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>I am involved in scientific programming, and it's getting kind of crazy. This is a domain where programming is purely utilitarian, and what you are programming is more important.

In my experience this leads to a lot of bad programming by people who only care about the utilitarian aspect, not about maintainability, user experience or failure modes.

Scientific programming would benefit the most from a stricter language that catches errors early on. Especially because most of the participants are usually not software engineers that have some semblance of a chance to catch errors in C++. Even they make a lot of mistakes.
I guess you can call it an issue but it stops being "smart". As in, no special "AI" to decide when to heat etc. You have to program it yourself.

Or hook it up to HA and send the on/off commands as you wish.

As for HA, there's really no dedicated service or add-on for Hive. But the generic thermostat service is good enough.

I combine the scheduled heating in Hive with "on-demand" through HA when needed.
You don’t have reference for that. You have no experience of any other universes and no other examples in this one.
Who remembers when CNN was a news source?
I'm constantly chipping away at Zigpoll (https://www.zigpoll.com).

Flexible surveys are an incredibly broad challenge both from the client side and the analytics/dashboard side. Since it's by nature solving long tail problems the level of complexity is such that you have to have several different user paths which "just work" under the same umbrella. And entering into different markets ensures a constant flow of new features to roadmap. I am focused on e-commerce currently but it could continue to branch out into multiple sectors given enough polish and tighter integrations with relevant third party providers.
I'll take it, not much to praise. It reads well (kayden live) unlike other names I have to grudgingly pronounce (postgresql, qjackctl, systemctl come to mind).

But cheers, now I see I was reactive towards a generalised view of your point; I now understand where you're coming from, I'm with you there.
Also using Keepassxc. However, I really would love to have sth audited and with a documented threat model. I have the feeling that those programs are developed by enthusiasts and probably would not withstand a serious attack (but this not really the typical family worries about neither do I)
These days, if you're serious about tech in itself, and not just its money-making potential, you're bound to get stress-induced grey hair and beard very fast...
It's a consequence of Python never having been designed as a language with a static type system. In fact, Python is utterly dynamic and has a number of mechanisms that allow to write code which defies and mocks any attempts at static typing.

When the pain of maintaining larger codebases resulted in attempts to add static type checking (ultimately successful), it was, and still is, impossible to produce a solution that would work equally well for all kinds of codebases. Stricter tools show too many "false positives", laxer tools miss too many cases that a real static type checker would flag. Say, things that Django does (not to mention Zope) can only be described well by special-casing them. Hence different tools which strike different kinds of compromises.
I'm extremely bullish on Large Language Models (e.g., GPT-3, ChatGPT) and Stable Diffusion (e.g., DALL-E).

This year, I will use them to double my productivity at work. I also plan to integrate them to my life management framework.
The P6 family was when Intel decided to add circuitry to detect SMC and flush the queue, effectively making it appear to have a queue size of 0. AFAIK all x86 henceforth have been the same.
> But also because I understand that often it's a small business and by leaving negative reviews I'm fucking with someones livelihood (this varies from place to place and I'm far more likely to leave a review if it's company owned).

There used to be a time, when people used AirBnB to get some extra money when they did not need their apartment. Not to earn their living. That was one good reason why AirBnB was successful in the beginning.

Now people are making business with the help of AirBnB. And it has brought nothing good. The price of living increases for locals and they can’t own their home. Those small businesses which can afford multiple apartments so that part can be in AirBnB 24/7, do not have problems on making the living. They just want to get richer by doing nothing.

At least here in north Europe, you need hundreds of thousands of investments in euros before you can make your living, and assuming you have loans. If you don’t have, then your living does not depend on it.
>It’s hotels for me every time as well.

I like to search for newly built hotels as they usually offer the nicest accommodations.
But it was conquered by Muslim invaders, not Arabs, but Muslims, specifically the Almoravids [0].

Sweden is not a particularly good example. A better example might be Latvia (or any of the other areas invaded as part of the northern crusades), which was invaded by a group of Catholics spreading the faith[1], Latvia could not be called a colony of the Papacy, but it certainly moved the area into Romes sphere of influence, with all the religion and language that entails.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Bakr_ibn_Umar

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Crusades
I left a very high paying premium tier company for a startup.

I got lucky. But if it didn’t work out I would probably regret it, badly.

I don’t think people should go back to a prior employer. A lot of people have a cozy sort of path in life. They want comfort and stability. But if that’s all you do, I don’t think the highest levels of growth are ever possible.

Living a no risk or low risk life is the path to mediocrity. I’m glad about the risks I have taken.

Some of the risks I have taken have had devastating consequences.

When you take a risk and it doesn’t work out it is very hard to step back and say: “well, I took a risk and sometimes it doesn’t work and sometimes it does. But taking no risks is unhealthy so this is natural.”

If you took a risk and it blew up in your face, the pain and loss are always far greater than the sort of touchy feels.

The only thing I can offer is: “try to master your mindset, psychology and self talk.”

It is not much to say when you are in pain from a bad move. After having so many things work and so many things not work, all you have left is what you do in your mind when it happens and your self talk.

If you fix your self talk, you can sometimes turn a bad situation into a good one.
> What I want is a new database that defines tables in terms of rich structures like proto, like Spanner.

Do you mean like https://www.edgedb.com/? Or something more... rich?
Just for General. Technician changed last year.
FB is very clearly deeply invested in convincing people to over-share by accident or habit, yeah. It makes their network more addictive, and they know it, so they press that button as hard as possible while building things that technically satisfy niches.

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I quite liked G+'s focus on choosing your audience. Because you have sub-groups even within small, tightly-knit friend groups; when you raise that number into the hundreds it's only more true, not less. It was a mostly-effective UX for embracing that, and it led to my feed being dramatically more relevant.

Mastodon is filling a similar purpose for me, lately. The server you join has a pretty powerful impact on your local timeline - join a couple, use them as targeted sharing / browsing groups, and it's working much better for me than any algorithmic sorting ever did.
Yeah, the obvious reason why funding spaceflight yields useful technology is that we also fund e.g. laser technology. We can fund science research without also spending billions of dollars going to the moon.
I agree. But I've worked at startups and it's been a real issue that comes up when the business really starts to grow.
That’s not how my conversations typically go. If they responded like that I would exit the conversation and not enter into conversations with them at a later date.
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Yes I agree. It’s good to get to choose your display server, DE, WM, and whatever else.

I’m just conveying the complaint of an inconsistent UI is stupid. Considering these are tools that enable getting real work done. Icons reused from the 90s isn’t getting in anyone’s way to get work done same with Gtk themes don’t apply consistently across apps.
I'm not blaming you I'm saying most of the time management will pick the cheapest option. That leads to bad outcomes for a lot of legacy software. That then leads to someone spending more money replacing the legacy system
I looked at this thread in the morning. Then I waited the whole workday to get home and read anecdotes like yours.

This is seriously cool. I never understood why people don’t talk more about this style of programming.
Those streets also instigate walking anywhere on the street (no sidewalk), slowing down drivers even more. A beautiful cycle. I drive in Tokyo regularly and love this system.
“Interview with guy who was in the right place at the right time”
This reminds me of the strawberry growers here in Australia, QLD. Many farmers switched to strawberries and the market was flooded for one season. They were literally selling them by the kilo when previously punnets (250g) were 3-5 dollars each.

Lots of farmers switched to other more stable crops. The big players stayed and the small farmers producing high quality fruit continued.

The market stabilizing. Interesting times.
Big fan of raw sql, but practically speaking (as it relates to developing with rails) CTEs can be rewritten as subqueries, the advantage being that they are linear instead of nested in SQL.

With AR queries you can do the same and make it linear in ruby (and then the computer doesn't really care if your sql is nested)

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Ask HN: Aggregation of salary ranges for CA job?
Is anyone collating salary ranges for jobs posted in California in 2023? Here are a few interesting ones that I found:

* Netflix gives total comp ranges. For one Director position is listed as 330K-1.8M (!)

* Google VP positions all listed at $550K (base)

* Meta has their pay scales but for two VP positions they have: “ $error/year to $error/year + bonus + equity + benefits We apologize for the inconvenience, please be patient as we work to correct the issue.”
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1. Yes. YouTube has made it much more accessible in recent decades. I talk with my friend who lives a few miles away. We love it.

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>you cannot destroy it,

is this really true? you can definitely do things to it that would make it uninhabitable, no longer "fertile", or any other terms that essentially come to the same conclusion of the land being essentially destroyed.

at least as far as the context of desirability to be owned
> The amount of bad requests, per Cloudflare classification, goes up to 70-90% of regular web visitors.

Or do they just make them up?
Yeah, I would like to have phrased it better. However I am struggling to think of a clear alternative.

If we assume that the rich get their wealth from the workers, then taxing the rich is now just indirectly taxing the workers.

If we talk about taxing everyone in society, then how do we tax an artist or anybody else spending time on their dream? How do we measure an artist’s contribution to society? Should we pay anyone highly if they contribute great artistic wealth to society? Should we pay someone whose art or hobby has no merit to society? Do we treat a rich artist like you seem to want to treat a financially rich person - tax the value of their art until they are “equal”? If someone has worldwide status or high renown, should we somehow share that wealth of status with the less fortunate? What if some high art is immensely valuable to a small number of people - how do you fairly manage that?

Our society has a huge variety of different means to deal with the conflicting goals above. One of those is money which often equalises competing unmeasurable needs so that as individuals we get to value incomparable things (catching polio vs. a Van Gogh vs. an apricot vs. playing Mario Brothers vs. reading a book vs. a massage).

We all have huge disagreements about how the wealth of society should be divided - and our society has many radically different solutions for that problem. Should the average wage of a US citizen be allowed to be radically higher than a citizen of Haiti? What about an artist in Haiti?
Being a Nazi isn't a protected characteristic, nor should it be. As commonly understood, a marginalized minority involves traits someone is born with and cannot change, that do not harm others. Being an asshole doesn't make you a marginalized minority, it just makes you an asshole. You're welcome to disagree with this take. Samuel Alito thought KKK members deserved protection in a recent hypothetical that had him laughing about black kkk kids.
I think it's kind of worse than that. It's not an education problem. People are intentionally using this stuff to talk publicly about an issue. They just don't like the consequences of that.
You'd have a point of there wasn't a reactionary movement against anything that was credentialed, or even against the concept of expertise. When you consider it that way, it really makes my point for me that you are just sounding off in the culture wars. It's your assertion that it's "not because their reporting is high quality or even handed" and it's not supported by anything save your "instinct".
Continental drift puzzle (much harder than 15 puzzle)
Gallium nitride transistors used in compact power transformers.
>The farther from the Earth, the farther from the explosion from a world ending event.

Don't end the world then. Hypothetical Mars colony is doomed anyway without support from Earth.

>There's water and c02. You don't need anything else.

You need huge amounts of energy, storage and processing facilities. And water is not that easy to find and use on Mars. You should check the videos, really enlightening.

>I wouldn't dismiss SpaceX with a Youtube video.

Nobody is dismissing SpaceX with a Youtube video. The Starship and Mars mission are being thoroughly dissected which is relevant to the topic.

>The great thing is, who cares about the people negging, it'll get done anyway,

“Going to Mars reads like that ad for Shackleton going to the Antarctic. You know, it’s dangerous, it’s uncomfortable, it’s a long journey, you might not come back alive. But it’s a glorious adventure, and it will be an amazing experience.
You probably won’t have good food. If an arduous and dangerous journey where you may not come back alive—but it’s a glorious adventure—sounds appealing, Mars is the place. That’s the ad. That’s the ad for Mars. Honestly, a bunch of people probably will die in the beginning. It’s tough sledding over there. We’re not going to make anyone go. It’s volunteers only.” - Musk

I don't think they should die. But maybe it's just me.
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How is that different from you being neighbors with somebody that hosts parties?
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That's interesting - I didn't know that the memory subsystem could "know" which of the 4 segment registers was in use for a given request. With that detail, one could certainly call it a 4MB "address space", albeit even more of a pain to use than the usual 1MB one :-)
See, I was trying to find the most innocent progressive topic as to not derail from my main point. Which is not masks. It's unhinged ideological purity inside bubbles, which soft silences speech. Masks was just an example.

And yet still you manage to label anybody opposing your opinion as children, even before hearing any argument. You're part of the problem and the very reason people go into silent mode and simply stop bothering.
Yet my comment gets downvoted to oblivion because it questions the conclusion that everybody has jumped to
They're still used in France even if mostly by old people.
I spent about 4 years actively growing weed before it was "legal." in San Francisco.

Because mine was indoor/soil/organic and didn't require driving up to Ukiah or waiting for the outdoor harvests, I got the same premium rates for it that are noted in the article.

As soon as I realized that weed was eventually going legal, I stopped entirely because I could see the writing on the wall. It was becoming commoditized to the point where it was impossible to compete. Too much money was being thrown at it.

Articles like this are zero surprise.
Please don't post unsubstantive or flamebait comments.
This piece avoids mentioning why it was written- around this time, it came to light that new UK bank notes contain beef tallow so are problematic for Hindu and vegan people who rightly have problems with these replacing old paper notes.
This discussion brings back fond memories of watching the “slow scan TV” over packet radio ever so slowly rendering low res images of a family we used to talk to in the US from Australia on my dads rig with his 60ft antenna out the back. This was the early 1990s before the Internet was a thing. We ended up travelling to meet that family in Texas in 1994.

I recall in Texas there was some ham repeaters that patched you into the local phone network using DTMF, but can’t recall exactly what it was called. Phone calls in Australia at the time were costly so it was really a novelty.
There's actually a near-infinite amount of land.

We just haven't yet gotten to the point where we can access any of the land not on this planet.
Improving something is a multi-step process that takes time.

I'm happy they've taken a step in the right direction, an I'm hopeful they'll take more.
Team members shouldn’t be required to be friends though. The reason is you can choose your friends, but you can’t usually choose who’s on your team. Socializing with someone needs to be an individual choice and not a prescription.
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