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> When Michelangelo sculpted the Pietà, the pain it expressed was a feeling that many people had shared, so it became culture.

So, first, any art that is funded by the church or a patron is not really in this conversation. The entire economics of that art is outside of the eyeball conversation.

If art that is pre-funded strikes a chord with people, it is the same thing as I said about artists in the past. Like Coltraine or Hendrix, they expressed something unique or personal that it was discovered that all people shared, and it therefore became culture.

There are mounds upon mounds of crappy pre-funded religious art that impacted no-one whatsoever. So Pietra is precisely the opposite of pop art, although that is what it became. Which is what makes it culture.
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> If a company sells apples and they start pushing social media campaigns about why oranges are bad and they think you should be buying apples instead, then that’s a conflict of interest.

Pretty sure that's just marketing.

A lot of product pages will spell out features they have and list competitors that don't have those features.
There are always going to be parts of life that are uncomfortable and stressful. This one wasn't terrible, and I appreciated a new outlook on how to assess skills. The interviewer was very understanding and we meshed well, so I don't think it came off as negative.

Were they indicative? shruggie. I mis-typed, I interviewed there, didn't work there. And I haven't used the python debugger since, but I also haven't worked on much python code.
Nice tool Rafał!
do you have a link to the article or remember the authors
I've often thought about an evolutionary model of organizations, in which a challenge is presented, an A/B test is created, an the winning process would win out over the loser, making the organization more effective over time.

Having written this, it almost seems like too obvious of an idea to even post about...
See https://phys.org/news/2023-10-china-great-green-wall-boosts....
Just in time for Halloween when kids will be consuming massive amounts of chocolate.
Is that also in what I’m breathing in when I fly commercial?
Made me think of Excalidraw when I saw it - cool stuff!
Will try my 750 words on it.
Why America doesn't build
I'm using XigmaNAS with two zfs pools and only 4G RAM since like 8 years, also on a seemingly underpowered machine (Atom D410). Granted that it doesn't fly, but for home use is more than enough say for serving on the home LAN multiple HD movies at the same time, provided one doesn't load it with other more heavy services. Mine is currently only serving files through NFS and SMB and bittorrent; all else is turned off.

https://ibb.co/BNMWFXm

BTW, currently working around a bigger one that will run on a faster mini PC and a 8 bay USB3.1 enclosure. I'm a little wary about USB connectors in this context, and I'll likely have to secure cables firmly to avoid wearing and accidental pulls, but so far results on the bench are promising.
I'm torn on the whole subject.

On one hand, techno-surveillance is scary and it rarely marches backward, so letting this happen for citizenship applications will have a chilling effect on foreign intellectuals, and train people who may consider entering this country some day not to speak their mind.

I understand the theory that we don't want people coming here who rant all day saying "US is a terrorist state and something should be done about it" on social media. But I'm not sure the juice is worth the squeeze.
I remember conversations about using unleaded gas in aviation 40 years ago. And the pro side's argument is auto grade gasoline is highly regulated with better quality control and standards than leaded aviation gas. And pointed out that cars run just fine at the altitudes light aircraft fly at. SO I hear you on that. It's a bit inane.

If there is a conspiracy I suspect it's the government exerts a light hand on things rich people do.

What surprises me is the refineries didn't tell the light aviation industry they weren't going to make leaded gas anymore. If they'd done that the Feds would have kicked them some cash to develop an unleaded version.
Footnote: PEG = polyethylene glycol in this context. So the study is related with people developing allergy to cosmetics and industrial products.
One of the things I really hate about reviews of laptops, screens, etc, is the focus on how bright the screens are as though it's a good thing.

Who really wants to be staring at 1,600 nits of brightness all day? Certainly not me.

A much better screen, in my opinion, would have super high contrast with low brightness. Yet, this isn't something that gets measured by reviewers. Coincidentally, that's also why I like using OLED screens. At least with true black, much of the light can get turned off completely.
You can program in APL without a special keyboard. Most editors offer a prefix key (commonly `, but I switch it to . since that's easier to type) so you can type .i and get ι as a result. It's an extra character, but once you get accustomed to it the typing is pretty fast and avoids changing keyboard layouts or key chord. In fairness, I already type at about 120 wpm so adding an extra character per special character in an already terse language doesn't significantly impact my typing speed.
I have to agree, the leadership’s response and handling of errors in regards to encryption has been… honestly pretty disappointing to see as a zfs fan and user.

While it’s not common, the amount of people running into edge cases and killing both their sending and sometimes even receiving pools (better have another backup!) is frankly unacceptable. “Raw sends” seem to be especially at risk, though sending in general seems to be where the issues mostly lay. My thoughts mirror the comments here: https://discourse.practicalzfs.com/t/is-native-encryption-re...

Here’s a currently unmaintained document by Rincebrain that he was using to try to track things before he got burned out by the lack or response. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OfRSXibZ2nIE9DGK6sww...
Dollar General, universally understaffed, often with random shit stacked up in aisles, quite often just a single soul running the shop, is usually pretty depressing for me.
Hershey and Nestle are addressing the problem by slowly replacing chocolate with brown-dyed wax so that no one realizes that there is no longer any actual chocolate in the products. Cadmium intake is down 15%, and profits are up 42%. That's win/win.

Correction: It's a brown "waxlike substance". Paraffin was too costly.
This is another wonderful example!

There's an aspect of...how any complex trend will inevitably have some aspects that would appear to outsides like they were included by mistake...but insiders will assure you are essential and typical. You need insiders to guide you because, as outsiders, you can't understand.
Again, you're not really saying why. What about this example is relevant? This just sounds a bit like a memorised response.
The US was pretty clear in the Constitution that non citizens are not entitled to those rights. The same people also wrote the Constitution.
EVs are getting so much cheaper so fast that they'll overtake ICE and hybrid sales soon... but vehicle stock in the US turns over slowly

I've seen predictions that at some point it'll be cheaper to get a new EV than to even keep gasoline in an old ICE car, and once we hit that point it'll flip quickly. 7 years feels tight for that, but not impossible
It’s going to have to be a non-industry move or a radically different model sustained by an interested minority. Federated systems are the other way this can work.
There was a famous incident at one point where code search internally went down. It turned out that while they had deployed the tool internally, one piece of the indexing process was still running as a cron job on the original developer's desktop machine. He went on vacation, his credentials aged out, and of crawler stopped refreshing the index.

But my favorite incident will forever be the time they had to drill out a safe because they were disaster-testing the password vault system and discovered that the key needed to restore the password vault system was stored in s aafe, the combination for which had been moved into the password vault system. Only with advanced, modern technology can you lock the keys to the safe in the safe itself with so many steps!
That's not a counterpoint. It's not unethical to voluntarily pay for a luxury good. It's just a choice.
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Nice one if you working monochromatic. Bad one, of you want to see colors.

Nice one if you want it to be cheap. Bad one, if you have to use light sources, that use up more energy than the trad. Backlight.

Nice one, if ... Game. What do you think of other pro and contra arguments?
Show HN: New software to analyze AWS Elastic LoadBalancer logs – is it useful?
In order to tackle our eventtech software reliability we developed a took to analyze AWS Elastic LoadBalancer logs. It enables us to:
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(ii)get notified whenever there are critical issues (say errors 50X or ratio of 40X errors above 25%, etc - customizable).

Only 4 people from our network use AWS ELB, hence the feedback we have is great however very short.

For this reason, we are trying to understand if there is a need for this product or if we should keep it just for ourselves. We would be interested to know if you think that this software would be useful to you, and if so, what features would be most important to you.

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I’ve gathered few tips which helped my to fill Product Owner shoes. As this is quite common path, wanted to help ones facing dillema what is expected from you, and how to prepare.
Seeds like grains that make up most of people's diets and the diets of most livestock? That doesn't sound great.
Watch this video to find out.
One important caveat: Defining good UX is subjective. Ensuring the user has the best possible experience using the product how they want to use it is very different from ensuring they have the best possible experience using the products how the company wants them to use it. I agree that they're not likely making many technical design mistakes in implementing their strategies, but whether or not it yields "good UX" depends on if you're willing to accept the X boundaries applied by the company as "good." You can have a seamless, perfectly implemented, smooth and appealing process that leads users into a dark pattern pushing them towards an action that doesn't work in their best interest: great UX work from the company marketing perspective, shitty from the user perspective.
You can distribute your Mac app without signing, but customers have to set their preferences to accept unsigned apps, which is not the default. So not advisable.

So you sort of need Apple's permission. But, as long as you are prepared to stump up the ~$100 per year and don't do anything stupid, then the certificate and notarization shouldn't be an issue. I haven't heard of any bona fide developers being refused a certificate. And I haven't had any issue with notarization (yet).
A Porsche is available for free if you're willing to steal one. After all, it's curiosity more than anything.
Example of 'devil in the details'?
I feel similar. No matter how good at Python I get, I doubt I'll ever write an C interface, I just don't need that. I've used pandas and some of these randomly, but TBH I'd rather write a dataclass with static typing rather than re-construct data in pandas. Does that bump me down to a lesser skilled programmer?

I guess it's easy to pick on any rubric, but I found the implication of this one be unhelpful. I like the training materials that focus on continual development instead -- I don't recall any off the top of my head, but they provide a contextual learning path, like if you've mastered list comprehension now take a look at decorators.
Stop making guinea pigs out of normal people. Gasoline is a volatile substance. Just changing it willy-nilly without extensive testing is unethical. There's a reason the FAA hasn't certified it. Safety regulations are written in blood.
I was under the impression IPFS was a content addressing system with a p2p layer. Does ThirdCloud upload it to a pinning server?
>Nevertheless, every incinerator produces excess GHG emissions and therefore every state’s GHG emissions intensity is higher than it would be without incinerators. These results are consistent with those of Tabata [83], who analyzed 727 power-producing incinerators in Japan and found that only five did not produce excess fossil CO2 emissions.
Billions of Years Ago, Venus May Have Had a Key Earthlike Feature
Ask HN: TeaVM or GWT?
Well not much beyond the title. For someone who wants to write a client-side web application in Java for whatever reason, which option is better in 2023? Better means more modern and more maintainable in the future (e.g. support latest Java versions).
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Yes.

Consuming them from time to time should not be a problem, but eating a chocolate (or fish) every day presents the risk of excessive intake of contaminants.

Unfortunately, most of us cannot afford to make a chemical analysis of every food we buy, to determine whether it is safe or not for consumption, so it is better to be cautious.

Even the legal limits for the lead and cadmium content of cocoa and of most seeds and nuts are rather high also based on the reasoning that on average they should be only a minor part of the daily intake.
Looks interesting. What would be the main benefits of switching to this from BurpSiute?
How about, turn the brightness up to match the suns? Can't do that very easily either.

If anything, I think this screen should have the option of collecting ambient light from an even larger area.

It's actually somewhat genius. It's also interesting with color temperature. I guess it's a CRI of 100 in day light?
Corps and orgs are not designed to "donate" money through any of those services. Do they even support tax exemption? It's more paperwork and process to donate $20, so it doesn't happen. Octoprint needs to create a license for business/org use and expand on that as a feature like octoeverywhere does. It has to be easy. You can't expect donations, you have to build a product. It's just human nature.
industrialization was still 100 years before the obesity pandemic

the hypothesis that hfcs is significantly different in its nutritional effects from sucrose was interesting and has some anecdotal support but is not well supported by evidence so far

'refined foods' have many other nontraditional ingredients introduced around the same time as hfcs, like polyethylene glycol, and we might actually be talking about those instead
Based on my internet experience (...) and among this particular HN audience, I'd say you're fighting an uphill battle given our collective preference for where to place and how to treat quotes.
Spanish probe estimates more than 200,000 children abused by Catholic clergy
> I block even people that don't share follows if I got to see a tweet I just don't like.

What does “don’t share follows” mean?
You have some cognitive biases you may want to work on.
One thing I miss about in-office work is that people would spontaneously draw diagrams in meetings. [...] This doesn’t happen (IME) with remote work. Drawing diagrams takes for-fricken-ever so people tend not to do it in meetings.

I agree. I’m a big fan of remote working in general but with current tools we’ve definitely lost something in this area. The practical utility of just having a huge whiteboard on the wall that everyone can see with a bunch of different coloured pens that anyone can pick up is enormous.

I hope the next generation of conferencing apps will provide shared “whiteboard” spaces as standard. Extra points if they can effectively use tablets (thinking Wacom not iPad here) so everyone can just sketch out ideas quickly and collaboratively again, and if it also provides useful and rapidly accessible tools for things like saving interesting work, editing and moving things around, and retrieving something you were looking at earlier in the discussion. I suspect there’s a significant opportunity here, a chance to fix one of the legitimate criticisms of WFH. Certainly among the smaller businesses I tend to work with, I could imagine any remote conferencing tool that got that right first would rapidly expand its market share.
This is a dedicated NAS. What workload do you expect to be paging to disk? Your primary workload is already reading and writing bits off disk.
BTW I have heard of bona fide developers being kicked out of the Mac and iOS app stores for all sorts of dodgy reasons.
Race car driver here: this proposal would be extremely boring. It’s amusing when there are people in the stands and it certainly can help pay the bills but we do this because it’s fun.
Fake food images are literally fraud. I’m also having trouble believing that this is a passion project for friends and family based on your 90% comment.
Yes, but the GP is posting about diesel engines in over the road equipment.

Those regulations don't apply to 1. existing installations in trucks or 2. generators.
This is all true, yet doesn't bother me like Wal Mart does.
Strange. I live in Canada, and visit Brazil often. I have never had any trouble using my only Amazon account to log in to Amazon USA, Amazon Brazil, or Amazon Canada. I have both Brazilian and Canadian addresses set up as shipping options on my account, and I often make purchases on Amazon Brazil while in Canada and have them shipped to the Brazilian address.
> It's not possible to flash misinformation with normal front ends before React

jQuery, Backbone, Angular, etc.. You can / did do this in other frameworks prior to React.

I think, from reading your comments, you think client side routing and single page applications equals React. That's... an interesting take.
In production, use a managed service (RDS, Cloud SQL, tons of others...)
In dev, set up a Docker container.
You won't spend a lot of time on either of these things.
If by "outgrow" you mean you want to improve concurrent read/write performance, availability, and throughput via replication, then I would -- personally, for peace of mind and ease -- look at just buying a managed RDBMS from someone with predictable pricing and using that. Buy PlanetScale, Aurora, Neon, CockroachDB Cloud, etc and let them handle it. PlanetScale and Aurora in particular have plans that let you fix the I/O costs and only pay for compute and storage, which is pretty attractive. They also use standard MySQL/Postgres, so you can migrate in/out to other providers later. It does mean you must spend time on the migration though, and spend time understanding the implications of your new storage choice (latency, failure modes, etc.)

If you just want peace of mind and better disaster handling, and your current uptime, concurrent workload split, and performance is fine -- maybe your hosting provider eats it for an hour or two and you don't want to be hamstrung -- I would suggest just using a tool like Litestream, replicating the DB to S3, and setting up a hot standby server in some alternative region that you can fail over to and that actively synchronizes the working set. Always keep them up to date with deployment automation. Set up some alerting, and if a failure happens, terminate the main instance with prejudice, let the replica catch up by replaying any latest changes, and reorient your load balancer to point to it (Cloudflare tunnels are a good low-tech solution you could use to do that.) This might imply a small downtime window for the hot failover. For bonus points, you can automate this whole task, and actively perform it regularly, swapping between servers on regular cadence -- thus turning the design from having a primary/standby to simply having two interchangeable systems that swap roles. And then you have good confidence in hot-failover disaster recovery. e.g. just do this whole dance every week on Monday at 1am UTC, and you can have confidence it works and will stay working.

I do not know what other architectural constraints you might have. These are just suggestions. Good luck!
I initially wrote a much longer comment, detailing multiple instances like these from just the past few months. But then I just deleted it because it will be too long.
As for them - They will just tell "huh, he is hacker and can send fake emails from fake non-existing platforms".

It's like me attempting to demonstrate my possession of a private key for an SSL certificate to someone who lacks even a basic understanding of what a "browser" is, or who has never encountered terms like HTTP or HTTPS.

Another thought, more closely aligned with the original poster's point: if someone pushes to transition everything to a digital format, he must first understand what that means. For instance, if you're looking to gather email addresses, take the time to familiarize yourself with relevant RFCs. Understand that the local part of the email is determined by the user, not you. So, if I decide my email address should be "john with space here-doe!@#$%^&"@example.international, and I've set up my server to accept messages directed to this address, and given that IANA recognizes ".international" as a valid TLD, then it's a legitimate email. For clarity's sake, my actual email is of the format first.last@example.international, without any "non-standard" characters.

And as a connection to the OP - they are pushing for debit/credit cards society and when they make sure that all your money are with them and you don't have a single cent on you - they just cut you because you're just 0.001% and an edge case. But that is their point of view. From your point of view its like this:
At home if my card stops working i can go to my bank the very next day and get it sorted. I can walk for 15 minutes and be at my mom's place where I can eat everything for free.
The next day you are in another country where you don't know anybody and if your card stops there, they just leave you to the wolves.
For them you're the edge case - 0.001%. For you - this is all your food, shelter, health. It feels a bit unfair.
I don't think a minute of googling will give you a full picture of the situation, beating the citzens living in China. And I am talking about incident rate/ false positive rate in the published pieces in the English / European press. I wonder if supposedly no reliable source from china then how does one reliably assess the authenticity out of China? It is very naive to ignore the obvious bias + conflict of interst(For whatever injust big or small no doubt and the interest of foreign press).

When I tried to follow a lot of news pieces like those above the chances are in the end most are lack of evidence, and later when it was debunked in China it won't be covered in UK/US press. So I actually believe that my close friends working in the system can provide much more insight, despite I have never been subject to any of the suspected situation. And it's guaranteed that no journalism will be covering the other side of the coin since there is no interest or financial value.

So respectfully I doubt the law in national security can force every citzen to oblige spying duty. It seems wildly exaggerated.
Detroit is currently trying to implement a tax similar to what Henry George envisioned.

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2023/10/05/detroit-w...
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To me, a UI is beautiful when it does what it's supposed to do with a minimum amount of effort and cognitive overhead from the user. Aesthetics have zero to do with that and attempts from designers to make something "pretty" usually subtract from functionality. Tools like Django Admin are not an art project, they are meant to do a job.
Soft Skills for Coders Who Want to Get Ahead