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> attempts to debloat or fix Windows results in a broken system sooner or later

My anecdotal experience is the opposite, after ~20 years of de-bloating and customizing Windows. The updates seem to just reset the de-bloating, rather than breaking things.
The HN system just refused an edit, I will have to reply instead:

I am reading the words of former NATO supreme allied commander James Stavridis,

> Every year, the number of devices connected to the internet grows rapidly. By some estimates, the count is up to more than 50 billion devices, from around 7 million a decade ago. The benefits are real and obvious. (Hooray, I can close my garage door from a thousand miles away on my household Nest!) But so is the fact that each of those devices is a unique point of attack for hackers. We have created a vast, undefendable threat surface

You simply do not put unrequired attack surfaces on critical devices - it is cretinous -, and you do not encourage the practice - it is criminal.
> Not seeing any person of color in an activity makes it’s so I don’t want to be the first.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34210289
>if I write a style parody of William Shakespeare and add a '--Willy Shakespeare' at the end to round it off, have I revealed that I have secretly copied his work? //

I doubt you're suggesting SD, Dall-E, etc., are producing parodies so bringing in parody considerations muddies the water a lot. Also, Shakespeare's works are out of copyright.

If you sell a painting signed with a [facsimile] signature of Dali then it's pretty hard to say you didn't copy the signature, as a minimum. Thats likely to be a trademark violation too. Now, suppose you include aspects in the image specifically associated with the artist, and a signature, ... there's no way to genuinely deny that is a derivative.
For context, here was Tan's bull case for Ethereum in 2021:

https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1402648829732614146

While I can't comment on any blockchain token's merit as an investment, I think in terms of social impact, the potential of the blockchain is overwhelmingly positive, which makes me glad that Tan is now at the helm.

Fundamentally, cryptocurrency is just a mechanism for transferring value electronically without any centralized intermediary. You can even forego the speculative aspect of it entirely, and just hold USDC/DAI. Sending value is as simple as effecting a transaction from your browser-based MetaMask wallet. It removes all dependencies on third party custodians and payment networks like Venmo or PayPal.

People being empowered to control digital assets, like a unique name, or digital currency, with their own device, rather than depending on large intermediaries to control their assets on their behalf, is obviously a good thing.

The technology is still quite raw, with many important features lacking, but that is a solvable problem in that it only requires more engineering resources, while the fundamental properties of the blockchain open up new capabilities that the traditional server-client architecture lacks.
What could possibly make Earth as uninhabitable as Mars, without destroying Mars as well?

Almost nothing. I agree the Mars colonialization idea is absurd in any foreseeable timeframe. My point is mostly fantasy seems serve to numb people to the damage to Earth that's now going. If someone is worried about the future of the human, they should be working on climate change. Especially if they have enough money and influence to make themselves widely heard, as do many of the people hocking the Mars-boondoggle.
Tesla Semi battery pack design leaks
> breadth-first loading. The ideal solution requires us to load the data in a breadth-first approach, but unfortunately, this is harder to write because it does not compose well.

The author finds the simplest and efficient solution, but continues to over engineer for blog content :P

“Composing” is overrated in this case.
Don’t they normally send an invoice?
I've tried exercising many times, I always give up half-way. I remember reading obesity is pretty much endemic in people (and even if they do lose weight, they most probably than not regain it soon enough), so I have no hopes on that from either.
Ok that is just not the law in my country.

I think it is outside the scope of the software to define what one should or shouldn't do depending of every state/country juridiction.
Thanks for sharing this!!! I know that the video clip itself is supposed to be satirical, but I actually found it quite useful. I loved it and watch all 10 minutes of it.

Out of curiosity, in the skit, do you know which book the actor is reading? In the skit, at the top of the page, the book is titled: "Making outlines and summaries"[0].

[0] Fast forwarded to specific time: https://youtu.be/yfcyVtD8-Dk?t=129
To the obvious question: how does this differ from mypy?

tldr; mostly about performance improvements but there's also semantic differences. The latter sounds like it means a split between the community who decides to do mypy vs pyright. But maybe pyright only differs with mypy in terms of things that are considered bugs in mypy, and things that are optional in mypy (via flags).

https://github.com/microsoft/pyright/blob/main/docs/mypy-com....
> three-quarters of Earth's food supply draws on just 12 crops and five livestock species.

All of the biodiversity on the planet is reducing to 12 crops and five livestock species, at least by weight.
Ah neat. Have you ever used RAD Tools Telemetry (http://www.radgametools.com/telemetry.htm)? I saw Jonathan Blow using it on Youtube once and it looked slick and performant like Spall (and unlike every other open source option).
I'd say 'constrain' is the wrong word to use here. 'tailor' may be better.
curious where you're located? AFAIK Airbnb now banned all parties but it's hard to enforce
You mean efficiency in terms of the plants absorbing the energy? Probably. But in most parts of the world it's still cheaper to just use more land.
Depends how it happens.

To put it callously, old people can't work much and consume lots of resources, so a plague that kills them off (however sad) actually makes life easier for everyone else.

But lower fertility rates have the opposite effect, the ratio of old people to young people increases, which is why it makes things harder.
I'd be interested in seeing an example of your writing process, using Excel as a way to break writer's block.
Since you mentioned it, I have to bring up the fact that fans of this, er, masterpiece made a (shockingly?) high quality audio dub over the entirety of the original with the dumped subtitles: https://youtu.be/XziLNeFm1ok

This might legitimately be one of my favorite pieces of entertainment in existence, if only because of the delivery and emotion behind nonsense idiom mistranslations. It's glorious.
25 I’d say. I stopped using cash 10-15 years ago. I mean entirely, no exceptions.
You're right. Sorry, my bad.

Amusingly (or concerningly?), that is the only one I somehow missed.

:-s
This job pays 200k+ a year while working anywhere in the US ? Do some terms and conditions apply ?
For me, in Ireland, cashing a US check through my bank teller costs 150ish eur (that's one hundred and fifty, not a buck fifty) and takes 6 weeks. They basically have to hand process it and send it to their US correspondent bank.

At one point, I got tax refund and stimulus checks from the Treasury, and it turned out to just be easier to endorse them to my remaining US account and mail them to the branch that has my account.

In theory I could use the bank's remote deposit capture service, but: 1) The checks were too big, there's a ~$2500 limit on RDC, and 2) The bank has complained in the past that I'm not supposed to use it when I'm overseas. There's some regulation that they're worried about.

I've seen a couple of checks in Ireland that haven't been from the US, mainly tax refunds IIRC, but they're super rare and no ATMs will take them. They'll take Euros for deposits, but not checks. So it's a trip into see the Cash desk at the bank.
Micro service makes perfect sense in a company with large number of teams. Ofcourse it would be stupid to use microservices if you are a small company with a handful number of devs.
Does the universe enjoy having feelings, hopes, and dreams? This kind of thinking is anthropocentric and doesn't generalize to any scale. Consider cancer cells thinking that their goal (growth) is good for the organism, because, after all, they are part of it.
Personal anecdote. Experiences vary but for me over the past few years deliberately drinking a lot of water- generally 64oz+ per day, lightly salted (a couple of coarse grains per 32oz jug)- has had a huge positive impact.

I almost never feel thirsty when I don't drink and so have to put in conscious effort to do it but when I do many aspects of my psychic experience change. I am more awake, think more clearly, have more energy, on and on. Many more purely physical aspects improve as well- my digestion is better, I have better appetite management, my skin is clearer, etc.

Last year we had a temporary issue with our fridge ice maker so I used that as an excuse to get the family a super bougie standalone ice maker- the GE Opal. It has unexpectedly made the water habit much easier for everyone. Now I can't think of a better spent $600.

Really would like Huberman to do a hydration/water/salt episode.
"The case that George filed against JPMorgan Chase before her departure has been marked as related to the proposed class action lawsuits filed in the same court against JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank, currently pending before Senior U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff. Those now-consolidated cases have been scheduled for trial in the Southern District of New York in the summer of 2023."

Good, so at least her lawsuit didn't go away. Wonder what she'll do next.
I live and work in Portland. The article paints a rosey picture of a nasty set of problems.

The government here is experimenting with social justice ideas. We've legalized drugs, empowered homeless camping and defunded our police.

I see and empathize with the reasons to legalize drugs, not demonize the homeless or blame people for their addictions or mental health problems... and I understand the academic case for not viewing all social problems through the lense of "how can more policing fix this."

All that said, our family is moving away... at the minimum to the suburbs if not to Idaho or Texas. Portland can't make these decisions in a vacuum, absent thoughtful national policy Portland has become a magnet for drug dealers and chronic drug users who are often homeless as well.

While the rights of all people matter, Portland is too focused on the rights of the people like the kid in the article who are from other states and come here to destroy their lives and our community. They are not focused on my rights as a taxpayer to enjoy a safe walk around my neighborhood.

We need national solutions to these issues, but until we have that I'm moving away and taking my tax dollars with me because I don't want to live in this experiment anymore. It's just not safe for my family.
The example in the article of how the restauranteur halved his food costs simply by pre-paying his supplier rather than paying Net-120 (120 days after goods are delivered) fascinated me. Where exactly does the value of cash flow come from?

Rehashing the example from the article:
Why do restaurants pay Net-120? Suppose Restaurant R is buying 30-day dry-aged steak from Supplier S. R needs to buy the steak days in advance of cooking it to serve customer C. R receives money for the steak only after this point, and now R can pay back S.

Why is pre-payment better? S can now be more efficient about the number of cows they have to slaughter. If R pays by Net-120, S ends up with a lot of waste due to unsold dry-aged steak, because S cannot anticipate the true demand but must be prepared to capture it to earn money.

Analysis:
In effect, S and R are pushing C to plan better. If C can just confirm that they want dry-aged steak ahead of time, which involves significant preparation, the entire supply chain can be more efficient. Sometimes, planning ahead is a benefit for C, as landing reservations at top restaurants can be difficult. Other times, C does want the ability to make last-minute decisions on where to go for food.

Meanwhile, S can do something better than slaughter the cows that would have gone to waste. In essence, S has more freedom because S has more cash flow. So does more cash flow == more freedom?

Cash is the most liquid asset. Supposedly, it represents the value that you can transfer immediately. I can have all the cash in the world, but if I am bound to pay a ton of debt with that cash, do I really have the ability to use the cash for something I value? That's why cash flow is a separate, and more useful, concept.

One argument against "cash flow == freedom" is that cash flow can be a function of effort. If I spend all of my waking hours working, I will generate cash flow, but I won't get to enjoy anything. What about landlords who don't have to do much to earn cash? Well, cash flow in strict $ terms doesn't capture everything. Businesses don't have this problem because they can simply capture the effort for producing cash flow in terms of wages. A simple trick is to pin a cash value for the amount of time I spend.

Cash flow represents freedom because cash flow = value in - value out at a given point of time. You don't even need to use USD for the "cash" part of cash flow, if that's not what you value. Then, to increase cash flow, you can 1) strictly increase "value in" (e.g. work more), 2) strictly decrease "value out" (e.g. delegate a task to free up your time), or 3) increase "value in" more than "value out" for a single transaction (e.g. take out a loan). Increasing cash flow doesn't need to be immediate: you can work on an asset and incur negative cash flow initially to establish better long-term cash flow. Worse "value in - value out" now for a better "value in - value out" in the future.

It's neat to see how to apply accounting principles to optimize my day-to-day.
Long-term rentals getting converted to short-term rentals in a constrained, inelastic market drives up prices, prices are set at the margin. You don't publications for that, that's just a basic fact.
From their Privacy Policy:

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- Friends list
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- References
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- Experiences from our partners
- Receive health information, including but not limited to,contagious diseases.
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See reply to comment abovr. Juridictions varies depending on location, I don't think a software developer has to make sure its usage complies with every juridictions, it is up to the users to do that.
We want to write a paper on the vast extensions ecosystem for Postgres at some point. It's on my TODO list for 2023.

Having so many plug-ins/add-ons available is unique to Postgres and due to Stonebraker's original vision of including extensibility as a first-class design principle in the DBMS.
Right? We already over the explosion. Backend development is not complex, it's mature. With spring boot + initializer + bean based configuration, REST interfaces everywhere, maven and gradle are both great what's not to like?
> 10 Sept 2021

lol

The piece references several different recent publications.
+1. Recently, Yugabyte has seemed intriguing to me. (It seems like) You can launch it as a standalone instance and use it just like Postgres early in your company, and then when you need to distribute, you can do that.
No idea about the original post, but property real estate values for customer addresses can be an invaluable signal for confirming potential fraud, in the presence of other yellow flags on a high-end consumer transaction!
People are responsible for their own actions. If I take what you just posted to heart and went and killed one of the "nationwide network of conspiracy theorists" to save the gays, are you responsible? If we start working on the basis that no one is smart enough to hear anything at all that may be controversial then who gets to decide what that is? Who do we give the power to be the decider of absolute truth too? What about when a new administration takes over that you don't like? Or are we no longer having elections either? We either assume that people have their own agency or we assume that humanity must grant the government control over all of our decisions. I'll go the free speech route every time. Physical actions like throwing stones are very different than words.
Now I’m more shocked to learn that having work done by a professional doesn’t result in an invoice but instead requires immediate payment?

Card fees in Europe I think can’t be shifted to the customer but that obviously means they are just part of the price. But - the price is the same regardless of payment method, so there is no money saved by avoiding cards. That’s why I consider everything to be 0-fee (invoice, card, money transfer).
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Hello, I have more than ten years of dev experience (on Hacker News since 2013) in a variety of roles and am actively seeking work that utilizes my skills in Python (including numpy, pandas, and scikit-learn), JavaScript, HTML5, SQL, Git, Flutter, and Linux devops, cloud platforms like AWS, and AI. I am highly analytical and skilled in applying algorithms to solve complex problems.

One of the specific projects I'm proud of is when I was team lead over a Machine Learning project for Google, where the fifteen team members I oversaw provided human judgment helping train ML. This got me even more interested in the possibilities of ML as well as showed me its training requirements. Since then I've gotten more and more into ML/AI, and this year I've also become proficient in prompt engineering[1].

I am interested in any industry where you are working on interesting problems that can improve people's lives, especially using web development, data analysis, machine learning / artificial intelligence, and cloud computing. If you are part of a team where I can continue to learn and grow, please reach out to me about any opportunity. I look forward to hearing from you!

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That Val site provides the following example, which makes no sense to me:

public fun main() {
let weight = 1.0
print(weight) // 1.0
let length = 2.0
print(length) // 1.0
}

Is the behaviour of print "Just print whatever the first variable was forever" ? Is this example wrong ?
UI design is trending in a bad direction. UIs are being designed as some sort of modern art piece rather than a tool that is designed to be used by humans.

My favorite example is VS Code vs Rider.

VS code looks like a toy. A big stack of unlabeled vage icons that require a decade of context to intuit. Compiling your program takes three clicks and a context switch away from your code! Unless you're a normal person who hasn't memorized those icons, and then it's six or seven clicks while you fumble through the menus.

Rider is a classic ugly UI. everything has labels or tooltips. There's a goddamn toolbar with all your common controls. Building your code requires one single click.

Not a single person is going to stare at your landing page like it's a genuine Picasso. Your ui is not going to be placed in the museum of modern art.

A UI is a tool. If someone has to ask you how to use it, it's not very good. If your users are fumbling through menus after the first hour, it's a bad design. If a user has to have the documentation open at all times to decode your hieroglyphic icons, it's a bad design.

As for my own UI design, the core philosophy is first-order accessibility. If you have to do a task every time you open the program, then that task is accessible with one or zero clicks. If a user asks me what a button does, it gets a better label or a helpful tooltip as well as a mention in the docs. My UIs look like something out of windows 95: simple controls laid out in a grid in clearly delineated functional groups. Everything is labeled and laid out in a way that places the most common controls in VERY OBVIOUS and CONVENIENT locations. It's ugly because it's designed to be used and not looked at.

If a user spends time in my program that isn't related to the task they're doing, I've done something wrong. If someone has to ask me how to do something, it means I have to rethink my design. If users are relying on documentation to navigate my program, I need to redesign.

I respect ui designers who build helpful and useful UIs. I don't respect designers who drop all text and sprinkle a dozen abstract images on a vast barren wasteland of screen space.

ETA: I'm an engineer and I build engineer style UIs: brutal in their simplicity, and utilitarian above all else. Literally not one person who will ever use my programs will care that it's ugly so long as it works.

At some point we've lost the idea that programs should be useful more than they are "pretty". It's a trend that I find frankly abhorrent, and I believe it's one of the major factors that's making software as an entire field worse and not better.
Testing Shoes That Make You Walk 250% Faster
To exercise, I got a personal coach (virtually, it was the height of the pandemic). She was actually pretty terrible at her job, and the reason I am telling you this is that it still helped tremendously.

Part of the reason I had procrastinated (despite being objectively unable to exercise myself) was the worry I would choose someone I had no chemistry with. Well, the “worst case scenario“ happened, and it was still totally worth it. I just moved on after a few weeks.

If you are not exercising right now, get a personal coach!
I'm genuinely curious at how a top-down initiative could succeed at rooting out this type of waste. Without empowering the cost savings to speak directly to the vendor, it's hard to imagine them being able to discover that paying a month or two sooner could get them non-FU pricing.
How would you suggest that police get involved in wage theft?
GPT-4 could pass Bar Exam, AI researchers say
Peak loads let the grid collapse. Not constant loads over N hours. If everyone starts charging their EVs at roughly the same time (like when getting home from work) it won't matter that the EV uses less power over 24hours than a space heater.

EV zealots are just blind to the issues their silver bullet creates. Just like the "walk-able cities" folks.
The CFAA would be the thing to look out for.