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The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment effectively read themselves. They can't be put down. Only with exceptional discipline and great difficulty could one "take it slow," and stop for note-taking. I don't know who reads novels like that. Reading them, time stops, and you return to your life about a week later. Notes From Underground isn't easy, but it is short. The Idiot and The Possessed (Demons, The Devils), if even 100 pages can be completed, are impossible to finish. I am unaware of anyone who has read Dostoyevski's first three novels, The Village of Stepanchikovo, Humilated and Insulted, or The House of the Dead, so the assumption is they are either illegible or inscrutable, the result being they can't be read.
A perhaps not so unpopular opinion is that it would be better to read the article before you comment on it. Despite the title, the article is not about mulling over what title to call yourself.
Gaming on iOS is practically dead. No one wants to pay anything, so about all that gets made is freemium junk full of ads and IAPs. The glory days of amazing iPhone games is gone.

Apple Arcade is helping, but it’s never going to turn the tide. It’s a last bastion with a few games.

Port a recent game, sell it for $10, watch nothing happen. There are a few great ports out there (I just replayed SotN) but I doubt they make their cost back.

Consumable IAPs ruined everything.
The hardware is great for developing games, but the software experience is so cumbersome that it makes sense why game devs don't port to Apple Silicon:

- You need to port to ARM (not that bad, but now you're debugging two versions and increasing your dependency graph)

- You need to distribute on MacOS/iPad (not insurmountable, but kowtowing to Apple's ever-changing demands is a different game than jumping through Sony/Nintendo's hoops)

- You need to port to Metal (pretty hard, requires Mac-specific developers and a separate dev branch)

Of course, there are still devs who spend the extra time to make Mac-native games (Factorio and Rimworld), but compared to targeting Linux/Windows the effort doesn't make sense. For Apple to make their platform an attractive gaming platform, they can either a. Allow sideloading < or > b. Welcome third-party graphics APIs to Apple Silicon. Unless they sweeten the deal though, I doubt we'll see many AAA ports in the future.
I think a more accurate title would be "Numerous organizations succumb to social engineering and unknowingly install compromised open source apps". "Hacked", to me, indicates that someone has compromised an insecure and poorly installed service or exploited some bug in the software.
Over the last week I’ve been wanting to use Steampipe for DevSecOps by layering Sliderule.io on top. Do you have any customers doing this or something like it already? I am going to give it a try tomorrow and take it up with our Sliderule contacts on Monday.
Apple are largely the ones who pushed down the ASP to begin with. I think my reflection of mobile games before I gave up on the whole market was similar to you, but the platforms are pretty much happy profiting off the stream of gacha transactions more than the bursty hits of AAA games.
Congrats! It's a great feeling to get that first internet money for a thing you conjured up from the aether with your mind!
few more:

- https://www.frontendpractice.com/
- https://www.codewell.cc/
- https://cssbattle.dev/

my full list https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy
Testdisk is great when you need to recover a whole partition, but not nearly as capable and advanced when it comes to recovering deleted files.

You'll do much better with purpose-build Windows undelete utilities. I've had good luck with freeundelete:

https://www.officerecovery.com/freeundelete/
I think the future is much shorter range out of the box, but you slide a supplemental battery when you need extra range.

(This applies to cars too: would love to have a battery pack that slides out for the lawnmower/snowblower/chainsaw and then recharges in the car and gives extra miles of range when needed).

There are some shared electrified scooters in Taiwan where you slide in and out battery packs from something like a vending machine.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yGwmPcClWrE
I asked a number of people I know recently who were high performers and to a man they said they used pencil and paper.
Thanks, I had skimmed the article looking only for evidence that it had been voted for in the senate as well. That is an interesting wrinkle in how they addressed this.
Magma, a new storage engine for Couchbase
Wow, that's way too subtle. Explorer should say something scary when you try to move files into that area from another part of the disk.
I've been running into this since the 00s.
Bingo. The most effective PMs / designers / managers I've worked with as a software engineer spent their energy learning high level technical limitations. What's order-of-magnitude easier; what's harder.

It's difficult to learn because it's experience-based listening and intuiting, without any books that I know of, but it provided a greater boost to team productivity than their learning nuts-and-bolts details.
Perhaps you should read the article before deciding to comment.
I wonder if men just have a different perceived utility from these changes of status. Maybe men only want to do something if they think it might take them from 30th percentile to the 99th percentile, but aren't interested in something that is guaranteed take them from 30th percentile to 60th percentile.
London doesn't work for cars. I endearingly call central london and m25 the biggest open space parking lots in the world
Reading this article I'm once again struck by how, as with so many problems in the U.S. is so rare to look outside their borders to learn from what is working in other countries.

Americans seem to have an almost pathological blindness to seeking out the experience of other countries.
This fits well to the gaps and oddities in the user experience; I think I am actually “on record” saying to my fiancee that this or that issue must be because they’re munging the product to fit FDA regulations. In letter, not spirit.

(Thank you.)
Isn’t this what windows does?
Immich (https://www.immich.app/) is still under heavy development, but looks like it will hit most of those requirements (but not automatic album generation).
Good point, and I honestly struggle with reconciling it and what I said earlier. Because on a fundamental level, I agree with both.
It's not from another source, and in the specific combination shown in the illustration it's "my own method".
But there is, of course, material on traditional mind maps like the Buzan book, literature on problem solving like Polya's "How to Solve It" and many many others, and general material on thinking and writing.
For me, the concept of "concatenating units of thought" via the boxes was a surprise, with an unexpected impact it had on my thinking processes, and I do not know of a method that uses this as a key point.
Exactly this. Specifically in the U.S. we have a self righteous moralist problem. People say words about how they want equality. In action they're just following discriminatory culture all the same.

It's not new, it's influenced from American Christian culture where the social perception of individuals is more important than the truth. The perception of holiness to buy ones way.

In reality the overwhelming majority of those that say it's "okay" for men to be vulnerable and emotional will react negatively when it happens.

Unfortunately that in itself is an unacceptable opinion by the moralist because it paints woman in a poor light. Again, caring about perceptions, not the truth. In truth its universal, woman+man relationships just happen to be the majority.

It happens in all other forms. It's something about the power dynamic of relationships.
Exactly the reason why I wrote the article in a way that it just walks through the journey. The outcome of anything is a function of the context & timing and hence whatever worked for someone at a specific point of time to get to a specific stage might not be relevant for everyone.
Finally an item that inspires! Listen not to nay-sayers or sourness or cynicism.
Thank you for sharing this.
For me, it takes a kind of courage to ask questions that you allow to change you.
It's a bit like with developers. At least 50% are crap.
Really? That's how you read it?

Huh. That's not what I meant. What I meant was that the process was intended to flow through a particular sequence, and that I made it flow through a different and unintended sequence. In a sense I stopped it from working as it was intended, so in a sense I "broke" it.

I don't know how else to say that, and certainly I didn't intend to imply what you seem to have inferred.

Language is weird.

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Sometimes standards emerge rather than from formal bodies but by broad experience and consensus. The Microsoft operating systems dominated human experience for decades. I’m sorry that other systems did different things, but on the basis of cumulative human experience, these key bindings are in fact standard. Any variance, no matter how ideologically pure, is opposed to the collective human experience of cut and paste key bindings. Why do that to people? Because of some market outcomes from 30 years ago didn’t go the way you prefer so we should impose confusing experiences on everyone? That’s audacious.
It’s always a mixed bag, but with the increase in work-from-home culture will come with a number of down sides for society - loneliness, a significant drop in weak bonds which significantly shrinks one’s social networks, local economic shrinkage as support businesses close (janitors, lunch spots, suppliers, etc), and a loss of general sense of belonging or even loyalty to your employer. Of course there are many obvious upsides which I’m sure HN readers will quickly defend and say they’d never be anything but remote again. That’s great when you have a choice, but when you’re a call center worker you have a low likelihood of having so much choice and autonomy over your not-quite-white-collar life. As far as a call worker goes, the inability to easily commiserate with coworkers on shitty calls, even between calls, I’m certain will lead to higher attrition and lower happiness. Humans need social support.
Do you have to give yourself titles everyone else is using? If I start a company I would rather have "Captain" or "Masterchief" or perhaps just keep the C from CEO and be just a "Chief".
Posthog's site seems to be down, but thanks for posting these. I tried to pitch my company on Fullstory or Hotjar, but failed for reasons these options (which I did not find in my research, somehow) might address.
i use kphotoalbum to manage photos. mainly because it has a great tagging interface. what it doesn't have is good folder management. it will read images in whatever folder structure is there, but it is clunky when it comes to browsing photos with that folder structure. i can either navigate folders or i can see thumbnails sorted by time. i can't see thumbnails in the folder structure.

to augment that i use a plain file browser. nemo in this case with the cover-thumbnailer extension works great. i could use another image manager, but then i'd be switching back and forth between different image managers to have the features i need. so why should i, when a plain file browser just works
definitely yes. Feels so good.
This is absolutely about anchoring and messaging, the labor supply shortage due to the Boomer retirement rate, as well as a desire by a cohort to reduce entitlement benefits like Medicare and Social Security.

America doesn’t need a labor death march; it needs automation, strong social safety nets, and more equitable productivity distribution. Then we can talk about providing meaningful work as citizens age and have the desire to continue to contribute (and are able to).
Anyone got recommendations for a "minimal" CSS template?
There's a lot more nuance to the situation than that... different GPUs will have different performance footprints on Vulkan, and the actual ways these engines use Vulkan can differ greatly.

Generally, Vulkan yields better performance than directly-equivalent DirectX code. Even since the early days of commercial Vulkan use (2016), the performance uplift has been a notable upside. However, Vulkan code is generally more difficult to write than DirectX (or even OpenGL and Metal, AFAIK), which is part of the price you pay for portability. High-level libraries were expected to paste over these issues, but this infrastructure is still in it's infancy. Ironically, one of the best uses for Vulkan right now is acting as a sort of intermediate representation for DirectX/Metal API calls.
Systemd should’ve been a thing since the start.
Standing takes a lot more energy than sitting - remember, the challenge is coming down again as well on each lap, but even on the uphill not having to support full bodyweight is an advantage, instead you just push with the effort you require on the pedals.

And of course if you are in the wrong gear a bicycle will be ineffective... that's why you choose the right gear?
> I bounced off a tech career track because of all the sexism and, for lack of a better term, "bro shit" in the classes.

It sounds like you let a group of 'bros' decide your career track. The world is full of shitty people both men and women, you can't let their behavior drive yours.
There’s also a clear sense that software quality is absolutely not a priority. The sense that software quality is explicitly set as not a priority.

For instance, I think I can confidently say that lessons learned from previous software stacks are not accumulated and applied to improve subsequent ones.

I’d like to add that I believe the individual developer is doing their best. It’s in the decision-making layer.
> Percy Jackson books.

Oh, those. They're like an old-school video game. Fight boss. Beat boss. Level up. Fight bigger boss. Repeat.
Earlier, if you ask me. Content should be an input to design.
Wait.... if you could not focus then were you really working?

this is one of the biggest drawbacks I see, people wfh having less productivity because they are focusing on their personal responsibilities and not their professional ones likely meaning co-workers are picking up the slack to get the work done.
Seems like it's mostly driven by changes to the composition of the job market. 50 years ago many more good paying jobs required a degree of physical labor that heavily favored men. The economy today has shifted from manufacturing to the service sector, which favors cooperation and communication.

Women, even a hundred years ago, have always been more pro-social than men. They tend to have more friends, talk to their friends and family more often, know and ask more about the personal lives of the people around them. This far predates modernity, and has probably been true going all the way back to the neolithic era. The only difference is that in an age where email jobs have replaced the factory floor, the economic premium to these skills has gone way up.
people that are militantly anti-systemd confuse me greatly. the different and inconsistent init systems that preceded it were a nightmare.

it led to a whole ecosystem of secondary system to manage apps, god, runit, monit, supervisord, etc.

now i can just write a simple configuration file and have my app managed. i can describe network filesystem mounts as dependencies. blah blah.

systemd made all of this trivial.
> The entire "feminism" project is mostly just social engineering for elite men to castrate their competition and consolidate power under the guise of equality.

How so ?
Note that does do not natively reflect structured concurrency - and a Promise.any version does even less so.

The code above would „return“ once the first Promise runs to completion. The computation that is described by the second Promise would however continue to run - which could cause unexpected side effects. The goal of structured concurrency is to totally avoid those by making sure the lifetime of child tasks is always contained within the lifetime of their parent tasks.

Bare async/await only marginally guarantees that, and the amount depends on the language. Eg the JS code above will never guarantee it, since each async function is really a separate entity on the eventloop. Rust async/await can do it if you all use are low level future combinators (like futures::join! or select!. But if the code spawns any child tasks then all bets are off too.

The Java example with scoped executor will have proper guarantees. Waiting on the executor means waiting for all tasks to complete. And as soon as the first task errors other tasks are „asked“ to stop early via an InterruptedException.
The snark in me wants to say "you live in a society". It's a free market of jobs. Want to be a yeoman, head to the farm.
Most JavaScript these days is basically compiled binary. Rarely is it very human readable.
But a text editor is not an interactive operating system repl for controlling jobs and files. Why would it matter? I don’t think the key bindings in Kerbal Space Program have much to do with the key bindings in Factorio either.
Beep beep Roadrunner ...
>He is torn between being the kind of man he has been told to be and the kind of man the world seems to want now.

Ironically, I think many men seem to experience this in the opposite direction implied by the article. Men are told to be obedient male feminists, and they find a world in which that mentality sets them up for failure. Women on the otherhand are encouraged to pursue the "toxic masculinity" mindset that men have been chastized for.

So it seems that masculinity itself is a winning strategy, just the sex pursuing that strategy has partially reversed.
In my opinion, the process you describe when transforming the AI approach into an engine is simply related to our understanding of why it works and how.

And this can clearly be done to cover a wide range of useful things.

But I would make two observations, first, neural nets are much more closely related to applied statistics than biology mimicry. The historical name should not matter much but it does because humans are driven by emotions, even in research.

Second, AGI is still too badly defined to be seriously discussed.

Every time people can observe some progress in the AI field, they are tempted to make predictions that, in my opinion, are impossible to make.

We're getting closer. That's all.
Anyone have tips for using Jitsi? I've been thinking about moving off Zoom now that they're enforcing a 40 min limit even for one-on-one calls.

Does it create friction for folks who haven't used it before? Any suggested instructions to send with a meeting invite?
I've always figured a lot of the pressure for the status elevation of women has come from the elite men in order to make room for their daughters and mistresses. A few of my exes went on to be mistresses of elite men and were gifted executive roles at prestigious companies. They now advise women on how to be successful but somehow leave out the important details.
> Have they driven from LA to NYC as Elon promises they would by 2019?

Why do people only ever compare Tesla efforts to Elon expecations.

How many other companies have cars driving around in pretty much every environment on north America? Their competitors have a totally different approach and limit themselves to a few fixed locations that they map out in extreme detail first.

If you take all self driving cars in the world and put them at random locations in the US and tell them to drive somewhere I don't think any company will do better much better then Tesla.

I'm not really a fan of self driving but just clowning Tesla for not reaching the goals set by Elon isn't really interesting or insightful.

> Is hyper loop even a thing or just something Elon admitted was something he came up with to try and kill public transport alternatives?

Hyper loop was never a product. Musk even explicitly stated that it wouldn't be a product anytime soon. He explicitly state they did some evaluation on it and would release an engineering blue paper. This was literally stated outright at the time.

I really don't get the logic 'I wont do X but I find X interesting' and the response a few years later is 'Fuck you, you promised to do X and it didn't happen'. Like that makes people sound insane.

And he never said it was to kill public transport. That was a single news article where a journalist took Musk words out of context to spin his own story.

And people who think California High Speed Rail is failing because of Musk is fucking delusional anyway.

> The Boston Dynamics Robot is far more of a commercial reality than the CyberTruck if you really want to put things in context.

That is totally absurd comparison that makes no sense and illustrates nothing.
or taking advertising dollars from orher channels like print, outdoor advertising, radio and TV.
NBER is the entity which demarcates the start and end dates of recessions in the US, not the White House.
A project like what, exactly? Linux wasn't some high-minded academic project that would pick off a menu of contemporary systems research or software engineering goals.

The early Linux project was a punk concept of its era. Linus very clearly started out as wanting to make a Unix-like kernel on commodity x86 PCs of the time. It was a personal, workstation hack for motivated tinkerers. Things like server and supercomputer usage were not imagined yet.

I'm not even sure what a moral equivalent project idea might look like today. It was a typical hacker blend of wanting to emulate something that was scarce/expensive using less expensive resources. Today, the smartphone might be the equivalent commodity platform. Both iOS and Android might be equivalent to the MS/DOS+Windows hegemony. But there isn't any equivalent of the balkanized and expensive Unix vendor market for phones, which technical students might aspire to. Linux didn't set out to rewrite the popular commercial OSs of the day from Apple and Microsoft.
I have experienced this all too well.

You have to be an extraordinary man to have an ordinary life these days.
Offshore windfarms have zero insurance against environmental damages caused by changes in the water environment, nor does windfarms or PV farms has insurance against forest fires.

If we want to be technical correct, nuclear plants and hydropower plants do have some insurance, for example if employees are harmed during work.

What all power plants share is the inability to insure against risk that is direct to society at large. It not that the risk is high (which it isn't), but rather that in case of accident there isn't anything other than governments that could step in and take the cost.

> You seem to argue that because others are doing bad things it's OK for nuclear?

No, that is a bad faith interpretation. If we want power plants to pay insurance against risk that is place on society, then such requirement should be technology neutral. If we have historical evidence of harm to either society or the environment, directly connected to a method of producing energy, then producers using that method should pay a tax to government that represent the risk. Be that hydro, nuclear, fossil fuels, wind farms, PV, a battery farm or what have you. Quantify the risk and let researcher, experts and historians argue how much each specific plant should pay.
This is exactly why on Windows open source drivers are a rounding error while on Linux open-source drivers are the norm.
Much better than the vietnamese bistro at our office's building. You take an empty tray. They ask you what you'll have of hundred of combinations of rice, noodles and meat. Then you go to the cash register and they ask you what you have ordered to ring you up. You go sit at a table with your empty tray. Some time later you hear some yelling. You get (probably) your food, usually different from what you ordered.
>i.e.: in the US at least you can get just enough to be complacent as a man by doing bare minimum stuff.

Why aren't women in the US complacent? Couldn't they just get by doing the bare minimum?