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> My day becomes selecting libraries, integrating them, and testing integration.

This is why I hate modern programming.

When was the last time you had a job where you could actually learn how to actually program something? The prolifiration of libraries means that all your bosses and managers would extremely frown upon anyone handrolling a solution instead of using an existing library.

Which means the more time you spend at a regular job, the worse your brain will rot.

Just talk to any programmer at any company and you will notice that almost none of them know how to program anything. They just know how to stitch together libraries with some glue code.
try high velocity ducted ac, via heat pump. the ducts are 1.5 inch diameter flexible insulated pipes. Alternatively, ductless AC (minisplit) via heat pump. That said, whole house fan is nice.
The only thing that really concerns me about all of this is if I’m bearing the capital expense of the batteries and equipment that is being worn out by cooperative use. Can we socialize those costs?
Isn't Apple UX primarily famous for the fact that it's not particularly configurable and instead focuses on being simple and "just working?"
arch itself had a similar reputation for half-assing security etc; package signing was a big sticking point back in the day

this is a plausible consequence of “whoa what if arch infra + polish/friendliness” turning out more popular than expected. you are no longer showing the world a proof of concept; you are now a vendor, like it or not. i'm sympathetic to the associated growing pains

that said, it reinforces my belief that past a certain point, derivative distributions are just kind of uninteresting. if you are at the level where distros primarily distinguish themselves by the out-of-the-box desktop, then fair enough. if you're down here with me in the ninth circle of hell where they primarily distinguish themselves by their package manager, the response to “ok no wait guys so like, it's debian..... but it boots into enlightenment” is just “ugh”
I live less than an hour from Pine Bluff.

They have an awesome annual holiday light display, but little else that's good. Crime and Poverty seem entrenched. I wish there was some program that could bring in enough jobs and money to bootstrap a recovery, but I'm not sure such a thing exists.
Well, DUH.

Edit: saw this has already been posted, which made me say "duh" again.
Did Manjaro just forget to renew the SSL certificate?
I said nothing about how capable US manufacturing was or is. I was addressing the point that you China could hire 8000 new workers overnight.

> In WWII, the US produced 300K planes, 130 carriers, 80 tanks every day on average, increased its steel output to 80M tons in 1944 alone, more than other countries combined

At what cost? What did that labour pool stop producing in order to produce machines of war?
Yes. It is dead.
The real answer is to cultivate a team that can work on the project long term using the old tech for significant gain. Your turnover just needs to be slow enough that new developers can be ramped up properly.

I did a gig at a place that brought me (along with like 50 other people) in to transition from a server rendered PHP app to a React front-end. They'd bootstrapped to something like $300M and had just brought in a new CEO who wanted to 10x the company.

It was fucking pandemonium. Every day I saw another message on their slack along the lines of "It's my last day, I had a lot of fun working with you all the last 8 years". My team was completely useless, as far as I could tell our mandate was to basically be nazis and tell all the supposed mouthbreathing pre-historic over the hill PHP greybeards how to write "good" React code (aka unmaintainable garbage).

I have no idea how they're doing now. I don't see them mentioned much anymore. They're probably worth $30M.

If you had to bet on who could 10x your company, would you go with the guys on the ground floor that have literally bootstrapped a company to $300M off the back of their PHP tech? Or would you go with the army of hip Javascript consultants, half of them off shore?

I say this as a specialised React developer, who has been doing solely React for 2015.

There's absolutely no reason why you have to roll with the industry to every new fad. I have no intention of going anywhere when the next thing comes along. In fact, I'm waiting for all the noobs to fuck the hell off so I'm free to actually write good React code again. I bet that's probably how the PHP developers felt back when that was the fad of the decade.

If that company had backed their PHP developers in and given them enough shares to stick around, I bet they'd probably be a $3B company today. 90% of that is going to come down to the business side of things, not whether you throw away your entire engineering culture to score 20% better on some fucking render metric on a page transition or whatever.
Or UEFI, which works fine on ARM & RISC-V.
1. The usage based fee goes up or down based on the hours used. So if you use 60 hours / week, expect it to be double the estimates. In a few months, we'll be launching our "self-hosted" option that lets you avoid usage fees from us by running it on your own AWS.

2. Basically, you'll be able to keep the files synced between your local environment and your Nimbus workstations
I should probably look into this more, but I think quite often they pasteurize the product, then put approved bacteria cultures back in. Some dirt and (animal) digestive tract bacteria is fine, but some is not, so I'm not sure companies would let random stuff grow in their products even just for QA reasons. How would they give you a number of bacteria CFUs if they got in from floor dust and fecal contamination?
Needed for many other things. CPAP machines is one.
China is the one assembling parts imported from abroad or other parts also assembled there. As far as I know no high value parts are actually made in China, though I’m sure some sub components could also be assembled there.
Setting aside the fact that 100% of the air has been let out of that accusation and nobody takes it seriously anymore and that's probably dangerous, whether or not he's a Nazi, which I doubt very much that he is, is immaterial. Disinformation is basically the stock-in-trade for politicians, it is not illegal. This will likely be and certainly should be an acquittal on first amendment grounds. It is political persecution, just like Saudi Arabia imprisoning someone advocating for women's rights.

How people don't see where this kind of thing is leading is beyond me.
Enterprises have different priorities from individual users who use Linux as a "daily driver". The last thing they would like to see is an upgrade disrupting their production, and many of them postpone upgrades unless required to. Enterprise Linux are expected to be predicable and companies like version numbers and golden images, and obviously a rolling release is not good at this. In short, Linux used by enterprises are treated as cattle that require minimum attention, but rolling release distros are like pets, which certainly are more delicate and fancy but at the same time require a lot more effort to care for.

There is no better or worse either way. Each distro has its own target audience. Arch is good as a personal work horse, but to charge money from enterprise users, LTS releases are needed.
Do projects like these ever survive? Right now the “hot” thing in the world of reverse engineering large scale proprietary corporate platforms is RayvnOS.
> My downloads do get the upload date written into the video's metadata so I have that if I ever need it.

How do you do it
An authoritarian, nuclear armed government that is bent on expansionism by flaunting the established global rule of law and that is likely to start a world war over Taiwan? No, I don't think that's a worthwhile tradeoff.
In general, after a nuclear plant is shut down, it has to be kept off for a few days to let Xe-135 completely decay. Quoting from Wikipedia [1] " After about 3 days of shutdown, the core can be assumed to be free of 135Xe, without it introducing errors into the reactivity calculations"

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iodine_pit#Fission_products_de...
Well, I've seen this before, and I think this is misguided.

I wish them good luck with their effort.
Just had my HP PageWide 477dw refuse to use non-HP refills. It is the last HP printer I'll ever buy.
The risk has always been there with this kind of attack. The severity, as always, depends on the attackers' modus operandi. Nothing has changed. Only the tools which are dropped onto the machine have changed - which really isn't specifically relevant to this kind of attack. (Spy|Mal)ware adapts, as it always will. Harvesting saved browser passwords is nothing new. In this case, it's a marketing gimmick.

It's fun that it is customisable via a programming language. But really - this doesn't add anything new to the table at all. I bet you could do all of this with the previous generation of rubber duckies with a little bit of know-how. Drop a basic reverse shell (providing no firewall restrictions or whatever), and you can do what you want.

The same prevention guidelines apply as always. Don't plug random USB devices into your computer.
> I've checked their website [1] and it says that the fallback includes bug fixes during the period you've paid for.

It said bug fix updates. Many bug fixes are in feature updates.
What about Facebook's onion domain?

https://facebookcorewwwi.onion/

This seems to be human meaningful, secure, and decentralized.

https://m.facebook.com/nt/screen/?params=%7B%22note_id%22%3A...
They don't do water to whiskey anymore, the new version is called "uisge". I believe the primary difference is that they don't take you out to dig peat on the new tour (because all the peat is dug mechanically now).

Still a nice day out with a picnic by the water source, as long as weather cooperates.
I've tried the one on my dad's car but it's pretty crap.
Don't worry those days are still here. Video game coders have to contend with 8 year old console hardware. And I predict this will seep into all aspects of programming as Moores law continues to arrest.
China's economy is in trouble. They've had a few property developers running Ponzi schemes and it's led to small bank runs. The government is propping things up and have massive reserves but it's not a good sign.
>Manjaro is just not a very good distribution

Uh, excuse me? It's user-friendly Arch; i.e., the best distribution.

>their security awareness is wanting

Admittedly, I don't know what this refers to or compared to what distro.

EDIT: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32503090 Ah, lol.

Anecdata for my weak defense: I used Manjaro for years, and none of the problems there affected me.
Let’s take a simple example I buy a plane ticket on January 1st with my credit card for $100 for a flight on March 15th. I paid my credit card bill on February 15th.

I simplistic view would be I spent $100 on January 1st.

Using double entry accounting I can track what is actually happening in that transaction,

1. I buy the ticket w/credit card (CC lent me $100 for an asset (plane ticket) = (cash +100, liabilities +100, assets +100, cash -100)
2. I pay my credit card bill (cash -100, liabilities -100)
3. I take my flight (+100 expense, -100 net worth)

Steps one and two I have yet to incur an expense, cash is changing hands and the composition of my balance sheet is changing, step three I actually incur an expense. That’s the beauty.
You are correct in that Nixpacks uses the languages own package manager instead of installing all dependencies with Nix using tools like node2nix, cargo2nix, or poetry2nix. This was a choice as the main problems Nixpacks aims to solve are with system dependencies and getting an environment where your app can install and build with as little configuration as possible. While continuing to use the same tooling that app authors are likely using locally (e.g. npm, pip, cargo). We have found that nixifying all possible deps often creates situations where the app author must know that Nix is being used under the hood and modify their app accordingly. Nothing against these tools, but using them didn't provide the experience we set out to have. If a user of Nixpacks wants to override the install command to `do_something && npm install`, they should be able to without worrying about how it affects the Nix store.

However, any Nix package can be installed, including from python-packages.nix, and we are planning on allowing more Nix config and customization in the future.
Great to see this kind of pleasant discourse on HN!
House passes bill that DoD software can’t have any CVEs
Who do you think is the we here? Because usually the we that is complaining about it are those American factory workers.
Thanks for the text highlight link...

so, one by one:

1. Not my own stuff

2. Not soliciting upvotes

3. Am kind, just busy so i don't have time to summarize for you the paper that you can just as well read yourself. In fact, it has an abstract, which is a summary, right up front.
We've come so far in so little time and people like to keep puting progress down.
Not taking a position one way or the other, but I think it’s really more accurate to describe that she is phobic to the redefinition of historically established words with definitions that describe people who have certain sexual organs.
> versus just faking an output of a machine and then faking unobserved stacks of paper

If you bothered to follow the link, you would see that most states require voters to review and sign their ballots.

Again, even if you tried to sneak a small amount of fraud into the system, would no one catch it?
yet crypto meets Howeys Test in every sense of the word. Is calling a security different names like Token or Crypto protect it from the same security laws from being applied? You wouldn't wash trade your own company's stock would you?

technicalities aside, what they are engaging as a company is highly unethical
So even you can't pay a rent deposit, pay university tuition or let alone large items like a car
Agreed, look at how optimistic he was at the time of his rocket science endeavors.
iOS has no native wireguard support
> If consumers had to push payment every month or year to continue subscriptions (instead of having it automatically debited), then churn rates would skyrocket and modern SaaS multiples would crash - taking company valuations with it.

Reeeeally now. You don't say?

What a wonderful world that would be.
Now do the same for contact lenses. Or at least make it so a prescription is good for more than a year.
21e8 fixes this
My understanding was you can hurt yourself if they are set wrong
Authorizer made it to Alternativeto: https://alternativeto.net/software/authorizer-authentication...

Give it a heart, add some supporting comments, and recommend it as an alternative
99% chance the people complaining about labor conditions are doing so on a made in China phone.

Let’s be honest, people complaining about labor conditions have a pretty weak understanding of economics and what is actually going on with regards to these factories. China isn’t stupid. They weaken their currency specifically to bring in the cheap labor jobs to lift the poorest to a slightly less poor tier. Unless you realize how poor they started out with it’s hard to appreciate the gains in wealth even if it still looks dirt poor to an armchair labor rights activist.
Different private utilities and PUDs act differently.

There is one PUD here in the Puget Sound region that all the electricians groan about, as their lineman often attempt to go well beyond what their authority permits, claiming everything needs to be brought up to code in like for like swaps, which is truly a beyond the pail demand.
> is there any individual or group out there that knows enough about AOSP to take it over?

Probably downstream vendors like Samsung have the technical capabilities. I seriously doubt that they'd be interested in continuing an open source project for wider use, but just maintaining their own fork would be totally doable.
The question posed is can the visa-mastercard duopoly be broken. The answer is no.

Like all entrenched systems, the only way beyond them is to circumvent them. Circumventing the financial system is what bitcoin did.

So no, you can't solve it, but you don't need to.
> If consumers had to push payment every month or year to continue subscriptions (instead of having it automatically debited), then churn rates would skyrocket and modern SaaS multiples would crash - taking company valuations with it.

Disliking wallet-draining, hard-to-cancel subscriptions, I'm not entirely opposed to this scenario.
An enlightening book I read on this topic is "False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet" by Bjorn Lomborg.

The book explores the cost of: doing nothing to fight climate change vs doing everything to fight climate change vs doing something in the middle that optimizes global GDP (the book uses GDP as a "human welfare" metric).

My biggest take away from the book is that regardless of global temperature increases through the end of the century, global GDP is still projected to grow A TON. But because of the temperature increase, global GCP will grow _slightly_ less (like a few % less) that it otherwise would have. The wrong policies could cost GDP growth more than the temperature increase will.
More Compass layoffs to come by October
We are in a similar situation!

To help with this, we had a second Tesla battery installed!

Although, sadly, in South Australia, Electricity is charge at a flat rate, day or night!
How about Discover? Also American Express, as mentioned in other comments.
'Escaping the state' is grossly unfair to most of beautiful Arkansas.

I've lived in 8 states and think the Natural State compares well. (Especially NW Arkansas, which is wildly developing yet still home to world class biking, hiking and outdoor life.)
most power emergencies are quite short, and are especially short if there is a sufficient demand response
I hope this opens the door for AirPods to be able to function as hearing aides.
The big change is geopolitical. The US and Vietnam are on good terms.
Blockchain is an obvious counterexample
HN is full of interesting things. But not this one. Skip it. Save your time.
Preach. I have a property zoned for 14 units, the entire ground floor will be parking in order to build that many.
So a credit card is doable, but a credit account is beyong the capabilities of human civilisation. Its like breaking the light barrier
Pshhh, we all know turtles would never oppress people. Gödel, Escher, and Bach, though, would be an Eternal Golden Braid.
Exactly. More broadly, the stock market has less "social benefit" than crypto; it's just a glorified way for people to gamble/invest in things loosely tied to economic performance.

Personally I think real estate a an "investment market" is doing much more harm to society than anything else right now
Reminds me of the The Very Slow Time Machine (https://www.fantasticfiction.com/w/ian-watson/very-slow-time... )
At the moment. FedNow (new instant payment rails) limits will be $25k to start, negating the issue of low Zelle limits. Progress will arrive.
PayNow (NETS) works with ~5 banks and is effective within a place as large as major city. Hardly an analog.
I feel a little silly admitting this (which itself is silly because I can understand how ridiculous it was, now that I'm older), but I remember when I was a kid and I used to innocently sing along whenever I felt like it. My sister was a fantastic singer; she was an opera trained soprano and, as kids, in comparison, I was nothing special.

I think back to a time where my mom heard me singing, thought it was off-key, then mocked me by singing back what I had sung in an exaggerated tone. Mortified, I thought that maybe I just wasn't the one who had inherited the musical talent in the family. I realized that my mom's reaction was a shortcoming of her own and I as a 7 year old just happened to be in the way.

As time went on, I realized I did have a passion for music; I started writing it, I studied it in college, I even started taking voice lessons. But I fell off when I started my career and have never picked it back up again. I imagine that, much like going to the gym (or getting a personal trainer), it's something you can make progress on at any age although as you get older, it can take different approaches to make progress.

Is this correct?
I don’t think it’s accurate to say they are bent on expansion, but whether it’s worth it is more up to those 1 billion people to decide their fate and tradeoffs rather than foreign intervention. Oh and, due to China’s history of negative foreign interventions I doubt the population will take kindly to it now.
I was under the impression that the non-reversible nature of wire transfers, especially to banks in other countries, is why they are a preferred payment method for scammers.
You can, but that's true of many things, including hearing aids.

The current expensive and very slow process getting a machine has some, but very little, to do with safety.
> Ammonia can be synthesized electrically from water and air by a cheaper and lower-volume process than is used today to make it from air and NG.

This is news to me. Can it be done with a catalyst as abundant as nickel, or is it only platinum group or similar? Does it happen in conditions as easy to make as a sabatier reactor (or even better, one of the nickel catalysed methane reactions)?

Edit: Just found the magic words Barium Zirconate proton conductor. I think it works out to $130/MWh (including hydrogen?) https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2021-08/12-proton... and seems to apply to fuel cells as well. This basically obviates nuclear, and is only a factor of four (three with unwanted solar power?) off of replacing many fossil fuels if true. Why isn't it getting more attention? This is far more important than fusion.

> But ammonia is not suitable for home use because of its toxicity. Methane is not, either, because it needs reliable cryogenic refrigeration, or extreme pressure. Likewise, probably, hydrogen.

Methane stores okay in stationary pressurized metal vessels at densities on the order of 1MWh/m^3 or about 5x as much as lpg albeit with a more expensive high pressure tank. This is bulky, but viable to store behind the garage or underground or similar. It's harder to make into electricity though without 70% losses. Hydrogen doesn't really pass this test as it's about 5x again (there's probably enough room for many uses even if people need 50m^3, but a 300bar tank that won't embrittle is far too expensive).

Small (<1kg) retail metal hydride containers are currently about the price of retail batteries by the one shop I found ($8-9k for 3000L). Given it's an extremely niche industry without the benefits of mass production, I see this as very weak evidence for rather than against the hypothesis that a 20 price reduction in 10 years if you want 20x the storage is as plausible as the other things we're talking about.
I wonder if non-prescription hearing aid use will become a thing. Especially with active noise canceling/selection tech, it seems like something with broad usecases that would be beneficial even to people without hearing difficulties. I'd love to have smart super-hearing devices, aural AR, noise filtering and speech enhancement, replay/rewind capability etc. There is a lot of potential in this area!
I hope we really are learning from our past mistakes. The US tries to stop all kinds of foods from crossing the border including fruits and vegetables because of what other problems they might bring. I don't have any problem with the bologna being included. Seems like there's a market for it though, so local sources should increase and grow more popular.
You can get a mixing valve that's installed at the heater. Very easy, then turn the heater up really high, they are only like $15-20 and will effectively double or triple your hot water capacity.