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People are not children who need to be always reminded of their own privilege. We already know it.
Could be as simple as when you’re ludicrously rich and have been doing something for awhile you can get bored, especially if you’re not the founder or otherwise heavily emotionally invested in it.
From the executive summary: By reducing housing supply, Airbnb has increased the median long-term rent in New York City by 1.4% over the last three years, resulting in a $380 rent increase for the median New York tenant looking for an apartment this year. In some Manhattan neighborhoods the increase is more than $700.
No doubt. They are hard workers, hustlers (in the best sense of the word), scammers, grifters, and some of the laziest folks I've ever met -- and everything in between.

They're just people. When the upper-classes talk about the poor as all good or all bad it's always in the context of selling you their politics.
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My iPhone X screen cracked falling out of my car door onto concrete. 80 days of ownership in. AppleCare FTW. I’ve never had an iPhone display crack so easily.
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What is the point of a philosophy class if you can't debate or argue about ideas being taught. It seems like it would be a great class for discussion. Common, how can you read Foucault and not start a debate wondering what he meant.

> She went on to swear at us in this guilt-inducing way a couple more times before the semester’s end.

Why is that ever ok? Why is the professor still teaching there? What if they have tenure. What does a professor have to do then to be kicked out. It would seem like swearing at students in class would be a good reason.

> As hyperbolic as this might sound, voicing a strong pushback against any idea that the Professor favored was nearly unthinkable.

It suddenly dawned on me, as I was typing this, that it's actually a useful class! It does teach a modern approach to discourse. That's exactly what is popular and so it makes sense to teach it that way - shutting off debate and discussion, swearing at people, demoralizing them, making them feel guilty, punishing if they don't appear guilty enough, etc.

Looking back, I am sure this student would find this class was more memorable and useful than the other one. They'll forget about Thomas Nagel but never forget how they could not discuss Focault.
Sure, but when you fix a bug in the driving software you deploy it to all cars simultaneously. It's harder to teach all humans about a corner case you encountered only a couple of times.
> - find candidates

In the past, I've used sites like dribbble, but that's not always a great indication of UX. Sometimes beautiful designs aren't usable at all, and UX really comes down to process (and being enthusiastic about tedious research and iteration).

Most recently, I just used LinkedIn to contact some UX people behind products I liked. If they weren't looking for a new job or a side project, they could usually recommend other people who were good and shared their values.

> - interview them in a way...

I think their past work is going to tell you more than the interview. You may have some core philosophy things that you want to be in sync on, but it's really hard to tell if someone can execute just by asking them questions that boil down to, "Can you execute?" Everyone thinks they can, and many of them are wrong.
Shkreli’s crime was raising the price tenfold at once, and boasting about it, instead of the good old boy’s method of 20% per year and keeping quiet.
Oh dear - you have started seeing the matrix!

Seriously, the truth is, you've got it right. There is no pre-defined 'purpose' to existence. One day, the sun will be a bit of charcoal, and that'll be the end.

With that established, you do have a whole life ahead of you that you're sort of stuck with. There isn't much to do except have a blast while it lasts! What else would make sense, after all.

There are a few restrictions, such as that you'll probably want to be sufficiently productive to sustain a lifestyle with healthcare, food, clothing and a safe place to sleep.

You have a lot going for you. You have the intelligence to figure out that there questions about existence that society doesn't really have an answer to. You have the wisdom and warmth to value friendship and family above other things. You are probably physically healthy too.

Kind, wise, and a bit too smart than is good for your mental health.

Now, a few practical steps...

First, lay off Reddit and the like. It's just the digital equivalent of alcohol: to be enjoyed in small doses, not too waste your days away. If you find out that skipping a few days is hard, then you have discovered how addictive these screens really are.

Second, much like advice already given, think of something you find cool, and look into that. Do check if it allows a lifestyle that you want.

This is hard.

Today I dreamt of walking into a local bank and saying: "let's stop foreclosing homes and making entire neighborhoods worthless. Let's just let these people keep their house, and work on their budget management skills and find a job for them. We'll issue a local iou-currency that costs us nothing, give micro-credits in it, and start building a local, small-scale community and economy. It's the only way to save them, and thereby, our bank." Unfortunately, it's a few years late for that one.

Or I imagine working on transport and neighborhoods, just making things nicer.

Or try to figure out rules that would lead to a cost-efficient health care system.

You say you have some financial freedom, maybe you can make a sufficiently profitable dream a reality.

If you manage, let me know how you did it. I'm still working on that part.

Third, do keep busy. You'll have less time to think about your existential crisis and you'll be more likely to come across something that you'll like, which would solve the whole thing. At least it beats being on Reddit the whole day.

Good luck.
You say “can”, but I live in one of those cities and I assure you it’s not a possibility but a reality.
> Those aren't real intellectual disciplines, so naturally the professor discourages debate.

I think we should distinguish a topic from those paid to teach about it.

It seems to me that regardless of how silly we consider a particular set of beliefs to be, we might gain useful knowledge by studying (with intellectual rigour) why people hold those beliefs, how societies react to the ideas, etc.

But I'm sure it's equally possible for some areas of study to attract foolish or undisciplined professors, and for that pattern to become self-sustaining.
Fair point, I was just saying there's still a good chance it'll work (at least if the induced tumors are anything like 'natural' tumors.) Very interested in seeing how this goes, either way.
Ok where did you write reactive back in the day?
So?

Exactly what you describe happens all the time in every field.
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I actually expect this to happen naturally.

Pretty much the instant it becomes provable in a court of law that self-driving cars are safer than human-driven ones, it will become impossible to buy insurance for human-driven cars (at least not at any rate most of us could afford).

"So...Mr. Smith. You knew that using the autonomous driving software was safer than operating the car manually, yet you deliberately turned it off. Your faulty driving then killed Mr. Johnson and his entire family."

No sane insurance company is going to defend that in court.
Steam doesn't work on case sensitive hfs or apfs.

Ask me how I know. >.<
Earlier HN title: "Alphabet cracks $100B in annual revenue as advertising soars"
seems like the sort of thing people should know how to spot then

otherwise you’re getting security through obscurity of a magic framework no one has time to vet

looking at you, openssl, etc, etc
Ok but, isn't it fair to assume we're already doing everything we can in that regard? There's only so much energy we as a society can invest in making better drivers. AI seems to have no limit to speak of.
Pretty crazy! Hopefully they get Patterson to work on some novel computer architectures. TPUs are very cool but they are not for consumers.
I enjoyed reading Thomas Ptacek's hiring post: https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/03/06/the-hiring-post/

I've never had an interview like that personally, but I have had interviews that were a bit more practical. Like instead of solving an algorithmic problem, it was: how would you lay out the database for a clone of popular website X, how would you handle stuff like pagination. Those are a bit less nervewracking than the typical "implement binary search in a chamber slowly filling with sand" interviews.
Imagine every car accident was treated with the same attitude: "the car has breaks and a steering wheel so I don't know what your problem is."

People make mistakes, do things by accident. If the conequences are this bad, we should question the standards which led us to them.
That’s not what happened though. With the older iPhones (with flat cameras), the flash would actually reflect off cases. It happened to me often enough. you can find examples of this in a web search.
I'm an ex-Googler. I'm speaking primarily for myself. The idea that I couldn't possibly have been "paid fairly" (which the comment I was originally replying to) is nonsense.

Note that I'm not saying that every software engineer (let alone line cooks) at Google has been paid fairly. But some of us have been fortunate, and I don't think I'm all that atypical.

Your claim that people working at a company with enormous cash reserves cannot possibly have been paid fairly is wrong, and it's condescending to tell people that they are "weird" for understanding their own situation.
Learn VHDL, and get your self a FPGA dev board. Tinker just do anything that does not harm you.
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Can confirm the rule changes are a pain. Ex dota 2 player and I tried to watch some games recently after a few years break. I couldn't really follow what was happening. The map was different, new items, heroes. Existing items and heroes all different in assorted ways.

I felt like Grandpa Simpson: "I used to be with it but then they changed what it was."

Frequent tweaking might be great for active players but I think it will be a pretty big block to ever allowing esports to compete as a casual viewing event alongside regular sports.
That was one of them, yes. There have been a few. November was roughly when the mainstream craze started and there were everyday people like barbers getting into it and putting their mortgage payments in.
On a side note I recently learnt that ESR is against Obama care. Surprising, I can understand someone young not liking having to pay mandatory insurance but he's old.
Really? That’s depressing. Money can be anything you want it to be, so how about this.

Money = thank you points

You give it to people you’re thankful to, who either did something nice for you or gave you something you wanted.
I don’t mind the downvotes or anything, but it struck me as strange that on the same day that it’s reported Google is pursuing partnerships with an entity as corrupt and demonstrably awful as the Saudi regime, people see this as outside the range of possibility.
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I remember when I interviewed with them, they were adament about catching up with AWS. I asked what they thought of Linode and they said "not in our radar." They billed themselves as an AWS competitor but I just don't see it.
BTW if you're not aware, you get battery percentage again when you pull down Control Center.
I don’t remember anyone complaining about a recessed camera with the iPhone 4 bumper case.

So yeh, I don’t buy the parent’s argument either.

https://images.anandtech.com/doci/3794/iPhone4-3441.jpg
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>Personally I think both parties are not that different.

It frustrates me greatly to see comments like this. It's worth taking a moment to even briefly skim the official platforms of the two major parties. They are profoundly different on a enormous range of substantive issues and policies.

Perhaps there are some issues on which the two parties agree, and certainly there are many political positions which neither party represents. That hardly means that the two parties are "not that different."
dont spend money building

spend it on vendor lock-in

i guess if you want to change the world with todo app that probably makes sense
In early statements, AMD was claiming its processors are immune to Meltdown but vulnerable to some variants of Spectre [1]. Has it now been determined that AMD processors are also vulnerable to the former? (or have the criteria evolved?) I can find statements going either way, but I am not sure if they are precise.

[1] https://developer.amd.com/wp-content/resources/Managing-Spec...
I don't want to give a blanket statement since everyone is different, but send me a PM if you need someone to talk to.

I can at the very least be a listening ear, and maybe provide some advice having been in similar places.
Can you give some examples? People mention this all the time, but it seems so abstract.
There were some rumors.

Duckduckgo is your friend.
Why couldn't people have personal pods with their stuff in it, with their preferred upholstery, sound system, etc. that got moved by a third-party owned motor unit?
No, you can't time what happens on the mis-speculated path itself. What's leaking the information is the change to the cache state which is observable after the original mis-speculated branch is resolved (by timing subsequent accesses to addresses that alias in the cache).

You can also observe changes to the TLB state, though - so you'd have to do the same buffering-and-commit dance there as well.

Maybe you can also leak data through the BTB or RTB (double-Spectre!), or by tieing up particular execution units conditionally which is observable by a sibling hyperthread?
Wait a second though, AMD and Intel are practically a duopoly on the PC space; they almost fully control the x86_64 patents and they keep patenting more instruction sets every year (in fact the original x86_64 design requires SSE2 and it's not expired yet). Something similar exists for PC GPUs with NVIDIA and AMD.

I'm pretty confident the situation wouldn't be that acceptable if all 3 weren't American corporations.
I sound like a shill but is HN being attacked by bots?

This is a comment with useful information, why is this downvoted?

Mods can you see?
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The "Status" tab holds what you're looking for, at the bottom:

"01/29/18 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment."

So, just the House, for now.
Reading this made me even more bullish on crypto currencies. Every time there is a crash I listen to the audiobook.
A tip of the hat ....

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A heat pump transfers heat from the cold side to the hot side, making the hot side hotter and the cold side colder. The thing you're heating is at Th and ground is at Tc. By putting 1 J of mechanical work in, you might draw 3 J from the cold side and pump 4 J into the hot side.
Natural selection is a form of intelligence (aka directed goal-seeking).
I fear that HN has need taken over by people drinking Google kool aid just because Google buys devs with free stuff.

This is obviously a very radical scenario but if Google did open source on principal, they'd open source some of their profit making stuff that is also unique in class. I'm not asking they should, I'm just saying it's stupid to assume they have anyone's but shareholders interests in mind
For a smaller dose: Seek out any of the numerous volunteer activities that are sure to be available in most cities.

For example, I found a literacy center near me that teaches adults who want it reading/writing/basic math. I spent 3~ hours a week for 9~ months teaching a man who had immigrated here and it was an extremely fulfilling experience for both of us, at minimal effort.
I think controversy is not that building more has no effect on rent prices - of course more supply drives prices down.

It is more about whether we want to live in over-populated ant-farms or want to pay premium for less dense living.
I doubt a dead cat would actually bounce. Has this been scientifically tested, I wonder?
You still had a system that decided removing airbags was a good idea. Then, when getting smacked in the face, doing nothing to the people involved in removing the airbags or causing the face smacking.
> It’s no big deal, moral or otherwise, simply life.

It's a big deal since people exploit the privilege talk to manipulate you. It usually boils down to getting your money, job position or your vote. See the Healing from Toxic Whiteness webinar and other thinly veiled indulgences sold to nice, gullible men. But they shouldn't be ashamed for their own identity.
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The cases Apple sells you feel like they're part of the phone after you put them on. My phone feels naked without it. And I was a hardcore case hater for the longest time. Now I've seen the light, Apple engineered their cases with every bit as much care as they did the phone. I can see why they wouldn't put one on in the marketing materials, but trust me they really do go together.
I had a 7 so it was a much bigger jump for me.
I would sooner pay $1 per Google query to expunge tweets from the results.
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It wouldn't lead to a massive boycott, most people barely care about browser choice. And what would a boycott accomplish? If they're blocking you for not giving them ad revenue, your refusal to go there changes nothing.

Over the past decade, I've had to switch ad blockers several times to deal with performance and privacy issues, and I still have to deal with a ton of broken sites that would make most people just assume their browser was broken. The logistics of including the blocker in the browser are a nightmare, and I doubt the results would lead most people to call it the "best browser."
> After many years of wrangling FRP my biggest learned lesson is certainly this: not everything is a stream! You need to be able to mix streams (also called events), which embody push semantics and behaviors (things you can sample), which embody pull semantics.

I have a creeping suspicion that after a few more years, "push" is just going to be viewed as codata, and "pull" will just be "data". I mean, that's kind of what they are, our languages just don't have codata as first-class citizens, and so we shoehorn it into stream abstractions.
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Good marketing does please users by delivering them products tailored to them that they may have never knew even existed.
Only if you assume that the miles are equivalent, but they aren't. The machines are handed the easy work because that's what they're currently good enough at handling, and they have a human standing by to take over at a moment's notice.
It's not about policies. Policies are entirely different but equally self serving.

I'm astounded that there are blacks living in ghettos but Nancy Pelosi shuts Govt down for people who are pondered to by speaking Spanish but paraded as having known no other culture and assimilated.
I know what you mean, but e.g. every time the Google Assistant talks to you, the consumer, you're using TPUs.

https://deepmind.com/blog/wavenet-launches-google-assistant/
>What is the point of a philosophy class if you can't debate or argue about ideas being taught. It seems like it would be a great class for discussion. Common, how can you read Foucault and not start a debate wondering what he meant.

... and people across the philosophical and political spectrum, especially feminists, have critiques of Foucault. It seems irresponsible and deeply insulting to treat a philosopher as beyond questioning.
I think he was on his way out to a post in the Clinton administration as Google’s man on the inside. He’s mentioned his political ambitions in several interviews/profiles.

When that didn’t pan out, they didn’t see much use in keeping him around, especially in light of Trump’s penchant for grudges.