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Granting the indie-dev, limited resources, focus-is-good, to me the key is enablement by available libraries, platforms, IDE's, language survival and importance, etc. -- none of which the author mentions.

Java for the most part has libraries and IDE's due to its history, but got tripped up on the essential web platform story: it's only achingly small/fast enough for real servers, and just flat out gave up on the browser after the javascript onslaught. For future-proofing, anti-Oracle bias has hamstrung Java of late (notwithstanding the excellent upgrades and engineering Oracle put in).

Go is great if you're on the server side with Google-like concerns, and it's unlikely Google would ever drop Go.

With Rust, the language offers the most for serious systems programming, but the learning curve limits available libraries (converse being true in javascript land). Rust is still early-adopters - likely the best talent-wise, but not scaling.

Swift is interesting. Can be as easy as Java, but is becoming as correct as Rust wrt lifetimes and more deployable than Go, to both server and embedded. But no real incentive from Apple for deploying on Windows or to the web, so that's handled by a few heroes. And unfortunately, libraries are sort of an open-source zoo of minor offerings. But Apple's betting the company on Swift, so you can, too.

Python pretty much lucked into popularity by supporting the scientific computing that would become data analysis and AI after building significant community inertia. It's sort of the default prototyping language in a time when prototypes are often good enough. It's gradually been adding typing and performance to stay good enough.

So Python would be my recommendation as the one language to rule them all for indie developers, who are more likely to be plumbing together applications than writing database engines. It's also where the money is now for most developers.

That said, it may depend most on the market for skills. It might be easier to build an indie business as a Go developer because the supply/demand curve favors you. And as far as I know, there's no good data on point for that.
defcon folks rarely looked at those status emails, and more than once ADMITTED having not looked!
That's a valid concern! As we're currently a team of 3 building this out - we still are working on building out our integrations with other tools, hardware, etc. We have been prioritizing building direct integrations to systems that our current users are interested in.

We also value enabling developers to build off of Synnax or integrate the parts they are most interested in into their existing systems. We've tried to service that end by building out Python, Typescript, & C++ SDKs and device integrations. We're continuing to look into how we can better support developers build/expand their systems with Synnax, so if there are any integrations you think are important, I would appreciate your take.
Shouldn’t the screen (Olympics logo) in the background be a constant blur then?
Unfortunately the hunter might find himself with nowhere left to turn, stuck between the Rock and a hard place.
Fine structure is great!
New hope of finding life on Mars after indication of water, scientists say
a 7 minute mile is the most efficient

That works out to a 3:03 marathon time. That's years of work to become so efficient.

I'm a little bummed that the article doesn't touch on how can maintain that pace for x amount of miles, since plainly: only people who have trained very carefully have a chance. So that running speed is off the table.

Stick to walking.
Dude. Everyone knew what "real enums" meant including you. Please stop.

And yes popular languages do have real type safe enums. C++, Typescript, Rust, god even Python.
Dent looks really cool thanks for sharing!
Not that I have seen.

The US's BLS data is quite comprehensive. You can drill down to individual zip codes, neighborhoods, etc, some of which have very low population densities and generally low populations. I know that the French also have such detailed lists, but as my French is very poor, I'm less familiar with that data. Commonwealth countries generally are lacking in comparison in the detail of the population data they freely provide. Something about francophone countries and those like the US with a long philosophical interchange with France seems to be more 'free data' centric.

Still, based on my work with such data, I don't see that a lack of data in more rural areas has much affect on the 'goodness' of things. From my work I see that it really mostly is just more people = more better.
Yep, folks will come at this kind of things their own ways, and that’s all good.

I likewise care for an acre, and fix as much as I reasonably can — from the small to the large. I once avoided a “dominos” problem when a built-in fridge died, which they no longer made parts for, and was a different size than today’s so the cabinetry would need redone, which would make the rest of the kitchen look worn, which would make the wood floors look worn (all in all, I was facing lots of zeros).

Then I thought for a while and decided to test all the capacitors on the PCB (in place, which required buying a tester). About $150.08 and two days later the fridge was working (the eight cents was for the bad cap).

That said, I know my limits and call in the “pros” for jobs I don’t relish or wouldn’t trust my own work (e.g. car brakes).

Knowing how to repair things doesn’t mean one always has to.
Or not even any programming and showing one of the online Codenames on the phone - just for the map.
Just like Bluetooth. As a user, you don't care whether it's the protocol or the implementation, you just cross fingers and hope it works.
Government: we want a geofence warrant for ...

Court: no

Government: how much $ for this data?

Telco/bigtechco: ah, now we're talking
Probably about a year.
Yup this is why Electron apps are bad too. You shouldn't spend more energy and cycles of your user's computer just to make your life easier as a dev.
Nah, at least in the context of General Relativity tensors and tensor fields are everything. Geometric algebra doesn't add much.
We have that in my part of the US, but my utility calls it a "connection fee". It's what you pay just to be connected to the grid, not for the actual electricity you use.
Long train is long!

It's actually hilarious what you really need to scroll it to see it on your Wiki page.
CGP Grey also made an excellent video about it, which he dubbed the NaPoVoInterCo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUX-frlNBJY
Also: interfaceiritus. Someone saw "accept interfaces, return structs" somewhere and now EVERYTHING accepts an interface, whether or makes sense or not. Many (sometimes even all) of these interfaces have just one implementation.
Nonsense correlations and how to avoid them
Well the professionals are licensed bonded and insured. I only found out afterwards that the lawyer who literally wrote the contractor law in Nevada works primarily for contractors so it doesn't really help you very much. At least with handymen when you can find a good one they are better than the best professionals.
No, they didn’t. After corporate restructuring, parent company Alphabet uses a different cute slogan, while Google retains “don’t be evil” in their code of conduct.
(Original URL was http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html#4jun11.)
You know that's not what the OP meant.

"Apple users should be able to decide what software and stores run on the device that they own."

It should be able to be decided while owning it, not before. The point is that a phone that doesn't give the user the same level of control over the software that the manufacturer has simply should not exist. It should not be left to market forces.
>Probably unconstitutional as the constitution mandates that each state provide to its citizens a representative form of government, meaning the state's electoral votes need to match the public's votes. It would be unconstitutional to apportion the state's representatives by vote of another state's voters

Umm, sorry, but if Faithless Electors are constitutional, then so is this.

The Constitution doesn't regulate the choice the electors make.

The electors can go by another state's voters, the phase of the moon, or what their pet frog is saying, as far as the Constitution is concerned.

This country was not built as a democracy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_elector
> Does anybody want to argue that Apple hosting the Patreon app on iOS provides more value to Patreon subscribers and creators than the existence of Patreon itself does?

This isn't a Creators/Patreon/Apple phenomenon, this is a consumers/distributors/(publishers|labels)/creators phenomenon.

See page 12:

https://articles.unesco.org/creativity/sites/default/files/m...
https://github.com/runvnc/nnpapers/blob/master/hinton86.pdf

https://github.com/runvnc/mlp
I had to reply with my experiences after seeing those downvotes.
Well, putting aside for now whether it is religion-shaped, let's assume that there is a hole and that filling the hole is like writing an essay. When I'm writing an essay. I can stare at the blank screen and start writing, or I can generate a draft essay with ChatGPT and start from there. For me I've found ChatGPT is a better starting point. It is kind of the same thing with astrology - let's say the prompt is defining your personality when you're making a dating profile. You might start from scratch, but a lot of people don't know their personality. Whereas, you start from an astrological sign, you can say "I'm a Capricorn but feisty" or whatever. Now obviously based on this study and the previous, the signs are meaningless. But the personality descriptions people build around them are not - even if you think Capricorn or whatever is meaningless, you can ask someone who says they're such a sign what they think the traits of a Capricorn are, and they will most likely be giving you true descriptions of themselves. There is actually a known effect in psychology where if you ask someone (A) to fill out a personality quiz as though they were a friend (B) filling out the survey while they (B) answer as though they were the person (A), sort of a double-remove perspective thing, then the answers more accurately reflect one's true personality and perceptions. I wonder if perhaps astrology fills a similar role here of allowing one to look at oneself from the outside.
> [Insert after #11 and before #12, shifting the rest down]

Now ask it why John Searle isn't on the list. See whether you eventually get to a fixed point or a cycle.
I don't really understand such critics which I often see for the python 2 to 3 transition, the OS didn't want to change `python` to be v3 by default which is understandable for backward compatibility, and the fix is simple and immediate with e.g. the python-is-python3 apt package, or an alias python=python3 in the shell, or a symlink in PATH, etc.
Has anybody noticed that malformed vsetvli instruction is using x0 register as destination (returning vl to be used by app) which in most RISCs is hard-wired zero. Very unlikely that writing to zero reg was not tested during design verification process as it's one of the obvious corner cases.
My personal Python threshold is 10k lines. After that I tend to loose track of what I am doing and I start to miss static typing and nowadays, an IDE to navigate it. Maybe future Python IDEs can AI scan the codebase and compensate.
> So there, looks like Apple brings in the money for Patreon.

Apple users bring in the money for Patreon.

I own an iPhone. I am not Apple, and Apple does not own me. Why should Apple be able to charge money for "access" to me, as if I were a prostitute and Apple my pimp? I'm simply using a computer, which I paid for.
I don't think labor is taxed. Income is though.

Edit: Meaning that the Jiffy Lube guy has to pay income tax on what he earns at his job, but you don't have to pay tax on the labor expense to you.
> when a platform ends up in late stage capitalism and goes off extracting value from users at the cost of their experience.

That's Boeing's mission statement in general I think, but specifically here I think there's a strong indication that they deployed some software for their stakeholders that they promised would do a thing, then they literally un-deployed it after they got the sign-off.

Doctorow's own definition of enshittification can drift [1][2][3] but I called it that because Boeing sold this system as one thing, but then apprently unilaterally pulled a core feature. In other words they reduced the value of the system _after_ they extracted what they could from it by scoring the contract. It might not reach the exact definition, but it rhymes.

Honestly I thought "enshittification" as something "hip" had already had its time. It just seemed to apply.

[1] https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2024-04-04... He describes it as an entity "shifting value away from end users [...] and business customers [...] to itself."

[2] https://doctorow.medium.com/the-specific-process-by-which-go... "[T]he ability to change the underlying functions of the business from moment to moment and user to user, allowing for the rapid transfer of value between business customers, end users and shareholders"

[3] https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/
first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.
That happens all the time during normal, legal place investigations. What's wrong with that? The concept of an investigation almost necessarily requires there to be innocent people involved, to differentiate the guilty from the innocent.
Add a weighted backpack and you can massively ramp up the calorie burning aspect of those shorter walks.

"Load carriage" is a thing the military has put some effort into studying. A 50lb pack turns a brisk walk into something that burns 100s of calories. Even an extra 20lbs on your back adds up. It might not feel like a lot, but the difference in heart rate for same perceived effort is shocking.
super great as secondary sim (I mean internet)

I experienced some, but to me https://etravelsim.com/ is good choice (europe and balcans)

support impressive (super responsive) plus you get a uk number, free calls to other their esim... just discovered this e-sim world thanks to HN: it is the future
It actually has a BSD license these days.
I respectfully disagree (without attempting to say you're wrong!) about the definition of coincidence and the requirement of being non causally related. If I'm riding on a bus and the light poles going past line up with my music, that's a coincidence even though they are cause soley by the bus motion BPM matching an essentially random choice of song BPM.
> I fear our AI future not because of evil but because of bureaucrats.

Fair, though the advantage of an actual LLM here is that it's not limited to a dumb hard-coded menu, so if done right (I know, I know) an LLM would help a lot.

(One of the disadvantages is that current models sometimes extemporise answers even if none exist).
It's nonsense, for example there is no "I used pure water in the input to the process" exemption; why would there be, the output is what matters. And I believe even unprocessed potable water can be illegal to dump due to the presence of chlorine/fluorine.
Everyone agrees that Google has an unfair monopoly over search engines.

Everyone agrees that such a monopoly has been established by crafting commercial deals that potential competitors couldn't refuse.

But everyone seems to be confused on how to fix the issue without impacting consumers and their habits forged over 25 years of Google's search dominance.

In this new article I discuss how meta-search engines like Searxng that aggregate results from competing (and probably smaller/specialized) engines, open search protocols, a revive of the semantic web and a sprinkle of public funding to fix whatever the market alone can't fix can actually turn a regulatory puzzle into a technological opportunity - and make search better for everyone in the process.
Let's take this to an extreme. Imagine an app that does little except thread together the basic UI components provided by iOS. In other words, something that most people here could write in an afternoon. Now imagine it ends up on the Apple marketplace. Given how much work goes into building iOS, the UX, and the app store, by your argument Apple should get 99.9% of the fees. The person who created the app just spent a few hours and Apple spent bazillions of hours (amortized over many apps).
Sure it does. The reason they do security sweeps is because they don't trust the attendees. Normally they mostly leave it up to the housekeepers. They only do sweeps when big conferences with known "tech nerds" are in town.
Nothing was ever on paper between me and anyone.
exacly!!! super reccomended
The idea of tensors as "a matrix of numbers" or the example of a cube with vectors on every face never clicked for me. It was this (NASA paper)[https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/Numbers/Math/documents/Ten...] what finally brought me clarity. The main idea, as others already commented, is that a tensor or rank n is a function that can be applied up to n vector, reducing its rank by one for each vector it consumes.
Can confirm, lived exactly that situation.

I think you can generalize it about any information that would shatter your identity.

It's the reason some people will tell you Arch Linux worked perfectly on their machine despite having plenty of problems.

The reason why people adopting a religion, a diet or new sexuality will probably not tell you if they are unhappy about the consequences.

Graham did say we should keep our identity small: https://paulgraham.com/identity.html
I've tried travel eSIMs (Ubigi) on a couple of trips to Japan. In my experience compared to when I've gone and used physical SIMs, the reception and coverage wasn't nearly as good. Just super random neighborhoods and areas where the phone just completely drops connections. Even the top of a mountain near Fuji, my eSIM failed completely but my Japanese friends with eSIMs had completely normal and fast service despite supposedly being connected to the same network (DoCoMo iirc at the time).

Not sure if it's an eSIM issue or that the service (Ubigi in this case) that fronts the cellular network just can't operate it smoothly or what.
What a nicely desguised way for DNC strongholds to effectively kill off the republican party. By the time a supreme court would be called upon it wouldn't even lift a finger in protest because by then all Wikipedia articles about what Federalism means will be rewritten. Scotus will be told to "not risk democracy" and will recieve the message.

It would be less ironic if this compact wasn't put forward by the same camp that constantly laments gentrification. But when gentrification happens on a intra-state level and states attract so many upper class people that the rural class is effectively nixed out of political representation (eg CA, NY) its not just good, it should directly translate into who gets to decide whos going to be president. Only the urbanites.
> I do programming interviews and I found candidates struggling a lot in doing http request and parsing response json in Go while in Python its a breeze, what makes it particularly hard, is it lack of generics or dict data type?

Have you considered that your interview process is actually the problem? Focus on the candidate’s projects, or their past work experience, rather than forcing them to jump through arbitrary leet code challenges.
>Plus, as another poster pointed out, I think several other sports would be rejected for the same concerns if they weren't effectively grandfathered in.

Including most of the Winter Olympics.
This ruling is a huge step in the right direction. To gather all the data you speak of requires some entity (entities, really) -currently not the government- to gather it and then make it available for subpoenas and warrants, which would then fall [in the 5th circuit anyways, right now] under this precedent.

The government could get into the business of building [under cover] popular apps so as to gather that data themselves, but that would take a great deal of time and money, and most importantly competence!
I figured as such. Can I ask that you change the website itself to make them visible to logged out accounts? I understand exactly why you did this but I feel like if you showed them collapsed by default on the single-comment page and you have to actively click on a "banned" to expand them you really are out of line when you complain about how Hacker News hosts horrible content or whatever.
Obviously Apple is testing how much teeth the rules have.
"NextNav’s Petition for Rulemaking. NextNav asks that the Commission reconfigure the Lower 900 MHz Band by creating a 5-megahertz uplink in the 902-907 MHz band paired with a 10-megahertz downlink in the 918-928 MHz band, shifting all the remaining non-M-LMS licensees to the 907-918 MHz portion of the band. Petition at 28–30."

Hmmm
But there was violence. Between Protestants and Catholics, between English-Americans and the newcomers from Ireland, Germany, Italy, Poland, etc. Lutheran Churches were firebombed during the First World War. For example, many German-Americans today don't even know this, but there was immense pressure to severe ties with Germany, e.g. to stop speaking German, to Anglicize their names, to adopt a more "American" cuisine, etc. Immigration was more or less halted for the half century between 1924 and 1965 due to a great deal of this turmoil.

And that's just describing inter-ethnic conflicts among White Americans. These groups have histories that intertwine extending back to their homelands in Europe. There was also a great deal a inter-racial violence and tension.

I don't blame you for not knowing about any of this. It's just not something the United States really touts about its own history. And knowledge of the problems it caused 100 years ago raises uncomfortable questions about the current levels of immigration into the US. So it's something that goes largely undiscussed today.
It's also "what devices Google saw in these areas at these times", which is much higher quality than cell tower triangulation.
Liquid water found on Mars could host life
Agreed. Better article IMO: https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/olympics-2024-mens-100m-ph...

To the question of the Omega logo and Olympic rings asked below, this article states "In fact, the entire photo is literally the finish line viewed one pixel at a time (the Omega and Olympic branding is added at the top)."
> This is simplistic: the real problem is that there aren't enough doctors/garbos/crop-harvesters etc as a proportion of the population. Either way the fix is straightforward: bring in some people who'd like a job.

That "fix" doesn't work when the birthrate problem is widespread. It just moves the problem around so it hits the poorest the hardest.

> Some rethinking is required -- in the USA Social Security was put in place when the typical recipient was expected to receive a payout for...less than three years.

Yes. Social security's payout formula should factor in the number offspring. Anyone who has less than two gets a significantly reduced or no payout, because they didn't sufficiently contribute to the next generation's labor pool to provide the goods and services they payout would be used to buy. The tax payments would be kept but re-conceptualized as support for elderly parents. To make it fair, the government should pay for fertility treatments, and count a certain number of good-faith attempts as children in the formula.