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At the end of the day, it's tough to live in a place like SF or NYC. A lot of people get weeded out. In my experience with living in SF, the people I know who continue to live there do so because they genuinely love it and wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

Most people aren't going to continue to put up with the costs and challenges of big city life if they actually don't care all that much and could be just as happy in whatever places you're suggesting.
For when a state starts to censor documents
This comment is an example why a reply should be required before allowing a downvote. HN members with the privilege to downvote seem to be simply burying anything that disagrees with their opinion bubble.
I use small commercial hosting service and just ftp my index.html and other stuff to it. Works great.
Here is a news article:
https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/proton-mail-andy-yen-tru...
Location, location, location. Some parts of the country are nicer than others. Most people don't consider rural areas where the land is flat and mostly cornfields (with a possibility of tornadoes) to be a nice place to live. I live about an hour from the ocean and an hour from year round skiing in the mountains. Lots of hills and forests. I had to pay $250,000 for a 4,000 sq foot home on a wooded acre when I bought it three years ago, but I don't mind spendin that much when I am close into the city and so close to nature.
Why? the designation comes with obligations, but Im not aware that it confers any benefits.
I have never heard of a scientific conference with a $5000 prize. Was it a private fundraising conference? Perhaps it was private clinicians? Scientific research conferences are far more austere, but conferences for medical doctors are often like that (they do not usually get paid out of grants).

What you are describing is not normal. Please name the conference and shame it.

> One night the whole group of ~200 scientists and entourage was dancing late, drinking, and partying into the early morning hours.

Oh no, should we not have this? Do you really want to say this should not be happening?

Having conferences in Las Vegas, San Francisco, Newport, NYC, Miami, Boston, Chicago, Austin, is all normal. That is not wasteful. That is the necessary spread of ideas in science.

If your wife cannot understand why the data is not presented over Zoom than she is missing the primary purpose of these conferences which is meeting with lots of people in a short time to establish collaborations, chance encounters with new ideas and people, and other things that are not possible over Zoom. Perhaps she should stop wasting money by attending them and let others attend if she finds them wasteful.

Your representation of science is not the representation that I commonly see, and seems mostly to exist to discredit science. It seems that your intentions are more political rather than to accurately inform about the situation.
Yes exactly, but also meant as an awareness project about the absurdity of this new rules
How is ‘persist’ realised with cron?
What about ‘randomized delay’?
Putting aside that this is all possible with nix and without systemd, the additional complexity strikes me as having hamstrung the linux community for the last decade. I hope reliable service management arises but I have yet to see the benefit.

In the meantime I'm just going to keep using void because I know how to fix it when it breaks. Systemd i have to google how to even find the service logs.... they certainly aren't easy to find via the filesystem any more.
I was unaware of that, so thank you for the education. But for what it's worth, I have never seen a Linux system which didn't have user crontabs. So even if not universal, it is at least very widespread to the point that you can bet on its presence.
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> It almost feels like what happened with home computers was an accident, a circumstance that was only temporary and that once it is finally taken away we'll never get it back.

Home computers gave full control to the owners because there was no other choice. There was no internet, no way to push updates or hoover up data. Anything that happened on those machines had to be initiated by the user. They have been working on pulling all that back ever since always-on internet has become something that can basically be taken for granted.
Exactly. A stack overflow caused by recursion more likely converts to an endless loop. Nothing saves a bad code design.
What you wrote was already conveyed by my first comment.
Yes, even that one gets more beautiful, too.

Look at the usual equation: A = πr². Why is there no "2" there?

Let's derive it, and in particular, let's derive it from the onion proof, which is that a circle's area is composed of many small circles, arranged concentrically, like a 2D onion:

A = ∫_0^r 2πt dt

There's that blasted 2 again. The tau form is more beautiful:

A = ∫_0^r τt dt

Integrate it, and you'll get A = τr²/2, the constant being a result of the integral.

That is, to me, the usual equation is more properly A = 2πr²/2, the two 2s being different in their origins, and we just usually use & memorize the simplified form.
At least it is a good chance to overthink our buying decisions
There is more to colliding blocks that generate PI [video]
Follow up to following videos:

1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEfHFsfGXjs&pp=ygULcGkgLyA0I...

2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brU5yLm9DZM&pp=ygUPY29sbGlza...
Probably why my introduction of Buzzy, the angry swarm of bees, failed in the stuffed toy market.
You say "political" as if expressing any hesitation whatsoever about how our limited taxpayer dollars are spent is some sort of insane delusion. Maybe think about how the average taxpayer trying to make ends meet would see this.

A conference could simply be inside one of the many large and existing academic buildings at one of our fine universities. Why they need to fly to a Las Vegas conference center is nonsensical
> many people exiting the industry entirely because of the uncertainty.

It might be time to exit the US.

"Last week, Aix Marseille University, France’s largest university ... announced that it is already seeing great interest from scientists at NASA, Yale, Stanford, and other American schools and government agencies, and that it wants to expand the program to other schools and European countries to absorb all the researchers who want to leave the United States."

https://www.404media.co/nasa-yale-and-stanford-scientists-co...
Please share. I can only imagine based on TZubiri’s comments.
I use them all the time, my only wish is they get rid of the .service file and make it possible to define the service inside the .timer file.
This is NOT democracy in action.
The US is only nominally democratic. What little democracy you had over there has been completely hijacked by monied interests and the propaganda has always been extreme.

There are much better functioning democracies in the world. Unfortunately for everyone, the US isn’t one of them.

In Switzerland the presidency is rotated every six months between the biggest parties. They have public referendums four times per year. Unsurprisingly, they have highly functioning institutions.
Since you are asking this, there are people, who instead of becoming rich themselves, prefer to sell courses, newsletters and books teaching others how to become rich, out of the goodness of their hearts.
I personally don’t care about alternative app stores, but I know many do, especially here.

I really want two things:

* companies cannot engage in any activity a common person would consider “spying”, cannot take the data collected by users of that service and transfer it to another entity, and third parties may not aggregate data collected about persons for any reason. There are a million and one useful reasons to do each of these things, but companies have proven themselves morally bankrupt and should lose that ability. This would go beyond “opt-in”, just make it illegal or the impractical (e.g. it would require a notary, licensed broker, or lawyers on both sides to engage in the practice)

* digital “purchases” are transferrable and have all of the rights and privileges afforded to physical goods. The producer/consumer balance shifted completely in favor of the producer with digital goods. Terms need to be more favorable to the purchaser as well as protections following the dissolution of a digital marketplace.
This is a feature enabling our content derived species to enter the age of full spectrum story driven history fiction as proposed by parkerblubtan at the third matzmum tecdot convention in 2017
I totally agree with you. I was just trying to be funny.
People who don't learn history will be condemned to repeat it. Granted this isn't necessary to be skeptical of american business....
I'm not sure what 'persist' means here but at least some cron implementations have support for randomization in times or time intervals.
To follow the hyperloop/boring company/robotaxi model for success.
Mercury is not mentioned.
Yes, RPCN (redpanda connect)/old benthos is very cool and can solve most of the scenes. Let me tell you quietly that I am using it too.
Surely if the church was just the people such a ritual of consecration would have fallen by the wayside a long time ago.

Anyway, there are in fact many christians who view churches as sacred in themselves. Good luck painting christianity with any such a wide brush.
They are not richest people though, they are biggest public shareholders. Real wealth is always well-hidden.
> Business constraints make it feel much more interesting than writing code in a vacuum.

You never write code in a vacuum do you? You always have some kind of goal.
There is no gain, only loss
> There are literally people on HN every day who would happily improve on the US healthcare system's costs and outcomes if well meaning busybodies hadn't banned them from doing so by overregulating.

I trust the market to provide healthcare about as much as I expect america to suddenly blast off to join the moon. And i trust vc/finance a hell of a lot less than that.
That's in progress. It's called the MAGA Parallel Economy.[1]

Donald Trump, Jr. is in charge. Vivek Ramaswamy and Peter Thiel are involved.
Azoria ETF and 1789 Capital are funds designed to fund MAGA-friendly companies.

But this may be a sideshow. The main show is US CEOs sucking up to Trump, as happened at the inauguration. That parallels something Putin did in 2020.
Putin called in the top two dozen oligarchs, and told them "Stay out of politics and your wealth won’t be touched." "Loyalty is what Putin values above all else.” Three of the oligarchs didn't do that. Berezovsky was forced out of Russia. Gusinsky was arrested, and later fled the country. Khodorkovsky, regarded as Russia’s richest man at the time (Yukos Oil), was arrested in 2003 and spent ten years in jail. He got out in 2013 and left for the UK. Interestingly, he was seen at Trump's inauguration.

[1] https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/03/13/maga-influ...

[2] https://apnews.com/article/russia-putin-oligarchs-rich-ukrai...
> Good luck banning anything when there are Chinese and Russian app stores online.

Actually, in the current implementation the notarization is still with Apple so they could actually ban it.
Brilliant people should be unencumbered by admin tasks. Rare minds should be supported for the benefit of all.
Isn’t this the opposite? Trump has learned from history exactly so that he can repeat it?

Or his lackeys have anyway. I’m unwilling to believe the man has ever read a book.
As far as I can tell, it's a descriptor used negatively, not a crowning designation.
... server sent events are great but they're not "old school Unix". They were standardised in 2004.

Cron is mostly replaced by more modern solutions for the same problem space, IMO: systemd timers on Linux, launchd on macOS.
Why is this person's comment being downvotted?
When I returned to chess programs after a few decades with Stockfish 5 minute highest rating, I lost the first couple games. No program, I’ll just start it with Queen odds. Lost the next couple, which shocked me. I realized that I remembered zero opening theory, so I had it play itself, chose the London, and eventually got to 50/50 with only Queen Knight odds. Even “won” a normal game, sort of (found the winning move it hadn’t but couldn’t convert on my own).
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> Prolog is for indeterministically…

One side note here. Yes you can do indeterministic search but it’s not a property in Prolog. In fact, Prolog execution is completely deterministic without use of randomization.

But I guess that in some domains (e.g. optimization) people would rather shuffle numbers than do a boring 1…1000000000 loops.
Last chance to use this before MSN’s spiritual successor gets shuttered in a few weeks.
Hi, I'm trying avid to build a simple app with Pomodoro timer, it seems a bit slow and it's a pity that it accepts authentication only with Google or Microsoft. Anyway, congratulations
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Would confuse it with the Canadian pension plan :^)
Life on Earth is based on leaks and educated guessed after a certain age.
This is like saying Usain Bolt's training regimine is anti-competitive. Leaning into your strengths as an organisation _is competing_.
You still didn’t name the conference
Yes, whether it is DataFusion, Arroyo, or Bentos, these open source products have made me profit a lot.
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So the user has something in mind. Your example is a recipe.

Just to clarify my point. Google isn't meddling with your Lasagna recipes.

The parent poster claimed website owners need to "bend your website to satisfy both Google search and Google chrome". This isn't accurate, and the claim should have been called out by more than me.

You might never use Chrome other than 30 seconds of quick testing your website build. I build sites that obtain high search ranking and I barely open Chrome. I conform to HTML standards and other good practices regarding content and structure. There's nothing "Google" about a good website other than the alarmist misinformation such as expressed by the person's comment in this thread about needing to "bend to Chrome".

The irony is I'm not friends with Google. So many things they do I object to. Even their "super-thanks" how they take 30% cut, it's criminal. People were using super-thanks to donate to fire victims on youtube, and Google was grabbing 30% of every donation for itself. I can't forgive that. BUT... I don't think they should be made to stop doing deals to be default search engine, that is overreach. Forced to sell Chrome?... don't care. I don't use Chrome.

I hope I'm making myself clear.
That's how I mentally processed them when first learning them years ago. Doing operations on x and y with log(x) = y in the background somehow felt far less intuitive than thinking about 10^y = x.

I really enjoyed this author's work, BTW. Just spent several hours reading the entire first five chapters or so. What an excellent refresher for high school math in general.
Software "design space is high dimensional" is true in that storage, latencies, processors, memory we just keep growing and growing. Given that, software should be faster and better than ever because the dimension where software lives has gotten exponentially larger and more performant. Rather than use that like responsible engineers we all started writing bloatware because it was easy and we could get away with it.

Engineering with constraints builds discipline. Maybe we are lacking as engineers in software because the constraint bar just continues to raise.
Thiel himself has stayed out of the media, but a lot of what's happening is directly related to him. He's a big part of the reason we have JD Vance.

I recently came across this article from July 2024. I'm not sure what to think of it - it feels a bit conspiracy-ish, but it explains a lot of what's happening now.

https://washingtonspectator.org/peter-thiel-and-the-american...
I had to write a systemd timer to rescan PCIe ports about ten seconds after the computer starts. I was able to add that to my NixOS config and it worked how I wanted, and it was great because if I had broken anything all I would have to do is reboot and choose an older generation.
No but it holds more generally. Taking the log of data tends to make it look "more correct" even when it's not theoretically justified, and this can lead to very wrong conclusions.
Well, aktuuallly it's 59.94Hz and 29.97Hz, exactly BECAUSE the NTSC color "burst" carrier is only 3.579545MHz (note these are relatively prime 5×7×9/(8×11) MHz) and it has to be an exact multiple of 15734.2637Hz to generate the 30Hz color frames at ~487 lines (excluding vertical blanking lines which take it to 525). Of course those were interlaced to two sets of 262.5 lines.

Now, I'm hoping you're an old school CRT nerd, and if so then you'd also agree that the original color phosphor glow down periods were several ms and the eye's response to changing color is marginal at best. Uncorrelated subpixel scale dithering works just fine at 30Hz.
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It is entirely possible and is not infrequently done. There are certain cases where it's fairly common. One is when there is a need to establish the value that a piece of land had at a certain time in the past before an improvement was made (e.g., to determine what tax liability existed at that time, or how assets were distributed among partners or heirs). Another is when someone needs an appraisal that separates the land and the improvements in order to convince someone to give them a loan to do something with the land that will involve getting rid of whatever's already built on it. This can happen for instance when there is an "underutilized" piece of land (e.g., a one-story building in a dense urban area).

It's true that determining the value of the unimproved land is not an exact science, but that is true of real estate appraisal in general.
just other corporations trynna make money no one ever does anything to be good but to make money :)
I agree. I may not have been clear enough when I said “at the beginning” but I was referring to shared vocabulary being more obvious vs German.

Perhaps a better way to say it is the overlap between Modern English and Old English is nearly useless when looking at an old text without prior training because of everything experienced linguistic drift.

Meanwhile more recent exchanges in either direction just pop out. The pop up here has buttons labeled “Accepter et continuer” which looks like accept and continue, and “S’abonner” which looks enough like Abandon to suggest what clicking on them does even if that’s the first exposure an English speaker has to French. https://www.lemonde.fr/

So IMO when looking at how closely related things are it’s worth remembering not just where something comes from but how much of that shared history is still around.
Their point was fairly straightforward. Don't know why you are mischaracterizing it. They just said that it was weird that state driven budgets are used for splurging on a party, rather than using it purely for the "conference" part, i.e lunch+conference hall+utilities+special guest fees.

Prophylactically responding to your sure-to-come bad faith response, I'm not saying parties should be banned at conferences. If all involved want to indulge, a private sponsor could always fund it.
What do you mean not effective? I worked in a digital marketing/advertising company and we needed to re-architect our whole system to comply with GDPR, it was a pain in the ass for both backend team and analytics team.
lmao you had me until china you probably believed ministry of information saying free world :)
They've no moat so I don't see them surviving without a gov't bail out like this.
What do you think Melon Tusk is doing, apart from letting out his inner (and outer) (and literal) child on the world stage?
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True. The UI of the applications from the late 90s to the early 2000s was way better than it is now - especially when you compare it to what is there in the web apps now.

Besides keyboard shortcuts, the following capabilities haven't really been implemented in web apps:

- Context menus

- Macros and the ability to record macros and create your own shortcuts to these macros.

- Terminal prompts built into applications such as in Autodesk - in some senses similar to the REPL in Clojure but built into the application
the time when the service unit was last triggered is stored on disk. When the timer is activated, the service unit is triggered immediately if it would have been triggered at least once during the time when the timer was inactive. Such triggering is nonetheless subject to the delay imposed by RandomizedDelaySec=. This is useful to catch up on missed runs of the service when the system was powered down.
> Sadly non-'pure' logical programming is required to get real-world performance (eg. cuts that prune the search tree) which kind of feel like, or is, a leaky abstraction that breaks the magic.

They aren’t required but are convenient. Excuse brutalizing syntax and formatting but in Prolog you can do:

A(X) :- between(1,3,X).
B(X) :- between(1,1000,X).
?- A(X), B(X).
?- B(X), A(X).

And get either 9 visits or 3000. It’s possible to design a program without cuts but (in my opinion) it’s very hard and doesn’t bring any benefits outside of street cred.

Also cuts and pruning long time ago felt like bloated terms (when I didn’t get Prolog) whereas it’s a simple break equivalent in imperative languages loops.
The article basically said: "Letting your get killed this way would practically lead to DoS attacks (a security issue), therefore [conclusion]." The response was basically: "Actually, on modern OSes, your application gets killed, unlike on embedded systems. Therefore, [opposite conclusion]."

This doesn't make sense as a comment, regardless of the the particular conclusion.
That’s not regulatory capture at all. Grandparent’s definition is correct.
They can always protest! Oh wait they will be stripped of their rights, thrown to jail and / or get deported.
And unsearchable, perhaps a bonus.
> I wonder how many deaths the USAID cuts will cause in the next decade.

And how many it used to prevent for comparatively little cost:

https://oig.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/0-000-25-0...