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Inflation and zero interest rates kills on two levels -- prices go up and saving is useless at a (near) zero percent return.

To make a return in this market, you either need to be rich and have access to investments funded by cheap debt or you're forced into increasingly risky investments i.e. the stock market.

Very different from the previous environment where you could save for decades at 5% and rely on compound interest.
>That's not how it is anymore. There's no free pass to success, no check all these boxes and then you've made it. You gotta use your brain early on, figure it out for yourself, because ultimately you're going to be the one having to live with the consequences of how you've spent your youth.

To be fair, the other pillar of "expensive degree leading to lucrative, high prestige career", medicine, is still doing well. As the population ages, there will be an even higher need for medical professionals. Of course, part of this seems to be a result of residency programs being restricted in the number of seats available.
>>What I don't like about this argument is that it vastly downplays corporations' ability to form monopolies and cartels in the absence of government programs to abuse. They are perfectly capable of using whatever means are at hand.

Exactly. We have seen again and again that lack of government intervention in the economy does not lead to a "free market." It leads to monopolies and cartels.
Temporal disillusions caused by a feeling of being in control. A desire to rush to novel/radical claims with a cloak of pretentious knowledge. Sometimes its such a strain to wade through. And yes, go ahead, downvote.
The Big Bang Theory is a show where most of the laughs are derived from the characters being incompetent in some way or another. The basis of the show is "people failing at things outside of their specialist domain." That isn't venerating intelligence.
OK, a few specific complaints:

* The very first sentence is horribly misleading, as intelligence (among other things) was necessary to avoid dying in wars or starving to death before then. This describes every decade in human history before the 20th century.

* It also only applied to white men in the US (or Western countries) in the 50s. African Americans, women, people in India surely feel differently about how the 50s were for getting jobs.

* The author blatantly ignores Duke Power, which generally bans IQ tests as part of hiring.

* Apparently decreasing poverty is impossible, but all of the author's proposals aren't.

* The author dislikes the term micro aggressions, yet immediately uses it to refer to calling anything "stupid".

... and I'll stop again.
Send me an email and I'll forward it to him.
Yeah I did a few "<subject> in 60 seconds" videos and the two lessons I learned from that? (1) They take hours and hours and hours of work to make. (2) Your script for the video must not contain more than 50 words, so you can say very little.

(The above comment is 49 words)
Let the HN record show: wyager and I are going to meet up at some point. I may or may not be able to convince him that Urbit is real — but civility prevails nonetheless!
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Communication is often WAY WAY faster when delivered via text than via a video presentation, particularly because written words come at you at the pace your brain can accept them, as opposed to the static speed at which someone can speak them.

Also, writing is SO MUCH EASIER than creating video. Do you really think I would have bothered participating in this conversation if it meant opening up a camera and NLE and cutting together a video of my ugly mug yapping away, with the signature youtube jump cuts to remove the "umms" and "uhhss" and other pauses that you're not currently reading?

Cuz this reply wasn't a coherently delivered, smooth stream-of-conscious delivery. I've already gone back and rephrased several thoughts-- easy to do in text, a pain in the ass to do in video.

And I'm certainly not going to FIRST write this, then read it out loud, THEN edit it, and hope you sit back and watch. And the idea of text-to-video-- seems like adding an extra step.

Video is great, but its the wrong medium for quite a bit of communication.
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>>They do? Global poverty is at an all time low. Things only the 1% had 10 years ago are now in the hands of almost every single individual, information no one had access to 30 years ago is now available to everyone in milliseconds. I'd say capitalism is doing just fine.

It's not about material possessions. It's about power and representation. Wealthy people have an absurd amount of influence on the political process, and as their wealth increases in proportion to that of the poor, so does their influence.

Capitalism as an economic system may be fine. The problem is the way it is tightly intertwined with our political process and governance.
You are right about the long term relationship needs to be a two way street. Tangentially, not all recruiters are as good as you. Over 90% of the recruiter calls I get are from middle eastern/Indian/Pakistan native-speaking people that work for recruiting companies that are basically spam calling every Tom, Dick, and Harry. Minor issues with that, but more importantly they are another [unnecessary] layer. For instance, Tata Consulting, a very large Indian-based company, is looking for a SharePoint consultant to work full-time FTE for them...I got a call from a recruiter that was basically the fourth middleman in the transaction...his company was to be paid $x%, the company that brought his company in was supposed to get $x%, and so forth...all promised to be paid from my work. Fee-splitting should be banned if it is more than two layers between hiring company and contractor. Further, these types of companies have no direct relationship with the end client so there are multiple translation layers (opportunities for mistakes) before my resume gets in front of the client, if it does at all. Also, I typically don't contract with out-of-state third party recruiters due to laws and jurisdiction (company must/should have nexus in the state the work is performed in).

In my humble experience, the real issue is some/most internal HR folks need to be trained on technology and how not to pass on a resume that doesn't have a keyword they don't understand even though it is included in another keyword they don't understand (looking for someone that has javascript experience but passed because Node.js and jQuery were listed more times than javascript).

Hiring/finding contractors is broken, but it doesn't have to be.
"Almost impossible" may be a slight exaggeration in a few major cities here, but otherwise the frustration still holds true.

The worst part about this glut of Chinese products is that there's no one to complain to; nowhere to get customer support from, and you can't easily know who to avoid either because one company may make essentially the same thing in a hundred different guises with slight visual variation but the same lack of quality or safety control.

As for all the imitations, I don't even know why they do this. Why pretend to be a popular brand (sometimes with a slightly different logo and/or a typo in the name) instead of selling your own product and identity? Why make people the world over have to be consciously vigilant about avoiding Chinese imitations? What are they hoping to prove?

Back in the 80s and early 90s, "Made in Japan" became a synonym for quality and people sought out products with that written on them. China may have made their name globally relevant but to the general public it has become synonymous with shoddiness.
As I said, the first thought anyone with two computers had was connecting them together. It's not a big step from that to inventing yet another protocol, which happened all the time. There wasn't anything miraculous about it.

Local networks run on the Ethernet protocol, developed by Xerox, and shows that an excellent network protocol does not require a government grant. And without Ethernet, there would have been Token Ring by IBM, or Token Bus by GM.
I'm not sure it matters whether or not they do it; having people realize that they can is pretty damning in itself.
What is the cause of this? Computer automation? More work can be done by paralegal? Fewer court cases?
This is a fabulous, if trivial, example of what proper prediction markets can do.

We run a betting exchange, and one of our long term goals is to make universal prediction markets(+) a reality. These are pretty much the crystallisation of "Seldon Mathematics" - a way to accurately predict the probability of a sociologically meaningful event happening.

Now, there are of course caveats. Prediction markets depend on having sufficiently large numbers of people making and taking bets on the event. Because in the world of betting the prediction markets are (at best) a niche of a niche, to become accurate these things require user base of tens to hundreds of millions of people. At that scale the tail end of user base - the people who do happen to care about their particular prediction markets - becomes large enough.

Interestingly enough, prediction markets could also allow to experiment with certain theoretical market making models. The markets run for a very long time, and for that reason WILL be affected by all kinds of external factors. My personal favourite is something along the lines of liquidity-sensitive pricing [0].

EDIT: link layout fixed

+: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction_market

0: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/A-Practical-Liquidity-...
does anyone actually buy this?
i don't get why some of the attributes starts with : and some do not, like <sidebar :show.sync="showRight" placement="right" header="Title" :width="350">. these are the type of things that makes me cringe =/
> It's not so much that I worship financial success, it's that I'm scared of being financially insecure.

I'm taking some time off from working right now and I think about this a lot.

American life right now is a lot like a combination wager/equation you have to solve.

At some point in life, you're own your own. This could be at 18, post college, or for some - after your parents have paid for college, a car, and maybe a down payment on a house for you.

Whenever this is for you, the game is on - how long will it take you to amass enough savings to pay for your housing, food, and health care, until the age you think you'll die? Variables include your earning capacity, investments (which obviously have all sorts of options and risk), at what age you will no longer be able to do your work (and thus, forced to live off of savings), if you have offspring, etc.

Failure at this game results in potentially terrible living conditions in old age, losing potentially years of life because you can't afford to treat some sort of condition, not being able to pay for food, etc.

Personally, I think it's a tough game to play even with a marketable skill (though to be fair, I wasn't one of the lucky few starting out at 0 when I entered the workforce after college, but most of us aren't.)

I shudder to think how the average American is supposed to win that game.

Taking a year off, it really messes with your head doing the calculus of balancing extended time/freedom to enjoy your life, do want you want, reduce stress, exercise, read, not be a sycophant to some boss/comapny, etc - vs the loss of a six figure salary, and what that would turn into by age 65 (or thereabouts) after hopeful compounded interest and all that.

On the other hand, I could die at 40, or earlier.
Is there any correlation between the fundamental vibrating of atoms in a vacuum at absolute zero, which I think is known as the zero-energy state, and gravitational waves?
Meaning, I know quantum mechanics describes why they vibrate, but do gravity waves have any play in this, or effect?
So exciting to have lived long enough to see some more theory become real with measurements!
The point is that research on sugarcane has little to no bearing on what research on stevia would uncover. The fact we think sugarcane is safe is not evidence in favor of stevia. Just because both happened to evolve with little human interference doesn't correlate their effects on the body in any way.

The exception is if we can prove the two operate under the same fundamental mechanisms within the body. But there's nothing different about natural growing plants and man made substances under this sort of research. A molecule is a molecule.
I still think certain professional careers will always exist for the most passionate and high quality candidates (or, alas, the best connected).
This tear down is what $5.5M buys you in Palo Alto
They are even doing it in the rich suburbs of MA like Wellesley. Wellesley and Newton are trying to stop tear down McMansion mania and our passing laws that you can't knock and rebuild unless you have lived there for a while or have an "accident".... I predict more fires in the coming years...
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> The problem is, Gödel's incompleteness theorem applies to a system that contains the complexity of the set of all real numbers

As others have corrected that this should be naturals, I'll just also note that you can derive incompleteness just from addition and multiplication over naturals. So while you're correct that plenty of systems don't need full multiplication, you run into limitations quickly. Then you need proper theorem proving to recover the missing verification power.
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That was such a frustrating article. I kept reading anecdote after anecdote hoping to find out why the American economy needs fewer lawyers than it used to. They never explained it. Is it a software automation thing?
As a non-American, and so 'judging' America only through the media, it does feel like the complete opposite. Deep ingrained anti-intellectualism, idolization of stupidity and love of the brazen and the rich. Scary decline of the sciences and rapid expansion of superstitions. Of course this does not apply to this here readership, but at least from an outside perspective we see 'idiocracy' surging onto the stage at breakneck speed.
> The benefit would be that since the index is just another file in the tar, you can uncompress the format from a plain tar command with no negative consequences besides an extra file being present (the index).

I still don't get how you can extract the index file from the tar.gz without uncompressing the whole gzipped archive first. Plus I believe you cannot extract a file from a tar archive without extracting all the files first (I could be wrong here.)
There are plenty of evidence provided you don't reject them a priori.

1. there are plenty witness accounts reporting non human beings seen in proximity of UFOs.

2. Betty Hill map (abduction case) matches our solar system and shows a ring around jupiter witch was only discovered many years after the drawing was made by voyager.

3. Behavior and flying capabilities of UFOs far beyond human technology capability.

4. Inductive research on possible propulsion principle made by Prof. Meessen led to a theory where Pulsed Electro Magnetic Propulsion would be used. The author derived an innovative mechanism to produce very intense oscillating EM fields using only supra conducting surface on the object. This supraconductivity must work at high temperature which humans don't master yet. This supraconductive shell is also protecting living bodies and devices on bord from the intense external EM field.

5. Some photos of UFOs show black rings around the object which might result from polarization of light resulting from the very high EM field which humans can't produce. This data allows to infer properties of the EM field.

6. Compass rotation reported on military ships while a UFO was seen. A study by Prof. Meessen explained that this is produced by oscillating EM fields in low frequency range. Considering the estimated UFO distance the magnetic field must have been of many Tesla. Humans can't produce such oscillating magnetic intensities. A referree rejected the submited article presenting this study result partly because this EM was too strong in his opinion and not feasible.

Etc. Etc.

Of course there is no proof. But there is plenty evidence and now we have at least one theory that can be tested in a lab. The described propulsion method is still unreachable to humans because we don't master supraconductivity at high temperature, but we can now test experimentally the validity of the theory.

Ufology has been censored for many years as research topic with the consequence that very few people are correctly informed on it. They claim there is no evidence but objectively they should say they don't know about the evidences and scientific research on this topic. Skeptics do a lot of noise to hide the facts and work.

My knowledge of the UFO phenomenon is different as I'm very close to Prof. Auguste Meessen. Here are the articles presenting his theory on the PEMP [1](http://www.meessen.net/AMeessen/Propulsion.pdf) [2](http://www.meessen.net/AMeessen/Evidence.pdf) [3](http://www.meessen.net/AMeessen/Production.pdf).
Regarding the best connected category -- lawyers eventually move up to become partners, who are rainmakers. Their job is to bring in deals and manage the client relationship, rather than drafting the paperwork. The work is very different from that of the associate level.

WSGR takes a mix of top 5 law school grads as well as Santa Clara law school grads. The latter is seen as having a better local network through their family and upbringing (and have a better retention track record compared to their higher academically ranked counterparts), and are seen as effective future rainmakers even if their legal abilities are inferior to their peers.
It says perception, not reality.
GOG had a promotion where they would add (some of the) games that you already owned on your Steam account to your GOG library. Hopefully they continue that.

If I have a game on GOG or Steam, I'm more likely to use Steam, unless I'm traveling and might be Internetless.
If I remember correctly, the average tech startup makes its first dollar at 18 months. If the company has runway, 9 months without revenue isn't the end of the world (especially if the market is big).

That said, it sounds like you have pretty good management. Ask them the exact amount of runway given today's burn rate. Ask them again every month. Also ask them to let you know when you're at ~2 months of runway so that you can be prepared.
My recent forays into Kanji suggest there's more to visual processing of text than what we permit ourselvesto learn due to phonic constraints associatedwith language acquisition, but there's practically nothing for me to go on other than look into how the deaf process textual representations independent of the kinesthetic and proprioception encodings of semantic features.

Text certainly isn't dead, and I would rather think that we're liable to commit a grievous error by neglecting the primary source of civilization. Text also has added life in code and programming, which clearly shows it is no likely to suffer any kind of demise.
Except that the world around us is buildings, made of raw materials, i-beams, 2x4s, piping, etc. Built by people with trade skills. Filled with beds, sheets, refrigerators, dish washers, art on the walls, TVs, etc, etc.

The whole world may seem just focused on data if you live in silly valley, and your job is to increase conversion rates and improve SEO so some founder can sell more overpriced clothes to people with disposable income.

To the majority of people out there? The world is not all just data.
From my experience (I'm a coder), the best work has been done where we adhere to what Zuckerberg called "The Hacker Way". WRT the talk from "Lean Agile" conference...

Slightly OT, but Erik Meijer spoke wonderfully about it at GOTO Copenhagen[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvMuPtuvP5w
If the goal is to avoid high-frequency trading, why not use a blockchain-like technology?
Don't you think AI will have a big influence in the future of medicine?
Maybe some of us are thinking about this wrong. Do you know who actually talks to the hiring manager? 9 times out of 10 it is the Account Executive...the sales person that speaks to the hiring manager not the recruiter. An epiphany for me at least.

Perhaps we're looking at recruiters as a means to get to the goal, when it really should be us reaching out to the Account Executives as they are the most necessary person in that chain. Consider hoe valuable and AE is to the recruiting company, and to us. Interestingly, when I ask a recruiter if I can talk to the Account Executive working the account I am usually politely told "No." The reason I have asked is because it was obvious the recruiter was reading a poorly worded position description to me without understanding the client's actual needs. However, I have only spoken to a handful of AEs and that was usually due to client requirements that required more resources than originally anticipated.

Thanks to all of the recruiters that are also AEs and also technical and are in this thread.
I get the question, but the answer is yes it is definitely possible.

Just one of the possibilities, is if C is actually the same as B. I hate to even use this example, but it is simply one of the strongest and clearest. Moreover, if the hackers were the same as the DAO creators it would only pour on the liability, it would show their knowledge that the code would let them take the investors money and intent to defraud when soliciting investors money.

Even in set of facts most likely to support the DAO let me do it Defense say a minor who bought in, found the vulnerability and exploited it as a lone wolf. Then the minor gets sued in civil court for breach of contract and invokes the old not only did the contract let him do what he did, but if it didn't the contract isn't enforceable against him anyway because he is a minor defense. At the end of the day I have a hard time believe any court would allow the minor to keep ~$40M of other investors money, even if the contract says he can, simply because I don't think there is a court that would find it unconscionable. Unconscionable contracts being a term of art for contracts the courts won't enforce, even though they are otherwise legal and valid, because it is unfair.
Beside Huffman coding, there is also arithmetic/range coding and now is becoming widely used ANS coding - e.g. LZFSE (Apple), ZSTD (Facebook), VP10 (Google): http://encode.ru/threads/2078-List-of-Asymmetric-Numeral-Sys...
How are logging in and installing someone's software even remotely similar?

I personally find Steam, buggy, ugly, intrusive and effectively spyware that is logging and tracking god knows what. I feel very uncomfortable installing it on my machines and in general having to go through software A to get to software B makes a lot of people uncomfortable.

By contrast, logging in confines the the website to tracking my activity on the website itself - which they probably can do with a cookie anyways...
I know that it's common. I use it in cases where there are more than a few lines of code, where the reader would have to maintain context. Wider context equates to a more specific variable name.

> multiplied by the amount of loops, is somewhat inconsiderate.

And using the more detailed variable name is misleading. It implies a longer scope, to me.
I'm more concerned about the act of "judging". What does that involve exactly? I'm fine with giving everyone A, B, C, D and F grades. I wouldn't care if you made people sew them into their clothing. But I'd like a person who got an F to have food and shelter. I don't see how they'd ever get another grade otherwise.
Maybe another good option is to restrict our commenting to things we have knowledge of.