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I very much doubt ISPs are in the habit to turn down expansion in any area...

That's like climate denialism. There is a documented 30-year history of ISPs not expanding their network while claiming subsidies for exactly that: https://newnetworks.com/bookofbrokenpromises.htm .

...even if it doesn’t make economic sense

You're conveniently ignoring the "not justified by genuine issues of technical or economic feasibility" in your own goddamn quote.
So, the fourth paragraph of the article is supposed to demonstrate the decline of Quora. It has a number of links.

One of those links shows a UI that's fairly obviously Reddit! [1] Another is to genius.com's lyrics to some song[2] which don't seem to have anything to do with anything the author's complaining about.

Of the links actually relevant to Quora, one is about an obvious joke[3], which the author either doesn't understand or pretends not to.

What's left is a case of spam[4], that the article links twice. I'd suppose because it's the only evidence the author has of low quality questions on Quora.

While Quora is a horrible website, I'd say the evidence shows Slate is worse. Their reporters can't even find genuine evidence of Quora's low quality. They show us Reddit instead.

[1] https://twitter.com/3DrakaiNa/status/1743993622737863056
[2] https://genius.com/23826656
[3] https://twitter.com/Zeronelite/status/1743449094360596802
[4] https://hollywoodactress02.quora.com/OMG-KING-CHARLES-SHOCK-...
Yeah, the comments to any viral post on Xitter now is just blue checkmarks spamming memes in order to get likes and eyeballs on their junk content, and thus make money.
A friend nearby got into making bread during the pandemic. Before that, I’d have decent bread for a day or two after shopping and then sandwich bread.

American milk is very pasteurized and might last a month before being opened. But I think I’m mildly lactose intolerant anyway, can’t stand the stuff.
The answer is probably in here https://observablehq.com/documentation/cells/observable-java... but i still don't see why you can do `x = { let y = 5; return y }`
Yahoo Answers was greater because it was so bad. Quora wasn't good enough or bad enough. Gotta go one way or the other.
> The best thing to do is for the city to own both fiber and electricity, and let providers compete for both.

Something similar is the case in the European Union, as the electricity network is usually a different company than the electricity providers. The network is often owned by some municipal company and charges customers only for the transport of energy over the network. For the energy itself customers can choose from dozens of different providers, some of them generate their own electricity, others just buy and resell electricity on the market.
I never said better things are not possible, this disconnect here is that despite all of recorded American history proven other ways people still believe we just need to "elect to right people" to government to fix everything wrong everywhere all problems in society

When in reality power corrupts and by giving power to government you corrupt anyone that enters the profession.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. --- Ronald Reagan

Better things are possible they just do not come from government, they come in-spite of government
In Quebec, the license plate cost ($230 per year) also covers all injury. This means that the private part of insurance, only covers damages to things, which is rarely millions.

This blend of private/public insurance results in super cheap rates, while keeping injury insurance in place.

Both BC (full public) and Ontario(full private) have higher rates for the same coverage. 2x as much per year.
Kanren: An extensible, lightweight relational/logic programming DSL in Python
I can see that Apple is behind this. This looks better than Cue
Location: Currently Washington DC

Remote: OK

Willing to relocate: Yes (only within [NYC, Philly, DC])

Technologies: Go, Python, Kubernetes, service architecture, SQL, message queues, API servers, load balancers

Résumé/CV: https://www.willett.io/assets/resume.pdf

Email: brandon@willett.io

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Hi! My name is Brandon.

I'm a backend and platform dev with a little over 5 years of experience, most recently as an SRE at Datadog for about 3 years before I left (of my own volition, wanted a little break). I have a bunch of experience with API severs and data pipelines, not only designing and writing code for the services themselves, but also setting up and monitoring the infra it runs on. I've built each of these kinds of systems before from scratch, both alone and leading small groups, and I really enjoy it -- I have more specifics on my resume.

(or, check out Cloudy But No Rain (https://www.cbnr.xyz, working title will probably change soon) — it's open source, made up of a few Go services and OSS deployments, and I run it myself on bare-metal k8s.)

My ideal job would be someplace small, product-oriented, and sustainable (in both a financial and human sense, so think less VC-powered rocket ships and more bootstraps, nonprofits, b-corps and co-ops). Of course, if you're not 100% of those things but think we might be a good fit anyway, please do still reach out!

And finally (thanks a bunch if you’re reading all this), I think my biggest strength is that I give a crap. Always, about everything — I make time to write great documentation, I jump in to help in other people’s incidents, I create a deluge of comments when someone sends me a doc for feedback. I find a lot of joy in doing good work and I believe that’s why people often seem to really enjoy having me on their team.

If you want to work with someone like that, I’d love to see an email from you. Thanks!
To move directionally in the way you describe, you probably have to make the user experience of running scripts of any kind much weirder. macOS does this to some extent by prompting via GUI if something tries to access data directories on your system (though it confuses iTerm2 for "anything iTerm2 runs" and that sucks), but I think people would have a lot more problems with trying to do that in a server shell.

To that end, Linux namespacing is probably a better way to constrain the blast radius for most people. That's not to say it should be an either-or, but in the absence of a both-and because the userland is not set up for sufficient policing, I think Docker containers are a pretty clearly better solution.
this seems reasonable to me
I've been reading this for going on 30 years and I still have some in my wallet which is accepted everywhere. Seems to me this is just a recurring trope trotted out for want of an article topic.
> The telco lobbyists wrote the government regulations.

This is the issue. There isn't a free market in this (or many) sectors because of regulatory capture. If that were gone, if competition was even possible, then we would see improvement.
This isn't quite accurate. The population projection graphs you see [1] are based on UN numbers which have the Japanese fertility rate skyrocketing [2] relative to past trends, presumably based on the assumption of some sort of successful social policy. That's why the collapse starts to smooth out in the graph, which is not what you see from a constant rate. Fertility rates, at a constant level, are brutally exponential systems which do not 'slow down'.

As for predictions, I remember about 10 years ago making fun of somebody who wanted to get a class C (commercial trucking) license. It seemed like the most idiotic idea imaginable at the time. Self driving vehicles had already been proven viable and surely it was imminent that nobody would be driving themselves around, let alone truckers where companies would love to ditch those relatively hefty labor fees. Relevant link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmoid_function

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[1] - https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/JPN/japan/population-g...

[2] - https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/JPN/japan/fertility-ra...
I absolutely loved it and I’ve been extremely impatient to see its release. I used it to generate k8s manifests, Terraform, all infra config files. Very flexible and fun to use
ISPs: "You can't tell us how to spend money ensuring equitable deployment of critical infrastructure!"

Also ISPs: "Ooh! Hey! Can we have some of that money in the jar labeled 'federal money for ensuring equitable deployment of critical infrastructure' ?"

How about this. Take it all back. Public utilities with equal access and reliability for all.

I’m not even going to try and address the other top level comment crying “reverse racism” just WTAF.
That’s one issue with the Jetbrains world. One IDE to configure per software stack is a bit much. Hopefully Jetbrains Fleet delivers.
It means its orbit is a circle. Seasonal variation is due to the tilt of the planet's axis of rotation relative to its orbit, not orbital eccentricity.
qw// was always my favorite, too — distinctive, and quick to type.
In the reality I live in money rules everything. I have goods I want to buy, I have money. I exchange money for goods. I am alergic to people that get on their high horses about what I am allowed to spend my money on.
Not only that, but rain and wet environments, it takes a skilled person to keep everyone safe, and also be able to wrench on a large diesel engine...while starting at 3 am, wrapping 14hrs later.

And in some large film unions, you need to pass a test just to get into the department, let alone run a generator.
First jet suit race death is less than a month away.
It can, in my experience, be very useful to introduce a unit for ‘requests’, as well as one for ‘CPUs’.

It lets us produce dimensionally valid formulae for relating request rates (in requests per second) to compute requirements (in CPU seconds per request), data transfer (in bytes per request), and bandwidth (in bytes per second).

I kind of wish software engineering’s computer science underpinnings offered a few more of the kind of notational underpinnings that physics offers mechanical or electronic engineers.

Why don’t we have a standard set of letters for representing data sizes, requests, compute units, etc; and a set of widely known formulae as familiar to every programmer as V=IR is to an electrical engineer?

The only standard symbol computer science has given us (or maybe more accurately that we have taken up) is n, as in O(n), for collection sizes.

I wonder if we can do better?
I remember playing Doom on Linux on my 3rd gen iPod...

It got rather warm, and just seemed crazy silly at the time. For context, smart phones weren't quite a thing yet and capacitative touch screens were an emerging technology.
> It just requires competency, money and an infrastructure that isn't for profit.

Uhhh.... Most of the nationwide infrastructure was put into place by the railroad companies that were definitely for profit organizations.
I have this in my house, but it does not provide what a UPS does. I have 42kwh of Enphase batteries as well as 53 solar panels (20kw) with enphase microinverters, and the battery system is inline with the incoming power. If we lose power the batteries kick in, however the time for them to kick is in >100ms. Computers will reboot with that timeframe of power drop.

In my case I use a 16kw APC Symmetry UPS (which is datacenter UPS) for the interconnetion to my dataroom. The UPS provides double on-line conversion as well as battery backup. However the batteries in the UPS are only large enough to provide for about 30 mins of runtime at my current sustained power rate (~6kw)

My goal with the UPS is to have both the inline conversion protection as well as the protection from power drops.

As the author mentioned, UPSes do suck, and the Symmetra I have does as well. I have replaced 3 power modules (which are about $1k each), one network module, and all of the batteries. And it has an alarm right now about one of the battery banks being bad. ;)

(For those interested, there is a bit more detail about my power system in a garage build thread: https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/threads/jeffs-mountain-s...)
What are the thousands of things that I am not allowed to do?
If everyone here knows about it, is it still secret?
They’re still going strong in the contact lens business. Annoyingly so.
I think you’re making a false comparison. Growth mindset is a separate thing entirely. “Growth” versus “fixed” in terms of ability to change your thought patterns.

It’s “scarcity mindset” vs. “abundance mindset”. In terms of ability to gain resources.

A scarcity minded person, such as myself, thinks that they should build extra buffer and not spend their resources, in case they need them in the future. If things go south, you might not be able to make money, so you should have extra somewhere to weather the storm. Resources flowing to you could become “scarce” (in your mind), so you’re cautious.

An abundance mindset person believes that they’ll always be able to find extra somewhere. They don’t need a big savings account because they’ll be able to figure out a way to make money, no matter the circumstance. Resources flowing to you are “abundant” (in your mind), so you are more carefree.

Neither is bad, they’re just different. If you’re older but still tucking away money and trying to not spend too much, etc, then you still have a scarcity mindset (like me).

I personally don’t know if my career will go away in the future, so I’m trying to build a nest-egg to be self sufficient regardless of my work, even though I have plenty of money in my budget to not think about it
The OFSTED electronic evidence gathering system seems to have been developed by (or in collaboration with) an outfit called Rainmaker Solutions. They seem to target government agencies.

I wanted to see if they are in any way related to Fujitsu; so I visited their "website". But it's not a proper website; instead, it's a demo page for their gee-whizz designers. The navigation is at best excentric. For no good reason, they've replaced the mouse cursor with a blob and a caret. They've tinkered with the scrollbars. There's no About page, which might have told me who owns them, or who their partners are. It's pure puff, an information-free zone.

https://rainmaker.solutions/

If I wanted a useable, practical solution, I'd run a mile from the designers of that website.
You will never know the joy of diagnosing a bad mainboard over the course of serval hours or days. Just stop, start and the problem magically goes away.

You’ll not realize that you could pay $1k for the server and run it yourself instead of renting forever.

You’ll never learn that arranging your cables nicely and labeling everything takes five times as long and is 100% worth it.

Or maybe you will. These things happen in waves.
DeFi Insurer Nexus Mutual Requests $153K for 6-Month Budget
The idiot reference if pretty ironic, but it's not unlike you to miss it again

> All of a sudden 2 comments in my "stupid choice of keybindings" is the topic

Nothing sudden about that: you offered your stupid keybinding as an alternative to my awesome ones. And since you asked what's wrong, I've explained it. And since you didn't understand it, I've clarified it

> You break up every sentence into 15

So that anyone can follow and respond to a specific issue instead of writing more irrelevant rants. Although unfortunately that's also not idiot-proof

> how long are you willing to keep this up
This is my last, discussing your technical fails was still on-topic, now only cognitive fails remain, and that's not, so I'll stop feeding your trollish behavior
Plenty of taxes are progressive. Despite being demonified by the right, they couldn’t do away with progressive Obamacare when they had congress and the white house in their hands recently despite almost a decade of promise saying they’d do it as soon as they had power. Turns out maybe progressive taxes aren’t that unthinkable after all if even the republicans couldn’t kill Obamacare
Five Leaves, a Drawing App for Kids
Tires are a big source of fine black particulate matter. It's even worse when your son is trying to create large mathematical symbols in the parking lot.
I've never seen these anywhere- where do you get them from?
Good luck hiring any roofing contractor to fix your roof.
If you do end up getting a used Apple device I recommend making sure that it has the newer keyboard style that the current models have (I think it switched in 2018). The old keyboard was not fun to use.
It's only accurate if the view espoused in the page, matches what the gatekeeping moderator believes.
My state (Oregon) requires insurance for motor vehicle operation. I understand the idea, but I can’t help but feel like it’s business model protection ensconced in law. The insurer isn’t obligated by law to pay for… anything. They’ll do everything they can to get out of paying for anything.

And yes, you can buy “uninsured motorist protection” from your insurer as well. Even in states where it shouldn’t be possible for there to be uninsured motorists.
Frequently covered by (non-car) liability insurance in Germany.
Wait.. so 12 people complained? This is the 'irresistible outcry'?
I feel like it's not that big an issue, and it seems like n=12 complaints when the userbase is in the millions isn't that bad.
If you can make a dyson sphere, a solar system sized telescope doesn't seem out of the question.
This was posted within the past 24 hours, though at 15 comments, it's hovering right about HN's dupe threshold:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39237558>
>I’m still uncomfortable with it; because today when I was using rider, I got a feedback pop up saying “how would you rate this AI completion?” from a normal completion.

Quite honestly if I got a popup like that from any text editor I would never use it again.
That’s exactly my experience so I just avoided quora, for some reason the question I was looking at had many answers to different questions below, after scrolling a bit downwards something resembling a connection with the question in the form of an answer would be found but… it’s too much trouble.
Might be worth a shot, thanks for the suggestion.
It’s hard for me to be gung ho about their amazing tooling and open-source support, when there’s all this happening.

But I see some hope. Edge is the absolute worst offender in MS camp. Followed by Microsoft 365 and Windows, to a much lesser degree.

They have a brilliant leader at the helm. Nadella is very underrated - others not taking him seriously might have helped them. Funding OpenAI with $10B worth of cash + Azure credits was an incredible bet. Killing the Windows monopoly approach was another one. Buying GitHub and LinkedIn and not screwing them up deserves praise (LinkedIn is another offender of using aggressive tactics to sell).

Long story short, companies are operated by leaders in different divisions. They have a significant level of autonomy. Some of them might be taking the lowly approach to hit their aggressive targets, but it doesn’t seem systemic. I’ve never ever received spam from GitHub.
imagine an internet where corporations were not allowed to steal the culture and pervert it into a moneymaker

apps, smart anything, and gaming of specs and standards are all about MITM the entire internet, and manipulating the culture away from organic and back to the, eat work buy status.
I'm not here to defend Quora, but my speculation is that Google's preference for long-form content is equally to blame.

Basically the same reason as recipes that start with a long life story: Google prefers pages with lots of content, even if 10% of it is actually useful to anyone. So a page with 50+ "answers" is preferable to a page with two actual answers.
> It means that, instead of being able to rely on existing tools for type checking & proper IDE support (like React does), you need custom tools for that custom file format.

React has (but does not require) JSX. It introduced a new file format: jsx or tsx. JSX is not valid JavaScript syntax. Hence, tooling needs explicit support for JSX. For an editor/IDE, that means it needs to add a relatively easy new syntax and a couple of custom React attributes. Obviously, there is a little more to add React support to an IDE, but this is the very first step.

Vue has (but does not require) single-file components. It introduced a new file format: vue. Vue files are already valid HTML syntax. For an editor/IDE, that means it does not need new syntax but only a couple of custom Vue attributes. Obviously, there is a little more to add Vue support to an IDE, but this is the very first step.

PS: Vue 3 has great TypeScript support.
> they wouldn’t have trouble forming a conglomerate towards achieving it.

That's underpants-gnomes level bullshit and you know it. Especially since I've given a concrete example that doesn't exist and would be AWESOME for society
Thou shalt follow these vintage computing commandments
I am convinced the Pkl config will grow in complexity until it has a yaml or json config for the configuration program.
any plan to support c/cpp ?
Because decorum requires too many rules. People mostly untouched by the modern world find socializing very easy because they say the first thing that comes to mind.
Not really, a company that adopted SVN early, stayed with it for 10 more years until it was clear that git is the way and they were struggling to find people willing to work with SVN.
Ciro (YC S22) is hiring a founding engineer to build an SMB search engine
I sometimes think I’m the only person in the universe who doesn’t prefer tabs. I already have a way to manage multiple windows worth of content: my OS’s Window Manager. Why would I want every application I run to also implement its own custom window management—visually and functionally inconsistent from every other application’s custom window management?

I feel applications that do tabs are just like applications that do their own custom quirky File-Open dialog even though my OS provides a standard one.
I've been working on a local-first web app, and ran into some of the same issues. Good to learn about these other pain points..

All of these make the so-called "persistent" local storage unreliable and impractical. I don't understand how browser vendors expect people to use such a feature where the data can be deleted at any time, where neither the developer nor the user has any control over how that happens.
To emphasize just one thing in Git that is a source of constant user woes: if you're doing a rebase merge, --ours and --theirs are reversed. This is unintuitive without a deeper understanding of how rebase works, and rebase itself is a concept that is confusing to most users. Conflicts are never easy to resolve under the best circumstances. You shouldn't have to flip everything around just because you're doing a rebase merge instead of a regular merge. I can't tell you how many times I've had to help people with that. Maybe you think that makes total sense and is obvious, but the majority of devs I've worked with struggle with it. The fact that there are different types of merges is already confusing enough. Even the > and < symbols are reversed during a rebase merge, such that even if you know, your brain is twisting itself in knots because of the conflicting visual indicator.
0.083 AU means that its sun would be huge in its sky? But it's also smaller so maybe not...
Hundreds? I think most umbrellas would be thousands in a year.
You must agree that for almost every web-based product, designers and product managers can safely decide to completely ignore all people who have requirements like yours without it ever affecting their success.
Because decorum requires too many rules and society has trained us to be empathetic to the other persons feelings and perspectives. People mostly untouched by the modern world find socializing very easy because they say the first thing that comes to mind.