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> our emotional lives tend to be impoverished in an online context

When you realize that when you pay attention to something and are getting negative results, then you become very selective about what you pay attention to. You just have to select and curate the things that excite you in a positive way, and nurture that. This applies online as-well as IRL/AFK.
"All relevant authorities on different sides of the conflict agree that this was sabotage"

So your entire argument is appeal to questionable authorities? What are their expertise with pipeline maintenance disasters?

How and why would an underwater demo team plant explosives 50 km apart? Why would they trigger explosions 17 hours apart?

If a hydrate plug is triggered to cause an explosion in one pipeline due to a specific temperature/pressure combination, how long would it take for a similar explosion to occur in another pipeline at the exact same temperature/pressure combination?
If it’s not just or desirable, is it pertinent whether it works?
My current note-taking stack is an Obsidian Vault on my iPad with the mazec handwriting keyboard [1] (this post was written with it), occasionally switching to Nebo [2] if I want a long-form writing experience. Apple's built-in scribble functionality would be great if it weren't so inaccurate and kludgy when correcting mistakes. I won't wax poetic about Obsidian more than others already have, but this setup gets me very close to the link-as-you-write workflow that I sorely wished I had in grad school.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mazec/id943711253

[2] https://www.nebo.app/
How did you get points per minute information? Is that how submission ordering is done on HN?
If you haven't been watching the low-code/no-code space you may be in for a rude awakening.

These tools continue to get better every day. The target is only "good enough" and once reached it presents an outsized advantage over custom builds.

I fully expect no-code/low-code to grow in nearly permanent ways within many organizations.
Context.

We have 1,000 more solutions to 1,000 more problems. We have extensive documentation on all the new things. Documentation is mostly focused on nouns, sometimes on verbs. The "what" and the "how" are easy to find.

What we don't have is clarity on how they fit together. The overwhelming majority of work done in software is fitting the pieces together in a way that works. The "why" and the "when" are really difficult to pin down.

The biggest overhead is trying to conceptualize the systems that make up the foundations of software: operating system libraries, compiler toolchains, shell environments, dependencies, etc.

Because there is so much mysticism involved, people who have spent years or decades treating operating systems, package managers, development environments, etc. as playgrounds to explore have an advantage that is difficult to articulate, let alone teach.

Anyone learning software today is presented with a lot of exciting opportunities to explore programming itself. There are handy web-based editors where you can write programs that do input and output all in the browser itself. No need to learn about shells or packages or git...

But those things we factored out of the learning experience are probably the most meaningful subjects to learn about, if you want to actually create something. It's really tricky to find direction to go from vague concepts to working projects.
Sigh - two major typos, and I dont see a way to edit the answer. SO it should be "standard Schemes" and more importantly the URL is https://www.gnu.org/software/kawa
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For me...the rise of a billion devops tools with their own opinionated designs and syntax.

Programming is programming, and the language doesn't make a ton of difference to me, though I do have strong preferences.

But that is the -easy- part. The hard part is everything else. Jenkins? Gitlab runners? Github Actions? There are at least 5 people regularly use, all have their own way of doing things and syntax.

To Docker or not to Docker. Kubernetes? ECS? RPM? How about just lambda functions?

What about your config management.. Ansible? Chef? Puppet? Salt?

It's the worst part of switching jobs to me. Especially when feeling like you have to invest time learning a system that's falling(or even has already fallen) out of favor.

I used to love the idea of owning the whole pipeline. Now I just want to sit in a hole writing solid code, and let someone else handle all the CI and systems parts.
If the title chosen by The Atlantic author is so objectionable that HN submitter/moderator must change it completely, then why not find a different source with a more agreeable title on the same topic. There is no shortage of articles on this case from a variety of sources.

Alternatively, HN could include both the author's title and the "HN title" in its HTML but only display the HN title.

When I extract URLs from HN HTML I tend to ignore the titles and this is one reason why.^1 I am interested in objective identifiers. HN can change the title, but it cannot change the URL.

Someone searching HN by title for an article from a particular publication may not be able to find it as easily as they should. Similarly, someone browsing all submissions from a particular source, looking for a particular title may miss it because the original title has been editorialised.

1. When I retrieve www search results into a custom SERP format, I actually drop everything except the URL. I never see "objectionable" titles.
> There is an obvious rational non-racist explanation for the outcome in question

> A black person, a white person, and an asian person with the exact same credentials mean extremely different things in terms of absolute rather than relative competence level

Say these sentences out loud.
“I’m gonna hit the breaks and he’ll fly right by!” - Top Gun
Dumb question - why can't planes shoot in reverse? It seems like this would be useful for these situations.

I get that it would be hard to aim - but can't computers do that?
Very cool! Thanks for sharing the dots!

I'm a vim user too, but recently I've been considering Common Lisp mainly due to this post: https://mikelevins.github.io/posts/2020-12-18-repl-driven/

so I did a brief tour on Emacs (cause everyone uses sly) but both Emacs and CL take too much time so I've postponed them.

Would be nice if you describe your vim+cl workflow and how does it hold up to Emacs+Sly+Org-mode ™
NICE! and way cooler than what I did; i too went the python - obs - virtual device route, but to have my randomly hued face pingpong around the screen like the dvd logo screensaver

Very cool stuff!!
Maybe that’s the optics but I’m inclined to believe him, the EV adoption plan relies on technology that doesn’t exist and the simplistic idea we take all the gas cars and replace them with electric cars I’m not convinced actually scales. I think we’re literally going to run out of the worlds natural resources before because we get even close to making enough EVs.

I actually see a need to shift more people to not using cars as much or at all, and having those people walk/bike/transit. I also think lighter EVs such as scooters may be popular and they have ones with swappable batteries which work like swapping a propane tank. I also think the hybrids Toyota sells which require significantly less of certain resources will be appealing. Also finally telecommuting will be a big thing among white collar workers who won’t need anything more than a hybrid or light EV.

My money is on Toyota being correct and is seeing gas cars being around for quite a lot longer than anticipated. I see the person of the future being less mobile. However technology is inherently unpredictable and advances in mining in particular could change this.
Realistically, people would probably make this some weird macro that is:

(peopler-simplifier well people 2 are likely to like this better)

This is where generally macros & helper functions in lisp actually produce a new "syntax", rather than leverage a large language provided one.

This to me is actually the crisis for lisp. Any codebase requires you to learn all the various macros that do:

peopler-simplifier == $1->$2[$3].$4($5, $6 $7 $8 $9);
Being a foolish victim of a low-quality fraud by a second-rate charlatan like like Elizabeth Holmes is a telling and fitting capstone to his legacy.
Of course, all comparisons were UK vs EU and GBP vs EUR. For GBP vs EUR, you just need to change the dates of xe.com link in the comment I replied to (past 10 years instead of a strategically chosen start date). The pound today is much weaker than 10 years ago against the euro.

For inflation comparison you can check the ONS or https://data.oecd.org/price/inflation-cpi.htm . You can see for yourself that UK has performed worse than the eurozone for the entirety of the past 10 years.

On shortages, I’ve just been told by both my child’s paediatrician and his GP to stockpile certain medicines because they experience shortages on a daily basis, medicines disappear for weeks, such as the chicken pox vaccine. Calpol was nowhere to be found today, I may have more luck tomorrow. I can’t send you a picture of the Sainsbury’s I’ve just went to, but I had to go to Tesco to buy milk. I’ve never experienced anything like this, the closest thing I can think of is This War of Mine or the siege of Sarajevo.
Surely the people that made Primer appreciate that they were able to get some compensation due to anyone not simply being able to copy and distribute it?

Otherwise, what is the incentive to do all the work and take the risk to make Primer if it is just going to be on YouTube for the benefit of Alphabet’s ad revenue?
You just made something click for me.

My parent was an electrical engineer. While their skillset was varied, and heavily weighted towards physics and math, their day job was mostly about knowing how to pick parts out of a catalogue, which catalogue to use when, and maintaining good relations with the suppliers behind those catalogues. I always saw this as a weird disjunction.

Until now.

I've just realized that while my core skillset is in math, logic, computer science, and system design, I do spend a lot more of my time researching repositories, packages, licenses, etc, than actually coding. But with the new perspective your comment gave me, I finally saw that as totally in line with other, older engineering disciplines.

So, to address the original point of this thread, it seems as if programming has finally evolved into a semi-mature engineering discipline, wherein our ability to gauge the quality of existing supplies is more important than our ability to produce new supplies.
There is so much abstraction going on now, debugging can be very, very challenging. Many systems are distributed and virtualized, so even trying to create a detailed visualization of "what's going on" can require mind-boggling amounts of information.

Also, even if you understand and agree with Werner Vogels' mantra "everything fails all the time", it's incredibly challenging to make a truly robust distributed system. There's just so much happening so rapidly, low-probability problems become consistent failures as you scale, and the wrong recovery approach can have non-obvious second-order effects leading to bigger problems.
The 2016 election gave a slug of cash and tax breaks to the investor class, voted in by a huge cadre of people probably living check to check. Given that, why should it have been an epiphany? Until people vote in their legitimate best interest, nothing will change.
Yet there are many successful projects that don’t collect this information. So it’s not crucial for them but is crucial for you.

I think the challenge I have is that since you’re getting IP address that will be an opportunity to abuse. And there seems to be some rule that any data that can be misused will eventually be misused.

Since you’re not willing to make it opt-in, I think perhaps the only other way would be to support an automated distro that doesn’t include it so users are at least able to easily choose a version.

I admire you for responding to this thread and me as it’s definitely not easy. I just feel like one of the main benefits of open source is its alignment with user benefits so it’s discouraging when an open source project chooses code that users don’t want.
> Clearly you haven't had much interaction with German PhDs. It's very common to include titles in your name (this also includes lower ones) there. Although it admittedly has become less common.

Expat living in Germany here. You’re absolutely correct according to my experience. In fact, I’ve seen people with PhD put “Dr.” on the mailbox in front of their home.
Hypothetically anything could be government waste, but adding a little accessibility feature doesn't seem like a huge project, right? They have to hire a translator for an afternoon, and then embed some videos into their site.

And if they have the virtue of supporting accessibility, why shouldn't they signal that? It seems like it would be helpful info, if you were deaf and thinking of visiting, to know that the local government was at least trying. I mean hypothetically they could be lying, but in that case the issue still isn't virtual signaling, it would just be the lie.
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Just the [points] divided by [minutes|hours ago] thing. There's no better API data as far as I'm aware. https://hn.algolia.com/api

- "Is that how submission ordering is done on HN?"

I have no idea, actually! There's clearly a pretty complicated algorithm behind it.
It's very similar to "international law" in that way.
this is the rather discomforting truth of it - consensus (therefore social change) is achieved through eliminating alternative views, something which can be achieved by the hammer and anvil of relentless repetition of the approved view and de-platforming / silencing of the disapproved view. It is certainly not achieved through some sort honourable battle of ideas
In light of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33056630, probably reduced likelihood of the submission being selected.
I have. They do not refer to the capability of the groups, only their present level. It's entirely consistent with what I said that the current differences between the groups are a consequence of historical racism and inequity.

That doesn't change the fact that the absolute level of current ability implied by the same credential differs between groups, when the credential is conferred via affirmative action.
This is about language implementation, not the language itself, so more on a system programming domain.
The idea that Putin or Biden would do this is so ludicrous as to be dismissable out of hand.

Putin needs the revenues from these pipelines once hostilities end. He was likely extremely hopeful Europe would cave this winter and he could use them as leverage.

Biden has finally gotten a coalition in Europe to take Russia's aggressions seriously and their combined efforts have Ukraine making great progress in winning the war.
GetDataBack for NTFS with full scan should be able to recover files.
It's not unreasonable to think that cultural preferences might influence job roles in academia, but in a country with a strong and poorly addressed history of racism, the assumption should be that it results from discrimination. Cultural factor should only be considered if there is strong evidence for them, otherwise they would be used as a rhetorical justification for maintaining discriminatory systems.
This guy has great notes on building a sauna [1], if you decide to go the route of build vs. buy. Very opinionated, and has very low opinions of american prebuilt sauna kits.

1 - http://localmile.org/trumpkins-notes-on-building-a-sauna/
I believe you when you say they play fast and loose with the APIs. I've mostly suffered from the lacking documentation for the SDKs, they are often autogenerated and just plopped out there, with mutually contradictory sets of documentation scattered around the web.
A very good video, and goes over a lot of the points I've made in this thread in good detail, I also recommend it.
> Is it a conscious choice to not use CDN even to this day?

Hackernews is very lean and minimal which is why it can absorb huge amounts of traffic without a whimper. It doesn't serve images, mostly text instead, and I imagine the codebase is minimal too.
The author likely has it though. On his about page [1], he says "
..i hate my body, and to a somewhat lesser extent hate my brain (and even my mind)." Clearly tech is an outlet for finding comfort for the author

[1] https://catgirl.ai/pages/robot/
Energy. If you fire a missile to your rear then it needs to first accelerate to your original speed just to be staying still, only then can it accelerate towards the target.

An AIM-9X can do this, but the kill probability drops rapidly as you move off boresight.
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Annexation of Sudetenland is not just any event. It's an event to which Russia-Ukraine situation has been compared over and over again.
That’s a moot point. If you have a sauna in your home and the time to use it, you’re rich enough that the above holds true.
I was not aware of that possibility., it sounds really promising. Thank you for the advice!

I've only ever applied to 'regular' companies rather than consulting/contracting ones. Is the search process much different? Or just search for something like '<stack> engineer' andsee which companies are consultancies?
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This seems convenient, but now I worry scammers will use this as another way of getting people to run arbitrary JavaScript on the client's device.
'Instructions' on how to do {x}, but it's also siphoning cookies off to an undisclosed backend.
I "just Googled" it:

> In recent decades, as understanding of human genetics has advanced, claims of inherent differences in intelligence between races have been broadly rejected by scientists on both theoretical and empirical grounds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligence

The article is full of references of primary sources that support this claim.
Ludicrous.

Putin wants Europe to cave this winter and use the leverage of turning these pipelines back on to get them to stop suppporting Ukraine.
> If you're senior, you should be able to leverage your experience with one stack to learn the basics of another stack.

Yeah exactly! I've been comfortable doing that.

> If I were interviewing I’d expect you to be able to articulate the differences between the stacks and demonstrate that you can apply your existing experience to "our" stack, whatever it may be.

That makes sense, thank you. ATM my diffculty is getting to the stage of talking to someone to be able to persuade them; a succinct cover letter eludes my writing chops as of yet. Will keep at it.
Looks like a fun tool. On macOS, it always does an 80x24 display, no matter the actual size of the display. This make is low enough resolution that nothing really useful is resolvable. Tput has no issue determining the console size.
What "this" would it do? Certainly not blow the whole file away, just changes.

I've not made any changes to this file. I have nothing to revert.

What I had really wanted in that situation was even more destructive. Or, well paradoxically, less destructive.

Namely:

rm -rf .git
git init

to just start again.
> We can tolerate some flaws in people who are doing good work.

The real question is whether RMS is actually doing good work. I don't question his intent, but the outcome is… let's call it "debatable." And, arguably, the gaussian on that outcome very much includes negative results — not sure where the overall curve goes…
My point is that there are accessibility standards. If a site doesn’t follow them and instead does something else, even with good intentions, that should be pointed out so they do better next time.

I don’t think I feel terribly negative other than if the goal is to accommodate dead people then the site made a poor decision that whirl accommodating some dead people made it harder for other people who need different accessibilities.

I don’t think the issue is awareness so much as accommodation. I think resources are better spent on solving the problems that can be solved rather than raising awareness.
Fair enough. Still, this makes your original comment regarding "less boilerplate" kinda ironic... and I'm still not seeing any mention of advantages over tRPC. I'm more than willing to have my mind changed but you aren't giving me much material.
That’s completely hypothetical and easily refutable by rural/urban breakdown, county-level breakdowns, outperformance by poor Asians, historical LA smog, etcetera.
>They want you using Tesla premium connectivity. CarPlay would let you bypass that.

This is a stupendously, jaw-droppingly cynical take.

There is no way premium connectivity is making them any significant amount of money. It is so cheap! $100 / year last I checked. So Tesla is not basing any product decisions on that little pittance of money (remember, most of that money goes to the cellular companies that provide the networks, so the profit if any must be truly tiny).

And premium connectivity brings so much more than just music… video, web, traffic data, remote honk, remote light flash, remote viewing of live camera feed from the car's cameras on all sides, remote climate precooling / prewarming, remote control of other car functions, notifications about state changes, remote monitoring of charging status, notifications when charge is done, notifications of alarms… I mean the list is huge. You get all this with premium connectivity and none of it without.

You say the iOS app is great; connectivity with the car is one of the reasons it is great… I say all this just to make the point that just adding CarPlay would not make any meaningful number of people drop premium connectivity. What CarPlay offers is just a tiny little bit of all this.

So I'd look elsewhere for reasons why Tesla won't have CarPlay (and I agree they won't). Probably because they don't want to give up control of their UI to a massively controlling entity that wants to dictate so many aspects of what happens, and who also wants a cut of everything, including most likely things that are simply free with Tesla today.

There's quite a laundry list of other similarly oddly overwrought complaints that could be responded to above, but the only other one that really sticks for me is that sentry mode playback is indeed very flaky… but you know, that will be fixed in a software update.

Long story short, expecting CarPlay when Elon and Apple both want total control is a non-starter. CarPlay has too much baggage in the form of Apple control.
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Sorry for not being clear

I’m not arguing that Vanity Fair’s image choice wasn’t a better way to convey the intended mood of the moment.

The painting is fair use.

The magazine cover isn’t the painting.
The west can't confiscate anything within Russia, and has already confiscated most of their foriegn currency assets.

The world isn't that complex. Putin needs these pipelines, they offer leverage when Europe runs low on gas.
It's not too early. They just had exactly zero proposition and understanding of the market.

It was early when OnLive started the whole thing. Now? It's already a market. One that Google doesn't understand.
The military still uses it because it is highly predictive. They also have a hard cutoff at the bottom which wasn’t always the case (see McNamara’s Folly for the history of when the army accepted literally retarded people - it didn’t end well). We also see a very strong correlation between eg IQ and occupation.

It is a legitimate metric of *something*.