OliverGilan

As someone who grew up in the 2000s I still don’t get it. I grew up in a time when this was totally fine and normal. I cannot imagine being so restricted as a child.

It always amazes me how anyone can be technologically literate and still think world governments should be given the benefit of the doubt when it comes to things like this. I agree OP, most people in government are probably not inherently evil or malicious but why should anyone trust that these initiatives won’t be poorly implemented and cause massive collateral damage to innocent lives?

This is true and I bring this up as well BUT consider this: probably less than 23% of US citizens make 90% of the important decisions for this country (the power law still holds) and if all of those people are on Twitter then OP's point still stands. I deleted Twitter about 3 months ago and it's been great. I can just focus on life and talking to my friends still on the platform I realize just how much of a bubble it really is and how most of the issues everyone gets hysterical about is just irrelevant in my life. That being said it seems to hold an insane amount of influence in the minds of journalists, business leaders, and politicians and thus it is an incredibly powerful platform.

Second this question. Never heard of IBM being exceptional for k8s. Curious to know what makes OP say it’s so good.

Funny but Azure Repos actually has had this feature for a while. When I first joined Microsoft I was shocked that all our teams used Azure Repos instead of GitHub considering we own GitHub but as I've used Repos more and more I've actually come to like it more than GitHub itself. A lot of the UI is cleaner and more intuitive than GitHub to me now, maybe just from using it a lot.

This is colossally bad advice when literally a fundamental part of the playbook to defeating alcoholism is getting it out of the house... Getting it out of the house and blocking domains are extremely valid tactics for getting over an addiction.

Not Microsoft

I wonder if this uses pretty much the exact same code as the desktop version. It seems to me that one of the big benefits of using Electron would be to have one codebase deployable as a desktop app and a website with very little change for each deployment.

I graduated University in December, a semester early, with the intention of using that second semester off for traveling. Obviously, with COVID that didn’t happen so I instead decided to move my start date up at Big Tech Co. to February.

Now 9 months in I feel like I’m burnt out as well. For me it’s a combination of health issues but also the response to COVID. When restrictions lifted at the start of summer and everyone I knew got vaccines I mentally prepared for the end of the storm. And for a few weeks it looked like that. The summer was fun and I got to be social again and feel like the world was going back normal. Then a trip was cancelled overseas because of the Delta variant. And now restrictions are being put back in place and it’s just not clear what’s going to happen. The idea that things may never go back to pre-covid times and that when people are confronted with the possibility of covid being here to stay many of them argue that the status quo is ideal really depresses me. I cannot live in this world where I cannot see people’s faces and work is just zoom meeting after zoom meeting. It’s not just the light at the end of the tunnel that I crave, it’s seeing the light at all that i crave. I crave knowing this will come to an end.

I wear glasses and masks are basically untenable. I have yet to wear a mask and not fog up my glasses. Maybe I'm just an idiot, I don't know, but being able to see properly is far more valuable to me than not getting COVID (in it's current state and threat level to me).

Super interesting to learn this. I find that people often assume the things that don't make sense in today's world simply never made sense but often that's not the case! You're right, overdraft fees DO make sense in the world of physical checks the system just hasn't caught up (intentionally or not). Thanks for sharing!

Are you upset about movie trailers? I'll be honest I haven't been to the theatres in quite a while so I don't know if they actually show ads now but back when I was younger all "ads" before a move were just trailers for upcoming films which I loved because it let me stay current with what was coming out in the future. I don't mind that at all considering I'm not spending a lot of time at home Googling upcoming movies

Except we aren't running out of forests any time soon [1] and they're actually growing back to levels we haven't seen in decades.

[1] https://phys.org/news/2018-08-global-forest-loss-years-offse...

OP was talking about real world use case. Why does crypto have to be more beneficial than credit cards to count as a real world use case? There are people in the US who cannot get a credit card easily.

In theory, I love the idea of web builders such as this. I think creating simple CRUD apps is still surprisingly difficult but this tool seems to strike the right balance between complexity and simplicity. At least from the marketing it appears that way. I look forward to playing around with this and I hope for continued integration with as many tools as possible.

i think there are some rather great comments/examples of Dark Patterns in this thread and I just want to remind everyone to also submit those as public comment to the FTC! Just posting it on HN won't get it in front of the people who can make a difference!

I really don’t understand this attack on Bitcoin. It seems to be all the rage nowadays to lament the effects of Bitcoin’s electricity usage on the environment but a couple things seem true to me.

1) Any civilization sufficiently progressing will use more and more energy. Bitcoin could definitely be more energy efficient but even without it our society would still increase our energy usage over time.

2) The issue people have with electricity usage isn’t the actual usage of the electricity but how it’s generated. Why are we attacking Bitcoin for using electricity instead of simply pushing for more renewable energy sources?

3) For Bitcoin miners to maximize profit they need the cheapest elictricity and now that solar provides the cheapest energ per watt in history miners are actually incentivized to build out more solar.

At the end of the day it seems to me that any free society that supplies energy as a service shouldn’t be dictating what individuals do with that electricity as long as they pay for it. If you’re concerned that electricity doesn’t properly price externalities then your issue is with the electricity provider, not Bitcoin miners.

When will these be available as NFT?

Doesn’t relativity tell us it doesn’t matter?

A lot of people seem to be misunderstanding the goals of vertical farming. It’s not to save space, we have more than enough of that. It’s to stop produce from being shipped hundreds of miles on trucks which greatly increases greenhouse emissions and results in less fresh produce.

Transportation is the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases in our food’s supply chain. When you hear about beef having such a big carbon footprint it’s also accounting for the massive footprint of transporting all that beef as well as it’s food. If you can cut that down you would be greatly reducing the carbon footprint of your food.

Just looked it up. I don't know how I've never come across this. Reading the docs quickly it seems like this is cheaper and easier/more intuitive to set up than any other auth service. Will definitely be trying it with my next project, thank you.

I literally was embarrassed. I didn't want to work for a company that selected talent like that.

About a year and half ago I was applying for a software engineering internship at Goldman Sachs and they made me take a Pymetrics test. One of the tasks was to press the spacebar as many times as possible in 30 seconds. I didn't do the task and withdrew my application.

A TOS doesn't stand up to law but also it goes beyond that. Even if you don't use Robinhood but you were holding GME you are affected by this move. It's securities fraud and market manipulation at its finest.

I want to believe this but by and large it seems the media is unsurprisingly siding with the hedge fund side of things. Mainstream media clearly works for the elites.

Countless times I've seen users on Hacker News mock DeFi and crypto for recreating the same financial instruments that we already have. I hope today has shown people just how much we need to recreate these instruments (and more) in a decentralized open manner.

This article addresses an issue I currently have but doesn’t actually address how to fix it. I recently set up a simple homeserver to use as a testing ground for sideprojects before eventually porting them to a cloud service.

As a result I looked into building a CI/CD pipeline for the first time and practically every article I came across talking about “CI/CD” really just talked about CI.

Even today I have no idea how to easily automate deployments. The only service I know of that does this is Heroku. Ideally I should be able to push any changes to a master branch on Github and have those changes automatically deployed to my server. How this can be done is poorly documented from my experience and certainly nowhere near discussed as much as CI solutions.

The idea is solid; we need better tools for onboarding new employees both in-person and remotely but this seems like an unfinished solution so far. The home page has no company name or logo anywhere which leads to a sparse looking navbar. At the bottom it's also not clear what the impact percentages mean. At first I thought it meant using fastlyn increased productivity by 70% but I after a second reading I believe you mean just a good onboarding in general means a 70% increase? That's all well and good but I'm not convinced that fastlyn will actually give my company that. Overall a good idea but the execution could use a little improvement.

I understand the justification for having restrictions on who can be vaccinated but part of me thinks this is all extremely counterproductive. Yes, old people are at greater risk but also the more young people are vaccinated the harder it is for the virus to spread and the faster we reach herd immunity which also ends up protecting old people. I end up thinking about this great video [1] by CGP Grey where he explains that the most efficient boarding method for an airplane isn't actually front-to-back but just random. Surely if we just said anyone could get a vaccine then we'd be more successful in reaching herd immunity right?

Edit: You could also just make a portion of the day for older people only and the rest of the time open it up to everyone. I feel like right now we have the worst of all worlds

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAHbLRjF0vo

People are going to focus on discussion with COVID but to me the big takeaway from this great article is the lessons not learned. Whenever discussing stagnation or regulatory deadlock in the US the default response is to handwring about the dangers things like the FDA protect us from. It’s refreshing to see someone eloquently write about how there is inherent risk that regulation also exposes us too.

There’s no one extreme that is perfect but I personally would prefer rapid progress with some mistakes as opposed to what we seem to be experiencing now.