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> A kitchen sink library, re-implementing absolutely everything

yes, and having written projects in both the kitchen sink and the many-libraries approaches, the one that consistently shipped software fast is the one with the kitchen sink framework
We'd want to know - to as detailed of an extent as possible - the scale of the trade in question.

How much economic efficiency are we giving up, and for what exactly?
> Also, I love the useful little features they include like redirecting all http requests from www.reddit.com to old.reddit.com.

I use Brave daily and have never heard of this feature. How do I turn this on?
Effectively, you are posing a litmus test on whether someone can reasonably comment on an issue that involves virology. I think that's unfair and completely unnecessary. You don't really know anything about my background, so why are you making assumptions? I happen to have more than enough experience and knowledge in the area to make a comment. I'm not peer reviewing the work, I'm commenting on a line of argument espoused by Derek Lowe.

Derek Lowe chose to focus on defining GOF in a rather narrow way - one that can only be applied retroactively if the outcome is critical to the definition -- and uses that definition to say that criticism of the BU experiments is overblown. The general fear around experiments involving ePPP doesn't care about the exact definition of GOF. Just saying that it doesn't qualify as GOF is not going to convince people that fear it. Derek Lowe should have focused more on the points you raise in your last paragraph.

>The Omicron spike is already out there. Omicron is already out there. This isn't adding anything to SARS-CoV-2 that isn't already massively spreading in the real world, and there's no particular reason to think that this experiment will create a more deadly or transmissible virus.

Nobody intends to create a more dangerous virus on purpose. But if the outcome were so fully understood and completely predictable, then it's a waste of time and money doing the experiment just to confirm a conclusion that everyone fully agrees on and understands. And if there's little to no risk, why take precautions? Why use BSL3? Why does NIAID feel it should have been alerted? That's what Derk Lowe should have addressed, not a definition!
Just stumbled upon https://www.datalad.org/
Used by neuroscientists: https://centerforopenneuroscience.org/projects
Another thing I wish it would use is the built in kernel support for wireguard.
The word that would more align with our modern "curiosity" would be wonder.

> St. Thomas defines wonder (admiratio) as “a kind of desire (desiderium) for knowledge; a desire which comes to man when he sees an effect of which the cause either is unknown to him, or surpasses his knowledge or faculty of understanding.” Wonder leads people to inquire and seek answers in a deliberate and purposeful manner in order to gain knowledge. St. Thomas identifies that we associate the desired person, event or object with what is “pleasing” and “scarce.” Simply, the wonderer glimpses an elusive knowledge to pursue.

https://aquinas.cc/la/en/~ST.I-II.Q32.A8 from https://www.nashvilledominican.org/desire-wonder-essential-e...
It may be a (over?)reaction to the generally poor working conditions in an office that suddenly do not exist when working at home. No manager passing by and disrupting your focus, no commute nightmare, no open space with distractions all around, no being physically captive when you are out of juice,... At home you are less constrained, and some people will value this freedom higher than the loss of social bond.

I'm in the hybrid camp: most of the time at home, then one or two days at the office to catch up, attend the important meetings/workshops in person, and debate about the new tech du jour. These days at the office feel much more like an offsite than a regular day at work and I look forward to seeing my colleagues. Obviously, the daily productivity takes a hit but I'm certain that the weekly productivity is better than either full remote or full office.
Thanks. That sounds like the standard approach.
Is the "charm quark is heavier than proton" thing the usual situation where the author conflates the mass of the particle with the mass of the particle plus the mass of the field associated with a free particle? Every system is lighter than its constituent particles in this sense, but sometimes people make a big deal about it, usually when the binding energy is high (i.e. the mass difference is large).
As an employee I don't care one bit about "productivity" or "better outcomes for the company" or "superior work outcomes", I'm here to get paid.

Also: WFO is more expensive than WFH. WFO could be 10% better but it doesn't matter because it takes 20% more effort. Personally as someone with a chronic illness I'm not even going to entertain WFO unless it pays at least 100% better, and probably not even then.
why the downvotes HN?
The problem is here: "RuntimeError:". Once they saw that, they stopped reading. "Did not find ENVVAR" [..] "ensure this is set to the proper value" [..] "and then restart the service" are also obscure and will stop them from reading.

Why is the user like this? Error message PTSD. Years of staring at obscure errors full of technical jargon that are not helpful to the user, has left them scared to even look at the content of the error message. They have tried to Google these things before and failed, and now they just avoid it entirely and run for help.

I'm sure there's enough detail in the link you provided to help the user. But if that's the case, it will be better for the error message to simply say:

A problem occurred, but don't worry! You can fix it yourself in 5 minutes! For instructions, visit https://internal-wiki-link/spaces/BLAH/AppUserRuntimeError#A013579

Even if you expect the user to be "smart enough" to fix their own problem, they are more likely to try it themselves if you make it seem easier.
I'm 100% with you. We have to keep the money flowing away from taxpayers and towards corporate interests.
Interesting. I use Reaper and love it, but sometimes I feel "ashamed" of not using Live like everyone else. Of course when listening to a finished track nobody cares what it was made with, but for collaboration the choice of Reaper seems a little limiting. Yet it's so powerful.

That said, there must be reasons why Live is sooo popular...?
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Firefox's implementation of Default-on DoH has ALWAYS been able to be disabled network-wide via canary domain.[1]

Other browsers can (and last I checked do) ignore this.

[1]: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/canary-domain-use-appli...
But is Kubernetes imaginable?
>essential to our well-being

Yes, eating junk food is good for your wellbeing...
Some monks and monasteries in general were of course pretty inventive and contributed to technology advancement. Yet I think those were fundamentally incremental and were more based in craftsmanship than in field shifting insights.

For instance during the “dark ages” we saw construction technique leap forward (think cathedrals like Paris’ one), accounting techniques saw the shift to double entry book-keeping, and so many deeply impacting innovations that didn’t cone from monks while they were supposed to have such knowledge and education.

You mention classical books reproduction which was a important occupation for monks, yet the printing revolution came from a completely different direction. Not rocking the boat was a principle they adhered to that basically tied their hand.
How does it work? Do you write scientific papers?
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I try to still contribute to the Ashes of Equestria project. Game based on fanfiction combining Fallout and My Little Pony.
You may be right, but as a personal anecdote, I totally agree with the sentiment you're responding to. I don't particularly enjoy working from the office and much prefer doing so from home, but I can tolerate it. I like my colleagues and shooting the breeze with them, but they're not my friends.

But boy do I absolutely hate my commute, to the point that it shadows whatever positives there are when working from the office. I live and work in Paris (proper), a "big EU city with plenty of things to do". My commute is less than one hour each way by public transit (and I'm lucky enough that my line is rarely affected by random incidents or strikes). But boy do I hate it with a passion.

It's time that is basically wasted. Yes, I read a bit, but it's much worse than if I took the time to read sitting in my sofa. I also get a bit of exercise, but again, it's much worse than if I went for a stroll at a more convenient time. It's a block of time that is fairly fixed during the day and which is tiring without getting much of anything in return.
Interesting - I've been doing similar for a while (not writing about it though), but generally "self-commit" - i.e. the code in the repo commits back to itself, usuualy using github actions, or gitlab. E.g. https://github.com/ukd1/lvms-events
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I doubt that downward trend has continued (bet it's at least slowed) for the general population, I can't imagine sex ed has gotten any better nationwide. But I don't have any newer sources at hand either.
I definitely support the notion of allowing "shipping from foreign ports to multiple American ports in sequence." (Shipping from China to Port A, Port B, and Port C in sequence, while allowing off-boarding only of cargo in ports A and B.)

Allowing foreign-flag carriers to ship general cargo among American ports is not something I have a strong opinion on (but I generally am not inclined to permit it).
Relatedly, comments fields are the bane of data compliance exercises. You think you’ve caught everywhere a customer’s information might be stored, and then at the last minute you find out support have been putting phone numbers in the comments field because they had nowhere else to put it.
I'd agree with you. As a sidenote, I held an American professional Superbike racing license through most of my 20s and did a whole bunch of crazy stuff I won't mention here on top of it. Watched several people die and get maimed in one of the many races I competed in. Before that I spent some time in the Marines, including time in a warzone. I have a few regrets from a couple bad decisions I made, but I enjoyed every moment of that absolutely crazy life and never felt more alive looking back at it. It seems like an old dream I had at this point - In my 30s I slowed down, got married and had children. It's much different than my previous life, but it's been a wonderful and powerful experience as well. I feel like I've had my cake and ate it too, and you bet ya I feel blessed every single day to be here taking my share of fresh air.

It would be interesting to see my thoughts if I had never had kids, but I feel as though it would be positive either way because I choose it to be.

That being said, I do feel personally like there is more to life than living for yourself. Whether that transfers to having kids or volunteering somewhere to help others, etc., I'll leave that decision to the reader.
Just as long as the resulting dna record remains with the parents/family and not the system. Way too much information to give away to enter primary school.
I've never really understood the statement that "most of the mass of the proton comes from virtual particles inside it." That being the case, why isn't the mass density of space outside the proton almost as great as it is inside the proton? Is the density of virtual particles greater inside, and if so, why?
Coincidentally, also the most complicated thing imaginable.
I was pretty burned out when I was a tech recruiter running an office. It sucked. Was doing really long weeks, working any and all hours, often at the office till 7 or 8 on fridays.

Switched careers to dev work and enjoy it a lot more. As others have said enforcing a healthy WLB and 40 hour week has helped a lot.

I dont dread going to work anymore. I view work as part of my day rather than my entire day. I also try to do something with my lunch break other than sit at my computer. I go to some type of exercise class, because I enjoy it, many days. Bike/run with my dog others.

So Monday isnt, ugh the start of another week of work. Monday is a day where I do some work, go to a jujitsu class in the middle of the day, do some more work, walk my dog at 5, make dinner with my wife, play a little video games or read, and then get to wind down for the day.

Nothing work related on my phone. Notifications shut off on my computer. Slack gets closed at 5. Laptop gets closed at 5. Once in a while I need to do something extra for work but as long as that is rare then its easier to keep the balance.
I agree but meeting your team is really important, not only for you but for the team itself. People tend to care a lot less about the team or the company when they are not on site to socialize with coworkers. It means people may not think twice about getting another job, a remote job is only seen as a source of income, at least that was my case. So in the company's PoV, I would not hire full time people but hybrid seems fine, or at least people who come to the office one full week many times a year.
Generally the people I've seen who love the office only love it because their home life is complete shit.
> Why is that?

I believe it's because coworkers rarely talk about non work stuff when they are WFH. Maybe it's just my company, but when we were in office I felt everyone on the team had some sort of relationship with each other because we'd eat lunch or talk about sports, or even the weather. Now we pretty much only talk about work stuff, which ends up meaning we silo more and collaborate less.
> I don't use it, but Edge has built in vertical tabs fwiw (I know, that's not tree-style).

I've tried Edge's vertical tabs and it's ok but it's a weak implementation of the idea. It only supports a flat list, and I think new tabs also open at the bottom, not even next to the current tab. TST is vastly superior.
Looks really cool and packed with features
The unfortunate fact is that at least in the US, even if you live in a "walkable", "transit oriented" city, there is no way to run a business that's community oriented. Which means that the only actual community available is your work community.

How are you supposed to "build relationships outside of work" in that environment?

I get that your opinion of this is that it's degenerate, and this may be true - but have some sympathy for folks whose regular, non covid experience even when they can walk to all the urban amenities is "I can't make friends because I would have to break into a group, which means an activity that isn't focused on transactional gain, which isn't allowed in the city due to a combination of taxes, rental prices, and most of the city preferring to drink alone and out voting me"
The Affordable Care Act providing free birth control did not even kick in until 2011. Between that, increased access to healthcare and doctors in general due to ACA, and access to more information due to proliferation of internet and smartphones, I would guess more women opted into birth control over the past decade.
It seems to me that the Jones Act is a tariff on the activity of shipping itself. Unless one wants to argue the globalist stance that all tariffs should be abolished, the Jones Act should be examined with a careful eye to what it prevents, not only what costs it incurs. I.e. if the Jones Act was repealed, would all shipping suddenly be done by foreign actors, who, by virtue of being cheaper, would have a virtual monopoly on (and insight into, and control over) all shipping within the US? Maybe this might not actually be bad, but such consequences should be considered.
It seems every day that the concept of us existing, without an external cause, is absolutely 0%. Or at least lim x→∞ ([odds of us existing]) = 0.
One big category that's missing is the quick, informal after meeting sync. When we were in the office, after big meetings, I would usually chat with my juniors about what happened. What went well and what went poorly, the general theory of how those kinds of meetings work, that kind of thing. That's much harder to do now, so I mostly don't, and as a result our post-Covid newbies are generally worse at running meetings.
> Brave planned to take the payments after they were unclaimed for 90 days.

That is not true. The payments were not taken but returned to the user after 90 days.
> Then there are people who work mainly to get paid and do not care to invest themselves beyond what is necessary.

I've been WFH for nearly a decade. I invest in myself by keeping my skills sharp working on personal projects and having a social circle that is made up of a wide range of people not just tech enthusiasts. I invest in myself by not making me only what I do for a living.

Do I work just to get paid? Hell yes. If I didn't need money I'd only work on my personal projects.
> That's not very smart, and you don't want people to think you're an idiot, so don't do it.

Yeah, that works about as well as saying you don't need tests because it's not very smart to write bugs. You need processes to enforce these things at scale.
Thank you for the detailed feedback marginalia_nu!

Yes I agree search UX has not been evolving much. I wish it would.

What version of Windows and what browser are you using? How old is the computer? Maybe it is something I could improve. I was figuring most modern computers can scroll horizontally well, but that isn't always the case. But I guess I am trying to push the design into the future...
This sounds like a kind of historical GeoGuessr.
For me what convinced me to switch to brave is that actually do privacy by default, not just empty talk like mozilla.

- they have their own independent search engine
- and their own privacy respecting AD network.
- they block ADs and trackers BY DEFAULT

And many other things, I personally lost hope Mozilla is going to do anything meaningful, and I found brave to be actually trying to to change things.
I can give brave to my grandma and she would be instantly more private, yet its designed to not break anything by default.
Wow, any way to run this locally?

I love this technology but it would feel kinda terrible to upload a whole bunch of stuff to your site and exploit your generosity.
> If you are pro-social: WFO is better If you are anti-social: WFH is better

I understand the characterization, WFO benefits social interaction around work.

But I’m not a very social person, and I prefer working in the office. Work serves as a dedicated space where I’m in contact with people with something in common. I get a lot of my social interaction from work.

I’m not disagreeing, just adding some nuance. I think the “extroverts work in the office and introverts work from home” is overly simplistic.
My concern with anything e-ink is display latency -- if the display isn't updating at a fast-enough clip, I don't think note-taking would be an enjoyable experience.
GitJournal comes to mind, "Mobile first Markdown Notes integrated with Git".

https://github.com/GitJournal/GitJournal

Recent HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31914003
OpenSUSE is probably the most underrated major linux distro. Which is a shame since it's really good. Happy to see it used more often.
Ah I see. I live in Europe in a country where parents have paid parental live for a year or more, so this is not an issue. However, if this is something that increases birth rates in the USA, I guess it's not a bad thing, especially if employers see no decline in the quality of work delivered.
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Sounds just like a slide mislabel, he really just means tier 1 priority.
So you are saying a COO is an officer-Donkey? :)

But to go back to the parent post, what the COO said "If they weren't donkeys they'd be running their own business."

Maybe some COOs run small businesses they started where they call the all shots. But most big company COOs have a lot of obligations and have a different carrot and stick for the C-Suite. And a lot of them didn't start the business where they became the COO. So, yes, still Donkeys.
... and once you do it (tbh the only thing I could care about is the telemetry thingie, but need to check details and I never see anything sponsored on new tab ) what are your objections against it?
The math checks out!
Love this story. So nostalgic.
Good overview of search alternatives here https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-...
This "translating" difficulty exists so much in philosophy, which is why it sounds like philosophers are randomly salting their language with Latin and German - it's jargon for a purpose; they will say "qua" instead of what because they're referring to the philosophical idea behind "qua".

It is possible to find well-done introductions that attempt to bring a philosopher 'forward' but even those often find it easier to define what the philosopher means by 'caritas' and then use the Latin instead of translating it as "love" or "charitable love" each time.
This seems related to David Graeber's idea that money was originally a moral instrument more associated with temples, than a purely secular phenomenon emerging from trade.

To have-been-wronged becomes a fact of accounting.

I think of --

-- sacrifices that people make. Mortifications of the flesh and so on. "Wrong yourself so the universe owes you something."

-- blood money paid in the Islamic and old Germanic worlds.

-- a brokerage account, with assets and liabilities.

-- how much of the New Testament is full of financial metaphors. The rich man accumulates his fortune on earth, but the righteous man accumulates his fortune in heaven.

But then I also think of

-- central bankers, who magic money into existence

-- Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the rest.

Which brings me back to the observation --

-- Bitcoin is structured like a cult, in which you make a sacrifice to join (exchanging money for it, or wasting electricity), after which you then have an incentive for membership in the tribe (ownership of Bitcoin) to confer benefits (i.e., for the price to appreciate faster than other assets).

You really want to be able to say "to hell with it" and escape the game. To stop accumulating karma and live perched up on a cliff face.
This is what I currently do, and it is not a solution in the slightest. Most of what I enjoy about working in office is face-to-face collaborative work. I cannot do that with folks from other companies. I cannot do that if every meeting I take is forced to be a video call.

There is no solution for the office crowd except an office based org. It's time for us as an industry to acknowledge that, and to have remote orgs and office orgs separate.
i think this is a culture mismatch between America and other places. we have no hate speech laws and have historically really disliked the idea of something like that in part because we trust our government a lot less than other countries. like, even liberals here will trust the government way less than right wingers in other countries. so we are pretty settled with our "clear and present danger" standard.

also wouldn't you acknowledge the government continues to regularly lie to the public? e.g. "masks don't work" at the beginning of coronavirus to keep people from buying them.

let me put this another way: it looks like you're in sweden where people trust the government a lot more. but would you be okay with joe biden or donald trump having significant control over "the truth"?
...Which makes the concept of an external cause existing, which must be vastly more complicated than us, absolutely less than 0%. ;)
Submitted the github link because I couldn't find it from their marketing site: https://killbill.io/
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