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Great article that reminded me of John Cleese’s wonderful talk about creativity.

> So, here's how to stamp out creativity in the rest of the organization and get a bit of respect going.

> One: Allow subordinates no humour, it threatens your self-importance and especially your omniscience. Treat all humour as frivolous or subversive.

> Because subversive is, of course, what humour will be in your setup, as it's the only way that people can express their opposition, since (if they express it openly) you're down on them like a ton of bricks.

> So let's get this clear: blame humour for the resistance that your way of working creates. Then you don't have to blame your way of working. This is important. And I mean that solemnly. Your dignity is no laughing matter.

> Second: keeping ourselves feeling irreplaceable involves cutting everybody else down to size, so don't miss an opportunity to undermine your employees' confidence.

> A perfect opportunity comes when you're reviewing work that they've done. Use your authority to zero in immediately on all the things you can find wrong. Never never balance the negatives with positives, only criticize, just as your school teachers did.

> Always remember: praise makes people uppity.

> Third: Demand that people should always be actively doing things. If you catch anyone pondering, accuse them of laziness and/or indecision. This is to starve employees of thinking time because that leads to creativity and insurrection. So demand urgency at all times, use lots of fighting talk and war analogies, and establish a permanent atmosphere of stress, of breathless anxiety, and crisis.

> In a phrase: keep that mode closed.

> In this way we no-nonsense types can be sure that the tiny, tiny, microscopic quantity of creativity in our organization will all be ours!

> But! Let your vigilance slip for one moment, and you could find yourself surrounded by happy, enthusiastic, and creative people whom you might never be able to completely control ever again!

> So be careful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb5oIIPO62g

https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/04/12/john-cleese-on-crea...
It turns out that this is true for sighted people only because sighted people have grown up both touching and seeing objects. Someone who was born blind has not yet learnt the skill of comparing the two sensations. (The experiment which demonstrates this is explained in the Wikipedia article.)
Sounds like in part, it is trying to replace the lost moral compass of Chinese society. But centralising moral authority was always a bad idea.
It was Charles VIII the Affable (reigned 1483-1498), the great-grandson of Charles VI the Mad (reigned 1380-1422), who invaded Italy.
You're assuming a symmetry between sight and touch that is unlikely to hold completely.

There is an interesting, if largely anecdotal, paper from the 60s. There may be more recent work. http://www.richardgregory.org/papers/recovery_blind/1-introd...
> I think it's natural to want to live in a meritocracy.

That's a bold statement.

Who defines the goals ? The one(s) who can attain them ?
Funny trivia: the word "meritocracy" is the invention of a British sociologist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Young,_Baron_Young_of_...

In his book "The Rise of the Meritocracy" (1958) he describes a dystopia where everything in a society is decided by using "merit" (intelligence + effort).

For all of those whom use "meritocracy" with a positive connotation, it should be a compulsory read. It's also short and very fun.
Not sure how much ASLR would be relevant w.r.t. genomes and cancer...

Malicious hackers are on the one side very smart (the cancer genesis process is not smart at all), but on the other side they make poor use of evolutionary strategies, mainly because human hackers can't easily spawn "an army of clones of their mind" (cancer otoh is all about evolutionary strategy).

Since the information about "what mutating a codon in a gene does" is not really available to "the attacker", it's as if the whole "address space" is already randomized by default...

The "cancer problems" sound like it's more like being attacked by a really really really dumb hacker, who has access to an utterly insane amount (relatively speaking) of computing power!

(...kind of hard to defend against such an attacker unless you invent modern crypto stuff like hash-signatures, blockchains etc. And our "DNA computer" is not at all designed for these types of math, recoding it to do this would probably be harder than developing mind upload capabilities or superhuman-AI :P Hence not likely to happen.)
Like school! And college! The folks that work there, are the ones that did well there.

Not kidding. Its this circular 'meritocracy' argument that makes for insular, inbred organizations with few creative ideas.
Fascinating idea. Like an internet before the written word. Songs would have been a way to create decentralized ideas that could move through a society in a viral fashion.
Oh sweet summer child. Connections are everything everywhere.
These options are part of the Docker API and the underlying engine implements it as needed. On Linux hosts there is nothing to tweak as bind mounts offer full consistency without compromising performance.
In Docker for Mac it tweaks the consistency settings for mounts that cross the VM barrier with osxfs.

So itnisnsafe to define these in any comoose file no matter where it runs, just need to make sure that the app in the container can actually deal with the consistency level applied to the particular mount.
A WhatsApp group for family members. I use it for the use-case you mentioned. If you have any Indian friends, just ask them to show you their "family group". chances are they might have one and use it too :-).
> And all this has no clear value for survival?

Music very much creates a culture which is important for group cohesion which has evolutionary advantages.
How much time does China left? 10? 20? 40 years? before becoming utterly uncompetitive?
Not quite that dire: The checksum is typically public, where a large set of diverse stakeholders (most of which have incentives aligned with yours) can publically dispute it's veracity, increasing the costs of fraud. Moreover, some of those stakeholders may already be part of your existing circle of trust (either directly or transitively), which increases uncertainty for fradulent sellers.
There's alot of international people posting on hacker news, and alot of them have anti-US bias. They wish China would be the one that takes over US as the superpower of the world. for those people I have a comment

You like posting political views on the internet right? Imagine China is the sole superpower of the world that defeated the democracies of the world. You would be ranked, censored, monitored, caught, jailed, tortured, and killed.
>the opposite must be true.

why?
> The simplified executive line of reasoning, why to rather trust an external entity over their own people, goes usually along these lines: "We do not take advice from our employees. We hired them for grunt work and we only expect them to follow orders. What could they possibly know that could benefit our high-level decision making. Afterall we pay them so little".

It's not always that leadership ignores line-engineers just because they consider them stupid. Even obvious recommendations get tangled into the web of politics and personal favors. Sometimes the 'obvious solution' is also a play to get more power or influence for someone you're opposed to. That factors into how the advice is taken.

Part of the fiction management sells itself is consultants can cut across those organizational boundaries and find the 'right solution'. Sometimes having an 'impartial' voice echoing what others have already said is enough to convince you it's not just someone trying to poach your turf, it's actually good advice.

Further, our tendencies towards tribalism influence this process. We tend not to think of other employees as part of the same group - they are devs, or ops, or product. That builds an 'us vs. them' mentality that's hard to break. Bringing in an outsider tends to unify the group into us (the company/team) vs. the outsider (the consultant). That psychology helps us to justify bitter medicine like our team getting more work (which will help the company).

I tend to have a negative opinion of consultants, but someone pointed this aspect of group psychology to me in the past and it resonated.
"Gentle correction" my ass. There was a degree of condecension here that made Bob's snark understandable.

This is why nobody takes haskellsplaining seriously.
Oh yes, I've had bags delayed and sent to wrong destinations, and taken other people's bags and had my own taken: but they've always found their way back to me. And it's not happened in years since I suppose technology really improved.
>Can you be more specific about these ways you imagine it backfiring?

>[credit can be awarded for] doing exemplary business

Some examples of exemplary businessmen who are justly rewarded under our wonderful system are Mr Trump, Mr Zuckerburg, and the Kochs, who have been awarded outstanding sums of social credit from their efforts in reputable, important businesses.

>allow the trustworthy to roam everywhere under heaven while making it hard for the discredited to take a single step

Horatio Alger has had trouble moving beyond his job at the local Zhongwen-Mart. He isn't able to attend university, or even take public transport to get there, if he were. Due to several traffic fines, a minor drug conviction, and a bad credit score, he has never escaped poverty.

Mr Trump has been the subject of numerous allegations of sexual misconduct, and Mr Obama admitted to drug use--the same substance as Horatio Alger; but since neither convicted, their social credit remains extremely high.

Government is not the solution to every problem.
So far historically (as long time back as we can see) - by FAR the most effective and fair method for defining those things has been the Free Market Economy. (With addition of a few regulations to prevent fraud and corruption.) It's not perfect. But what is?
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Of course the Citizen's Office for this incredibly modern community still uses Windows XP (and Windows 7).
When it was suggested that I stopped reading I stopped reading, because I don't know what exactly will happen if I don't stop reading.
Link to correct url:
https://www.lendup.com/engineering/post/functional-interface...
I've spent significant time in South America and I can categorically say that people are happier and friendlier that the northern americans. Being in a high-crime area doesn't mean you don't have life satisfaction, with your extended family living nearby and your basic needs met, and the fine weather and food.
A couple people have already hinted at it but self-regulating body temperature is a big benefit for crossing into non-native environments.
The worst is when some consultant designer does some journey mapping exercise, dropping half the functionality of the site and disappearing.

My bank recently did this, they decided that “complex” workflows like seeing how much interest you paid or transferring money wasn’t in their top 10 transactions that were journey mapped. The consultant probably took the fancy post it notes with him.
Ask HN: Will GDPR kill junk mail and email spam?
For guitar and musician's hobbyist efforts when you're ready to move up to the higher voltages of vacuum tubes there's AX84:

http://www.ax84.com

Read their high voltage warning.

Remember at one time almost everything was high voltage compared to today.
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From what it sounds like, majority of people don’t have have access to affordable, half decent internet coverage. People are appropriately excited about the prospects for these new satellite nets. It offers a real alternative to status quo, and enough pressure to obligate the incumbent monopolies to try harder. There is a lot of money sitting on the table waiting for someone to come scoop it up. Incumbent Carriers wont be able to flood a market to strangle Spacex like they do with small start up ISPs and Wisps.

Also, I presume Spacex and others will be significantly over subscribing their ‘pipes’. They can take huge advantage of selling the same pipe to business and home users, with different time-of-day use profiles. So you can double or triple or even 10x the number of customers (or available link speed!) in your assumption, all paying $50-$150/mo, since most connections are dormant most of the time. I’m sure we will see simple mechanisms to push the heaviest users back to landline connections, like data caps.

I have toyed with the idea of launching a WISP in Memphis TN area. The city has good cell tower build out, a surprisingly robust dark fiber network, and a few tall and evenly distributed high rises that could to provide great coverage. I was scared away due to the ability of incumbents to our-market me 100-1, and (illegally) dump their services on the market. However, the nail in the coffin for me was the announcement and progression of SpaceX’s internet plans. Sat based internet service is a beautiful business plan if you can control your launch costs and get latency down. Spacex has a high probability of getting it done.
The F9 will be volume constricted not weight. Maybe they will build a bigger fairing, but that has some problems as well.

People are currently think they can send more then 10-20 on one flight.
>> What's more unclear is whether the sugar-like taste of artificial sweeteners affect the body's blood sugar regulation.

How is this unclear... every study I've seen shows that artificial sweeteners are similarly obesogenic to actual sugar. Some of them also spike blood sugar quite a bit.

Several studies have also showed that artificial sweeteners change gut bacteria. One study I can't find right now showed a single dose of sucralose significantly changed gut bacteria composition. Here is an article about this concept from Sci Am https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/artificial-sweete...
Shameless plug: this is pretty similar to my https://filemap.xyz/ in its purposes and in the usage of IPFS and eternum.io, but Filemap kinda uses geographical locations instead of emails to "send" the files.
How sad. Seems like rockets are one of the few things Russia was still good at.

Now the only thing I can think of is their new nukes.
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There are numerous studies showing positive effects of seltzer, and a few suggesting negative effects. But in what world can we compare this to diet soda?
What I read somewhere is that patentability is an extremely important design goal of mobile standards. Everybody who contributes can get a few patents in. It even goes so far that more complicated, worse performing, less energy efficient technologies are chosen instead of better alternatives because they can be patented.

"To promote the Progress of Useful Arts" my ass.
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The webinar must die: a friendly proposal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983
I've bought Swissbit cards from Mouser/Farnell.
Yes, Tab. Exactly.

Which other diet sodas were identified as having "germs that love diet soda"?

The studies show effects for trehalose and saccharine. No diet soda contains trehalose, only Tab contains saccharine.

Any effect from the non-nutritive sweeteners in other diet sodas did not appear in the studies, so they focused on saccharine.

There may be more subtle effects from those sweeteners, or future effects from those sweeteners, but we haven't found them yet, extrapolation from a general principle not withstanding.

"Germs that love Tab" wouldn't draw as many clicks as the current title.
Wrong? That's a bit of an odd question. It's only wrong if the context is, "what is an example of a sound type system?"

Now, there are distinct disadvantages to unsound type systems, but that doesn't make them "wrong". I love Python and sometimes wish I could turn on a switch in the interpreter that made it statically typed, but there is no denying there is a freedom and (initial) productivity boost in ducktyping.
Birds need more food? Where does it say that? Do they have a less efficient metabolism or digestion maybe?
> They wish China would be the one that takes over US as the superpower of the world.

I have literally never seen this.
No guns for you either, Comrade.
Echoing others that have mentioned Adafruit - you can’t neglect the practical side of electronics and Adafruit has some of the best, most practical tutorials, walkthroughs, and resources for much of the digital electronics space. Learn by doing with an Arduino, some lights, and maybe an Ethernet add-on or a sensor add-on.

Pick up the theory and math of EE along the way, and you should be good to go. There’s all sorts of neat things to learn in the analog space or in the op-amp space for those that come from a CS background.
They are not already doing it, they are like SpaceX planning it. The might be a little ahead of SpaceX but we really don't know. SpaceX is playing Starlink extremly secretly and we don't know how far they really are.
To get started, here is what I'd recommend:

- bench power supply

- multimeter

- oscilloscope

- soldering iron

- wireless breadboard and jumper wire kit

- protoboard

- common resistor pack

- common capacitor pack

- Some basic components like 555 timers, flip flops, op amps, leds, variable resistors/knobs, small speaker, etc.

For books, I highly recommend Getting Started in Electronics, Forrest Mims - [1]

Spend some money and get a good power supply, soldering iron, and multimeter. You need an oscilloscope as well but you don't need to break the bank. You can get started without it but you won't get very far once things get complicated. The multimeter is like using print statements to debug your program. The oscilloscope is like using a debugger.

Next is to figure out what you want to make. Things like induction heaters and tesla coils are surprisingly simple to make. You can make a tiny tesla coil known as a slayer exciter using a transistor, resistor, led, and some wire.

[1][pdf] - https://theeshadow.com/files/Forrest%20M.%20Mims%20III%20-%2...
The college-educated are hardly ever long-term unemployed. There will be costs (for one, I felt so insecure that I might not find a job that I'm still anxious). But the main mechanism of "unemployed once, never work again" is unskilled workers who get depressed and so fat they can't even fit into a forklift. Not skilled people finding the labor market somehow unwilling to clear.
I think I saw this Black Mirror episode.
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I will have to listen to that album today, thanks for sharing.

Here's an album that has been very good to me lately: Masayoshi Takanaka - An Insatiable High LP

Hope you enjoy it
This reminds me of the bouba/kiki effect in which there is perceptual cross-talk in auditory and perceptual schemata across all humans. It would be interesting to see if a blind person who became able to see would still label the shapes in the same way.
AlterEgo: a personalized wearable silent speech interface [pdf]
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I've seen a pattern that makes this self-fulfilling. The normal mix of junior/mid/seniors, plus the rush to market, creates a ton of paralyzing tech debt. Then the tech debt itself levels the playing field, so that the seniors actually are only marginally more productive than the juniors.
> I live in an area that is mere miles from Google Fiber but I will never get an option to use them.

In the world of physical fiber connectivity, a "mere miles" could be anything from 100s of thousands of dollars to millions of dollars worth of investment to connect you. Unfortunately. It would only make sense for them to provide service in your area if the infrastructure already exists or there is enough population density to make service profitable.
Gluten free does not mean carb free or even carb reduced.
What it does tend to mean is less processed food and more whole foods.
Use union types. (Which are different from sum types, confusingly.)
Spookyhesunset claimed that bitcoin still looks for a problem to solve. I showed that it did so. Whether its ethical or whatever doesnt matter. There is a huge market, period!
Fair. Thank you, I'd be curious to see what the other side says, what comes out in court.

And yes, that would be a bad joke - added the no pun intended to clarify it wasn't a joke.
Worse, senior folks have to mentor new folks because they are the experts. Then they have to fix the horrible snafus because only they can. They stop do interesting development entirely as these other duties take over their lives. Then there's turnover and they do it all again until they burn out and leave. Leaving only junior folks and a dumpster fire.

And don't get started on how 'agile' fuels this! In a constant panic mode, there's only ever sprints for small fixes and isolated features. Never time to address what's really wrong in a systematic way. So the flames burn higher...
I teach whitewater kayaking, and part of what I teach is the kayaking roll, which involves being underwater with your eyes closed and executing a series of body and paddle movements. No matter how many times someone has seen a video demonstration of the technique underwater, they still are completely spatially disoriented the first few times they try the move. That's because it's completely new to them, and they've never actually had to map the series of physical sensations they experience onto movement without visual cues. I would bet the same is true of blind people: we recognize squares or circles because being born sighted, we have mapped our visual perception onto touch and onto language from an extremely early age. If you never went through that, there's no way you could recognize a square or a circle, because visual information doesn't fit anywhere into your understanding of how you observe space. We don't give kids physical toys just for their entertainment, they're also for building the link between visual, tactile, and language awareness.
Netgear Orbi vs. Google WiFi: Can a dual-band be better than a tri-band system?
Commentary on China's social credit system so often fails to note the many parallels in western societies.

* The West has social credit scoring: money. A key principle of market economies is that accruing money is the just reward for contributing to society. Your bank account is your social credit score - yet we all know that many people get rich without rendering a useful service to society.

* Intelligence agencies keep security risk scores for every citizen. Just like China's policy decisions, there is almost no democratic oversight over how security services assign these scores.

* Credit ratings profoundly influence your life, for example, where you live depends on your ability on the mortgage a bank will offer you. These scores have almost no democratic oversight, just like China's policy decisions.

China is being radically transparent with its social credit system when compared with the West's unacknowledged or under-scrutinised scoring systems.
> Interestingly, fixing these areas in TypeScript has been a fruitful source of new research

That's not interesting. TypeScript did things in way Y, different from the usual way X, and some academics realize they get a free paper out of reimagining TypeScript doing X.
For this to be a good argument you have to assume that the regulater understands all of these things and makes systematically better choices then the people who build the houses.

Or it would require qualifing all materials before being uses. That would increase time before deployment massivly, making new devlopment less attractive. Economist talk about 'permissionless innovation' being incredible important for progress.
You can write the custom lambdas to rotate 3rd party creds.