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Triplebyte's 5000$ referal fee scam
if you have a triplebyte account, you probably got an email saying if a friend of yours signsup through your special link ,both of you would get 5000$ if they are accepted in a job later,it seems to me like thats alot of money to throw around and there would be no way to be 100% certain if they will follow through.

i found it disgusting that a YC company would use such a cheap technique and what is more offending is that they thought any self respecting programmer would drop everything,go around and be their Advertising-Board-Man for a reward, although 5000$ is alot of money and i personally found it kind of tempting specially that i am broke atm,luckily i am blessed with such strong will and ethics, but not as strong as triplebyte's algorithm for matching engineers with the best companies in the world through a fast,easy and effective signup process .hey don't take my word for it , try it yourself, right this way sir-> https://triplebyte.com/iv/Uo6pYg2/me you won't regret it and you will make me and your self 5k richer or 2 and a half each or whatever it is.
So your belief in free will comes from "It's going to turn out to come from something really weird"? That's not convincing either.

I don't believe in free will, but I believe that there will always be the illusion because the computing needed to know anything before it happens is far too much, and if you knew, it would add another layer of things you'd need to compute, meaning you still wouldn't know your choice ahead of time.

I agree that the infinite regress argument is not convincing - it proves nothing. I would point to science, physics, etc, which is much more factually supportive of it. Of course you can point out quarks, quantum computing, etc, but my argument is that the "randomness" is simply a system we have yet to understand.

More importantly, you highlight something else - choice is not the same as free will. Yes, we all have choices we make every day. They seem to be our will because we don't understand how they were made down to the particles. Whether or not there is free will, there is always choice. So the question is, when is the lack of free will actually relevant? I find that a lot of people apply it in ways that don't make sense when it actually does offer insight in certain interesting areas such as ethics.
I agree with you 100%. Owning a car is a horrible solution for me.
No, but in manually collected ones you usually have complete control over when an allocation happens, and often you can keep everything entirely on the stack. That's one advantage C would have over Go for example.

Of course, in the end, it doesn't matter as much as people make it out to, because you can easily blow the stack in C. In reality, one of the worst disadvantages of garbage collectors is latency, and Go's GC is best-in-class in that respect.

And, obviously, while Go is pretty competitive in memory usage to many higher level languages, in my experience you can still be much, much more frugal on memory when coding in C.
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> More importantly, you highlight something else - choice is not the same as free will. Yes, we all have choices we make every day. They seem to be our will because we don't understand how they were made down to the particles. Whether or not there is free will, there is always choice. So the question is, when is the lack of free will actually relevant?

Great point. This should be brought up more often. Many discussions of free will completely skip over this angle.
Responding to your edit, some people might disagree with child pornography laws&policies but recognize that any protest will be branded as supporting pedophiles/hurting children and decide that they'd rather die on a hill upon which they have a chance of winning.
Turns out that that the human brain doesn't seem to make a strong distinction between the meanings of words and the determination of the appropriateness of words used in context (i.e., their moral value.) Understanding this has taught me a lot about human behavior.

Or maybe it's just primed me to expect certain kinds of misunderstandings.
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Fun anecdote: I tried using newegg.com to build a PC based on these new processors. My 2 year old Macbook Pro almost melted, with only about 6-7 tabs (all pointing to different parts on newegg.com) open. This is kind of ironic: you need a really powerful PC to use a web site which sells powerful PCs. Catch-22.

No. I do not want a web page to be able to eat up more than one core. Frankly, I feel like I want to try a browser extension that "locks" any web page within 20% of a core performance.

These developments make me believe that browser-based apps, that were "around the corner" 10 years ago, is a lost cause. Despite numerous optimizations done to Javascript engines and despite tremendous performance of modern CPUs, browser-based apps continue to crawl at a speed of early IBM PCs of the 80s. Even a 286 circa 1992 running DOS apps felt faster than newegg.com in 2017 on a modern Intel i7.

Sure its tempting to blame "lazy programmers" and bloated frameworks, but bad engineering, tight schedules and tech debut have always existed, for all platforms, all the time. There's just something fundamentally broken about apps built on asynchronous loading of dozens of UI components from a remote location and assembling them into a coherent UI screen as the pieces arrive.
What kind of t-shirt would you have a positive response to?
Maybe, but that's a violation of the company's TOS, not the public's right to privacy.
Have you seen this: http://www.rtl-sdr.com/passive-radar-dual-coherent-channel-r...

I can't find the link here right now, but there's some more recent work that's doing that without needing the two clock synced receivers too...
As per the quote from Goering which I'm sure you already know, but I will paste here for today's lucky 10,000.

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We got around to the subject of war again and I said that, contrary to his attitude, I did not think that the common people are very thankful for leaders who bring them war and destruction.

“Why, of course, the people don’t want war,” Goering shrugged. “Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.”

“There is one difference,” I pointed out. “In a democracy the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars.”

“Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.”

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Gilbert, G. M. The Psychology of Dictatorship: Based on an Examination of the Leaders of Nazi Germany. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1979. Print.
This one and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14588333 should fight.
> The benefits to both the employee and the company are indirect, hard to measure, and long term. They can't be measured in dollars.

There are many things that employers could provide that "can't be measured in dollars" that would result in bankruptcy. In order to back up the claim implied by the headline, this article really would need some sort of cost/benefit analysis, which is not provided.
That's a perfectly reasonable point and position to take but at the same time, I think I could point at some professional victims and you'd concede that they are them.

Like the guy who goes to places and gets himself into horrible situations on YouTube Live or Twitch, when people call in a Swat Team onto his location.

And I don't even know anything about his politics, I just know that he has a following, and he literally makes (was making?) money off of his streams, which people were attracted to based on wanting to see harm come to him!

Literally inconveniencing airplanes and airport concourses full of people so that he could get some more media attention on his scam.

So, I think that's despicable and I've never looked up his streams as a result, because I don't want him to profit. Like I said I don't even know his politics, and I won't say anything about mine.

But to argue the singular point, I think there are some professional victims and it is well... dismissive, to be dismissive of them.
Nothing is ever so simple, and I agree wih you that the sensationalism that pairs with schizo tech journalism, that seems to dash from one extreme to the next, is pretty tiring, with media analysts frequently glossing over important details that don't fit their current world view.

However, mobile devices are the same kind of disruption to PCs as the later were to the UNIX workstations and servers of yore. Intel missed that transition and failed to see the threat. They've tried in early 2010 to establish any x86 Android presence but it didn't work out. Funny, but things might have been different if XScale wasn't sold off, who knows...mobile/handheld mostly stagnated back when it was WinCE/Palm, even though Palm invented the HPC and Microsoft practically invented the smartphone.

IoT/IoE is another major disruptor, on many fronts, and Intel doesn't seem to get it. NFV is probably going to converge on ARM64, due to the "good enough" factor, TCO, specialized I/O accelerators, cheap customized server SoCs and cutthroat competition. Windows on ARM64 opens up VDI opportunities, as does the proliferation of "smart" Android-powered devices. Open source ended being the Colt of the computing world (Chip vendors create computers but Linux made them equal), so in the cloud, architecture is irrelevant, only the bottom line...it's a race to the bottom and we all get to win, but Intel might not make it.
You're correct in that we can't offer immigrations/customs help in US airports (with the exception of JFK and MIA). However, we can help in about 400 airports around the world. We can expedite clients through departures on international flights.

A lot of our clients flying domestic, however, still find value in the service especially families and the elderly.
I've written a prototype bit of software in Rust to run on a fleet of Raspberry Pi units. So far it seems impeccably reliable, which is nice, but cross-compiling it was not the most fun I've ever had programming.

As the tooling improves I can definitely see it being a good language to use on embedded devices. And it's a rather fun language too; I certainly find it more pleasant than Go to write (but I seem to be in the minority, considering the popularity of Go lately).
In Spanish we have an expression for the way you feel: "vergüenza ajena", which loosely translates to "feeling the embarrassment someone else should feel for their actions." It's pretty nifty, if not very catchy :P
i was in Amsterdam seven years ago for work; the folks at the local shop i was there to do business with asked me to stay on an extra day and they would take me on a tour of Amsterdam.

we decided on a bike tour so we walked to a place where i could rent a bike. Of the 50 or 60 "top bar" (men's) bikes, every one was too big, even if they collapsed the seat post, the frames were still to big. (I'm 175 cm, or 5'9"?) I had to settle for a ladies' step-through.
Another positive of short names is that commonly used names occupy less screen real estate
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And yet you still choose. You're trying to dissect your agency, but it's too fundamental to be analyzed like that. It isn't a decision-making process: it is the decision itself.

Writing that reply to me required a series of decisions on your part. Do you feel like your words are under your control? Communication requires choice... if we have no free will, then we're mute prisoners. I'm pretty sure I'm not a mute prisoner, and if I am, then whoever is controlling my typing is making a cruel mockery of my plight. :(
If you haven't seen the lecture from Robert Sapolsky (author of the book the article is summarizing) on Depression, do yourself a favor and see it now! He's wonderfully eloquent and approachable even to the laymen in giving the neurobiological underpinnings of what is a terrible illness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOAgplgTxfc
>BTW, you can compare also a $599 GPU performance encoding x264 versus that Intel CPU and see how "fast" are Intel CPUs in comparison.

This will not turn out good for the GPU unless you constrain it to very specific parameters. I know this for a fact; I've done it.
I can't wait to hear about escaping whatever env/jail the games run in and executing Fuze code on Switch hardware
Xilinx and Altera have/had FPGAs with CPUs (ARM and PPC I think.)
The good news appears to be that this has prompted some upstream discussion.

https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/13801
The problem with this is that if that if there is a breach your typical bank will not take responsibility and claim that the customer is liable.

It needs to be written into law in all jurisdictions, that if a bank has been negligent in security, then when responsibility for a breach is unclear the benefit of the doubt should be given to the customer and the breach classified as a bank robbery.
The most intelligent people I've know have tended to be quite lazy. The most successful were often smart, but more commonly passionate and hard working.
Also low profit margins
> You can worry about the presence of these additives and drugs in plants and plant-based dishes that you eat.

Do you understand the difference between plants and animals? Animal antibiotics and hormones are not applied to plants. Plants are not susceptible to diseases that can be transferred to humans. The pesticides that are sprayed on plants are entirely different chemicals. Plants have the least problems with heavy metal and toxin bioaccumulation because they are at the bottom of the food chain. The risks for contamination of animal and animal product foods are orders of magnitude greater than for plant based food. But all that ignores the fact that meat and dairy are inherently unhealthy for humans - they are carcinogenic and cause heart disease.
Does anyone have any classic examples of zugzwang in the game of Go?
I don't know, but the article's numbers are pretty convincing and not a single comment here addresses them. I'd say there is likely some truth somewhere in the article that the commenters here don't want to acknowledge. I completely agree with his conclusion about nuclear energy being the obvious way forward in the future.
You can see his lecture in my post here and decide whether he has too many underpinnings for you - I would guess not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14591520
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Astonishingly for a solved problem, Netflix still spends over 800M$ a year on research and development. I tend to scratch my head that they possibly get a good ROI on that. I think HBO's entire content budget is ~2B$ for comparison.
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I dunno about that, I have a lot of friends who use Snapchat for the filters and low-friction 'waves' at friends but still use FB for more conversational purposes
If the human experience hasn't ended, that means it is changing. And if it changes, then so too will the utility of art. The more people cry "art is dead", the greater the impending breakthrough.
...not to mention any definition of "good guys" tends to fade at scale. When you're selling to governments it will either leak or be used directly for anti-humanitarian ends.

I mean just look at the recent NSA leak. It's the same "conspiracy" patterns we've seen for ages.

Hell, the best kept secrets in front of the western world remain the secret cults of rome. Those sonsofbitches knew how to hype a secret. Probably not possible with the internet!
How volatile human behavior can be.
GERT can't deterministically service interrupts, but it's technically because of the armv7a architecture and its non-deterministic generic interrupt controller. Also, unless your Go program is constantly creating and destroying objects, the garbage collector won't really run. I wouldn't put GERT on my ABS brakes just yet, but I think you can engineer around a GC.

I wish there was an armv7R or armv8R dev board around (that doesn't cost thousands) because those are actually meant for realtime applications and I would really like to try GERT on one.
Proprietary drivers allow a lock in to fuschia os and devices allowing Google more control over the platform.

We probably need open source hardware for this to go away and to be free.
I agree with the statement but I think it should be stronger. Companies should pay and encourage their employees to learn. Obvious inefficiencies and productivity would be created.
Suggestions are welcome; I'm still learning Rust.

To put context around my provocative comment earlier: I write C++ professionally. C++ is the right choice for my organization, though for purely historical reasons. In the long run, I think we'd all be better off if Rust or similar languages replaced their predecessors. So my comment came from a place of personal frustration, the same that led me to find Rust in the first place.

The old wording was too negative; I'm just excited to show that contest programming, which one might imagine to be hard to translate, is not only practical but indeed arguably nicer in Rust.
Can you clarify what you mean? How are we not left with determinism at a fundamental level?

(And if it starts with a Q, then at most one can say is that it's possible that it's not deterministic. It's perfectly compatible with determinism, just not (AIUI) (and IANATP) currently known whether or not it is the case.)
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To HN readers complaining about pricing: You Are Not The Target Audience. At least unless you (or your employer) are willing to pay $2000 extra to fly BER-SFO first class to get an extra few hours of sleep on your way to a high-value meeting.

To co-founders: I hope you know this as well! Keep pricing in a way that shows you understand your target market.
You can find plenty of examples on Zillow.com and craigslist. What would you consider affordable with a 15$/hour minimum wage?
I've been living and working in The Hague for about 3 months.

Here there are bike paths everywhere (pretty much alongside every road) and they're quite wide. Bikes have their own set of traffic lights.

If you manage to get your hands on a yellow public transport card (ov-chipkaart) then you can even rent a bike from the train station (some train stations have a separate section where they keep the bikes) and it only costs about 3 Euros per day.
If employers offered either a cash comp increase, or a conference, which would employees choose?

Tanstaafl...
The html5ever parser source [1] is remarkably easy to read, since it uses the Rust macro system to represent the state transitions declaratively. It also uses pattern matching to nice effect.

[1]: https://github.com/servo/html5ever/blob/master/html5ever/src...
Sure, but you don't need to know about disinfectant to notice that people who drink the water from the stream get sick and people who drink beer don't. (Nor need to realize that it's because the people and animals upstream are shitting in it. Not a big problem for hunter-gatherers, but it would have become an issue once large-scale agriculture became a thing.)
This past February, so 4 months ago. Why do you ask?
I would also bet, the the average car driver on a road is less rich than the average bike rider on a road.
I do actually want to learn to code. This is my very first post on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=713015

So far, I have not learned to program, though I do know a little HTML and CSS from running my blogs, basically. This failure to learn to code is due to a combination of having been very ill, which makes it hard to learn anything new, and much of my time being taken up with struggling to survive and solving my health problems that are not supposed to be solvable. (And probably other factors.)

The other thing is I am good at solving things, but I am not good at figuring out "business ideas." I know how to get well when that is not supposed to be possible. But I don't know how one turns that into money.

I don't think this is just me being neurotic. I think there are some inherent problems in monetizing such a product. I feel strongly that the way modern medicine is monetized is part of the reason people are failing to get well. Modern medicine makes money for treating you, not for getting you well. Ongoing need for treatment is a means to keep making money and I think that is an inherent conflict of interest. I haven't yet figured out how you set your sights on actually getting people well and somehow get money out of that. Because that is not the financial model for modern medicine.

I would like to create simulations for smaller health problems and eventually create a simulation to teach other people with CF how to do what I do. Blogging is wholly insufficient to convey the density of info required. My thought was that I would start with a small simulation for how you cure sunburn rapidly by eating the right things and then build on that for larger, more complicated problems.

But I used to get really ugly pushback for talking about getting myself well. This was far beyond not getting taken seriously. It was incredibly threatening and worrisome, so I have also spent some years working on figuring out how to approach the problem space without inspiring lynch mobs, basically.

I do have a private blog with some of my ideas written out intended as a design doc. But it hasn't gotten a lot of development. I have been mostly overwhelmed by events.

Thank you for your long comment.
A modest electric hub motor should help on the hills.
I agree but most conferences are a waste. The ones that have good "corridor sessions" are the best, and you need some experience to get value out of those (so send the new kids along with someone who has a bit of experience)
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Is something preventing foldable bikes (that can be taken indoors) from catching on there?
How is free will not the same as choice? A lack of free will is an inability to exert agency through choosing. Determinism removes the possibility of choosing.

If you have no free will, you can't express yourself... nothing you do will be the product of your desires. Weren't you free to choose the words you wrote in your reply?
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> However, mainstream science maintains that we're neither individuals nor have free will.

What is your definition of free will such that mainstream science says that we do not have it? In general, I'd recommend always stating your definition of free will when discussing it, because people's definitions differ.

Given that definition, how would the world look if we did have it, and if we didn't? (You are part of the world, so your inner feelings count, if that's all you think would differ.)

How sure are you that the world looks the first way, and not the second way?
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Bancor's initial response isn't great:

https://twitter.com/bancornetwork/status/876934646344404992

since they mentioned FUD, it sounds like they're afraid Gun's post may affect trading of their token.