CleverLikeAnOx

I believe sortition is far from optimal, but would still probably function better than the current way we select our senate and congress in the US.

Framework making laptops less disposable fills me with joy. I hope someone is able to do the same with cellphones.

Could you elaborate?

I don't think one size fits all. There are plenty of successful python projects that don't match this. E.g., every python library (numpy as microservices doesn't make sense). Plenty of large successful Django apps exist. I am using typing effectively in solo dev flask webapp that doesn't need to be split into microservices.

Sorry if your post was sarcastic and it went over my head.

This is great work! Even with just a few dozen CRDs kubectl can get a little slow on versions prior to these changes.

I am excited about crossplane because handling infrastructure via a reconciliation loop addresses most of my problems with terraform. Namely, managing/sharing a state file, importing resources that already exist, and ensuring that reality doesn't drift from terraform state.

Dotfiles are a per user application config. Other users of the same system are unlikely to want my idiosyncratic zsh setup. Hence the suggestion for $HOME/cfg in the article.

Superhero movies are certainly not high cinema, but I challenge the "no risk" assertion. In the first 22 MCU films, the heroes take major losses in 5 films (e.g., a city is destroyed with impact affecting the rest of the series). The heroes suffer more personal losses in many other movies beyond those 5 (e.g., losing a loved one).

So you usually know what you will get, but the villain winning or partially winning is a credible threat.

What is easier for one audience may be more difficult for another.

Consider the original quote:

> Let’s walk through how Rebecca, an expert in plain language, translates a text to be more readable. We'll use an excerpt from her translation of a ProPublica article by Amy Silverman in the following example.

and the plain version:

> Here is an example for how to make writing easier to read. Rebecca wrote this example. She is an expert in plain language. This quote is from a news article. Amy Silverman wrote it for ProPublica. Rebecca wrote it in plain language.

In the plain version, there are six separate statements for me to process and remember. In the non-plain version, only two. They convey all the same information, but the non-plain approach clusters relevant information. It's the difference between trying to remember the number 1945 (nineteen fourty-five) and 1-9-4-5 (one, nine, four, five). You can both process and remember the former better because the information is usefully clustered.

Furthermore, as a skilled reader, it's easier to filter the non-plain one down to what I care about: "Here is an example of a plain language expert rewriting a paragraph." I find the plain version more frustrating because each plain statement seems as important as any other. No syntax clues tell me if "Rebecca wrote this example" is something I can discard.

In closing, I think this is a great article even if I disagree with the premise that simple language is a best practice. I like the article because it makes me consider how I should change my writing based on the audience.

A browser monoculture allows one entity to dictate how the web works. Even if you can open a pull request against Chromium, that doesn't mean it will get accepted without the approval of Google.

Right now, backwards compatibility is protected by competing browsers. If one breaks backwards compatibility too often, it risks becoming known for having sites not work on it.

In a monoculture, Google could take aggressive moves to prevent ad-blocking. In a monoculture, Google could push more ad focused features like FloC. Google could integrate more ways to allow browser fingerprint (not saying they would, but there would be no recourse).

With competition Google knows that people could balk at any point so they must balance their interests with their users' interests. In a monoculture, they wouldn't have to.

I know the founders of Tines, so I can confidently say that it wasn't dreamed up by a VC. The founders both come from an infosec background. They basically left their jobs to build the product they wished existed.

They were quite good at security operations. That probably made it easier to gain initial traction because they understand their target niche's problems.

I won't upvote this article because it's content marketing spam, but I respect the hustle and hope that it works for them!

I don't trust Sifted (this is my first time seeing the site). An article linked on the sidebar is titled "The only answer to the quantum cybersecurity threat is quantum." The headline is wrong and the article makes no argument for why quantum algorithms are the only solution. Classical algorithms exist for quantum resistant cryptography.

I agree that different isn't a virtue in and of itself. However, western authors seem to almost treat the minimization of exposition as sacrosanct and Three Body very much does not. The latter two books in the series would often interrupt a barely established scene to spend many many pages explaining societal changes over the course of decades. For me, it worked. The dispassionate narrator giving me background on the shifting sands of society hooked me. I'm not surprised that this doesn't work for everyone, and I can't say that it would work for me if another author tried to emulate Cixin.

In my opinion, Three Body Problem is worth reading, particularly if you don't read the back cover before starting. The cover spoils a fun mystery. I found the twists and turns of the series to be both entertaining and sometimes mind blowing. I like that it told a story differently than how most western authors tell theirs.

To clarify my point, even if leeching off companies is like stealing a grain of rice from each person, it is still wrong.

My point was that ransomware is wrong even in an idealized abstract scenario where it only targets non-critical companies.

Thanks for providing your experience. It drive home that in practice it is much more like beating and robbing many people than it is like stealing just a single grain of rice from them.

If a robber steals one grain of rice from each person in a town, was anyone harmed? If you think not, then what if a thousand robbers do the same?

Leeching off of companies is kind of like stealing a grain of rice from everyone. The company's costs increase and the price eventually makes its way back to the consumer.

Another way to think about it is the total amount of labor needed for the world to operate as it does. In a world that has no ransomware, the labor needed is X. In a world with ransomware it is X + cost of building ransomware + cost of dealing with ransomware.

It is not uncommon for journalists to interview terrorists and gangsters. I found it insightful.

Does anyone actually like these homepages that move around a bunch as you scroll? I don't see the appeal of parallax effects and the like. To my eye, they are neither pretty nor useful.

For me, it's writing. Exactly as you described painting. Slowly some ideas are forming, but it will be years if ever before I get to it.

I am in the same boat. I am 6 months into FIRE, and the list of things to do is growing, not shrinking.

However, I would say that some things on the list turn out to be false. That is, I like the idea of doing them, but not enough to actually do it. So do account for some of your post FIRE ideas turning out to be just daydreams you aren't actually committed to.

Agreed, especially after reading this post https://livingafi.com/post-fire-relationship-disconnect/

It's a dialog he is creating as a summary of many discussions. In his version of the story they both communicate well and seem to hear each other, but not agree on life. Then his takeaway is that she didn't hear him, which was an odd take.

Do we need to be this reductive? He was happy in a relationship but then it got bad and fell apart. That happens, alternative lifestyle or not. I don't see why this implies that his next relationship is unlikely to work out.

Furthermore, his plan didn't fail per-se. I am sure he was aware that he may have to go back to work if life threw him curveballs. It did, so he did. He had some of the best years of his life, he had some bad years. He is still doing financially well. That's as good as most people get working or not.

In the post-FIRE relationships disconnect post, it was jarring how he went from having what I saw as a reasonably well communicated discussion to "she couldn't get her head around us being different." Seems like the understood each other, but had different priorities. Each also seemed to have a bit of disdain for the other's way of thinking.

He saw her desires as vain and felt like she didn't understand his ideal of freedom. She saw his freedom as stagnation.

I doubt the author sees being frugal as a rut and I doubt that the author sees "getting more" as advancement. You and the other are both human and normal regardless.

The author's outlook on life is completely valid, so is his partner's, so is yours. Your outlooks has nothing to do with social media, but maybe his partner's really did. We only have the author's words to go by for this story.

Seems like fundamentally different ways of life between them. The author seems to have strongly held views that fall well outside the mainstream. Something being "pretty uncontroversial" is not a compelling point to such a person, particularly when it clashes with said strongly held views.

I can relate to his outlook. I hope he was more diplomatic during their discussions about this, but now that it's after the fact, we are reading his blunt opinions on the matter. It's hard to know if he is "right" and she really was influenced by status-driven thinking via Instagram, or if he was just being hard-headed. Either or both are plausible to me.

As someone in a similar boat (6 months into not working at this point), I still love hacker news. I am driven by curiosity above most else and this is the best forum on the internet by that measure (as far as I am aware).

For those that this lifestyle appeals to, it is possible in America to engineer your life so that it happens. Sure the median American is no where close to financial independence, but financial independence is attainable for most Americans given a couple decades of work if they are willing to change their definition of "enough."

Personally, I reduced my target to a mere fraction of the $5 million you mentioned.

Finally, I completely agree that this is privilege, but without any negative judgement therein. Privilege is a thing we should be trying to give to more and more people.

Yeah, I really liked the article overall. I see it as saying that these things people think in a binary fashion about should be treated with more nuance. The author addresses why these binary-style mantras exist and how they are not always true.

There are two where I disagree with the author (not saying it's unacceptable; the author may be correct and me wrong): the CISSP one, and also the rating vendor one. The author takes a deeper view than the binary thinking, and I want to take it deeper yet to refute the author's view. This arrives at the same conclusion as the binary groupthink in the infosec community, but does so by explaining why the binary idea became de-facto standard.

In case anyone is interested, my beef with CISSP is that the curriculum for CISSP certs promote a highly bureaucratic approach to security. I feel like it is largely a waste of time and money to get that cert. It rubs me the wrong way because once things like CISSP become required for some employment, it is hard to go back to more "lax" standards. Of course, it having a baseline of useful information like the author says is true. I just think CISSP is a net negative for society even so.

I posted this because I was completely unaware that there is something of a high powered lasers race in physics right now. The creation of matter via high powered lasers was a possibility previously unknown to me. Thus, this fed my curiosity and seemed appropriate to share with HN.

This project has been in the works for a few years now, so it isn't so much of a breakthrough right now. The real breakthrough seems to be that China is funding this project while other nations have less ambitious projects or more ambitious but unfunded projects.

Outsourcing is an attempt to do exactly that.