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> The mechanism at play in nature will ensure a return to diversity if things are left to themselves.

In the long run. But in the long run, we are all dead. And considering the amount of time it takes for a new species to evolve, not only are we all dead, but so are the next hundred thousand generations of our offspring. This is a personal view, but to me the return to diversity in a few million years is pretty meaningless.

Biodiversity is a goal in itself, for several reasons.

Most selfishly, the greater variety of life, the more raw genetic material there is for humanity to put to use, and the more survival strategies there are for us to learn about. Things like enhancing crop yields, nutrition, and disease resistance. Food, medicines and medical research are just the most obvious practical benefits.

Again, a personal view, but to me diversity is also aesthetically pleasing. Diversity provides interest and a richness to life that combats monotony and boredom. I also find it pleasing to think I might leave a place more varied and interesting than I found it.

Increasing the range of a species, increases its resilience to extinction. That has to be balanced against any negative effects on other parts of the ecosystem (everthing has gotta eat...). Introducing a species to somewhere new has a chance of being quite harmful, but reintroducing a species to somewhere it recently became extinct much less so. It may perturb the new equilibrium (if a few decades is enough time for an equilibrium to establish), but is pretty unlikely to be harmful to biodiversity. It is more likely to be helpful. The recovery of pine martens in Ireland has helped the recovery of red squirrels, for example (admittedly at the bloody expense of the invasive grey).
Instead of using "manmade", which further promotes male-dominated language, they propose using "hand made".

Isn't hand made ableist? What about the people with no hands? Can't they create things without the usage of hands?

This is a never ending rabbithole of idiocy.
As an engineer, Java would be one of the languages I would choose for maintaining a large codebase over time. It is far better for that than most other popular languages.
FTC Expands Scrutiny of Musk’s Twitter over Security Concerns
"Package thief" is similarly precise.
BS.

Filter 1. If we had no large moon, roughly every 30 million years or so our axial tilt would become too extreme for life. We do not have another example of a planet with a moon to rival ours in relative size.

Filter 2. Without Jupiter acting as a cosmic vacuum cleaner, we'd predictably be hit by enough asteroids and comets that we'd never have evolved. In thousands of solar systems that we've found, we've found lots with rocky planets, and lots with gas giants. Ours is the only system with BOTH rocky planets AND gas giants.

Filter 3. Supernovas are dangerous. For example we are currently in the Local Bubble. Which is the result of a supernova about 4 million years ago which would have wiped us out if we were this close when it happened. Luckily for us we have a weird orbit where we only pass through the galactic plane every 30 million years or so, and spend most of our time well away from potential supernovas.

Filter 4. Planets need to be in the habitable zone, around a star where that zone remains habitable for a very long period. Most solar systems have no suitable planet.

Putting these together on a back of the envelope, it is likely that we're the only solar system in our galaxy which is likely to remain habitable and stable for long enough that complex intelligent life could evolve.
Legally speaking, it is beer.
People don't have an infinite capacity for consumption. That's why 1st world countries use immigration policy to boost the GDP (a reflection of consumption).

Between gains in efficiency, renewables, etc the "need for restraint" has a ton of legroom if the population simply does not grow. The rise in emissions from the last couple of decades is largely owing to growing demand from China and other countries with an emerging middle class. Vaclav Smil makes this clear in a few of his books (e.g. How The World Really Works), you don't need to rely on conjecture if you just look at the numbers. Since it would be inhumane to demand that the 3rd world not make use of fossil fuels to improve their quality of life (including for instance ammonia for fertilizer), we can expect demand to continue growing.

There's no reason to believe that, assuming a stable population, we would be relegated to conditions of asceticism in order to keep the planet habitable.
Sure but it's still not necessary for stripe to become the next morality police we have enough of those in Iran.
goldmine for fake links? does it check ownership?
I will respect Cloanto when they respect AmigaOS by publishing the source code under an Open Source license.

It is a shame that they are still bickering about this historical piece of software, not allowing the community to move on.

Meantime, our Atari friends are enjoying emuTOS + MiNT.
Good question, but I don't know. I'm not trying to recommend anything. Not sure it's even solvable.

Reading this article prompted this observation about myself.

I do wonder how often I have been wrong to get frustrated with someone, rather than extend more grace. I'll try to remember to consider this in the future.
Thankyou perrygeo, you're solidifying the advice of many other commentors on here and I appreciate that. Do you have any reccomendations?
It should be noted that (3) is not true. You cannot deny entry to black people because you are a racist, for instance. You can deny someone who was previously violent, for the violence. Not because you dislike them.

This is similar to

5. I, as a government, can lock up people who engage in behaviors I dislike (e.g. because they were violent.)

6. I, as a government, can lock up people who are affiliated with groups I dislike (e.g. political groups not in power)
Extremely interesting. Maybe the FDA needs a new classification and evaluation methodology for personalized genetically engineered cures. Most of these treatments are not going to be useful to anyone other than the individual they are designed for. We need a Pharma Johns as in the Peripheral.
Hmm, what do you mean exactly? The #<4_numbers> is part of the username that is required to add someone on discord. So, yea, the full thing to add me is xor#0001
good for onlyfans "influencers"?
I don't think whether or not Bud Light is beer is relevant to the story.

And to answer your question, yes, it is beer, as defined by https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-27/chapter-I/subchapter-A...
If you look at the wikipedia's list of 100 nearest stars, only 4 are single main sequence stars: Tau ceti, Sigma Draconis, 82 G. Eridani, Delta Pavonis. All other are either binary stars with unpredictable orbits or flare stars. Stars where civilizations can quietly mature are rare.
ActivityWatch. Records your activity in the background (how much time spent in which programs and the time period).
It can record browser tab titles and vs code open files, sometimes it can be invaluable to go back and check out what i did at a specific point in time.
Honestly the biggest reason we had to re-platform to the JVM was latency (fail whale was a 5s timeout) and not growth. Ruby was just too slow for all the stuff we wanted it to do. It ended up being 10x fewer servers AND 10x lower latency.
If OP wants their name redacted they can contact as at hn@ycombinator.com. We do that for people all the time.
Yes, thanks. You're right (though I can no longer edit).
A wolf was sadly run over today in Denmark, it has been eradicated since 1813, im not sure there is big enough places for it to stay without human contact tho, but it is exciting.
> No, it is not, and this is why you're having a hard time understanding the purpose of this project, because you've decided that male gaze means something it doesn't, and are arguing from that perspective.

I don't think you're understanding my point. I clearly understand you want to use "the male gaze" purely in the context of static art where the men often impose their objectification of women into paintings which are then praised. Fine. I don't agree that you can decouple the real world act of "gazing" with the art definition of "gazing".

Again, you're trying to decouple "the male gaze" from general objectification. I do not think you can, because then any criticism and the definition of "the male gaze" in the artistic sense becomes completely moot. Why would it matter if the gaze is different or there is no gaze for some art piece, so the end painting has the woman in a different position?

If you purely want to see a different end result if you remove "the male gaze", okay, but you should clearly state that. The idea you can decouple real world objectification of women from "the male gaze" and expect people to infer your literal definition is dishonest. In every colloquial sense, the male gaze is a representation of male objectification of women, whether you like it or not.

https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-the-male-gaze-5118422
Great step in the right direction. USPS routes are local, low speed once near its destination, involve lots of stops, and are relatively short in terms of total length. Vehicles can recharge overnight. Sounds like the ideal definition of business suitable for EVs.
Hi - curious on your experiences with toptal if you don't mind sharing. If you're not comfortable sharing here, how best to contact you directly?
That said: time to market with java is also quite nice and one selling point for it.
It depends on how drunk the horse was.
We're the nation that spends over $100 million dollars of federal money every year on abstinence-only sex education programs[1]. You still can't show titties on broadcast TV.

So... the answer to your question is "yes".

[1] https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/abstinence-only-progra...
Personal anecdote:

Am a Senior PM laid off from a Big-N tech company who has launched multiple 9 figure revenue generating products.

The market, despite the economy and the time of year isn’t great, but it’s not terrible.

I’ve had lots of first and second interviews and a surprising amount of final rounds given all of the above.

That said most all of those came from recruiters reaching out as opposed to applying directly.

Unlike a month ago, my LinkedIn is EMPTY in terms of recruiter messages.

It’s been over a week since anyone’s reached out but I figure that’s a function of the time of year.

To compare to Spring of this year when I was interviewing (while still employed) I had many, many, more recruiters reaching out than anything I’ve seen in the last 3 months, and the caliber of jobs was higher quality.

It sucks being unemployed during the holidays and not getting the reach I had before. It’s a little scary, but I keep reminding myself that it’s that time of year with holidays, no budget, etc and it’ll get better in January (hopefully).

I’m no 100x rockstar coder, but I’ve added real, quantifiable value at companies where it’s a real challenge to launch anything quickly and successfully. It’s not nearly as rosy a picture as the BBC presents. I hope it gets better soon.
Java has been improving pretty fast and is starting to close the gap in spots where it's been seen weaker to Go etc.
Fact still remains that it has excellent lib ecosystem, tooling, observability and large code bases with multiple teams are much easier managed in static languages.
At this point most of the downsides are from legacy frameworks. A modern framework + Kotlin is very productive.
Well, I'm sure she was refunded or that would be another part of the suit.

Now, look at these 2 situations.

"Hello, I see you are buying this ticket, but since we're not going to let you enter we will prevent you from buying it"

is much different from.

"Hello, I see you got a baby sitter and took an uber to come down here and now we're refusing you access to a place you had a ticket for, on a reason you could not have possibly predicted"

There is an accrual of many other costs on the second one that are not refunded.
> The bears didn't seem hostile and none of the locals were too scared of them.

There are no locals on the Transfagarasan, just tourists :)

No local in our mountain area is happy that bears come from the forest to eat from the trash cans, believe me. And I mean even in cities, not remote villages. If you ask me, we have a bear overpopulation problem now.
Researchers develop new plastic that is both strong and biodegradable
True. I have in mind situations in which I am physically there. I should have said, "If you don't want to refer to someone properly, then don't refer to them at all."
True enough. But Java (and other options) have changed in the meantime too. Are the productivity arguments equally true today as they were when Twitter decided on Rails?
As someone with 13 years of experience in Backend Development and Devops and currently working in a startup that might run out of money next year, would it make sense to start looking for a new job right now or just wait it out? Also considering that I'm working in Europe where job protection laws are quite strict and having worked in a company for 3 years will give you strong job security. So basically I will be one of the last ones to be laid off.
Iceland emerged (is still emerging?) from the rift between the North American and Eurasian plates. Roughly speaking everything west of Þingvellir is on the North American plate, everything east on the Eurasian. I would've given it two colors in the continent map, although now that I look at it again it the categories seem to be more cultural than geologic, which would place it squarely in Europe.
My pet theory to address the Fermi Paradox is that we live in a unpleasant place in the universe/multiverse. Out there, exists a place much more attractive (think of another dimension with much better physical properties). And this is where everybody is.
Bash alias. And my large bash_alias file
A competent Java programmer is not slower than a competent Python programmer. Time to market won't suffer.

There is definitely a higher barrier to entry with Java, and starting new projects involves a bit more setup, but that is never the bottleneck. You start a project once. You work on it every day after that. The time it takes to set up the build system is a drop in the bucket compared to the rest of the work. Maybe it will take your company a few more hours to get to market because of that? Big deal.
I’m ready to help with this. I think the idea is great.
Assuming that thet use dynamic provision of services abstracted from physical servers, that is exactly the modern definition of “private cloud”.

You seem to be confusing cloud with “public cloud”, but private (and hybrid) cloud is very much a part of the modern understanding of cloud.
Wera is even selling self adjusting wrenches, which tighten themselves when you turn them. The big drawback is that the adjustment range is quite small.

All adjustable wrenches have the inevitable problem that they are easier to break then their solid counterparts and have some flex in their construction.
Some people are into creating things, and other people are into tools. As the saying goes, it's a poor craftsperson that blames their tools. But I also think it's a poor craftsperson who tries to improve by improving their tools.

I see it a lot with photography. Some talented photographers pull incredible images out of older digital cameras and lenses, and don't bother to get new cameras/lenses because the reality is that a new camera wouldn't make their images much better.

Other photographers lack that kind of creative skill but still spend their time buying better and better gear, talking about gear online, and taking pictures of test charts—all without improving their skill.
Proving what? With a sample size of 1 that is all just survivor bias so far... and after all we know it is ending soon

We need a real godly or technological wonder (a real wonder, not something like fusion what is on the horizon), or maybe just humanity coming to reason and agreeing and uniting and doing the right thing (ok yes, now I am getting really ridiculous, the least likely to happen) to avoid that filter.

With a bit of luck humanity may endure though.. in the hundred thousands on medieval level with some more luck..
To me its pretty straight forward because this is how social credit systems start.

This is a slippery slope.

Facial recognition matched with digital currencies is a real serious problem.
> mortgages are fixed and can go lower by refinancing.

This varies by country. In my corner of the EU, morgages are flexible rate (following an index such as EURIBOR), sometimes with a 5-year fixed rate option (for a premium).
> Fourth, contraception has the psychological effect of divorcing the intrinsic function of sexual intercourse from pleasure which results in a hedonistic view of sex

There is so much more to sex than procreation or pure hedonistic desire.

What about infertile couples? Should they just not have sex because there is no hope of procreation? Gay couples?
I don't mean to diminish the problem, but that sounds like a massively inflated number.
It automatically parallelizes any large scale data processing pipeline (assuming that your data set is already broken into files). People use it for things like documentation generation. I've used it to process the results of web scrapers, large scale data cleaning tasks, etc, etc.

It takes about an afternoon to set up NFS + SSH primitives that automatically distribute the computation across clusters of machines. Since it is restartable, it automatically tolerates hardware faults (up to dozens of machines, in practice).

Basically, you get Map Reduce, but for arbitrary data processing DAGs, and it supports any language that works well on Unix-style operating systems.
the grass is always greener
What about C#? Have you guys considered the .net framework?
According to myself I work 26 hours a day and go to work barefoot, uphill both ways. :3
Clever but a clear sign that we have no protections on the books for anything like this.

That someone needs to resort to clever liquor license dispute adds to the dystopian feel of this story.
For people interested in this, I recommend Nick Winters book "The Motivation Hacker" which gives a practical strategy to 'hack' the procrastination equation.

It works, however I feel there are often deep psychological problems and/or health issues causing low 'expectancy' for many people... these reasons differ, are hard to identify, and require hard work to address.
"The admin never knows the user's password" is a pretty simple security step for any setup. What way would someone want to use a web service where the admin knowing their password is a requirement?
Is a Lack of Role Clarity Hurting Your Engineering Team?
That’s not true—just a very persistent myth. Your intuition is correct. Anandtech display reviews have actual measurements if you’re interested.

See this chart: https://images.anandtech.com/doci/9394/luminance-curve.png

From this article: https://www.anandtech.com/show/9394/analysing-amoled-power-e...

What’s actually true that most people don’t expect is that OLED displays often use more power than LCD displays even with very dark content.
On the other hand we will probably keep hearing "it's getting worse in 2 more weeks" doomerisms until the downturn clears up.
I love Obsidian Sync as well but to be devil's advocate, it doesn't "just work" as a lot of people claim. It's still a bit rough around the edges. For example, it doesn't sync settings or starred files immediately. I've also noticed it dropping some text if I edit the same file on multiple devices simultaneously (or even in quick succession before sync is able to catch up). I'm sure these issues and more would exist with a 3rd party syncing solution but Obsidian sync still needs some work before it's perfect.
If a company isn’t doing layoffs now, when there is basically a free pass PR wise, they must be extremely over confident or delusional.
I can't answer any of your other questions but Obsidian is owned by Dynalist, which is based in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. Their OCN number is 2538019 if you want to search them up, they're also on CrunchBase https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/dynalist
Math talk delivered from within TeXmacs
I'm an ex editorial illustrator and midjourney can do the whole job often enough. With about 20% of ideas I try out I've been able to get submission ready work. Maybe another 30% can be cleaned up without too much hassle in Photoshop. I don't expect these odds to get worse in the future.

A photographer friend of mine had a gig to do some festive food arrangements. He needed a full day and a half, a studio, $30k in gear and years of professional experience. All I needed was 5 minutes and some clever prompt poetry. I did not have the heart to show him why he might have a hard time getting a similar gig next year.

As Clayton Christensen's theory of disruption proposes: the disruptive product does not need to be better. It needs to be good enough and far cheaper. So cheap now that there is zero marginal cost for bespoke art.
I use Craft for this. Short term notes or stuff like receipt scans. Then (where relevant) I copy paste into Obsidian for longer term linking or whatever
In Poland we have Paczkomaty which are dominant delivery method - https://inpost.pl/en/find-location

Density of those is very high, so you'll have one in walking distance unless you're living in some backwater. Then you'll have one in 5 minute driving distance.
> In fact, we did migrate from Java to Kotlin: only not for our backend codebases, but for our Android app.

good call. that's where it belongs.
Wow, I thought I misread but this is really about Chumby! I still have an original one. Used it for weather and stuff at the time. Not very useful now, but did not know they had several follow up versions, cool! Still like the idea.
Agreed. Even if we buy into the argument that Java is just wordy and slow to work with, once we're doing with long-lived code that needs maintenance, that's less of a concern than code that's hard to decipher, so the trade-off seems like a good one.
Things dying because of AI really depends on how good the prompts are.

As someone with a lot of doctors in his family, I can assure you that most patients are absolutely abysmal at offering prompts.
The correct language to chose as a start up is one that your team has expertise in and allows you to move with speed. It seems silly to over optimize for future "re-architecting"
Ethical hacker and CISO are totally different jobs and require different sets of interest. Why would you chart a path like that unless you're primarily motivated by big money?
Studio Display – Repair Manual [pdf]
Ask HN: What’s your favourite lesser-known TLD?
Especially those you might be using for personal sites or email.
For each service I run, I have a volume for the persistent storage. For example: Nextcloud has a maria (mysql) db and a server. In my /opt/nextcloud I have a script for creating/updating the docker images. Persistent data lives in /opt/nextcloud/srv/{db,data}. I used systemd for management/dependencies (I don't use docker compose, just simple, single instances that are easy to recreate).

Everything is backed up daily using rdiff-backup.
AI and it's automation of knowledge work will destroy the nerd paradise.

The only hard jobs left are things involving physical labor, like plumbing (ironically extremely hard to automate).

Nerds are capital F "ucked"
We don't know.

Currently, the fed is still saying December's CPI print (coming on January 12) may be high. But looking at the futures market, it seems like almost everything is down significantly and we might see the first CPI print of 0% MoM in a year. Is the fed keeping this narrative to temper the market and slow it down? Or do they know something we don't?

If January 12 shows 0% or even negative MoM, it's possible interest rates could come down in 2023.
So should we bring back a poll tax then?
$600 per year means that you must be dealing with a lot of theft.