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>I feel sometimes when tech and humanity converge we end up accepting a lowest common denominator rather than accepting that our stuff isn't very good.

Passwords.
> Folks are treating the recent tech layoffs as something spontaneous.

Letter is dated 20th of January. Not exactly a long time ago. If Alphabets firing were to be because of this letter, I'd call that crazy spontaneous.
I was just going to say - from Croatia - in most of my circles if you don't leave a 10% tip you're either poor or a miser. Frankly even if you're poor, you likely won't go rather than count cents - only relatives in retirement don't leave tips when they insist on paying.
From the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
What Is OpenAI?–Its History and How ChatGPT Is Changing the World
> a 14 hour walk across Moscow to be sure that there is nobody on his tail.

Of course nowadays there's pervasive video surveillance combinable with facial recognition. I wonder what this does to the trad spy biz. In China, for example.
Women's education has the strongest correlation with declining births per woman. Glibally, not just Japan.
Being a hacker is just like being a scientist. You find yourself in front of an unknown device or mechanism, you study its inputs and outputs and try to take it apart as much as possible. Then you formulate a model and see how much it is able to predict, until you reach an accurate enough one that allows you to deduce the real inner workings of the machine.

The fact that the system can get patched does not change anything, you just start again.
A business model where if you get it just right, you could earn as much as a wagie!
The way MSFT used to do it per team was way too small a sample even if it was randomly distributed.

But of course it isn't randomly distributed because you hope you recruitment process isn't just picking up random people from the street.

So yeah, it makes no sense - it's just cargo cult business school science.
This 100 %, I am in academia since 2013 changing every couple of years the team I work with. Everytime I have loved my job was when I was working with people I liked. Not necessary that I liked them outside of work (maybe we never even went to the pub together) but we liked each other in the way we were at work.
aye, exactly. I presume most of the people criticising our "citizen's arrest" idea are form the US, where I indeed would not have contemplated doing such a thing.

In Scotland I do not really have the same fear. Not sure I would do the same thing in Glasgow or London, but still, we are not idiots, we were not going to take any crazy risks but we figured the risk to us was worth it to stop the risk to our sister. We weighed the risks up.
what about the entire state of California which has a higher population than most European countries?
AirBnb's main competitor are hotels.

Which I use consequently since 2017 because it just provides a so much better experience without the hassle, the risk and the outrageous fees you encounter with AirBnb.

To each his won, I guess.
> Perhaps they should only have headcount to keep the service running.

These companies are generally valued as they are on the expectation of future growth. If Google said “yeah, we’re just going to keep everything as it is, forever, on a skeleton crew”, its investors would _freak out_, and rightly so.
Probably the best way forwards is not scolding women or young persons but rather extending healthy productive lifespan and raising retirement ages accordingly.
This would require great investment in innovative anti aging and longevity research, as well as true public health improvements in Western diwts and lifestyle.
Aging is unavoidable sooner or later as population cannot keep growing forever and we don't want to live in Logan's Run, either. So IMHO this is a red herring: we need to face the inevitable and adapt to it in any case.
The moment your data is produced in more than one time zone, you're lost without the time zone. This may happen if you have customers in more than one city, or your customers use a mobile device to access your services.

Maybe your CLI utility can be timezone-oblivious, but those who develop and operate systems mentioned above, or just happen to travel, would be more happy if you handled timezones.

Naive timestamps are fine as long as they do not leave a single machine, and are used to calculate durations, timeouts, etc. These do not depend on the absolute value a clock shows, but only on differences between such values.
Children need families, not institutions to raise them, so the same incentives would really be needed for this kind of program as any other.
How do we measure the performance of these kinds of systems?
The old joke: in a presentation pitching some fine new practice the speaker tells the audience "Hands up if you'd be happy to be on a plane which is running your team's software". Only one hand is raised. "So tell us all what your team does that makes you so confident?" - "With my team there's no risk the plane will even taxi!"
Been waiting for this for over a year, was the first person to buy a pre-purchase sample. Planning to set up a PXE k3s cluster.
But the sample size could be a billion and it wouldn't matter if the process that generates the population isn't random.

If Blizzard was just hiring people off the street then yeah, sure I'd expect a bell curve.

But given the whole recruitment process, it's not necessarily going to form a bell curve.

Plus, the implementation is usually at the manager level - so each manager has to meet a quota of x% good, y% okay, z% bad etc., and each manager doesn't have 10k employees.
I find Fall of Civilizations lacking. It often lacks structure, few sources are cited (though I don't doubt the author's seriousness) and few points are made. I much more prefer Dan Carlin's Hardcore History, even if it is based on a kind of long storytelling.
Given the state of armhf and i386 in Debian, I expect them to be dropped as release architectures before this plan will have materialized. As far as I'm aware there's barely anybody working on keeping them in okay-ish shape as-is, let alone rebootstrapping them with a 64-bit time_t.
Indeed the same though crossed our minds (as I write in the article) that it is unlikely to be his first offence.

We actually did not want to humiliate him, and believe me we had the opportunity, because we did not want to "push him over the edge". I kinda hope he has kept his job so he can try to get help and stop himself doing this again.
If you want to go thay route, it might be better instead to add a % to all the prices, and then at the end give it back if someone left a clean table. Something like "as a small token of gratitude for leaving the place clean and saving us time, here's 1% of your price back!"

One is punitive, other one is rewarding.
This is a very individualistic position, to the point of being self-centered. Not everyone sees themselves as the "consumer" of happiness. Sometimes we are in a position where we are producing it for the others. For example, kids can't share the joy of all the interesting projects or cool tech at their parent's job.

But the absence of money or their parent overworking due to low pay can easily affect them.
Love it when people put out benchmarks like this (even when not necessarily independently performed).

Thank you pranay!
Calling a disabled person an asshole because they are trying to raise awareness for a rare and not well known issue is totally the HN thing to do. Thanks for drilling it in. You must be a very nice person to talk to.
> Any program that is GUI first (like keepass) cannot be the standard UNIX password manager.

Why is that? Unix != lack of UI (NeXT, Solaris, any Unix descendant with a port of CDE), and being GUI first doesn't matter if there is good CLI support.
I did a road trip that passed through Serbia a few years ago and we couldn’t find any restaurant that wasn’t full of smoke besides McDonald’s so we just skipped eating meals until we got to a neighboring country that didn’t have this problem.
thank you for the insight.
The Blade is just a carrier for a Raspberry Pi CM4, so the performance will be that of a normal CM4.
Uh, this is bit weird topic for me to "well actually", but you're not correct about where snus goes [1]. It goes between the upper lip and gum, you don't inhale it. That would be "snuff" in English.

Source: am Swedish, but not a tobacco user.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snus
Not sure what you consider "lax". Japan is generally considered to have one of the (if not the) most restrictive immigration laws in the world.

- https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/hardest-c...

- https://pressat.co.uk/releases/the-top-ten-toughest-immigrat...
You're not legally obliged to give it - but it's very much expected and you can see the awkwardness when you skip it.

Like just the other month I was in this resort with my family and first night we checked in we went for diner - waiter was very polite, entertained my one year old and gave us tips about the area. We didn't have cash on us so we put it on the room and signed the receipt. Next day he was still professional but not as much effort - then I left a tip for both dinners and suddenly it's back to chat mode, how was your stay, parting drink on the house, please do come back, etc.

In coffee shops you can see the looks you get when you wait for small change.
One thing many do not appreciate, is that history is only linear, once its happened. Befor that, history is a tree.
Branches and subbranches of what could be, traversing them gains you ability and accumulates disabilitys, leading back to branches, that are similiar to the now (roots).

One can go high in the branches, accumulating very high propabilitys of catastrophic failures - like for example handing out nukes to every government on the planet. One can invest all into root hardening, such for example, recording a self explaining encyclopedia on a timeless media. (Youtubes primitve technology comes to mind).

Capabilitys worth is the sume of the abilitys and the disabilitys to get to them from the now. Some are worthier then others, some just postpone problems and accumulate dangers, making the high branches of the future, dangerous traps.

Luck, wishfull thinking and make-believe hope, is no solid basis for planning the future of a species. Even worser, but longterm better, shortterm suffering for longterm gains is worth alot of short term suffering.
Calculated morals from traversing such a scenario tree (drasil) and the decisions based upon it can seem very strange to our eyes.

PS: One also has to admire, how remarkably "exploration" has shifted from "high risk" ventures towards "stability" aka root hardening in recent history. Resource cheap entertainement and self surveilance are keys to a stability even during environment deterioration and crisis. Nextflix, cellphone selfies and chill in the refugee camp, instead of terrorism.
Whoever is lately pushing those decisions, clearly is aware of that.
Personally, I am somewhat surprised that people like the HP-42. I don't find it to be a good compromise at all. The calculators that I like using are ones that are either relatively simple and small and don't try to do too much (like HP-25, HP-11C, HP-12C), or ones that are complex, but do unique things that are very useful (like unit conversions in the HP-50G). The 42 is neither.

As to sitting at a computer, I guess it depends on what your calculations are and how quickly you can reach for a calculator (mine sits smack dab in the middle of my desk, between the split halves of my keyboard). But a spreadsheet won't let me quickly multiply values that are in microns and get an answer in engineering notation.

I am also not advocating for "graphing calculators" — plotting functions on a calculator makes no sense these days, nor do matrix computations. The sweet spot has moved in the direction of simpler calculators, because you are not likely to do anything complex (like graphing) on a calculator today.
What are you talking about? ARe you on drugs or something? Nobody ever said they want a free coffee, nor was anybody ever talking about entitlement. Get your act together, and cool down man.
This sounds like a (horrible) way to implement universal basic income. Just hire puffer people, have them do nothing. They get fired, hire them somewhere else, rinse, repeat.
> Smokers do, actually, ask in most cases.

That's not my experience, at all. In places where they are allowed to smoke, which used to be everywhere, they either take it for granted that they can smoke and just do it; or they 'ask' with something like "surely you don't mind" while already lighting their cigarette. And some of them do the same even in places where they're not allowed to, but fortunately that's a shrinking minority.
For reference, strace is a Linux facility that wouldn’t be present on a bare-metal embedded application of C, or other operating system.
Nothing wrong with social pressure to do the right thing.
We already see vastly different health outcomes for people of different socioeconomic statuses. Eternal life would be no different. I'm not even talking about dictators. It would the political class and entrenched wealth that would benefit the most, and quite frankly, I think that's worth fighting against. There's a certain comfort and equality in knowing that everyone dies, and that it's just a fact of life.
I'm just saying that it's hardly more of a burden on society for someone to burn some dry leaves than for someone to create a new human or several of them, with all the burden that places on our ecosystem and our society. Having children is a wildly antisocial and narcissistic act in the modern world. It's hilarious and ironic that the people who defend it are the same ones who care whether I smoke a cigarette from time to time, or who whinge about global warming. The worst thing you can possibly do to the planet is to have a child. It outweighs every personal measure you might take against carbon emissions, tenfold, for reasons that are too obvious to explain. Yet this, and the imposition of said children on me, is somehow justifiable whereas my having a cigarette on an airplane would be unimaginable. I think the modern word for the perspective of parents who believe they have a natural right to take up more resources than their own bodies require, solely because they did something any animal can do - ie. reproduced - is "privilege".
It was poor, but not that poor.
The blade has arrived but can you get a compute unit to go in it? The non availability of the whole pi ecosystem has done a lot of damage.
Museum. Flux of tourists. Probably doesn’t care about repeat business.
I've been stalked by women it's not a good feeling. They even enlist the help of friends to do it to the point where I kept a baseball bat by the door.
Yeah, that was one of the things that struck me as so weird coming from the Netherlands when I was on holiday in Switzerland. While the Netherlands was already on track to ban smoking on the actual train platforms as well at that time, arriving at the central station of Zurich was really something else. Smokers everywhere, in a country that was so orderly in most other respects.

> Nowadays it's just a few people who ignore the rules, without consequences.

For now. In a while the last holdouts will be confronted by people around them and staff alike as the public opinion shifts. People who are strongly affected by cigarette smoke (asthmatics, COPD sufferers) will slowly come to expect that those areas are really smoke free too, and are places they can actually go without having to take medication directly after. The affront of someone smoking where they shouldn't is gradually felt more acutely.
Lovely to hear from you, Andy! Thank you for sharing. It's good to know this work is in fine company :)

> although it sounds like it has some drawbacks?

Oh yes. The Xdotool Reload Method emulates keystrokes, so it has... drawbacks... as you put it mildly :)

For my use-case, it literally does F5, or it fills out a url and hits Enter. cf. this `case` statement: https://github.com/adityaathalye/shite/blob/master/bin/hotre...

I wanted to keep /mandatory/ moving parts to a minimum in a hand-rolled setup. So I sort of went hardline about avoiding prerequisites like a server process, and especially a JS client. The xdotool trick worked surprisingly well (for the most part), and so I stuck with it!

> it has been working well in practice for years

This is the holy grail. I really hope I get years-long stability out of it. Based on my experience so far, I feel good about the long-term odds.

> I also have a Makefile for incremental rebuilds, but I would really like to replace that with Ninja.

I was going to write a Makefile at some point. I'll have a look at Ninja. Thanks for the tip!
Yeah, a developer owning a YubiKey and using a password manager, that's really revealing...

Unless you're in for the criminal acts (and their repercussion), i.e., stealing my token and my keys to wherever my workstation stands and then torturing out both, my workstations and key's PW from my mind, it won't really help you...

Or what did I really reveal with what actual real world implication that can compromise the security of (which?) systems I can access?

IMO, if your "security pipeline" can be compromised due to documenting it (not the credentials used to access it!), even publicly, it wasn't that good of a "security pipeline" in the first place.
In France, supermarkets now offer to round up the bill to make donations to associations.
This way, supermarkets have a good image and, at the same time, they reduce their taxes by donating to associations.

It is much better to make direct donations to associations.
Eight days earlier, on September 26th, there was a loud knock on Sergei’s door. He already knew who it was without having to answer. All the men of Egvekinot, a port town in Russia’s far east, had heard the same knock in recent days. The government was conscripting men to fight in the war against Ukraine. Sergei, a slight man with big hazel eyes capped by heavy brows, wanted no part of it. When the knocking stopped and the sound of footsteps outside had disappeared, he looked out of the window and saw a man and woman in green military uniforms get into a car.
First, sorry. I was probably needlessly aggressive, I've heard similar words from everyone around me all my life and I may have assumed you were being similarly dismissive and gotten a bit angry.

I'm not saying you have to use commitment devices forever, but it's a great starting point. When one is deep into their faulty harmful behaviors, it's hard to have the mental energy to practice mindfulness and take a step back and exercise any sort of control over one's impulses. Maybe nine of out of ten times you may be successful in practicing mindfulness, but commitment devices[0] help you prevent that 1/10 from blowing your entire day up(or even week), precisely because they don't depend on your mental state at all. They let you precommit and make good decision for your future self when you are in a good state of mind, so you won't completely spiral down when you're in a bad state of mind. It's just another tool in the toolbox for dealing with ADHD.

[0] https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Commitment_device
I used to use a timer to limit the frame rate to 60 Hz too. But on Windows, I found that DwmFlush() seems to act like WaitVSync(), so I've been using that in preference for years now. I think this is undocumented behaviour. I guess what it actually does is wait until the compositor is ready for another frame.

To be able to call that function, I LoadLibrary("dwmapi.dll"), and then GetProcAddress(dwm, "DwmFlush").
> I am sure every single person would rather be paid a consistent wage

I’m certain that is not the case for many/most (depending on the area and establishment) tipped workers. Most waiters, baristas & bartenders certainly wouldn’t want to earn only slightly more than fast food workers even if the average wage goes up.

> will lower the base pay

Not in California and some other places (applies to at least 10-15% of the US population)
Trepidation
"Trepidation (from Lat. trepidus, "trepidatious"), in now-obsolete medieval theories of astronomy, refers to hypothetical oscillation in the precession of the equinoxes. The theory was popular from the 9th to the 16th centuries.

The origin of the theory of trepidation comes from the Small Commentary to the Handy Tables written by Theon of Alexandria in the 4th century CE."...
There's always a first, and there's always a first report.

All of this requires someone making the report.
I always describe quitting smoking as both the easiest and the hardest thing I have ever done. I wanted to quit for so long and suffered many, many failed attempts. I tried all kings of methods, acupuncture, gum, etc. All to no avail. In hindsight I didn't really want to quit. I wanted to quit for my health, for my morning cough, for my wife, for all kinds of reasons. But not really for me. I liked it, and quitting something you want to do doesn't work.

At some point I read the Alan Carr book. I was skeptical but hey, might as well try it, right? Around that time my wife and I were also thinking about kids and I really wanted to quit before she was pregnant. I finished the book, smoked my last cigarette, went to bed, and lasted about 6 hours after waking up before I was back at it again. That night I re-read the last bit of the book, smoked my last cigarette (again) and went to bed.

I haven't touched a cigarette since and it's been very easy. not a single pang or hankering or anything. I can get drunk without wanting a cig. People can smoke around me and I don't care. I'm not an ex-smoker. I'm a non-smoker. Looking back (4 years now) I find it hard to understand myself why I had so much trouble quitting. It's been soooo easy.

But only after I really wanted it for me.
I know several people (including family members) who spent several decades "trying" to quit smoking, but "couldn't"... until they started having health problems and a doctor told them very clearly and in a serious tone that if they didn't quit, they would die.

At that point, they quit literally overnight and never went back. And I'm using "literally" literally here.

So yes, I know it's hard, but I'm pretty sure people who don't manage to quit just don't want to quit hard enough. They "want" to in the same sense that I want to learn martial arts: I've always thought that it would be great to master a martial art, and sometimes fantasize with it, but I know fully well that I'm never going to do it because I'm not willing to do what it takes (the time, the discipline, receiving blows, etc.)

In other words, I don't think wanting to snap a finger and magically never feel like smoking anymore qualifies as wanting to quit smoking.
exactly - under GDPR it would be fine to retain specific data for a limited period of time to prevent fraud (which is what this is, really).

Also, this type of user is not making deletion requests - they are deleting and then immediately reinstalling the app to appear "fresh".
does it work though? it doesn't give off the thoughtful investor vibe. maybe it's good if you are looking for something crazy as a hedge?
I keep pushing away my return to MM6 until it won't eat too much of my kids and work time, because I know I'd just spend hours upon hours grinding the first levels and dungeons for weeks. Oh the memories of my first 'open world' game (it's heavily scenarized, I know, but I didn't know back then). Almost finishing the games with four archers to realize I'd better start again with a more varied build because it'd be too hard and not that much fun...
We share a huge amount of culture.
yea this is neat, fresh. Love the old school preview on hover.
It's a wonderful project. Allowing me to run a 30 years old Win16 companion program (for a HP 53310A frequency domain analyzer) on modern 64bits Windows.
NezPass: A password generator service based on LessPass