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Unrelated, but Samsung seems to make great hardware, then fill it to the brim with their shitty custom software. Brixby for instance
When asking why more people aren't working on something that's high-risk & high-reward, it's best to look not at the goal itself, but rather how working on that goal is rewarded for the participants. For example, I spent almost a decade working on nuclear fusion. In theory, the reward for success would be very high. However, the reward for a small success isn't amazing (basically running a long-term research project, similar to a tenured professorship). And very few people who work on fusion get to that point. Most end up as frustrated post-docs, trying to compete for limited funding with researchers who have been established for decades. A lot of people leave once the personal cost gets bigger than the stars in their eyes.

So, because a successful long-term research project needs good human capital more than almost anything else, it helps to have:

1) Good rewards for small successes. This could be easy for life extension research if the intermediate step of "add 1 year" is rewarded well and the reward is public (so people know the reward is there).

2) An allied industry which provides jobs for "failures", from which they can regather strength before jumping back in. Silicon Valley has done well because failed software startup founders can work at a big software company for a while before jumping back in. Fusion suffers from the fact that once you get a job in another industry, jumping back in is difficult. I don't know if medicine is so specialized that this is a problem for aging cures.

3) A popular perception that the goal is achievable. Fusion does better at this than curing aging. This ties back into the "reward small goals" in point 1; publicly achieve small goals and the big goal doesn't look so impossible.

Good luck! We all hope you are able to contribute to an aging cure!
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Looking at the bounty amounts, this is insane. If you find a bug that allows you to take over a Google account, through "Logic flaw bugs leaking or bypassing significant security controls", the maximum payout is $13,337.

Sorry Google, but you should be paying $1,333,337 for that.
If one of us who've read it had time to speculate on how the tech sector intersects with the issue of power moving up to transnational entities, down to localities, and sideways to cross-national communities, I think we could get a really interesting discussion going.
The demise of click-bait headlines.
Probably the best explanation. Besides, our youth is getting used to censorship workarounds. Most people have two accounts per network. It really reminds me of a friend from Iran telling me about the underground bar culture in his country. It’s worrying that we have so much a problem with the opinions of others that our teenagers routinely rely on Iran-level techniques to navigate their world.
My wife is a member of a diaper science community on facebook group called fluff love. They have extensive information about how to get your diapers really clean, with targeted information for specific situations like water hardness, washing machine type, materials, etc. The folks there are very helpful and responsive to issues.

What we ended up doing was 1 "power wash" cycle, followed by a regular wash cycle each time, and just regular ol Tide detergent. Sorry for the tide ad.

Short answer: it's hard to say specifically, because it depends on a ton of factors.
Interesting to see how long the S3 has endured as a development device.

I had an S2 back in the day, which was similarly easy to root and flash custom roms onto, but the GPS was notoriously unreliable on any custom ROM. The standard advice at the time, if you were having a trouble getting a GPS lock, was literally to flash the stock ROM back onto the phone, get a lock, and then flash your custom ROM.

I got to the point where I was doing it several times a week, and then said screw it, I don't have time for this.

I wonder if that problem was ever resolved in later phones.
Yes, even if you are completely against something. For example, if you are against GMO and work on this subject, you may give valuable insights (outside of NDA) to other GMO opponents to help their fight to stop GMO. Of course, you risk your job.
Does anyone make a c64-ish SOC with SID style sound limitations, HDMI out, 1/8" audio out, 8-16 GPIO pins, good documentation and development environment (C/ASM)? I wish a simple (restrictive) mid-range system like this existed to develop on as a hobbyist. The Pi is too much, arduino doesn't have the "fun" (interesting sound chip, built in outputs, marketing/documentation).. Does anything like this exist?
You also had a concerted effort from Microsoft et al to muddy the water in a massive way.
I think anyone read decent amount of history book can agree that "people are bad in general".

What are the evidences for "People are generally good"?
I think the hype was really thrust upon them by the breathless NYT article and the unexpectedly massive donations to their Kickstarter. They did their best to run with it, and were met with limited success and widespread vitriol that was not really deserved.
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That's bad managers hiring other bad managers. It's not a conspiracy; it's incompetence.

The problem likely goes all the way to the board of directors who should hold the CEO accountable to build a culture that doesn't let bad managers exist in the org (by coaching or removing them).

A lot of companies have this problem, and it's a major dysfunction, but make no mistake, it's :bad: managers you have a problem with, not "pure" ones. I know a ton of great non-tech leaders who do amazing work of leading technical teams because they build the team around that. You get the lead engineer(s) to run the tech leadership while empowering them with autonomy / resources / support and holding them constantly accountable to well defined goals.

Management isn't rocket science, it's just a lot of hard work and discipline. It is its own craft and a very challenging and rewarding one if it suits you.
could you give some examples of the types of mistakes they make?
Safekeeping of keys is not a solved problem.

There is something nefarious about trying to set precedent when the precedent is conscripting companies into the surveillance state. They lied about their capabilities in order to force a company to break their product on their behalf.
I'm pretty sure I never spent that much on any of my three sons. Here in Norway (you know, everyone's favourite "Oh my god it's so expensive" country) you can get one nappy/diaper/bleie for less than NOK 1, say about ten cents US. Even at 12 a day that's only USD 438. And 12 a day is ridiculous.
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> If anything I'd expect the wage to have gone up

You'd think so, wouldn't you? The truth of the matter is most manufacturing companies are facing the same problem tech is right now: a "talent" shortage. The pay hasn't kept up with living costs in most areas. The days of buying a house and raising a family on an "industrial wage" are long gone. The pay is hardly enough to keep one person alive these days. As a result, nobody wants the jobs. The companies can't keep their assembly lines fully staffed, but they don't want to pay more either.
> So arguably she can evict a fetus, whenever she wishes.

A mother 'evicting' a fetus at 24 weeks without the abortion would result in a very tiny, but likely healthy baby (at least in the US, where premature baby care is generally outstanding). Source - held one in my hands this fall when our friends adopted him.
Welding? You wish. That bridge will be held together with baling wire and duct tape, just like the buildings in the cityscape scenes from Idiocracy.
I have memories before 3 (no diapers though).
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it's very rare to only run one http based server app (port 80). So you probably want to put a proxy (like nginx) infront of it, but then you could just let it serve the files.
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I think it's because everyone who wants something like that just buys a C64 (or NES, or whatever)
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"some people are bad in general". FTFY
You're wrong in the US, which is where this story is. In fact adoptive moms get healthcare, and sometimes even room/board/food etc paid for them.
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Sigh. Hacker News is a suspicious place these days. We have no rights to anything you produce, or datasets you use. We just want to help budding scientists.

We are asking people to do a 30 minute quiz once the application is filled out. It’s 100% experimental, but the long term goal is to try and see if there are any ways we can scale this program one day. For example: if it turned out that all the Fellows we funded did terribly on the test, we’d know the test is bad. If they did really well on one question, we’d know we found something that would help us find more people in the future.

We’re not going to sell the applications in any way. Please email me if you have any concerns: daniel@aigrant.org.
This looks great! Is there a way to share experiments with a team or it's just for the lone data scientist?
As of two years ago, there was a bug with mobile safari and hash fragment preservation, which actually made using a lot of client side JS code very difficult to use directly from s3.
I learned to program on a 48K Apple II clone with a 40x24 text display (and 192x280 graphics). The important point is the UI is dictated by the physical device. We are used to multiple humongous monitors now, but we are not restricted to that. 900x1200 is more than my first Sun SPARCStation...
Arduino is the spiritual successor she's looking for to the C64 era experience.

It worked fantastically for my kids and brought back waves of nostalgia watching them grok the basics like I did.
It was a SEMRush screenshot, not related to Google, so it wasn't their numbers.
It's about more than knowing which way to vote, it's about developing awareness of issues. People affect democracy in more ways than just voting and political action like protests. Politicians constantly run polls to take the temperature of the people on various issues, and adjust their positions and priorities accordingly. Which isn't to denigrate actual political action, but to demonstrate that awareness can intrinsically affect the government.

What do you think would be a better way to become an informed citizen than watching the news?
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Everyone is a single person, and yet almost everything we've ever accomplished has been collaborations.

> That, combined with the observed fact that the goal of any government organization eventually becomes the perpetuation of that organization

That may or may not be true, but regardless, it's then good that most developed countries have established a form of government where organizations within that government don't have complete autonomy and always answer to some form of elected representative of the people.
The TechCrunch article mentioned you are trying to do for machine learning what Github is doing for programming.

Can you dig into that a bit more, or did TC cover it in full?

https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/05/cometml-wants-to-do-for-ma...
I agree, full migration profile is quite needed. But the project is still quite young and improvments were alreday brought for this feature.
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Its a personal thing, I am not in a position to persuade anybody. I think that our present is explained by the context of the past, and that you can't understand the present without looking at the past. Now the past is a complex thing that can't be reduced to some simple formula, I still believe that you can still learn out of it, because human nature didn't change to much throughout the ages. Our reality may be quite different from what it used to be, but we are not essentially different from our ancestors, so we can still learn from them (hope that helps). Our experience is similar to the experience of our ancestors, we are part of the same process - it may be distant, but it is still relevant (in my opinion), the accumulated experience of past generations is of great value (because we tend to repeat the mistakes of the past)

I know that I did repeat the same statement several times with variations, but it is as far as I can get.

Also: If something prevailed throughout time, against all odds, then that's pretty impressive to me.
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Thx for sharing this. Really cool. Where I live, I'm pretty sure we don't have a coop...but I want one!
Here is my reply from the discussion 2 years ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11617945

I think they are not testing with small enough particles. In the article, they test with PM 2.5 particles which would be around 2.5 micro meters. However, if you look at the table on page 11 of

http://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/409903O/respiratory-prote...

Potential bio weapons such as smallpox, anthrax, influenza and the hemorrhagic viruses are far smaller than 2.5 microns.

Also, there are probably issues with the sensitivity of the detection equipment. If you look at the table on page 8 of

https://www.ll.mit.edu/publications/journal/pdf/vol12_no1/12...

And at the table at

http://www.siumed.edu/medicine/id/current_issues/bioTable2.p...

You will see that some of the biological agents can cause infection with as few as 10 particles. I doubt that the Tesla equipment could detect a concentration of 10 particles of these sizes.

This article is basically the biological equivalent of the I can't break my own crypto article.

>Bioweapon Defense Mode is not a marketing statement, it is real.

is false. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and the evidence of Bioweapons Defense Mode working is entirely lacking
This is nothing, but good news, I hope it goes well!
Yea, I don't think virtue signaling is always wrong, but I think there is wrong virtue signaling.

A lot of the vitriol on the internet is destructive virtue signaling using holier than thou approaches that alienate people close to your position, this causes division, not unity, and is one of the key issues on the Left - i.e. the Left attacking itself over minutiae as the Right marches on.
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I kinda think WIC and SNAP should just cover diapers like they do food. Kids need both.
A bit too much white on the initial landing screen, need to separate the hello message from the explore work. Maybe separate each project even if just by a line.
Text size changes when you click onto about. However, the image/section sizing and placement is good.
I really like the idea of SSBC, on the other hand, most of it's problems are similar to those of XMPP and which are solved with it. (See, for example, Message Carbons, Microblogging over XMPP, OMEMO for multi-device encryption, etc).

I've tried running Movim and BuddyCloud when they got released, but left me with a terrible, unstable, feature-lacking experience (this was in ~2012). Maybe revisiting the idea of social networks on top of XMPP would worth a few thoughts, given it's now in a much better state.

SSBC is a very interesting idea and solution for sneakernet issues, but it comes with a serious amount of issues on it's own.
All depends on how likely you think it is that self-driving car tech will become good enough for consumer use within the next several years.

If we were well on the way to completing a cure for cancer that uses a certain type of cell phone hardware, maybe that first statement wouldn't sound so ridiculous.
You're not alone. I've tried a few times to dive into rust, but just find something about the syntax jarring. It's not so much bad, it's just unpleasant to look at for me. I'm sure it's a great language, but not for me for that reason.
That sounds like Dijkstra, from EWD498 (1975):

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD04xx/EW...

At least, the "mentally mutilated" phrase is about BASIC. The "criminal offence" phrase was actually about COBOL. You'll note that Dijkstra also had choice words about FORTRAN, APL, and PL/I, which were popular programming languages of the day.

It's tempting to say that Dijkstra was being tongue-in-cheek when he wrote this. I never met him, but based the attitude I picked up from his other writings, I'd guess that if you had asked him he'd have said he was completely serious.

And he has a point. I first learned programming in BASIC, and look how I turned out. (Well maybe I confirm Dijkstra's point. Others will have to judge.) But I do recall a bunch of characteristics of early BASIC systems that potentially led to terrible programming habits: GOTO and line numbers leading to spaghetti code; all global variables; no scope; no functions; self-modifying code (overlays); etc. All of these had to be unlearned at some point.
To be fair, this sample of code includes macro usage (every function call that ends in an exclamation point is actually a macro). The syntax inside the macros is different from normal, legal rust syntax.

Still, I agree that Rust's syntax approaches C++ level of complexity at times. I find that writing actual statements and expressions is simple enough, but writing structs, lambdas, and function definitions requires knowing how to specify types, type bounds (if using generics), lifetimes (if using references), and Fully Qualified Syntax (for referencing types/items in other modules). And that's before actually having to come to terms with the borrow checker.

For what it's worth, once you get over the initial learning curve the cognitive burden goes down. Rust's syntax, to me, is actually visually distinctive enough that it's easy to parse out types, expressions, declarations, etc. from just a quick glance.
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Accurately dropping a flotation device onto drowning swimmers for instance: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-drone-rescue/dr...
No other language forces you to think about ownership and lifetimes the way Rust does. I find the syntax really nice, in the sense that I always know what it is saying. The hard part is not understanding the words, but grasping the meaning. That's IMO what makes Rust harder than other languages that rely on fat runtimes.
This is what I do on Google cloud, presumably the same. CloudFlare for ssl, google Cloud DNS, then a Google bucket. Real simple, real fast.
Maybe we should take that as a sign that announcing every trip to visit grandma to the world just isn't a thing we need to be doing.
I was 30 years old before I realized the only truly effective way to clean myself after anything other than an elusive "hard, no-wiper" is with soap and water. When I think of all the afternoons at work spent coping with the after-effects of bad toilet-paper wipe-outs I cringe.

Anytime I have the privacy to do so, I use a few paper towels and some soapy water and I treat the affected area as if I'm removing a dog's mess from a soft carpet. At home sometimes I'll just jump in the shower. There's no going back to wiping with tissue paper and wishing for the best.
> Technically the 2012 Olympics were held at Stratford

To be pedantic, only some of the Olympic events were held at Stratford. Horse dancing was held in Greenwich, for example, and many of the over-water events were held on Eton Dorney ("bloody miles away from Stratford").
Looks very cool and API is very simple. I'm going to replace my DIY solution in clojurescript with your component. Thank you!
This isn't a black and white scenario. I use AP for probably 50 miles of my 60 mile round trip commute. Here's how it breaks down for me:

In the morning, I leave at 5:30am. There is constant moving traffic at 60-80mph on the first leg of my trip (6 miles). I drive manually, or with AP, and I pay full attention, 100% of this time. If I'm using AP, it's because it's at least as reliable as I am staying in lanes.

I then change interstates. I do this in manual mode almost every time. AP isn't great at dealing with changing multiple lanes quickly and tightly like traffic often requires. Once I'm on the new interstate, I get into my intended lane (second from the left), put the car in AP, and we have what you'd consider stop and go traffic for a few miles. At this point, I open the can of soda I brought. I keep a hand on the wheel, and I pay attention, but I'm more relaxed than I was earlier, when I was doing 60-80mph. At this point, the only thing that I need to do is to respond to someone jumping into my lane and cutting me off (which the AP deals with, but I have more faith in my ability to slam the brakes), or road debris, which at this speed, is not a problem that needs less than a second of response time.

There's a slow steady 40mph drive that I'm in full AP for, drinking my soda and paying attention, and then the traffic thins out, and I notice that I'm starting to lag behind cars, because my AP has a set max of 70MPH from back where the speed limit was 65mph (even though I was only going 20-40). At this point, both hands on the wheel, full attention, and I increase the AP max to 75 or 80, depending on how much traffic I'm in. I switch it back over to manual to make the lane changes necessary to hit my exit, and I'm manual until I park my car at work.

On the way home, I'm in stop and go traffic for an hour. When I'm 'going', I'm going 5-10mph. I am in full AP mode 95% of this time, and I could take a nap at this point, and it wouldn't actually be unsafe. I'm safer with AP than manual at this point, because my attention fades if not and I could drift lanes, or bump the car in front of me. Which I've seen happen to other people countless times, and which just increases the amount of time everyone else is in traffic, too.

Even the most egregious lane jumper can't get into my lane too fast for AP at this stage of my commute. I just set the follow distance to 2, and listen to audio books while I browse twitter or facebook. I look at what's going on out the windshield, but it's virtually unchanging. Like the thousands of people surrounding me, I'm slowly creeping forward, waiting on the 20-30 miles to pass. For an hour and a half.
If you look at the numbers for this site, these days, HN is too popular for it's own good, and it's getting really noisy.

On the front page right now, there are lots of garbage articles, with 500+ upvotes and comments, and any one of them handily enables new downvoters.

Way more people can downvote now, than ever before, and users relish new power. Having a respectful honor system, and some voting ring detection is great, but the truth is, there are a lot more shitty people on this site. What to do about that?
For me it's the most toxic. I quit before they expanded the character limit, but the limited format almost completely annihilates the ability to express nuance. Combine that with everybody else assuming bad faith, it just devolves into people screaming at each other, often even when they agree.
I installed one of these at home. Absolutely superb.
Number 1 is to stop reading opinion sections altogether. Another is to get your main news from wire services like Reuters. This will keep you up to date with the main events. I tend to gravitate towards financial news services as well now, they have an incentive to present things in a factual and unbiased way.
Most of the stuff that isn't selected for inclusion in a history book.
There are lots of products (on Amazon) that are quite easy to add to an existing bathroom.

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_n_1?fst=as%3Aoff&rh=n%3A2...