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almost everyone is breaking the law

What is your estimate of percentage of cyclists who obey traffic laws? (stopping at stop signs, right side of the road, off sidewalks, etc. as applicable for a given jurisdiction)
I think if you are interested in research what matters at the end of the day is that you do something that interests you (with a professor that shares your interest and is willing to take you on).

If your school has a research group where you could potentially envision yourself, then why not? You could even join as a BS student and by the time your program ends, you'll have a bunch of research experience.

Alternatively, changing schools for MS in general I think is a decent idea for some, as the change of environment can be beneficial for productivity.

Good luck!
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I've been looking into the question for some years. The "doomer" literature (not all of it is inherently dismal) is ... far more substantial and substantive than is generally credited. That is not, however, what he's generally remembered for, that would be cost-benefit analysis

E.J. Mishan is an example I've only just discovered. He was a University of Chicago trained economist who questioned the growth mantra beginning in the 1950s.

Leonard Silk, also an economist, ran a fascinating column in The New York Times from the 1960s - 1980s, and addressed Mishan several articles. This one, from 1972, I'd submited to HN without traction a few days back:

"Economic Analysis: Dangers of Growth (1972)"

https://www.nytimes.com/1972/12/20/archives/growth-vs-enviro...
Pinker tells happy stories.

He also fails to account for the mechanisms, and limits, of progress.
"Killing prisoner for organs" is click-bait.

Whether it is OK arresting and killing Falungon believers is a different story.

They are only harvesting from dead bodies here. Seems there are countries where you donate your organs automatically if you die in an accident.

Not to say executing for profit is not a possibility.

PS. In China donating organ is considered taboo traditionally.
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You're correct that I should have added the disclaimer "if this is true" to my comment. A quick Google search before I made my comment seems to indicate that it is true, although the government claims that they stopped this practice on January 1, 2015 (which could be a total lie). Regardless of whether it's still going on or not, they seem to admit that they at least used to do it. The people involved in either allowing or carrying it out are nothing more than monsters. The fact that they may have bowed to public pressure to stop this does not change that.

> So maybe resist the temptation to feel too righteous, living in "gods own country" because your politicans seem a bit nicer than others.

I said nothing about god in my comment. I simply meant that I am grateful to live in a country where our biggest fears fall far short of worrying that we will be carved up for parts by our government.
How do you propose achieve that for households with more than one person going to work outside their home? That requires being highly selective when accepting job offers and being willing to move and possibly quit jobs often.
(1) Emphasis on can be. You can't (well they can, but they shouldn't; the undesired consequences are evident) ban things on the basis of can be.

(2)
> fully fledged gambling lunacy
> loot crates

OK, way to blow it out of proportions by these unfounded assumptions. Let me tell you something: gambling isn't inherently bad. It becomes a problem if you keep repeating the behavior despite its negative consequences. For further information, please consult https://learn.problemgambling.ca/eip/assessment.

(3) Are you also against the purchase of Pokemon cards as 1) you don't know anything about the cards prior to the purchase and 2) it can be an extremely addictive and corrupting activity?

Oh, and speaking of what can be an extremely addictive and corrupting activity: daily gaming! It can lead to social isolation, bad grades, et cetera. How about we ban games? Let's ban games, let's ban computers, let's ban the Internet because some lousy parents are unable to raise their kid. Are you really to unable to see how ridiculous it sounds?
Given that my 'nuanced position' was included in the same post as my 'overbroad claim'

If it is, I apologize. I've re-read your first post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16928822) a number of times and sincerely cannot find it.

you're apparently now seriously arguing that there is no difference between handful of guys in a start-up making a decision to ignore regulations for profit and a policy decision made by a body of democratically elected representatives

I think there's a difference inside the territory controlled by that democratic body, but not outside. If a democratic country decides to dump pollutants on a river that goes to their neighboring country, is that action less wrong than if a company decided to do so? In my view, not really.
> but the alternative is to invest billions into poorly designed public transport

Why can't we have well-designed public transport? Edinburgh manages to do this, so I'm sure other cities could if they wanted to. The basic ideas are bus lanes and lots of high-density housing.

This would also have advantage of making housing affordable.
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> From something with a ton of mutability, scope confusion, exceptions serving as GOTOs for business logic - into scala pure functions. The python was inscrutable with a team of people treating it gingerly. The scala is easily refactorable and each time we take another crack at it, it shrinks into smaller and smaller code (and not by using crazy Scala) and I suspect that much of the confusing hairy complexity will disappear.

I have noticed the same thing with my Haskell code. In other languages with side effects, I often tend to write much more complicated procedures, with cross-cutting concerns. Haskell forces me to break it down more.

Maybe FP really is harder to reason about (and write), and that's why people have to write it much more clearly in more manageable chunks. But paradoxically, the net effect is positive, it's actually what makes it easier to reason about (and read) in the end. (And the separation of side effects makes a big difference here.)

> I don't really know how to quantify this

I was thinking about this. Maybe there should be some information theory framework that could capture complexity of functions (including side-effects). For example, compare how many bits of information enter on input, how many bits are potentially different on output. Then you would have a measure of complexity of individual functions.
On the other hand a friend of mine bought a nice apartment (70 sqm +) with basically no mortgage and very low interest and was paying less than 1k including utilities.

It probably depends a lot on the city area. It's true that this apartment was not really in the best neighbourhood, but the metro was close and the apartment was awesome.
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Same. I think attaching deadlines and someone to keep you accountable may be the only cure.

This is the pain of actually loving this field. Your job is to do productive stuff, but you just want to study those cache-oblivious ds.
> Clubs like those, especially at a public college actually ARE protected by the 1st amendment.

In UK universities they have no such protection, and similar clubs have been shut down.

My alma mater, University College London, banned the Nietzsche Society: https://thetab.com/2014/06/03/thus-spake-the-su-14611
Alarm clocks are evil. The working conditions for engineers are pretty dumb in a lot of places. Force engineers to come in by 8-9am in order to have a 'scrum'/paycheck validation meeting. Sit around tired most of the day and then rush to have something for tomorrow so you don't get fired(no reward for doing well, only reprimands if poor updates).

And while this is happening you are signing away all rights to any recurring income or royalties.
For experienced engineers at a funded startup you can be way above €60-70k.
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Why did you write that blog post to begin with? Sounds like a terrible issue to write about if your goal is positive PR.
> T2 are awful for production websites with sustained high traffic

I mean, their entire purpose and value proposition is explicitly based on not needing to support sustained high traffic. This is not something that needs to be learned the hard way. You don't even need to RTFM, you just need to read the first sentence of the first Google result snippet:

> T2 instances are low-cost, General Purpose instance type that provide a baseline level of CPU performance with the ability to burst above the baseline.

In fact, they are even explicitly labeled as "burstable performance instances" as you suggest in the first five words of the first paragraph of the first Google result for "aws t2": https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/#burst
I can imagine someone making the claim that intentionally running a recently red light is not actually dangerous

There is a definite portion of drivers, maybe 5%, who will not be the first car to miss a light under any circumstances. Period. Even if it means entering the intersection a full 5 seconds after the red. Even if it means completely gridlocking the intersection. Even if it means forcing a cyclist, pedestrian, or vehicle that has the right of way to take evasive action.

Every so often, several such drivers come in succession, and the resulting stream of red-light-runners looks like something out of a film shoot.
Yeah, the headline is just a lie.
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> the collapse of civilisation will, of course, affect tech

I've been wondering about that for a few months. I am fully aware that the current organisation of the world will come to an end in like, ten to fifteen years; is it wise for me to continue working with computers, which I love, hoping they will still be of some use after the collapse of civilisation?
Out of curiosity, I'm wondering which lights (1850K) you are using. The closest thing I could find was this SCS Amber LED

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B018S18860

If you are traveling and don't have as much control over the lights, you can get a Zebralight red flood headlamp

http://www.zebralight.com/H502r-Red-AA-Flood-Headlamp_p_124....

The XP-E emitter is pretty old-school tech, but they make great products.
You should take a walk in Venice. All the problems you mentioned plus the peculiarity that there's only the "sidewalk".
You are drawing conclusions based on arbitrary facts. GCJ has always been going against the grain both politically and technologically, no wonder it ended up where it did. There are strong efforts and weak efforts. The fact that many projects fail doesn't mean that it's a bad idea for this specific project to be maintained by a community.

And no, "community" doesn't necessarily mean unaffiliated developers, they can be affiliated, like I have already stated many times, and still collectively considered a community. Open source can be a collaborative effort by major players or it can be a hopeless attempt to catch up with such. For the last 15 years or even more, it has been a common practice to commoditize technologies that are widely used across the industry. Java fully fits the above description, so maintaining it by a strong community effort would be a natural fit. Actually, from what I know, it almost works like that right now, we just need to take the licensing power from Oracle's greedy hands and keep the process the same as it is.
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Where else? I can think of several places. Vegas is the first that comes to mind. But I'm guessing that like most "punters" and participants in a bubble, you perceive the downside risks to not be equivalent...
Social scientist != actual scientist.

Read up on current state of the data and modeling done on oceanic thermocline, it will cheer you up.
Thanks for the link!

"While crypto-async is a fraction slower per call than crypto (possibly because of the overhead of interacting with the threadpool), for buffers larger than 1024 bytes it shines and provides N-cores more throughput. crypto-async achieves up to 3x more throughput."
Do not be mislead, MySQL is the PHP of the database world.

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When someone suggests an enterprise CMS, the usual best case outcome is to go back to the requirements analysis and remove enough requirements until an enterprise CMS is not required.

I've done my fair share of work on the things over the years and the outcome has never been the best one for the organisation.
Here's the part that I don't get (and I would be afraid to admit to this in a non-anonymous setting among my peer group).

I completely accept the evidence and the consensus that human action is causing global carbon levels and therefore temperature to rise. The part I don't get is what exactly happens to the planet, our species and other animals given say, a 2C rise by 2200. Say that's a 2 metre sea level rise. Ecosystems and societies are pretty robust to that level of change over 200 years. There would be very bad effects on some low-lying coastal cities, and the areas of the earth that are productive for different kinds of agriculture and habitats would change.

This is bad and we should work to avoid it, but I think that we lose credibility when we speak of the end of civilisation, or even major threats to our normal way of life globally.
>I find that when I am in rural areas, I sleep like a rock.
>I think it has as much to do with sound as light.

You are an exception I believe (if you normally live in the city), I live in the country and I am used to it (and conversely I have sometimes some issues when sleeping in a city, mainly due to traffic noise, but not only) but when some friends come and stay, often they are disturbed by the thousand little noises of animals, birds, etc., particularly in the early morning in spring when the birds start singing around 5 A.M.
Sure... As soon as every project on github audits every line of code in all of their dependencies.
>"If a car could've avoided the accident"

That's a pretty crucial distinction from strict liability, and is much closer to what we have in the US (at least on paper, you have a duty to avert a collision if you can, regardless of right of way).

Unless you mean the most trivial sense of "you could have avoided the accident by not driving."

"Needs to watch out for" is quite different from "is always at fault if it collides with."
The salaries for software engineers are typically 70k-100k USD.

Are they? Most jobs I see seem to pay in the 40-50ksek month bracket. Don't think I've ever seen a 'normal' software engineering job paying over 60ksek. But admittedly it's been a couple of years since I was actively job-searching in Stockholm.
Care to explain what's new in 5.0 regarding library management?

I'm considering rolling out a standalone library (package) management for Kicad re-using infrastructure from Haskell (stripped down Hackage + Stackage servers). This way there would be a versioned repository people could upload their libraries to and from your own project you can depend on these libraries. Stackage would then create a snapshots of these so even stuff built years ago can still find correct version of Kicad and libraries.
You could try going round the clock, instead of trying to set things earlier, push your fall asleep time later and later until it gets round to 10pm.
I had a friend from Hyderabad who came here to the Bay Area, and his first major purchase was a motorcycle. I asked him if he had one back in India, and he replied that riding a motorcycle in his home region would be suicide.
Yes, my point is that his emphasis on the positive side is an outlier.
I wish they published Ink scripts for their games (especially Sorcery series), I've beaten them numerous times but the games are so complex that it's basically impossible to go through all branches. Even if I tried I couldn't replicate some of dialogue and that's in a game that always allows you to undo everything!
I don't even have an alarm clock. I let either kids or birds wake me up. Love being a remote tech worker!
What's the benefit of allowing lootboxes? They're invented by business as a new way of attracting gamblers. Why shouldn't this be regulated or banned? Why is the burden on the general public to try and not be susceptible to gambling? It's pretty proven that various people are.

> Apparently children are oppressed by their parents

A discussion can be had without words such as "oppressed".
I’m not sure... Any actor in a commercial technically falls under that definition.
You've omitted the immediately preceding qualifier: "if something can’t be resolved quickly on email, suggest a meeting or simply walk to your colleague’s desk to confirm a plan."

The party sending the email has already 1. signalled importance and 2. your own filter has indicated your agre,ent.

If 1. was in fact false, there's the (perhaps remote) possibility that the sender(s) will come to realise that "send email" corresponds to "I will be interrupted in return".

As an organisational norm, this is likely a Good Thing to cultivate.
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This reads very much like an ideology first, evidence second piece.

How on earth is it bizarre to make neighborhood roads worse to drive on for commuter traffic? And defunding public transport?

You can have a debate about these things, but calling it bizarre betrays the sort of "reasoning" that is dominated by an ideological anti public-anything bias.
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I dont really understand how those stats would help the company. Can anyone enlighten me? I only have a cursory understanding of how student loans work - students buy loans to pay college fees and stuff right.
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Like with much in law things exist in an context. In order to compare physical card packs to loot boxes one has to first figure out the market size of each.

So I took a glance doing a few Google searches and it seems that physical card packs has a global market of a few billions. The number varies a lot since some of the data include card trade as well as pack sells. One data point argued a 450 million from news packs and 3 billions from card trade, specific for sport cards. For loot boxes I would estimate the number to be around 100x of that, give or take. For every $10 in the past there is $1000 dollar being spent on virtual packs.

It seems reasonable to me that a government body might not care too much about a $450 million industry, but do care a lot when it is a $100 billion industry.
At the time, Austro-Hungarian empire controlled a big chunk of Eastern Europe.

So they both have schnitzels, though the Austrian version is veal and the EE version is pork.

In the end, it is a variation of Italian dish.
The thing is, I didn't see anything new that made me wish to use it. I just saw new part to the interface that seemed useless to how I use gmail, so I went back.
Disgusting indeed. Way to make the library pointlessly Linux-specific by using epoll(), Linux NiH nonsense and actually worse than the excellent kqueue().
From what I recall, I liked the other tiny toys as a kid, and didn't care for the figurines. OTOH, I would describe the quality of the current toys as "shitty", yes. Perhaps it's just the perspective?
It's much more than a 2C rise and that will happer much faster than 2200. Even 2C is half an ice-age in magnitude, and it would be happening much faster.

You can read my attempt at a primer, which details some of the consequences here : https://climate.btmx.fr
Keep a log or diary of what you're spending time on.

I'm a fan of the Bullet Journal model. Paper & pen, but organised.

Note your important tasks/goals, and actual time allocations.

Learn to say "no" to the trivial, or, better, structure your environment such that they don't present themselves.

Also recognise the limits to, and robbers of, yor attention and focus.

It's still a struggle, but most of us can manage some improvement.
As a non-american, I'm baffled that you have contradictory federal and local laws at all. (With no clear precedence rules defined and - since the current administation - both federal and local agencies determined to enforce their respective laws)

Honestly, I think this contradiction is a bad example to show a "rule that can be broken with no negative effect" and more a hint that you guys have some bigger problems that should be addressed.

But if you do take it as an example, I think it comes down to who decides a rule is "non-essential". In the marijuana case, it was itself decided by an established and elected body (the state administration) yet in the OP's case, it was the the rule-breakers themselves who decided that rule is OK to be broken.
That's the thing. I fully believe that the Chinese government might harvest organs after execution... But if they stopped that practice because of foreign pressure, they wouldn't necessarily stop executing members of Falun Gong because they consider any form of religion with a cult of personality to be a threat.

Pragmatically, if those people still get executed anyway because of their religion (and that's unlikely to stop), is the world a better place if they harvest organs and save some people with them or is it a better place if they throw away those organs and don't save anyone with them?

The only argument against that I can think of is that the profit made from organ reselling could cause more people to be executed than would normally be the case but I wonder how true that is.
You can transform purely functional programs into imperative programs trivially.

And you can transform imperative programs into purely functional programs, e.g. by using immutable arrays to represent the heap, etc. (basically, you could write a CPU emulator in Haskell, and let your program call it).

So from a theorem proving point of view, both paradigms are equivalent.
Cuisines are like languages: all are good when you understand them, the difference is that some are easier to get into (e.g. Italian food or English language) than others. They evolved slowly over the centuries and what was not worthy would not stick.

When you arrive in Poland its cuisine can be very difficult to get used: pierogi (dumplings with potato or cabbage inside.. hardly ever meat!), sour soups, overcooked cabbage.. but then you start to discover sauces, creative salads, breaded fried stuff, sophisticated cakes and you realize that their cuisine is just as good as others.

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