original MGR bitmap fonts by hand - a pixel at a time. For much of its life MGR ran on monochrome (1 bit per pixel) bitmap displays, that tend to look more crisp than modern anti-aliased displays
> Where did you get this information?

About people taking puberty blockers to block normal puberty as part of hormone replacement therapy? The information is readily available, are you joking?

The other uses of these meds, ones that you are suggesting, is not what this discussion is about at all. You are being willfully ignorant of the context.
Tired of Instagram? Try Discord
We have a province called Nova Scotia up here. In its French translation, the latin gets lost and it's just literally New Scotland.
You seem to assume that businesses are some kind of mythical, omnipotent entities?

In contrast, for many of my needs, I find it relatively easy to buy high quality items even where there's a vast information asymmetry, as long as I am willing to shell out for products from companies with stellar reputations.

Granted that's neither foolproof nor applicable for every product or service. It can also get really expensive really fast.

But: given your comment, it sounds like that strategy shouldn't work at all, and even companies with ostensibly great reputations should sell me only trash?
There are services like this where you can exchange your Airpods for ones with replaced batteries! Note that I've never done it and can't vouch for the quality. I just read about it on HN once.

https://www.theswapclub.com/collections/airpod-swaps
Have you seen the runtypes library? It lets you specify your type using a syntax very similar to normal TS type syntax. It then provides parsers for that type that throws errors if the input doesn’t conform to the type. It’s very useful. If anything, the library will impress you with how well it handles arbitrary types as well as how strong the TS type system is.
Oh please. They also posted an interview with George Dawes Green[1] where he talks to Nick Gillespie (PHD in post modern literature) about his new book and has good things to say about interacting with a sensitivity reader despite his initial reluctance. Reason Magazine has a perspective but isn't just one thing. Kat Rosenfield the author of this piece has her own particular perspective, and is specifically writing about the manias of Young Adult fiction, which is notorious for moral panics and circular firing squads.

[1] https://reason.com/podcast/2022/08/05/george-dawes-green-why...
The paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/975
Ask HN: Is living in NYC worth it?
I live in SF but location flexible and considering making a move to NYC.

Biggest issue is obviously cost. I’m shocked even living in what is considered a high cost of living area by the rent prices I’m seeing in Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn. I’m seeing fairly basic 1 bedroom apartments being listed that are $5k+ not including utilities or brokers fees which can be as high as 15% of the annual rent, and most likely not rent stabilized meaning they can raise the rent however much they want after the lease ends.

Outside of rent the cost of entertainment and eating out is not surprisingly on the higher side relative to other cities though I would not say it’s as wildly expensive as the rent is.

The upside is that there’s an energy to the city that is lacking here, and you don’t need a car to get to most places within the city (though to be fair I don’t have a car in SF either).

For people who have recently considered moving or have been living there do you feel it’s worth it considering the rent/housing situation on top of everything else (food, groceries, entertainment, taxation, etc)?
> I’d recommend not picking a technology that is versionless by design if you think you’re going to need it.

I mean, I don't pick GraphQL, and this is just one small part of why.

Every place that I've ever worked that's attempted to adopt GraphQL has rapidly given it up.

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> Also I’d dispute that versioning is needed as a rule.

The IEEE once measured peoples' expectations regarding how necessary versioning was, and got a response of something on the order of 40%. There was an uproar, and a whole bunch of people on both sides of the topic tried to call bullshit.

Some middle manager somewhere sent in a letter that said approximately "how about you write a follow-up article where you bin the responses by years of experience?"

The rest of the story writes itself.
It may not be %1; if the shell says

[2]+ Stopped units

it's %2. But it's also %+, %%, and just %, which is what the "+" after the [2] means. In my case %1 is evince zhegalkin-sm7433.pdf (Running, not Stopped), which I definitely do not want to kill.

Plenty of people open a new terminal window for every new program they want to run, but I commonly have several "jobs" in the same window, stopped or even running. Less often now that monitors are bigger, but still.
I really enjoy reading your comments on HN. I found your search engine on Gemini then see you post about search engines every now and then.

You have a great ability to break things down in a way that makes sense.
Your personal attacks are noted.
I am unsure what this article is actually trying to say, given it is simultaneously trying to claim that AirPods (the only product they talk about) only live as long as their batteries before needing to be thrown out, but also acknowledges that is a completely false statement and the batteries can be replaced. It even (a rarity for this kind of "I must attack Apple over non-user-replaceable batteries" post) acknowledges that AirPods likely wouldn't be possible if the batteries were user replaceable. Non-user-replaceable batteries are a fundamental part of having remotely useable battery life in modern devices, as the connection mechanisms, and the housing changes all result in a substantial reduction in battery capacity.
Even if inflation is coming down, unless it turns negative (unlikely), prices will remain high.
Because the energy density sucks. I bought an electric weed wacker today. I was very excited to use it. But I only got through 1/5 of what I needed to before the battery died. And now I’m still waiting for it to charge. An electric tractor is great in theory, but probably compresses the soil too much due to all the battery weight and dies too early to be useful.
Ahh awesome, ok, thanks so much for the lesson. Something to read more about. Cheers.
Well... yes. The main work described in the article is a work of fiction. i.e. a work of imagination, which means the author listens to his own inner muse. The protagonist is fiction, his experiences are fiction, his story is fiction. Lies, simply, but (if we're lucky) entertaining lies. The author is under no obligation to listen to others (especially their 'truths',) and may in fact harm his work by listening to others rather than trust his own sense of story. If he's an obligation to anyone, it'll be to the buying (and reading) public who'll decide the fate of his work.
Pathetic Laugh Tracks: They make unfunny jokes somehow unfunnier
People working in epigenetics would probably disagree, moreover while some genes are highly predictive their predictive power is usually not as high as people think.
No conspiracy required.

YouTube is famous for supporting really old stuff, Netflix doesn't both quite as much.

So, I have an original iPad Air from 2013. Apple is no longer providing updates, and Netflix has long stopped working. But Youtube keeps trucking on just fine. I assume thanks to heroic and soulsucking efforts by the developers.

(I remember when I did something as trivial as working on a few web frontends once, and how I loathed supporting anything but the most recent browsers. So supporting age old devices with Youtube is probably much, much more annoying for the devs.)
You have severely painted this as something that's easily done while clearly not reading what he posted...
I never use sigwait() or sigsuspend() -- I just have signal handlers that write a byte (e.g., the signal number) into a pipe, and maybe they set a global volatile sig_atomic_t variable. DJB calls this a "self-pipe". A self-pipe turns signals into I/O events that select/poll/epoll/event ports/kqueue/io_ring/whatever can handle like any other events.

At exit time I just make sure every thread can get an event. The main thread can pthread_cond_wait() for all the other threads to exit, waiting for the count of them to fall to zero.
I think the smart thing to do now is to buy products with the fewest features as possible and has decoupled components like easily replaceable batteries. I've noticed that the dumber the device is, the longer it usually lasts. I'd rather buy an analog watch than a smartwatch. I'd rather have a dumb TV than a smart TV. I'd rather have a mouse with hot swappable batteries than one with a built-in charger.
Hazel[0] is really fascinating!

"Hazel is a live functional programming environment that is able to typecheck, manipulate, and even run incomplete programs, i.e. programs with holes. There are no meaningless editor states."

It's a programming language and IDE that's fully integrated with the semantics of the language. I saw the demo at Strange Loop in 2019[1], and it was really cool to see the interactive, dialogue-esque development workflow that I love from super dynamic lisps - but working with a strong, statically, dependently typed language. It reminded me of Idris, but even more integrated.

[0]https://hazel.org/
[1]https://www.thestrangeloop.com/2018/hazel-a-live-functional-...
I wonder if there is a market for higher end products that are truly built to last. Not so much things like cell phones (although I believe it should be mandatory that the batteries be easily replacable)... more like large appliances: refrigerators, washing machines, etc. Like, how hard would it be to separate all the little stupid useless features from the hardcore functional ones and make it so that things like control panels on washers are easy to replace when they malfunction?
> The difference here is that this is a category argument

Yes, that is the nature of legality, and not actually a problem in any way.

Let's try to simplify this without hiding behind any half-correctly used thesaurus words, shall we?

1) It's illegal for a reason

2) Things don't stop being illegal just because someone wants them

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> the harvesting of meat is currently legal is a terrible counter argument to an argument that it should be illegal

You seem to spend a lot of time presuming that someone needs a counterargument.

You haven't made a successful argument yet, and even if you did, it doesn't hold any kind of weight.

When someone explains to you why they aren't very interested in what you said, and your response is "that isn't a valid counter-argument," the net result is that they still won't be very interested in what you said, and the illegal thing remains illegal.

If you want to talk about category arguments, start here: why do you feel that commentary on social media is inherently deserving of weight, and at what point does your failure to garner interest take precedence over whatever your position may be?

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> You find the argument, personally, unconvincing.

Literally all of society does. This gets discovered every day by someone who really, really wants to explain why the law shouldn't apply to them.

Tassles on the admiralty flag, and all of that.

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> But, it doesn't make current conditions relevant to a conversations about how they ought to be.

I'm not sure why you believe your statements on your opinions of what "ought" to be should bear weight on what is nationally legal.
>The other path, to fear or avoid rejection is to prioritize destroying myself in the name of pleasing others, which is the opposite of self love.

Yes
> [...] I can only use it on the low setting (1 out of 3) because the machine (VM) is sometimes powered off and its time gets de-synced. The server is running ntpd but on this security level you're not allowed to change time by more than a second.

Have you tried configuring your NTP daemon so it would only adjust time in sub-second increments?
I’ll settle for a 6.8 liter v10 Civic Si. I’m not picky
Easily opened incognito. How do you expect articles like this to be written without ads, which this community often derides, or subscriptions?
I loved the original MX Anywhere too, but I found that iFixit offers a replacement Lipo for the MX Anywhere 3

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Logitech+MX+Anywhere+3+Battery+...

It looks approximately as difficult as changing the battery on a smartphone.

Knowing that the battery could be changed gave me the piece of mind to switch.

The battery management on the MXA 3 is really good - lasts a very long time and is quick to charge on USB-C. The Logi Bolt has been trouble-free. Changing to other devices via bluetooth is handy if you have multiple computers. The magnetic hyperscroll takes a little getting used to but uses a lot less force to switch modes.
My mice (and keyboards) need tails! Plug those in and keep them light, responsive, and secure.
Thanks for the nice explanation.
> Appeal to grossness is fallacious.

I've already said this once in this thread. Stephen Bond says it better than I can: https://laurencetennant.com/bonds/bdksucks.html
SIGSTOP cannot be caught and handled; you're thinking of SIGTSTP.

Non-interactive programs do not need any special handling for SIGINT, and that seems to be what you're talking about. The author was talking about interactive programs like irb, bc, bash, gdb, and python, all of which behave as they desire, returning you to their REPL prompt upon receipt of SIGINT. One example of an interactive program that does not have the desired behavior is GNU Units.
This is just a different imagining of the role of editor. Everyone who writes well has an editor. People really will invent reasons to be mad.
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Yea, my TV crashes with the Hi res version, but the standard works fine. Probably depends on how much RAM the TV has, though.
Sure, we have come across them within a kilometre from my home. But 99.9% of the world don't live where echidnas are, and they have very distinct anatomy and habits