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And the D stands for Desktop, and no platforms other than GNU/Linux, or as I've taken to calling it, Linux, use X for the DE. It is a Linux standard. Specifically, the role the XDG spec plays on Linux is the role that the official documentation plays on Mac and Windows: to define where well-behaved programs should place their files. The consequences of ignoring it on Linux are the same as ignoring the official guidelines on Mac or Windows, as is the Correctness(tm). If you ignore it on Linux, your program is not well-behaved, and if you follow it on Mac and ignore Apple's official guidelines, your program is not well-behaved. Pointing out many instances of bad behavior does not make behavior less bad.

This specifically breaks down on Windows. The purpose of sticking dotfolders in $HOME is because you can't see them so they don't clutter your user folder, but they're also not hard to find. One of three things must be true:

1. The universal value is in them being hidden, so a program should go out of its way to hide them on Windows, and thus have platform specific code, despite not having a platform specific directory.

2. The universal value is in them not requiring platform specific code (other than maybe checking $USERPROFILE instead of $HOME), so a program should not bother hiding them on Windows, despite this resulting in a user folder with more junk folders than meaningful folders.

3. The whole concept doesn't translate very well to Windows, being a Linux standard designed for Linux. Windows software should be written to conform to Windows standards.

The answer is very clearly 3, and it is no great leap from there to notice that Mac is the same way. It is also no great leap to notice that not a single program that stores stuff in ~/.config on Mac pays the least bit of notice to XDG variables. Your declaration of it being a de facto standard falls completely flat on that point alone: well written software hardcodes ~/Library unless XDG_CONFIG_HOME is defined, poorly written software unconditionally hardcodes ~/.config, no Mac software that I have ever seen hardcodes ~/.config but listens to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME. So it is not standard outside of Linux. What is standard for Linux software, especially cross-platform ports of Linux software, is total abject laziness on the subject of well-behavedness.
> An Azure Cloud Architect has joined our company

The title says it all, they might as well work for Azure.

... It's likely everything is an Azure shaped nail to them, do not trust them.
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This is the part the really got to me once I started to realize that my contributions started really impact a team in a positive way, but the vast benefit of that impact was bestowed upon the manager. More annoyingly, even when the manager was poor ( and, I do not understand why, there seem to be a lot of those around ), the blame was always that of underlings. I was under clearly deluded impression that leaders gets blame and glory.

In my corporate life, I saw total of two exceptions to that rule ( now and my previous boss ).
Rolling stops aren't that common in my immediate area. It gets worse if you go into the city though.

I'm not even counting all of those since I'm saying "and unsafe" as well. If a bike or car does a rolling stop without anyone around, I don't care. You are being illegal, but there nobody there. It completely changes if there are people around.
If the recipient of "just" thinks the speaker is so dismissive that they can't pursue clarification, the two probably have bigger communication problems than a single word choice.
"No pinky promises in whitepaper format that leave out the most important bits"

Difference here, is that the promises are verifiable and their concequences avoidable altogether (by self compiling and hosting). The developer also acknowledges the existing holes rather than misdirecting away from them.

Edited my previous comment slightly as it was not at all my intention to accuse you of malicious intent. My apologies if it might have have come across that way.
Oooh, this is great! Thanks very much.
Serverless is good for any kind of app if you accept its pricing. You have perfect scalability, you have perfect availability.

The question is: what alternative to do you propose. How does your alternative reduces hardware when load is low. How does your alternative orders more hardware when load is high. How much time does it take? What's your plan if your data center is cut from the Internet because of bad router configuration?

A proper alternative for serverless is Kubernetes cluster. It'll likely cost less (for big application) but it'll require more knowledge to properly manage it.

You can use simplistic setup with dedicated server or virtual machines with manual operations, but at your load I'd consider that not appropriate.

Anyway is management decided to hire Azure Cloud Architect, the decision is already taken and I suggest you to relax and enjoy new experience.
It's really not mainstream amongst virologists.. as has been demonstrated by repeatedly debunking the latest gish gallop papers, there's literally zero evidence for lab manipulation of the sars cov2 virus. It's vaguely plausible that the virus could have been captured in the wild and then leaked, but even that seems extremely unlikely given the two separate market lineages and timeline of the earliest cases.

Stricter control of GoF makes a lot of sense but the reason everyone was studying coronavirus pandemics in the first place is because we'd had several near misses and everyone in the virology community knew it was only a matter of time before the right circumstances allowed a spillover to do exactly what Covid19 did.
>GCP has a better serverless offering

I am starting to evaluate AWS for GCP for serverless. What, in your opinion, makes GCP better? Is the comment in the context of containers or functions?
Darn, I came up with this recently and thought the only competitor was pushed.io, I do have a secret ingredient. Time will tell once I’m done
Junk article. Feels like author is just making stuff up or is plagiarizing/recycling Bloomberg.
It's a pyramid all the way down. So surely when there's only 1 exchange left standing, who is going to catch it when it falls?
When will we switch to the Khan Academy model of lecture-online and homework-with-tutor/teacher? Then school would have a purpose outside of daycare.
I used to love crouching at a rave and feeling the super low bass. At standing height all the human meat soaks up the vibrations, at crouching height you get the full power of the bass bins snaking through everyone's legs
my hero!
I am still very suspicious that she will not go to prison. I was frankly shocked that the jury found her guilty. She has a lot of privilege, and Justice has been shown to very kind to such people.
These days I often find myself wishing I could find The Outside of the Asylum
Some api routes do caching - right now this is using Asp.net core's in memory cache. He recommended redis to replace this. I feel that it's a bit overkill
>a forecast that goes out 6+ months is silly.

Sure is, which is why it's odd we've been bombarded with endless graphs with months of predictions, over the past 2.5 years.
The CDC is still recommending contact tracing (for Covid), so I imagine they have data to back up its employment.
Ask HN: What’s the unspoken situation with substance abuse by tech workers?
There’s a lot of anecdotes floating around regarding the rampant abuse of stimulants, amphetamines, and other substances especially in startups and tech companies. I never see it discussed openly but it’s becoming a bit of an open secret and I fear it could grow out of hand. I know there are no studies or any other kind of data, but I’d like to hear some personal experiences and stories if you have any.
Usually in the sort of situation where you'd say this, you're just reflecting the speaker's very-clearly-expressed emotional state back at them to demonstrate that you're actively engaged in listening and considering their statements.

It's not something you'd say in response to a text complaint, where there's not enough "bandwidth" to clearly communicate the complainant's emotional state; but it's something CSRs are trained to say on phone calls all the time.

It's also the reason that therapists vastly prefer speaking in person, to video calls, to phone calls; and almost never even consider doing "therapy via text chat." There's not enough bandwidth in text chat to enable a therapist to properly engage with and respond to the emotional content of a client's communication; but with each additional level (voice, video, in-person meeting), that's more possible.

(Interesting consideration, given that: suicide/crisis hotlines should probably consider offering video calls as an option, as the increased bandwidth for emotional content will allow the operator to engage with + potentially help the caller on a deeper level.)
> Blue light definitely affects sleep quality, as your own link shows multiple studies that found this result

I want to live in a world where more people understand that 100 studies finding something still doesn't make it true...
Instruments that play <= 40Hz (E1) include double bass (either standard or with C extension), bass clarinet, and contrabass clarinet.

Percussion also generates frequencies under 40Hz.
Just don't read it on a Kindle, another device which monitors everything you do (how long you remain on a page etc).
I appreciate the dogged pursuit of efficiency, but spending a lot of time optimizing for the current scale and getting costs from $24 per month to $10 per month (or whatever) is likely wasted time if this grows significantly. You have to be able to recognize there’s a lower bound where your costs are low enough it doesn’t matter and even saving 75% isn’t worth thr effort. The author has obviously drawn that line somewhere above $24 per month and that’s perfectly reasonable.
MapLibre Proposes Collaboration with Maputnik
> Communication is about being understood, not being fair.

This is why in some cases it's better to say "Just" instead of trying to hide what you're trying to say in order to maybe be more sensitive without even knowing if that's necessary.

For this situation, I tend to phrase it as "Can we just <x>"? which might be received better than "Just <x>", but "just" is an important word here - I want the other person to understand that I think this ought to be easy. If it's not, I probably want to know why, because that will give me more information about the problem and possible solutions.
Okay, so that explains 'the origin'.

Does 'through the origin' imply motion through 'the origin'?
I agree with your sentiment here. I felt like this article could have been really interesting with some more detail but it seemed mostly like fluff around the core idea “some people have experienced weird bugs”. I’d be curious to see how those weird bugs actually connect in a slightly more technical manner to the jobs of the SREs, but it’s just sort of stated as self evident.

I subscribed to the MIT Technology Review a while ago looking for that kind of analysis and I feel like they coast off of the MIT affiliation and the clean Helvetica font/aesthetics of the site while generally providing low-information content. Maybe I’m not the target audience.
My personal journey with ADHD-
I was diagnosed over a decade ago during my Ph.D. I am taking stimulant medication. I have a family, held good jobs and am a founder.
However, my journey to find the right medication as well managing life's challenges is ongoing.
How do I deal with the endless to-do list?
How should I manage those bad days where I can't seem to get anything done?
How do I deal with my strong emotional responses to negative feedback?
Thats a nice way to think about it. Perhaps we have more control these days and less choice.

He was also lucky enough to have a supportive family. After repeated trials of forced treatment all agreed that it was not tenable indefinitely.

At the time he passed there was an assumption he'd been killed. He would call people who he felt persecuted him, simply walking by him was enough, the N-word. Many buttock clenching a moment caught on his livestreams.

In the end it was likely an accident with him living around train tracks.
Scientists rediscover an insect thought to be extinct for 80 years
Those are the same deterrents installed in public areas to prevent teens from loitering: https://mosquitoloiteringsolutions.com/
Was there a reason for not considering it?
Idaho was a blue state when I was growing up here in the 70s and 80s. Frank Church and Cecil Andrus (among a great many others) did amazing things. Our ancestors were heavily involved in issues like women's suffrage and environmental protections. People forget that. Or more accurately, revisionist history is always trying!

Common sense has always been a big thing here, as well as self-reliance. Politics here is mostly about resources. R's generally vote to extract all ranching/timber/mining resources possible, while D's generally oppose all of that. Now with the tech sector influx, D's are at least as likely to look the other way when it comes to stuff like the loss of farmland to urban sprawl as R's. Idaho will probably be the last state to legalize drugs, not because we care, but because people want to keep things the same. Many of us look at Oregon with concerns about homelessness after its recent legalization, but people are easily confused, so blame the drugs instead of the fundamental causes of exploitation and the existential crisis of living under the profit motive in a post-scarcity information age that should have been automated 20 years ago. We tell it how it is.

Things are also changing. There's a huge influx right now of libertarian-minded folks who want to get away from central control. That's understandable, but growth and gentrification issues are heavy on everyone's mind. We're in a unique position of wanting everyone to be able to enjoy the natural heritage that we are grateful for, but having reservations about newcomers who don't practice our prime directive of leave no trace.

For better or worse, politics here are beginning to flip. It's not enough now to be a stanch this-or-that. If we vote wrong, our housing costs double, a forest gets leveled, we gain or lose thousands of jobs on the whim of a company's decision to build a plant here to dodge taxes. An R quickly becomes a fan of NIMBY when a billionaire buys and gates off their hunting grounds because the timber industry didn't given the land back when they were done with it, to be used as public land. A D becomes one as well to block a wind farm or housing development in the foothills surrounding their town. This stuff is hard.

Idaho stop? I had never heard that expression before, but sounds about right. We just ride our bikes through stops anyway, because trying to ticket everyone is unenforceable and ridiculous. But the older ones here know that the hard-won freedoms we take for granted require constant vigilance, or someone will take them away in the name of liberty or justice to divide us and make somebody rich at the expense of everyone else.
> Yes SBF's investment company might be fucked, but customers funds should be totally separate from that.

Crypto isn’t regulated so there is no segregation or protection of customer funds

Also see this: no FDIC insurance, letter from FDIC alleging misrepresentations from FTX: https://twitter.com/ClarityToast/status/1590022331220787201
I'm not sure that binance has a reason to exist in the current world where defi is a thing.

Things like Coinbase etc are your place to go if you want a fiat to crypto on-ramp or off-ramp or if you want a reasonably safe place to park crypto if you don't want to own it yourself.

There are innumerable decentralized exchanges where a person can be absolutely (for some definition of the word) sure that the exchange won't be shutting down and taking your money before you're done doing your transaction. There are L2 DEX even that are approximately the same cost and same level of inconvenience as something like Binance.

Why does it matter if Binance goes away? I'm not sure if it does!
Build new exchanges faster than they fall. It's the only way to keep the ponzi going.
Former infantry here - One of the things that was drilled into my head, obstacles should always be covered by fire to deter these sorts of things. If you can't cover it by fire, then maybe it's not worth putting on obstacle on.
absolutely wild how "fast" this happened.
If you use house price index instead of consumer price index, it’s in line with that OP said: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/USSTHPI
Yes, exactly. The pushurl has to be generated with the browser on the device which you want send notifications to. The pushurl is bound to that browser.
McKusick is also known for the filesystem (FFS / UFS).

The use of sendmail in FreeBSD isn't exactly a coincidence -- it, too, was developed at Berkeley in the 70s and 80s. And it's probably unsurprising that people meet other people living and working in the same place (grad school).
> Apple updated a billion live iPhones to APFS in 10.3 and there was nary a peep.

This was an insane engineering feat. Oh to be a fly in the room when the go ahead decision was made. And the stories from teams who tracked the rollout.
Like any language, Lisp has readability issues when you’re not familiar with it. You find it hard to read because it’s alien to you. To my eyes – because Lisp is what I’m used to – every non-Lisp language has readability issues. These days I do a significant amount of work in Python, Rust and Julia, and although there are things I love in all of these languages, I always miss s-expression syntax when using them.
Look for an email from achilles@relay.cc :) I'm building https://github.com/relaycc/receiver, and we're hiring.
The essay seems to be from someone who is more often on the giving help side than the asking side. And I read it from that perspective: starting from the assumption that you want to help, here's a thing that will make you more effective at doing so.
Alameda won’t be worth nearly as much without FTX - it was so successful because FTX fed it as much market data as it wanted and gave it priority market making etc. Also seemed to be sending it its own printed FTT tokens to secure loans for trading which was the cause of the insolvency rumors.

Neither of those things benefit the owner of FTX unless they are also the owner of Alameda
What does your reliability look like? Obviously no SLA but what can we really expect? Pay tier available for HA?
Thank you for bringing this up. This was a life lesson that unfortunately had to be spelled out for me in a very embarrassing way.

My ultimate takeaway is to now default to listening without advice. The result are on average better as people who want to vent are more put-off by advice givers than advice seeks who receive a good listener. It's also made me quite a bit more appreciative of times when I need to vent and someone is there to simply listen.
AWS Lambda supports shipping your Lambdas as containers now. Very nice experience.
What is? Tap to that, hold to this?

In Mac? Never.

Shame tho...
> Contact tracing in the Covid context has worked horribly everywhere in the US

Well yeah, it’s hard to recall the dozens or hundreds of people you may have interacted with over the course of days or weeks. It is however much easier to contract trace sexual partners, unless of course you’re engaging in repeated anonymous sexual encounters...
Also quoting literally the first sentence of the abstract:

> The current report presents the case of a 76-year-old man with Parkinson’s disease (PD) who died three weeks after receiving his third COVID-19 vaccination.

If I had a nickel for every confounding variable implied by either "76-year-old" or "Parkinson's disease" (let alone both, let alone for a sample size of 1), the Powerball jackpot would look like pocket change.
Right, but it's great to refresh your memory about eigenvalues.
Uhhh, Physics are indeed a major part of Teardown. the breaking of the Voxels themselves may not be individually impressive, but it's the nearly entirely destructible Environment with per Voxel calculated Materials that IS impressive.
Voxels can be of a wide range of Materials, giving them, well, unique properties. that allows things to be strong, weak, and all sorts of other properties.
Driving a Truck through a Building doesn't leave it unscathed, actually. Et Cetera.
What’s New in Orleans 7.0
I think you mean tutelage instead of tuition there (I could be wrong)
Can confirm, pushover has been good so far.
I've been wearing masks from early on and only recently stopped wearing them regularly. Now I only wear them when in a crowded situation. I feel how masks were handled was completely botched in many ways. There is the politicization and communication errors. However, I also remain somewhat shocked how we never made any effort to address the biggest, obvious issues with masks to make them more effective.

I saw so many studies that showed that a properly fitted mask makes a massive difference in how protective it is compared to other mask types. Where can I get a mask fitted? Never even saw anything about fitting masks other than "it makes a huge difference and we do this for nurses".

Clearly much of the air goes around the mask. Sure a little metal piece at the bridge of the nose makes this a little better, but why did nobody seem to work on a proper solution for this? How about a mask with a rubber seal that goes around it?

This kind of stuff could have saved thousands of lives, yet we seem to not even have tried.

I think the fatality of COVID was just right to create a societal mess. Fatal enough to kill tons of people. But not fatal enough to get everyone on the same page that some sacrifices need to be made to rein it in. At the same time some people also had practically no symptoms, creating more opportunity for disagreement.
Now do Martha Stewart.
When talking about kindness, start by not referring to people as resources.
Been using ntfy.sh for a while now, ever since I saw it on HN a couple of years ago or so. It's great for automated server notifications and the like. I even tied it to a web form as an ersatz on-call system.
PyPI packages decoded for NPM developers
> People are strange... good handwashing standards are likely as important as masks for preventing Covid transmission, but that never got politicized or became controversial for some reason.

It's obvious isn't it? Handwashing isn't a badge you can wear. Meet somebody in public and you'll know if they're wearing a mask or not, but you won't know if they've washed their hands recently.
If indeed the issue is that the hot wallet is empty and funds need to be transferred from the cold wallet, they could say so.
PicoGopher
I am shocked by the responses on this thread.
It is clear just by reading this thread that there is a problem with treating ADHD. Research shows that the most effective treatment is a combination of medication and behavioral coaching. However, most people can not afford behavioral coaching, and insurance usually does not cover it.
A founder encountered a problem that affects many people and set out to solve it. They are not making another AI/NFT/Marketplace solution to make a few bucks but are actually trying to make the world better. We need more people like Chris in the world.
Tangent, but the phrase "client management" makes me imagine asking a client's point-of-contact employee, if I can speak to their manager. I wonder how that would go?
Phenaki: A model for generating videos from text
Enabling Contained Customization with FSM and Server-Driven UI
Perihelion Summer[0] by Greg Egan is a great story with a similar premise (A black hole passing by the solar system and affecting earth's orbit)

[0]: https://amzn.to/3DNiUDj
Your comments cryptoanon have been so incredibly wrong about FTX/Alameda...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33520624
How is Solana positioned in this context? Breakpoint Solana was a big event these days [1]

[1] https://solana.com/breakpoint