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> unless they deliberately exploit addicting behaviors to increase engagement and retention

I can assure that this is something on the forefront of any consumer-oriented service. This stuff is tracked, tweaked, reported on, KPIs are built around it and used as important ways of measuring the health of the company.

See Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products[1] which describes some of this process.

> Do we embrace technology or shun it? My main fear isn't necessarily the tech itself, but the dependence on it. I fear the iGen isn't learning how to use computers as tools and simply becoming consumers of all the experiences we create with them.

YES. I'm in the same boat as you and I think the key difference is that while we created things and explored the tech world much like a giant box of LEGOs, now it's all about giving into the latest ready-made shiny expericence that is heavily marketed to us. But I don't think it has to be so. I remain hopeful that we can train our kids to only use tech on the condition that something useful or truly creative arises out of it, not just passively consuming what's offered. Yet I realize this is going to be an uphill battle...

[1] https://www.nirandfar.com/hooked
How would you trade this knowledge?

Intel has already dropped and AMD is up. Maybe there's more to move, but first-order effects are at least partially priced in already.

But what about second-order effects? Seems like virtualization should be vulnerable (VMWare and Citrix), but maybe they actually benefit as customers add more capacity.

Software-defined networking and cloud databases should also suffer though it's unclear how to trade these.

AWS, Google Cloud and Azure might benefit as customers add capacity but there's no way to trade the business units. So what about cloud customers where compute costs are already a large percentage of total revenue?

Netflix should be OK but Snap and Twilio could get squeezed hard. Akamai and Cloudflare might have higher costs they can't pass through to customers.

And where's the upside? Who benefits? If the performance hit causes companies to add capacity, maybe semiconductor and DRAM suppliers like Micron would benefit.
NYC has Big Gay Ice Cream[0]. Sort of similar to what you're describing. They seem pretty successful. I think they've expanded to a few other cities too.

[0]: https://www.biggayicecream.com/
Sure, especially with respect to some edge cases, and that may be an argument for not throwing people in prison that exploit certain loopholes.

On the other hand, there are certainly cases where a loophole is obviously not the intent of the legislators, and regardless of the legality of exploiting it, one could justly view exploiting it as immoral.

For example, sticking with the analogy of computer bugs, a multiplayer videogame that has an obviously unintended glitch, which lets you cheat against your fellow players.
They're usually converted because the hacks don't work anymore with the new software system you bought...
If u read the article, it says Midwest schools are getting hit hard. New England elite schools will have no trouble shaking immigrants any way.
> I really don't mind them.

I understood Stross's point when talking about ads isn't that ads are bad per se (although they're pretty bad - do you use an ad-blocker?) but that they come along with a lot of unwanted other stuff because the entities serving ads are set up as increasingly efficient advertising machines.

For example, Facebook (by design) becoming ever-increasingly demanding of attention by producing an endless stream of new notifications and features to increase capture your time spent on the platform. This develops into an attritional battle with the user for supremacy rather than a subservient tool to improve their lives.
I would think of opening a 6 seat (for 3 couples) BBQ place in Europe (Portugal).

I would slow cook and smoke the finest meats and allow for Europeans to taste the amazingness that is US southern comfort food.

I would make it so delicious that together with low supply of seats I would be able to charge significantly.
> It envisions most ordinary people as mere consumers. It's a little like saying "Our body would be healthier if we made sure to adequately feed the leeches."

> Yeah, no.

> We need to not actively turn people into leeches. We need to stop treating them like they can't do anything but consume. It is a terrible way to treat people and it creates a very unhealthy and unsustainable system.

What the heck are you talking about... If it's universal, then everybody gets it. How can anyone be a leech? And if you think some people consume more than they produce it's the same problem as with any other welfare. I don't see a problem with UBI being a replacement for welfare to some extent. Giving people dedicated restricted help is like treating them like incapable of decision making. Give them money and let them buy food themselves. What's the difference between a food stamp and food money? Pardon my ignorance.

Regarding creating new leeches, about every experiment with this shows that on average by great margin it activises people. So this in practice shows the exact opposite of what you say. People usually feel empowered and regained control over their lives and try to do something with it.

I am not a real proponent of universal basic income, the results seem too good. Maybe not being used to, and suddenly being given cold cash under monitor has this effect. Nevertheless, in my opinion your logic is completely reversed to what is being published.
It's sometimes underestimated at what level of detail evolution operates.

Of course human minds would tend to underestimate this. Evolution harnesses the parallelism inherent in reality and atoms. Natural selection operates at all levels of detail at once.
I ended up with a refurbed trinitron monitor in 2005 or so, it was 19 or 20 inches, 1600x1200, so sweet at the time. Thing weighed like 100lbs. After a while you developed wire blindness, but people who saw it for the first time would see the wires straight away... and would recoil in horror.
If you want to believe fake news, that's your right.
Why in the world would calories just be calories - it’s an insane oversimplification. We’re not perfect absorbers, different people absorb foods differently, and the source matters.
This is not a PR nightmare, it's a technical competitive nightmare. For many workloads, last-gen AMD server chips are now competitive with current-gen Intel server chips; and the current generation already had a lot in its favour. There's no amount of PR fluff that can save Intel from this, they can only release a new design with this fixed and hope they don't lose too much ground in the mean time.
Isn't that standard in both APA and MLA?
I don't agree. If you want to negotiate more PTO at your new job, it's easy to point at your current PTO arrangement and have them match.
And not just the Miata! Almost every Mazda is the best handler in its class. It’s somewhat tragic they don’t sell as well as they should. They are objectively better in many ways. It’s one of those that having an objectively superior product is not a guarantee to perform well in the market. I truly hope Mazda will be around for many decades to come.
I'm still early in my IT/programming career (working my first job after graduating college in 2017), so it might be a little early to start seriously thinking about pivoting just yet, but I'm really interested in the intersection of technology and urban planning/city administration. I'm an urbanist, fascinated and enchanted by the concept of cities in the abstract, and I want to see the rise of more great American cities in the 21st century. I want to see current great cities become more accessible, and all cities become more attractive to not only other urbanites, but suburbanites and rural people also.

I'm not really sure what the best way to follow this dream is, but I'd definitely appreciate any input or advice from anyone out there :)
Finally. Time for the sword of Damocles to fall on those overpaid administrators.
Why do the DoE and Treasury need intelligence elements?
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I used an algorithm previously, which was a hassle at times and probably not as secure as I was telling myself. This was until I joined Bluink and discovered Bluink Key.

Bluink Key is a secure (nontypical) password manager that encrypts your passwords locally on your smartphone and automates logins on your computer via a Bluink Key USB device. Nothing is ever stored in the cloud.

Bluink Key is impractical for attackers to target because they need physical access to your phone, they need to know your phone's PIN, and they need to know your master password to Bluink Key. This is very difficult to pull off assuming you usually have your phone with you and have a decent PIN/master password.

Bluink Key is also relatively unprofitable for attackers to target because a successful attack would only yield passwords from one individual, whereas a successful attack on a traditional, cloud-based password manager would yield passwords from millions of users.

Bluink Key is a two-factor authenticator as well (FIDO U2F and OTP).

Here's the website if you're interested: https://bluink.ca/key
Our society has institutionalized child abuse by preventing them from doing things on their own until post-university adulthood.
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10k or 12k IUs. That might be more than I ought to long term, but I figured I was pretty deep in the hole to start with, and I'm a pretty big boy besides.

I also started taking three calcium, magnesium and zinc tabs along with the D, not sure exactly what those dosages are off the top of my head, but three of them adds up to the 100% recommended amount. That might have some additional impact.
"I'd be panic buying / selling every day to adjust which seems stressful..."

Wrong way to invest. Don't buy an individual company's stock unless you are ready to (1) hold for the long-term and (2) ignore (short-term) unrealized losses. Especially in the first year after investing in an individual stock it is typical to see an unrealized loss, because gains require time to accumulate.

The stock market is not a slot machine. Investing requires patience and discipline.
Water from a mountain spring or creek tends to be clean enough to drink. I personally never treat the water if I am in the mountains and far from civilization (live in Colorado) even though there is still a chance I could get sick. However I will always treat that same water with iodine if it is sitting in a lake/pond or close to civilization because the likelihood of disease goes up significantly.
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We had a laptop with windows 95 on it.
Just because you weren't on the internet, didn't mean you couldn't use a computer...there were actually lots of things that you would do without a connection then.
I'm old enough to remember when the fad was taking supplemental Vitamin A and E as 'antioxidants' to reduce cancer risk. Then long term studies in Sweden on Vitamin A showed it actually increased risk, at least for lung cancer. I would be hesitant to go all-in on Vitamin D loading until such studies have been done here. There is a good reason why medicine is conservative - first, do no harm.
There are non-Tesla DC superchargers in the US, but yes, the network of those chargers is much less reliable and less well planned in the US. (Versus Europe which maps show a much more thorough ChaDeMo network than the US, which is arguably accountable solely to relative population densities of the continents and Tesla's US-first market focus.)

ChaDeMo could still catch up with the right gumption (the rest of the auto manufacturers teaming up, for instance), and there's still a lot of talk about how the two "standards" are easily interoperable with simple adapters (and Tesla has a Tesla-to-ChaDeMo adapter, but so far as I'm aware no one has yet to negotiate for a ChaDeMo-to-Tesla adapter to be sold; Tesla is in a position of strength for now so hard to blame Tesla on hedging that position a bit in the US).

At least it looks like the different "winners" in the US versus Europe might keep the game competitive in the current term.
Same here. Increases my mood, positivity, and sleep quality, very noticeably.
Let me clarify. There is a difference between warming and catastrophic warming. Serious skeptics are arguing against catastrophic warming as predicted by the models.

There is another level of debate, less foundational, regarding the quality of our temperature observations and the amount of warming (not catastrophic warming) that is a result of natural variation, human activity, measurement errors, data adjustments and the like.

Observational warming has in general been less than that predicted by the models suggesting that the extrapolation into the future by the models may not be accurate.
It's really the easiest!

If you don't have any alternative and aren't willing to quit, your value is what you're getting paid currently.

You can bluff your way to a higher value but without leverage (other offer, willingness to walk) that's all it is-- a bluff that might or might not be called.
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Since Scott already replied, now you've got two bouncers.

The trouble with what you've said here is that even if you're right about the article, it's easy to make your points without doing damage to HN. It simply takes a will to do it and a willingness to wait a little, to make it past the reflexive phase where the snark enzymes kick in.

That aside, there's another problem with your argument: if it's right, it's too right, because the same observation applies to nearly all media pieces. This sucks, but it is a cost of doing business on the internet (probably literally). If we focus on these annoyances, we only deprive ourselves of curious discussion. I'd say the guideline to apply here is the following one, translated to the article level:

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize.

In other words, please respond to the most interesting things in an article, not less interesting things that are easier to criticize. If there are no interesting things, that's different, but then you should flag the submission.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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When I was coming up, I overheard a conversation amongst a bunch of greybeards about how these big computing organizational changes are not a fad, they're a cycle. Like the tides. Since I started working right at the cusp of a switchover I had one more opportunity to observe this behavior and test this theory than most people do, and it does appear to match reality.

People make monoliths for performance reasons and then can't maintain the monolith, so they go back to forced independence. Every company does this on a different cycle but the epicycles are the 'fads' you see, and it's been going on since at least the 70's.

Similarly and perhaps more forgivably, people organize a system (think, client-server, peer to peer) for reasons of the current laws of physics as they apply to clocks per second, storage space, and latency. Those inequalities shift with each new generation of hardware. So what was the right thing to do 15 years ago might be the right thing to do again next year. It's not that we've been wrong for 15 years, it's that we are wrong now. And will be wrong again in another half a dozen years. But we have to use the tools available to accomplish the goal now, and that means we have to adapt, repeatedly.
Start a Science Fiction bookstore.

[... completely ignoring the "possible income decrease" here... :-/]
I think all of those are difficult for anyone. walking away is a huge risk especially if you screw up on 1 & 2. Knowing your value is very hard to do.

But the one nobody has called out, which I think is the hardest, is number 1. Knowing what your employer finds valuable is a difficult proposition. And in a lot of cases the line between value and liability is thin and nondeterministic.
Should we have no intelligence agencies? A better approach is to populate our intelligence agencies with good people, instead of leaving it up to incompetent/bad people.
There’s too much new research most of which is too inconclusive to bother updating general practices for doctors. You’re right, for the most part people continue to put their faith in the concensus they absorbed in medical school
If that explained it sufficiently, you would be able to explain it sufficiently.
> Wouldn't it be possible to use Tor with any coin?

That's the joke.
According to the article, it was Midwest (aka "red" state) universities which have mostly benefited the most from foreign students.

Also what visa allows immigrants to skip university enrolment and be directly employed in a small town small business?
It's the most frustrating thing in today's climate.

Everyone agrees there are good and bad regulations, but everything gets framed such that any regulation is bad, and any deregulation is good!

There's no real conversation about which regulations are which! It's just naive free market vs full socialism debates in every public sphere.
The Times did an article on that last week.
> how often is your code making syscalls.

And how often the kernel services interrupts.
I have tried without success. HR didn't even understand the idea.
> that was how we rolled

Speaking of rolling, that's what bikes were for. Running around unsupervised in the neighborhood. I'm not sure what kids do with bikes today. Or if they even get bikes.
This might be semantics, but a slowdown means exactly that: a drop in growth rate.
Over the holidays I met my brother's GF's granddad, who is an economist. He said one of the biggest problems he sees in the social sciences is that the tools they have for data analysis (he specifically mentioned Stata, SAS, and SPSS) make it hard to keep track of what transforms you've made to the data, so people get results and then can't reproduce them because they don't remember what sequence of operations they've performed. Related to this, he said most social science people aren't good programmers which hurts their ability to understand their data.

So I think you're right, although I suspect it'll be hard to get people to switch to anything new since they already know how to use tools that let them get their work done.
Portland has no idea how to deal with the growth we get now, much less anything that would qualify as a 'boom'. Traffic is frequently terrible with no real plan in place on how to deal with it. The canned answer is 'more bikes and light rail' but that's clearly not going to cut it.

Plus, houses are already getting quite expensive here, largely due to that UGB you mention. Unless we're willing to compromise on that (and as a long-time resident who appreciates being able to reach something like wilderness pretty easily, I hope we do not) then pretty quickly we are going to have SF-level housing problems.
What is a good thing...?
I think you're vastly underestimating the potential impact to cloud providers. Azure/AWS/GCP all definitely have extra capacity, but they have forecasting down to a science. Requiring even 10% more capacity is quite a large undertaking alone.
My Dr. told me take Vitamin D because of the winter.
Isn't that the standard behavior on every music player?
Interesting. At least with respect to Vitamin D, my doctors have been recommending supplementation for years.
I'm in the same boat as you. I was in a similar position as OP and started my search looking at PCs (running Linux) to replace my Mac laptop. My current job is remote (so more emphasis on integrated webcam), I occasionally need large amounts of RAM and would like large amounts of internal disk space. Previously, I'd buy a Mac and upgrade RAM and storage--but that's no longer an option.

Unfortunately, all laptops in that class seem to have non-replaceable RAM. So for 16gb I'd have to get the $1,499.99 configuration of the XPS 13. It doesn't have a 1 tb drive option, but Crucial sells one for $289.99. The XPS has the webcam below the screen next to the keyboard. Not only do you look up your nose, my fingers showed up. I also very much dislike proprietary chargers, but I'm not enthusiastic about going all-in on USB-C.

The Mac still cost more, but not double the price like I was expecting. I know the battery will last, the ssd is faster than one on SATA, it'll last 5+ years if I need, and will resell well if I take care of it.
I've set this goal for myself several times, particularly important because I've been diagnosed with osteopenia at a young age (38). This has not translated into fractures, so I haven't managed to figure out how to turn this into a daily regimen (taking increased vitamin D) which would, one would think, help.

Any ideas about how to turn this into a daily habit? Put vitamins by the front door? Set an alarm on the phone? Supplements in the smoothie blend?
I went to college in between deployments, (~6 years ago) with the belief that college existed primarily to teach people how to learn for themselves. After a year and half I was almost happy to be deployed again, although at the time there were a number of classes I took which I would consider quality educational experiences.

I looked at the same college a few months after that deployment, and realized I didn't want to subsidize dogmatic obedience. Since then it appears to have gone even further downhill.
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Part of knowing your value is to occasionally respond to recruiters on LinkedIn and go on interviews. It's good practice anyways, even if you're happy in your job.
How do you know it? You feel worse?
If you have this question, you will definitely not find the answer in this article. But if you follow the links I added to the article, you will find your answer 100%.
maybe a preceeding stage before full on atherosclerosis, there are multiple layers in arteries and a whole gradual process from lower elasticity, stiffness, clogged ..
> One of the conditions of their recent debt financing was that they IPO within a certain time frame

Spotify is not IPO’ing. They are direct listing their stock. Because of a simple drafting error on part of TPG et al Spotify is side-stepping the bulk of the delayed IPO penalties.
On this note, while driving I find School Zones completely antiquated. Where I live I never see any children of any age outside of the building, on sidewalks, etc. Yet drivers are inconvenienced multiple times on their commutes each day.

Adults are part to blame as socially, parents are frowned upon for even letting their kid take the bus instead of being their private chauffeur. (Granted I live in an area where private schools are more popular than public. But I've seen this same thing play out in the exurbs with mostly public schools.)
Feels like an article that I would expect to see shared on linkedin, not here.