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> I believe thinking too much about kids is a trap. Basically you should have them if you can.

I cannot think of worse advice.

Congratulations to you that you found a life that works for you.

But the idea that people should just stop thinking and start procreating is absurd. Kids are a gigantic decision, the biggest one a person will ever make in their life. To not carefully consider that decision is utterly irresponsible, and to tell people to thoughtlessly have children without considering those consequences is equally so.
Companies want to pay as little as possible. I have a shortage of household staff because I can't find any takers at the $10/day I'm willing to pay for a butler.

Companies like to intentionally conflate "desire" with "supported by a business model".
Same here. Still seeing some Solaris alive too.
Amazon did something like this to me in Seattle last year. Thankfully, I eventually recovered my package from the person who took it when they helpfully delivered it to a train platform downtown.

My solution was to no longer buy things from Amazon.

Target.com and B&H Photo now get my business. They routinely use carriers who understand they should deliver packages to my building's secure foyer and not the public trans shelter around the corner.

(And yes, I could have packages delivered to a locker, but the nearest locker is a further walk than the local Target store, so why would I?)
They keep throwing "wildlife" into every sentence in the article, but the rest of the quotes keep getting worse (i.e. more honest) until the one I quoted, where they basically call home prices the "local economy". Reminds me of a political candidate whose staff keeps reminding them to say "wildlife" but inevitably lets the truth slip out.
I think the commenter is referring to acquired HIV encephalitis caused by direct HIV infection which I was also under the impression was the #1 CNS infection in HIV patients.

My teaching (in radiology) was HIV > toxoplasmosis > cryptococcosis for CNS infections in HIV+ but maybe we're out of date or this order is sepcific to the US/Canadian population.

Anecdotally I've definitely seen more toxo than crypto. I've also seen more white matter disease in HIV patients than either but the MRI findings aren't specific so I don't know what the final path was on those cases.
Binaries also forced the centralization of Usenet, so that regional ISPs had no incentive to do anything but outsource it. It was unbelievably annoying to host a full-feed Usenet server in the late 1990s, and if you hosted anything less than one, people would arrange boycotts; better not to host Usenet at all.

Reddit is, I think, a better version of Usenet culture than the original.
1. I mean aging as a paradigm.

2. I mean I don't use ansible with any cloud, only with hardware or legacy on prem stacks - older versions of Cisco, Netapp, Vmware. I prefer a stateful system like terraform to a stateless one like ansible.

3. I like typed languages. I hate yaml. Logic in ansible playbooks (yaml) is inevitable and a nightmare at scale.

4. Having moved to a container orchestrator, all of my nodes are immutable, I do not change or modify them. Hardware and VM instances _can_ be born magically into existence. Nearly all infra providers support [cluster-api](https://cluster-api.sigs.k8s.io/) or some other autoscaling controller. Network infrastructure can now be managed with TF, so I go that route.
a joke about UK govt wasting money
Slashdot will never be okay again. I go there every so often to check, and it's still a dumpster fire.
Wasn't one of the big issues with the DeLorean that steel on the body is seriously difficult to deal with when it's damaged?

The guy from the LegitStreetCars youtube channel just bought one and he mentioned that if there is dents and dings it's really really hard to correct them, so when you're looking for a barn find DeLorean one of the most important things is the body is in good shape.

Seems like similar issues would be present in the cybertruck?

Edit: Quick google search turned up this article: https://www.autoblog.com/2019/11/22/tesla-cybertruck-stainle...

(Pretty interesting watch if you're into cars re: DeLorean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCcrVF8sR8k)
One important thing to note is that before you do your research, you have no idea how much the effort you need to spend compares to anyone else. For most of my life I was pretty sure that everyone's mind worked like mine.

Also, it's hard enough to get ADHD meds even if you genuinely need them to function that I'm not worried about people ending up overmedicated at all. I'd rather see meds becoming easier to obtain, since people who actually need them suffer from the obstacles meant to stop people who don't the most.
That's why all the smart people became home contractors and started their own business.
There is an exception here with AppleTV+ which has a 20-40Mbit/s bit rate. Not quite Blu-ray level but it's very obvious when compared to Netflix.
NES-era games also ran on bare metal. Modern consoles run proper modern operating systems with everything you'd expect to find in one — preemptive multitasking, virtual memory, hardware abstractions, kernel- and user-mode with syscalls, etc. PlayStation OS is a Unix system (something-BSD IIRC), Xbox's is obviously based on Windows NT, and Switch runs something Nintendo built from scratch.

Cycle-counting doesn't make much sense for code running in a preemptive-multitasking OS because no matter how much you count cycles, the actual execution time for a piece of code would be non-deterministic. That, and I suppose most modern games are bottlenecked by the GPU, not the CPU.
Aider is AI pair programming in your terminal
I know that commentators won't like this but people will start have kids again when they'd be able to once again instill a degree of service-ism in them towards parents.

As things stand a successful kid is essentially a socialized commodity and the taxes they pay are used for all sorts of stuff in a socialized manner, whereas back in the days a successful kid would be a good news for themselves but also to those who got him there , being the parents who'd be able to retire early and enjoy the monetary income stream and make a profit of their investment.

It doesn't make sense to invest in a kid nowadays, from the moment they are born they become property of the State.
G fi used to charge you for data use, I thought if you used a few gig a month then it was more than tmobile, are you using much data?
That’s describing something interesting, but it doesn’t sound like stable resistance. It’s a short lived resistance induced by exposure to other drugs.
Tell HN: If you're asked to implement geofencing, push back
...because I can't take the bus and I'm stuck.

In the name of modernity, the city has removed ticket booths. Cutting down on real estate and human labor, yadda yadda. You pay the bus with an app. Okay, I'll download the app. Uh oh. My google play region is set somewhere in Europe, but I'm currently visiting the USA. The app developers decided to restrict the app to people living in the USA. What do I do?

I know, maybe I can pay through the website! Maybe the stupid idea that everything needs to be an app isn't completely pervasive yet. Hooray! There's a link to buy a ticket online. Wait, the website's giving me a weird 403 error... Not even a nice one, it's just a raw XML response. What did I ever do to them to ban me like that? Oh right. I'm using my phone to browse the website. My phone is connected to the internet via roaming through my home country's operator. All the traffic gets tunneled back there. So the whole internet thinks I'm still back home, even though I'm physically in the USA. The WAF detects that and decides that I'm not worthy to buy a ticket. So I can't buy a ticket on the website either.

This is a true story. It does have a happy ending: when I understood what happened, I logged into my VPN to get a shiny public-facing all-American God-fearing IP address. It's not an isolated case, however. So far this has only happened while I travelled in the USA, but it has happened numerous times over the past year. I've been blocked from buying bus tickets, paying for my parking spot, several store franchises' websites to check inventory is nearby locations... I've even been prevented from reading a restaurant menu! Not once, but twice: apparently Toast is a popular vendor for restaurant online operations, and that company implemented geofencing.

If you're in a software development role, and you're asked to implement geofencing, tell your manager that you simply cannot do it with any kind of accuracy. It's going to lose your company customers! I have an IT background; I understood what happened, and I have a VPN subscription / know that I need to connect to a public wifi somewhere. I'm not sure everyone will figure it out. And for what benefits, exactly? Why does the bus app need to be geofenced? It's not like I'll take the bus when I'm in a different country!

Do your part to keep the internet open, please.
In fact we printed 20% of all money ever printed because they couldn't go two weeks without normal cash inflow.

Edit: This was just in 2020, and is true, doesn't matter if you don't like it. We'll all be paying higher taxes now forever for it. And the value of the currency will devalue to the point where it is easier to payback, because that's what inflation does.
> email customer service

Did you try reaching out to executive customer relations, either through ajassy@amazon.com or jeff@amazon.com? (FWIW Jeff's address still works despite him stepping down 2 years ago)

Always had a very quick response and resolution whenever I had an issue that was beyond the ability of "normal" customer service to resolve.
The comment you responded to began with the sentence:

>I think this damages all commercial OSS projects.
This is cringy. I’m no fan of Musk but SpaceX is making consistent progress on their fully reusable rocket. There’s plenty of reasons to criticize Musk without pretending SpaceX is a failure.
Unfortunately it applies to the whole Constitution. Those same people believe that the 2nd Amendment was only for a state-sanctioned militia and not for protection against tyranny, and simultaneously that it only applied to muskets and not modern weaponry. Confusingly, they don't believe that the 1A only applies to things written via quill and ink.

I fear for the near future.
EXPI by P01
I think you're taking for granted things like forum archive search that are table stakes now, but were space alien technology during Peak Usenet.
Idk, we could illustrate this a bit with: "hey, we are in the business of murder, we switched from machine guns to sniper rifles, our murder is now much less wasteful (in terms of bullets used)".

That is not to say you are wrong, it was maybe just that when a fossil fuel company tells you it's reducing it's carbon impact then the whole premise is going to be cynical at best.
The argument works both ways. In a concrete example:

Burning the Koran is offensive, should it be restricted? No! Freedom! Next they'll stop us watching old westerns and doing fancy dress etc! We have to be able to prevent this being extended to things which affect me.

Burning the Koran is offensive, should it be restricted? Yes! If we allow it then they can burn the flag/constitution/bible/effigies of the president/??? we have to be able to prevent this being extended to things which affect me.

"First they did x" construction works in both cases non?
The general public won’t care until it impacts them personally.

Time to buy that country estate surrounded by trees so the surveillance state can’t see the finer details of your eyes with their AI cameras
Designers push for a redesign?

Next thing you know, you'll tell me that dentists like to find cavities. Or that scorpions like to sting frogs.
if you look back at the development of the Honda Ridgeline, the 1st gen had this weird bed structure where it was sloped. Structurally and aerodynamically this is great. From a functional standpoint it makes it difficult if not impossible to load and unload from the sides of the bed. They 2nd generation uses a more traditional bed design. I suspect the cybertruck will wind up with a similar makeover
Every time I see ZeroMQ being placed alongside RabbitMQ or Kafka as an example of a message queue system, it makes me wonder if the person who wrote that really knows what they are talking about. If they would rtfm they’d understand that ZeroMQ is more of a transport feature, that doesn’t really intersect with other mentioned projects in its features.
There’s no credible path for reducing carbon emissions enough to reverse warming under current models that doesn’t involve gigadeaths.
I think that we can also reasonably blame people who use a disproportionate amount of electricity for their harm caused to the planet. I don't think that some sort of redistribution effort that accounts for past harm is impossible.

But I also think that the effect of even a megamillionaire who takes a private jet everywhere is dwarfed by the effect of corporate leadership, lobbying, and legal teams who successfully undo regulation via the courts and legislatures so that they can make more profits.
> As precedent, Docker allows Kubernetes and Podman to access its registry, for example.

Don’t give them any ideas. Nothing would stop them, though it is probably hard to actually enforce on a public repo.
I cannot get used to Twitter being called X. When I see “on X” I think of X in algebraic terms, that it is standing in for some other value rather than being a name unto itself.
It does not apply to interactions in other nations, nor interactions between people in the U.S. or companies. If the government is not involved, the First Amendment does not apply.

I believe this should be tested in the Supreme Court of the United States of America. Governments are using Twitter as their primary and sometimes only means of communications to and from the people. It is not clear to me if this was intentional or a mistake. Are they abusing "It's a private platform ..." and/or that is how they felt citizens could be reached?

If the primary means of communication is or should be email or telephone then I believe we should make that clear and Twitter posts from government officials should be labelled as "Unofficial Communications from the {insert government office}. Call: nnn-nnn-nnnn to speak directly to this representative" and probably also mouse-over labelled as "Potential Opinion, Potential Misinformation, not an official stance of {insert government office}."

If this is not an option then all government members should be prevented from having an Official Twitter account and instead they must be labelled as Private Personal Account and the government must instead have their own Mastodon and Matrix instances on government networks.
With an Apple dev account you can sideload apps that last for a year FWIW. That’s what I do.
You can do Kanbans of Kanbans to get better focus over longer periods of time.
The 15 GB plan is a great value at $240/year.

And can use as much of it for tethering as you want. Do the big carriers still limit that? I remember it used to be an add-on.
Aren't missions paying for the usage of DSN? How come a small cubesat gets the amount of time on the network comparable to JWST?

Could this be commercialized? If there's high demand it should be profitable to build new dishes to increase bandwidth.
Why India's soaring food inflation is a global problem
i can only speak from my experiences, but this topic is not completely represented in the writing.

first and foremost, discrimination in India still exists in some form to this day. however, it is not dominated or restricted by which family tree you are born into. as more people have (socio-economic and otherwise) mobility than ever, living in another region can sometimes feel like being an alien in your own country. despite that, i am proud of how far we've come along and (mostly) kept it together.

i am not sure if we have a golden standard about correcting historical mistakes as a society. but what we are doing about this in practice does not seem like much either.

among almost every aspirant starting their careers, you will hear about "reservation". while corporations elsewhere might have it as ensuring participation of all genders in their executive boards, it goes much deeper in India.

what i disagree with it is the "equal opportunity" bit. instead of focusing on increasing accessibility to a better life for all, politically it has been weaponized to rather gatekeep who gets a better shot at what is there. although very different circumstances, it rings home to how it has been with the recent representation movement (hoping it does not step on too many nerves).

after many generations under this approach, there is now a new reason for resentment between different parts of society.
Underrated comment.

I'll never pay direct from my accounts because these companies will 'accidentally' drain an account and put people in an awful position, whereas a credit card company will happily tell a company like Verizon to eff off.

It's all good, these rent-seeking griftcos are making it easier and easier to fire them by the day.
I read a fair amount. Always have. I have never felt the urge to track it.
Good point on the mutability of docker tags. But not sure how applicable "you're pulling a big binary blob that is essentially mystery meat" is when cache.nixos.org exists.
They shouldn't be able to set arbitrary fees on different payment methods. They should also not be allowed to advertise an "autopay discount" if they price discriminate different payment methods. It should be a "give us your bank account information discount" or something.
- "Was the article edited?"

Yes, that quote I flagged was immediately fixed. I guess the author is following this HN thread.
Just tell folks on the right that ai is going to take their rights, freedoms and guns and let them run with it. I am not joking, the only way to "wake" people up is to leverage those that, oddly enough, have predicted many of the upcoming changes. The issues with their conspiracy theories are with the how, whom, and why. There's no cabal of folks injecting people with microcips to control them and covid wasn't it. It's just regular corporations and corrupt politicians selling them technological sweets in order to extort them for money. Easy. Let them run wild, and hopefully the left and the right find middle ground and change this trajectory.
Not a space exploration expert. It seems like the presence of sulfur on the Moon has been known for a long time [1] but perhaps it's newsworthy that sulfur is more abundant in some regions (like the south pole) than previously thought. [1] says that sulfur has broad applications, most importantly the ability to be a substitute for water in mechanical and chemical processes.

[1] https://space.nss.org/wp-content/uploads/Lunar-Bases-confere...
Iran, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Egypt and Ethiopia are also joining.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2023/08/24/i...

Especially with Iran joining it's starting to look very anti-Western.
> The primary component of Bill C-18 is a provision that *allows an eligible news business (acting alone or in a group) to initiate mandatory bargaining* with a digital news intermediary—an online communications platform (such as a search engine or social media service, excluding platforms whose primary purpose is to allow users to communicate with each other privately) that reproduces news content in whole or in part, or otherwise facilitates access to it by any means—if it is determined that there is a "significant bargaining power imbalance" between the intermediary's operator and the news business (based on size, strategic advantages, and whether they hold a "prominent market position")

Those who qualify as "news businesses" and are eligible to impose mandatory purchase of their news products, will have government-mandated carriage on social media platforms operating in Canada. Their news and stories will reach much further and with more spread, than those who do not qualify or participate.

In practice it benefits the major corporations like Rogers and Bell Media, and will not likely be of benefit to your local town newsletter, or someone trying to blow a whistle on the government. Unless it's a qualified "news business" as defined in the act, that content is now required to be de-emphasized, so you and I are less likely to see it.

Political censorship is not the intent of C-18, nor is it likely a consequence. (The real point of it is to subsidize the ailing major media corporations in Canada.) But when you start picking which messages will be amplified, you are implicitly turning down the volume on other messages, and it is, I think, by the broadest definition, a type of censorship.
That's absolutely hilarious. With a few exceptions, Amazon employees are a pretty low skilled lot.
The UK routinely buys software that doesn’t work for large amounts of money. The only reasonable explanation is corruption.
1. The comment you're replying to explicitly acknowledges this fact in an aside.

2. It is not full of "coded bigotry." These are simple fact that almost everyone agrees on. India has explicitly made it a goal to reduce their fertility rate over the past few decades because of the problems of overpopulation. China's economy absolutely benefits from a high population. And yet I doubt you would characterize their humans rights record as stellar. It does not mean that Indians or Chinese people are in any way inferior to Westerners. And I highly doubt that the OP would agree with that either.

3. Even if it was, that isn't a critique of the comment's argument. It just means you find it distasteful. So what?
You don’t have a right to anything that someone else has to provide.
Have been having intermittent issues the past couple days. It's times like these I'm happy to have llama running in k8s on GPUs (https://microk8s.io/docs/addon-gpu https://hub.docker.com/r/pytorch/pytorch).

By the way, has anyone noticed they're starting to have an "AI-dependence"?

These AI tools are infiltrating my workflow, and it's becoming more noticeable when they go down...
C-18 is about copyright. You can argue all copyright is censorship in the same way, which while I think is a valid viewpoint it's not really a good argument, copyright and censorship should be treated as two different things.

Put another way, if it should be legal for Google to do whatever they want with copyrighted content, I should also be able to do whatever I want with Google's intellectual property. You've got a status quo bias by looking at C-18 as "aggressively pushing for censorship" but ignoring Google's successful "censorship" of people who would copy other copyrighted works.
meta: There's a lot of irony when HN users complain about censorship in one of the most censored spaces of the internet.
Show HN: Help with framework feedback
Hey everyone.

I would like to firstly apologise for any inconvenience and I come with a humble request for you if you would like to help me of course.

I've built a python framework called Esmerald (https://esmerald.dev) which is aiming python and non python developers.

I know there are a lot of frameworks out there and usually people tend to say "another X framework" but I truly built this based on necessities that were successfully delivered after this.

This doesn't aim to replace anything neither "compete". It's just a humble framework for everyone to use as a possible alternative to whatever you need to.

My request is if you don't mind playing around with the framework, see what you think and if you like maybe helping with a star and/or maybe becoming a maintainer, contributor or whatever you think it's the best?

This is truly for everyone and it would be a shame not having inputs from other developers if they like it.

Once again, it is a humble request and I do not want to cause any disruption or any ulterior motive, jisy trying to grow awareness of the framework and improve with the help of everyone.

I wish all the best to all of you.

Thank you in advance,
tarsil