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Make better decisions with fewer online meetings
Hi! I am the cofounder TopAgree. We have created TopAgree to help teams make faster decisions with fewer meetings. My friend Linus and I are developing it together because we often don't make the important decisions until the last five minutes of a meeting. And then, unfortunately, we often make the wrong decisions. I have a big request for you: Please comment when you like to test the product and give us feedback. Thanks so much! Kind regards, Bastian
I think I'd pay money to never let my children exposed to the YT recommendation algorithm. Very interesting new features.
as someone who's spent ages reading books before ebooks were a thing and before LCD technology became popular, I'm quite the opposite - I can't be happy enough about LCD technolgy being around, especially if compared to an old yellowed book that's been printed off the same plates for 20 years and which you're reading in an only moderately well lit room. although LED technology again helps here because all that books-before-LCD experience comes from the days of incandescent light bulbs and nascent "energy saving" fluorescent compacts with edison screw.
You dont want to chop a tree in winter... it takes some time to prep and dry wood for heat generation.

Wet and living wood is next to useless in the moment
I think this is very relevant to many people I’ve known who try to start their own business. A successful business is a reality test.

You can’t profit if your customers all live in your fantasies. If you create products for those imaginary people, no one will buy them and you will fail. That’s why product-market fit is the #1 advice given to entrepreneurs. It recognizes that you will need to leave behind your own ideas of what you should build and who your should build it for, which are probably made out of a lifetime of TV and Social Media bullshit and actually take stock of the real world, the real people in it and what they will pay real money for.

Sadly, quite a few people I know were able to run their fantasy business all the way to the poor house.
In practical terms I haven't seen any ads on Chrome so the blocking experience seems good enough. If you care about privacy Firefox definitely seems better.
I find go's package system both too cumbersome for small/quick projects, and yet leaving me wanting in more complex scenarios. It's gotten better of the years, but I never really enjoy my encounters with go-mods
Wealth. Money is a form of wealth. So are any apples, gold, property or other possessions. But the term is wealth.
Persons who self identify as having the capacity for pregnancy manage to book flights and get to the airport on their own routinely.

I really don't understand why people making the case you need to be a criminal mastermind to circumvent this law think that is credible.
Here's how much energy crypto mining gobbles up in the US
I guess the tech is further along than I thought!
Getting rich isn't that hard. Just be born in America or Europe, most careers will afford a comfortable lifestyle. If you want to be richer than that, study engineering or business. Your average businessman does math at the 8th grade level.

Getting famous also isn't that hard. Do something funny or creative and post it on TikTok, it's not that hard to get a video with 1e5 or 1e6 views. Hell, you can post cute videos of your pet and get 1e6 views.
Give her a Windows laptop.
There is a huge difference running on VMs that you have zero access to, and actually owning your own VM infrastructure. Yes AWS Lambda runs on Firecracker, however, it could as well running on a FireCheese VM platform and you would be none the wiser, unless AWS publishes this somewhere.

I am also not running on Kubernetes, because Kubernetes. AWS ECS and AWS Batch also only handle containerised applications. Even when deploying on EC2 I tend to use containers, as it ensures they keep working consistently if you apply patches to your EC2 environment.
> all money is very literally, nothing more, nothing less than debt.

There was a time when a whole lot of money was literally in the form of gold and silver coins. Explain to me how a physical gold coin in my hand is literally debt?

Explain to me how bitcoin is literally debt?

And, you don't get to claim that those are exceptions. You said that all money is literally debt. I'm pretty sure that claim is simply false.
You seem to have ignored my comment?

I'm not really sure where $4 in 2002 came from.
> No. Maybe crack open an introductory textbook to abstract algebra

Sources please! '+' is used as the standard operator for abelian groups.
So, even without a profit motive, what do you do?

I think there are two options here:

1. If the community that you have does a "foom" and grows like crazy BEFORE it has a set of values, then you're at the whims of the mob and where certain vocal and rallying members decide they want to take the community. Usually this ends in internecine conflict and the inevitable "break offs" into other smaller groups

2. If your community starts with a value vector then you structure, nudge and contain the community to a MDP (Markov Decision Process) with the value vector as the reward, for which the moderators are the critics and the community members are the actors in the actor-critic model.

It seems like the vast majority of organizations/movements etc... fall into category 1

For me the learning here is, if you are a leader in your community it's never too early to nail down what the core value and benefit of your community is and stay obsessed with just that.
What Is Creativity?
I agree with the sibling: go dependencies generally work exactly they way I want them to, and I find it very refreshing relative to other ecosystems.

My guess is that folks coming from those other ecosystems are frustrated that it doesn't work exactly like NPM, which is the general model other ecosystems have decided to follow, despite it being unstable and insecure by design.

Internally, we use a build tool called Please that is very similar to Bazel. We have some internal tooling to automate the generation of third-party dependency boilerplate needed by the build tool. The go dependency tooling actually made this reasonably straightforward and super efficient to accomplish relative to other dependency managemers. If you are in a setup where you aren't working with multiple languages or complex builds, and can just use the raw go tooling to build... the story is even easier.

Would be interesting to hear of specific pain points that others face.
You just gave me flashbacks of the 3000+ lines .phtml files I was working on a few years back, definitely not the most pleasant experience I had as a developer.
> It hits at my major quip with Go: that I do not trust it's governance structure.

I normally don't hold back against corporate projects and especially Google's list of forgotten or mismanaged ones. However, I've always felt Go has been doing well, compared to other languages. Older languages painted themselves into a corner (Python, C++) and newer ones (no names mentioned) already struggle with painful design-by-commitee compromises and identity crises.

Every year or so I check in to see what's new in Go, and I'm mostly pleasantly surprised. They're addressing long standing feature requests, add meaningfully to the std lib, and tools get a lot of love as well. Sure, things are incredibly slow sometimes, but long term stability of a global and mature language is one of the hardest things to maintain and grow safely. They also don't leave users hanging with gaping ecosystem holes anymore (anyone remember the pre-go mod days and GOPATH hell?), when other languages throw their hands up and say "HTTP isn't our responsibility, that's a 3p issue" or "it's not our fault people misuse our language features, it's devs that are stupid".
Shh. We're supposed to pretend that no one wanted tvs, just like we pretend that what people wanted were faster horses, rather than to be relieved of the effort of caring for a horse. Get it? The users are dumb.
Charles Petzold is a God of technical documentation. His "Programming Windows" is a masterpiece of clarity and exposition. Also was the foundation of my 27-year old company.

I wish he would write a book on TCP/IP and Internet Protocols.
No. In politics, might makes right. Like it or not, US is a superpower, and Russia isn't. No reason to use "equal rules" here.
Azure and Digital Ocean allowed nested virt as well!
> Also, you don't promote people for non-valuable rewriting of stuff.

You do once it is organizationally perceived as "modernization". Speaking from experience as I been on both ends of this (getting promoted for rewrites which in retrospect were ego-driven as well as seeing others getting promoted even though nobody asked for their rewrite)
How does this differ from numba?
Pointless indeed

The only scenario I can think of where I'd probably like flat more is a screen in portrait orientation
Is this right? Experts in software like Jest and Storybook think an hour of specialized consulting in the software is worth only $116? There's definitely a market opportunity if this is true, but it seems too good.

I do think there's a challenge in that... as a developer, paying $58 for half an hour that may save me 8 hours is a no-brainer, but this feels like a difficult thing to ask "the boss" to pay for. It gives off Fiverr vibes, and usually there's much more ceremony around billing contractors/consultants.

But if you pitch this to big business needing big support (a context in which this feels like a stupidly good deal), it may also drive up the price by changing the expectation from the ringers as to what they are providing.

I'm rambling, I know... I wish you luck. I'm definitely watching this space. It seems like you've found a definite potential market, but I think it's going to be hard to capture it.
According to info on the site:

https://www.idrogenoverde.it/faq/

the thingy is not perpetual motion (though possibly very, very efficient), as it does consume "fuel", approximately (every 6 months):

1) 20 liters of distilled water

2) 1 litre of bio-ethanol

Still according to the site, there is a maintenance fee of around 600 Euro (every 6 months) that includes the supply of the above fuels.

It is seemingly "always connected" (to the internet) and incorporates a "siren" to warn the customer that there is no connection to the internet[1].

In any case it is at the moment "future ware" in the sense that there are no news of any of these devices having been actually built and installed yet, here and there you can find some info that they are "nearly ready for production", but AFAIK it is 3-4 years that this is said, moving the "target" by a few months in the future.

[1] what?
There's also the "to/from more conveniently located airports, bringing family pets along, having private conversations among the pax, having exactly the catering you wanted" perks, apparently. I've not had the pleasure to fly "private" yet so I wouldn't know. :)
Lifted from Wikipedia:

"[H]is mother had given the church about 100 million yen (US$720,000), a parcel of land she had inherited from her father, and the house where she lived with her three children; she subsequently declared bankruptcy in 2002. She had continued donating to the church following the bankruptcy. A male relative later recalled being contacted by Yamagami and his siblings to complain that they had no food at home, prompting the relative to deliver meals and money for living expenses. [..] Yamagami's older brother, who had a longtime struggle with cancer, was not able to afford medical treatment; he died by suicide in 2015."

To me, that sounds quite a bit worse than your average Christian church.

There are certainly some predatory Christian hucksters out there; people
like Kenneth "I need my private jet to spread the gospel" Copeland spring to mind, but there are many more (as well as many more abusive ones). Religion is often a comparatively "easy" target for abuse.

However, the religion of Christianity as a whole isn't centred around the concept of "send me your money". I think that's the main difference: is the religion as a whole primarily centred around abuse, or is it just various groups within the religion that operate like that?

There are plenty of cults within Christianity, but Christianity as a whole?

I'm sure there are more formal and academic descriptions, and things can become a bit tricky around the edges for sure, but I find "is it primarily centred around abuse of its members?" to be a reasonably workable every-day distinction.
There are a great deal more people who think they're trying to become extremely rich, but aren't, than there are people who, for example, think they're trying to become extremely good at violin, but aren't.

It's not a retrospective difference, one good way to spot the poseurs: they aren't violently allergic to spending money in a way that doesn't get them more, or at least make that possible. That's table stakes for trying; I don't have the allergy, but I don't fool myself about it either.
Linux has been around for 30 years and still has not acquired any significant consumer share.

Yet you've decided that the best solution for her is an OS that requires debugging miscellaneous hardware and driver issues and runs a mishmash of software with no consistent UI language.

As opposed to MacOS and Windows which just work, used throughout the world on a daily basis by the majority of the world, and have tangible results in terms of productivity benefit.

Honestly I think there are bigger underlying issues here, like listening to your partner and understanding their needs instead of forcing your opinion on someone who doesn't want it.
Isn't className custom DSL in React?

Vue's concepts in the v-* are more pleasant than the React way, imho. Learning a bit of DAL is not a blocker for me, given how many tools already require this
> I am trying to move her away from Windows

Maybe you need relationship advice instead of tech advice

get her the best windows laptop you can afford, make sure it's secured properly with updates and such and that it "just works"

you get inherit the old laptop, put an ssd on it and install whatever linux flavor you want

everyone is happy
Bigger is better only if it gives you a better ratio of capital expense to output. Due to the magnetic scaling I mentioned, SPARC/ARC probably does significantly better on that front.
Ultimately it'll come down to the experience - if uBlock stops blocking some percentage of ads (because it's impossible under the extension), or triggers ad-blocker-blocker type stuff, I would be very quickly be moving to Firefox!

Either way, very thankful to the developers and community for making our web browsing experience so much better.
This is so corpo-double-speaky that I'm almost worried it's satire going over my head.
If you need new code you write today to run on 20 year old systems, don't use the newer features. Perl 5.36 is backwards compatible to code written for Perl 5.6 after all. If you need 20 year old code to run on new machines, the same thing occurs - you hand it to a recent Perl 5 and it works. Compare and contrast the last 20 years of PHP or Python.
Only if you're way too close.
I live in Dresden and can’t remember exactly what when the last time my ticket was checked in the bus or tram. IIRC last time was July and I ride the tram and bus daily

But I always have my ticket with me; as another mentioned, there are undercover control checks that will surprise you
Sounds kind of like the old psyco, but with GPU support.
Reviews are not representative.

You want to look for new reviews (fake reviewers are active in waves, only for as long as they are paid), even if they are bad, read them and see what people dislike.

The only way to warn others without risking your account is by posting a reasonably high rating and a seemingly positive review that obscures how horrible the place is.

"Convenient if you drive a car, otherwise you'll want to rely on cabs since walking one way might take 30+ minutes. Lovely staff, make sure to ask about reception hours since they may not always be as advertised. Perfect bed if you like a hard mattress and aren't too tall (say less than 6 ft). Got a bit itchy in the morning, probably my skin allergies. Some roach sightings but they are everywhere in this price range right?"

This will stand out among all the paid 5 star reviews with two words and three grammatical errors.
I would think otherwise, actually. Go seems to be the most popular choice at startups—anecdotally, of course. I have no data to back this, just what I’ve seen.
You do realise that to Russia EU is still a more beneficial customer than India or China?

Sure, would be nice if they also officially joined, but complaining this way about their current choice is hypocrisy.
If I'm reading your feedback correctly it sounds like you want:

1) Syntactic sugar for if err != nil { return err }; similar to ? in Rust

2) The errcheck linter to be enforced (part of go vet, maybe?)

3) Exhaustive switch statements

The first point was looked at and no one has proposed a solution enough of the community could agree was an improvement while maintaining sufficient explicitness. If someone has a really good proposal for this I am sure it would be considered.

The second point could probably happen with enough lobbying. So, verbosity is still there but at least every project will do something with their errors.

The third point I don't believe is possible today because of the way interfaces work. If Go added sum types then this should be possible, but I could be mistaken about that.
Sort of, the pledge includes a “One nation under God” bit but few take it in a religious context.
Sure, low expectations may contribute, but Norway also has the world's largest sovereign wealth fund, with a value of US$1 trillion, effectively investing US$184,322.62 for each and every Norwegian citizen. That can't hurt, and it is maddening that the US entirely lacks a sovereign wealth fund for its citizens. Come on.
> The third link is also from a heavily biased source.

Say what you mean.
ahahah i remember having 4 buttons on a drawer that pulled out to display 4 tiny plastic potentiometers that you had to turn if you wanted to check out any of the other channels once there were any - and yeah, you're right. god no

but i guess it's nice for laptops and stuff
> then why apply for the job?

Opportunism perhaps? "...once they fire all these annoying legacy senior people we can redo everything..." As well as going down in the level of the joint (going from an A-league startup to a B-league startup) in the hope of more authority and ability to determine the choice of tech?
As a recruiter, which languages seemed the most valuable to startups?
Unpaywalled version:
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcontent%2...
Thank you! Wasn't easy to put everything in place :D
Show HN: I started a Twitter account to predict late Caltrain trains
Mine is just a little nodejs app with DynamoDB backend.

As it turns out, Caltrain was already negotiating contracts with a company called SimplifyTransit to do the same thing.

https://twitter.com/caltrainalerts/status/156787824427128013...

Happy to shake things up and provide Caltrain riders with options!
There's some discussion of that, but more on the user-facing side, not the in-house networks (which are also a feature of universities, government agencies, etc.).

> "Meanwhile, we have these big technology firms, that control the hardware, the software, and they run their own kangaroo courts that decide who wins and who loses. And there’s no way to appeal that or to have any insights from what they are doing, because they are encrypting what they are doing and hiding it from end users, while simultaneously moving more and more stuff to their control points"

> "This means 1) they have these kangaroo courts and 2) they’re moving more and more control to these kangaroo courts."

That's more about access to their public platforms (things like blocking some users, shaddow banning, algorithmic recommendation manipulation, etc.).

However, corporations aren't yet governments, although there are some indications that 'company towns' are becoming a thing, as they were in the early 20th century, where a company would own every house in a city and could evict anyone they didn't like, essentially becoming a de facto authoritarian government. In that case, banning someone from their private:w network would mean they had no access to any network.
Hmm. That is a good question. Upon reflection it is more about me than her. I went out of my way to not let her laptop or my PC back then upgrade to Win10. I do have strong views on telemetry and any new Windows laptop will likely not listen to me when I ask it not to do things I don't want done ( which seems to be a common issue with software these days ).

The benefit for her is the same as the benefit for me. I would like to keep as much of my life as private as possible. I am not sure bare Windows is the best way to achieve that goal ( even if she does not think it is relevant, her disregard for privacy considerations kinda forces me to put some blocks in place ). In case you are wondering, we have discussed privacy implications, but I am learning to pick my hills carefully.

Out of the two evils, I would sooner do Windows ( because then at least I can gut it ). I wouldn't be able to do it Chromebook. Separately, she already said no to Macbook ( so at least she is consistent - no OS change ).
how does this compare to a normal JIT compiled language? Hacking on performance to Python seems really brittle
It's a pity that there is few progress in http3 or support for Linux KTLS.
Fractional reserve banking isn’t how money is created, and loans are not made on deposits. That’s an outdated theory.

Money is created simply by banks making a ledger entry (an asset and a balancing liability). Nothing more needed.

Wish I had a great paper for you on this, I have seen some but blanking at the moment. Maybe a likeminded HN colleague can help out

Edit: here is a decent start https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
> recently made discoverable by Google Books, which we subsequently made machine-readable

You might say "WTF? Google Books already made it machine-readable. "

The problem, as you'll discover here;

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-t...

is legal and political. Google has it in digital form, but they can't give it to you, sell it to you, show it to you, or do anything else with it. So the researchers had to re-digitize it. Or maybe ("The Google Books team brought the USDA dataset online.") the researchers had some special help from Google.
Software Evolution Library – Lisp library for software analysis
I would love to see some in-depth discussion about this. Even in 2022, I don't think it's clear what we want error handling to look like. You can ask for correctness guarantees from the compiler, but it's easy to ask, it's harder to design a system that actually works.

> The lack of exhaustive switch case statements makes this worse because the compiler doesn't care if you're handling all the expected error types (or unexpected ones).

I would love to see how this is supposed to work.

My first thought here is checked exceptions in Java. With checked exceptions, you have a specific set of exceptions that a function is supposed to generate, and a compile-time error if those exceptions are not either handled or propagated. This turned out to be a bit of a disaster in actual practice, and I'm not sure what the fix would look like here.

I'm generally a bit miserable when I try to deal with error handling in Rust, believe it or not.

As for the err != nil boilerplate, I've seen some proposals but I haven't seen anything that was clearly a good proposal. The generics proposal was clearly good, IMO, just for a point of reference.