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> I am in my 40s, love metal and football is also boring. Is there a pattern here considering the audience of HN?

Some of these replies are overthinking it a bit.

If you're in your 40's then you were a child of the 1980's. A time period where metal (in its various flavors) was the dominant form of young white music for those escaping country or Top-40. It was also the period of time in which the Super Bowl emerged as a true cultural phenomenon in the U.S., and the NFL began surpassing baseball in television ratings.
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It seems to me that if the "the majority of modern macroeconomists neither disagree with the Bank of England's explanation" and it's only a pedagogical tool or an historical explanation, they would do well in saying so. Specially to their first year undergrads and in their textbooks.

I have been following this debate for a while and it's only now that we heard "well, of course, we knew it all the time".

>>because central banks fundamentally disagree with MMTers

Maybe central banks disagree but we can't really know, because they are forbidden to buy public debt directly. What is that prohibition but an institutional arrangement? And why are those institutional arrangement in place in the first case? It's true that MMT is deeply concerned about that and it seems pretty relevant to me.

An engineer using Newtonian physics is very aware that is a simplification. Here the situation is the opposite, the physics (the economists) are simplifying away what the engineer (the BOE people) see in the reality, so their theories work.
He wasn't joking: http://www.ioccc.org/2018/bellard/prog.c
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Apple does charge absurd prices but their machines are very long-lasting and robust. Go to a service shop once a year for a full dust cleanup and maybe change of the thermal paste once every 2 years, and your MacBook can hum along for 7-10 years in total, easily.

I am gathering money to buy the maxed out iMac Pro (~$13,100) but in the meantime I have nothing bad to say about the MBP 2015. Occasional stupid bugs do occur of course, like in any OS, but rarer than on my Windows 10 PC, and a restart fixes things which usually never resurface again.

So yes they are expensive. I was a Linux/Windows and Android advocate most of my life but eventually conceded that Apple is simply much more comfortable, predictable and ergonomic (their displays don't tire my eyes as any other display I tried, including gaming displays with 144-200Hz refresh rate) and that I have better things to do with my life than to always do the OS authors' work for them. Much bonus points to them for actual privacy as well.
You know this competition is old when they still use .text files
Achieving 10x compression in a 4kB program+data file hybrid is pretty hard to do.
I understand now, though I would argue that nothing you call "objective" is actually so. These goals you listed are just the formulation of a game, which a lot of Westerners choose to play (though not all global citizens, which already makes your opinions non-objective). We can choose to play any games we want on this planet, and it baffles me that people choose to invest time (the only thing you ever truly invest) into one of the worst games.

It's no wonder that whenever I go back to America or see Americans in my travels I am struck by how utterly shallow and unhappy they seem to be. And the stereotype of the American Smile is already disappearing from people's memories.
It's weird to think of infrastructure/deploy automation in terms of "testing". Yes, you are always testing things, but not always in the "func test" sort of way. There's automation testing, and there's testing of automation, and there's tests that are part of automation. Terratest seems to be the second, but it's the third one I think is most useful.

If you build your infrastructure/deploy automation correctly, you should be able to redeploy your full stack all the time, and when it succeeds, throw traffic at it, and if you don't detect any anomalies, make that the new production service. On the detection of anomalies you simply move the traffic back to the previously deployed incarnation (or re-deploy the old incarnation, if necessary). For sufficiently large systems this gets more complicated as you can't just duplicate your resources, but the smaller pieces that have actually changed can be shifted around.

The idea of a "rollback" is really just "return to a previously known good state", but it's misleading. It was previously good before now. Now things have changed, and it might not still be good. So just as much as you can test newly deployed changes before you make it the production service, you should probably also test the previously deployed changes to make sure they will work again if pressed back into service. So, regression testing for infrastructure, I guess. (You'd do this if you were building a physical product like a network appliance to make sure your old appliances still work with newer software releases, but we rarely think of software-derived infrastructure this way)
Windows 1803 is causing a lot of havoc for Google Drive users.
It has hosed a lot of working configurations.
> I don't want to flip through 1,000 pages in a book to find 1 specific feature I am struggling with right now. I may never find it.

I'd much rather do that than watch a video about it, where I'm forced to scrub back and forth trying to understand the key concept at the speed the presenter is speaking instead of reading a section multiple times (which can be much faster).
There is case law suggesting that jurors can be removed if you suspect they are going to nullify the law.

There is also case law supporting jury instructions against nullification and for preventing defense attorneys from using it as a tactic.

I'd go so far as to say that there is an explicit bias against jury nullification in the courts system.

The wikipedia article is particularly weak on this subject, but the reference list is good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification#United_Stat...
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I live in the suburbs of north chicago. This weekend my 8 year old had a friend ride his bike to our house. They rode bikes up and down our street while our two younger kids tagged along, and they went and played in the creek up the road for an hour. Then they came back and played capture the flag and basketball, then came in and had a popsicle and played Super Smash Bros. At no point did my wife or I talk to his parents, aside from "X would like to come over sometime Saturday, will you be around?"

Apart from the Smash Bros., it could have been a scene from Andy Griffith or something. If it matters, this is from a pretty wealthy area (Michael Jordan's mansion is about 10 minutes up the road from us).
It really depends on the community and its needs. Stable [slowly changing] open source projects (Linux Distros?) certainly exist.
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I had the camera as a kid. Ben Heck did some interesting reverse engineering on the printer, and there's some stuff on Hackaday too if you're interested.
> Also, a commit's author should be judged from his code quality, not from his opinion on random issues.

You say that, but there's been a number of OS developers that have been ostracised and expelled from communities by something they (for example) tweeted. Contributors are rejected to contribute because they don't conform to a code of conduct. People lose jobs over being called out for jokes at conferences (and over calling out said jokes, both in part thanks to internet armies).

So while in theory it should, in practice people will get vetted and judged for their online presence.

In other words, the ye olde adage is still valid; don't be identifiable online. If you're an OS developer / contributor with an unpopular opinion, best to keep that part separate from your OS contributor profile. And keep your real name safe.
The bay area doesn't compare to "most cities" though. There is little tolerance for anyone who seriously expresses support for non-dem candidates.

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2016/12/mapping-how-americas-...
Hence the wave of resignations the week of bonus payouts. People play the game and wait to get paid, knowing if they prematurely signal their departure, the company will reallocate money to those who choose to stay. I'm not saying it's right but it happens.
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They didn't buy the IP for the chemistry for the original Polaroid film though, as Polaroid sold that to Fuji.

That's why there's only 8 instead of 10 photos in a pack, because their chemistry required thicker photos, and the photos take about 30 minutes to self-develop, rather than 30 seconds of original Polaroids or Fuji Instax.
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you are evidently unable to form a counterargument, so i can up make one for you:

It is possible that evolution might have made it so that older people do not have friends, so they die sooner and thus consume less resources from prime-age people. The older people are past their child-making age, so they can't affect future evolution in their favour. It's odd however that people did not complain about this until the latter half of the 20th century , or that men did not escape this fate (since men can have children even at old age).

i do not back this up with any evidence though, since you 'd dismiss it as irrelevant anyway.
There are a lot of weird things associated with the counter-cultural ideas that helped spawn FOSS. To suggest that people can't or shouldn't advocate for acceptance of their conceptual identity is pretty misguided. On the other hand everything shouldn't be turned into some kind of litmus test. I saw nothing at all confrontational in that writing on non-binary genders and in general think that people would be cool with someone deciding that they identify themselves however.

But getting back to the topic on hand, I remember reading about TFS and I thought wow this is really ambitious I wonder who will have the time to actually develop it. Evidently the author of said spec agreed. I do appreciate perfectionist programmers as I definitely tend towards hacking away to solve problems even if I chip the paint so to speak.
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> - content creators on youtube

I only watch ad-free videos from content creators I fund on Patreon. I'm sick of Youtube's shitty advertising - it's as bad as TV when I was young, right down to running terrible political attack ads when I'm trying to take my mind off politics.

> - music

I don't think this is funded by ads. It's funded by VC dollars, since just about every streaming site is losing money right now. More to the point, my musical tastes are pretty eclectic so I usually have to buy Vinyl/CDs to get the music I want.
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It's frustrating, but people wouldn't do it if it didn't work.

You will generally make far more money charging $5/mo forever than you will charging $50 once for identical software. Not to mention the steady cash flow.

An extreme example, but I always pirated Photoshop (as did probably half the people who ever used Photoshop). But now I pay $60/mo for it and a bunch of the other Creative Suite apps. I never would have paid whatever the 4-figure price was even when I was getting paid to make graphics at work. But I'll gladly pay $60/mo to have access to everything now even though I don't get paid for any graphics or video work.
> Let's be honest here, "non-binary genders" is a weird concept to begin with. It's alien and doesn't apply to humans.

It's actually a lot more prevalent in the population than some people realise. It's not something that was made up. For example, odds are, you almost certainly know a few people who are intersex one way or another, but they might not share this information freely with you.

Simply not having XX nor XY chromosomes happens about in one in every 1666 people. Surely you have met at least two thousand people in your life.

http://www.isna.org/faq/frequency
So what happens to all this lava? Does someone haul it away and rebuild the roads, or are those neighborhoods just abandoned?
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A/B testing is a form of markov-chain-monte-carlo experimentation that makes certain assumptions about the landscape it is trying to find the maximum likelihood in. Specifically, it makes the assumption of monotonicity of the likelihood or that the lack of monotonicity is of the same scale as the changes they are likely to make. A/B testing cannot break out of a local maximum of the likelihood function if the assumptions are incorrect.

A complete rewrite of the application from media heavy to plain is far smaller than the typical stepsize used in A/B testing and has some temporal effects on top of it.
Well if you take your kid to kidcreate or something like that then you do pay for the play date!
yeah C sound cool though it could be tricky to implement well
You could also dockerise the development environment. Rather than having people run these things on their Linux install you can just run a docker environment with it already setup. Then upgrades become easy pulls and running them.

I recently moved to using docker for the common development tools and it has made changes a lot easier. I also read somewhere about using DISPLAY for X programs with docker and so now even the IDE can run in one as well. It takes a while to set it up but it doesn't have the overhead of VM solutions like vagrant and with docker-compose it ends up really easy to just have in a git repository making setup just a git clone and docker install and then docker-compose up.
There have been at least 5 major extinction events on this planet. Whilst I believe that taking care of Earth should be our number one priority, is it so wrong if a billionnaire decides to focus on improving our ability to travel into space?

Not to belittle the invaluable work ESA or NASA do but the incredible progress SpaceX has made in just the past 15 years speaks to how little development governmental space agencies have made in the field of rocketry over the past 50 years.

Doing anything in Space is insanely expensive - I for one am extremely glad we have two lunatics (in Musk and Bezos) willing to lose their shirt over it.
Good question! We are in direct competition with MapBox, and they are perhaps our biggest competition just based on data sources we use and goals, etc.

We believe there are advantages, though some apply mainly for specific applications:

- Price: We use tier-based plans and soft-limiting instead of purely "you pay for what you use", this allows for consistent bills, even if your traffic isn't always consistent. Thus it's very easy to see how much it would cost each month, without a fancy calculator and ready knowledge of how users behave.

- Asset Tracking: We do not require $500 / month plus usage to use our maps in an internal or asset-tracking application.

- Goals: We want to build a sustainable, bootstrapped business without the requirements of venture capital, etc. This is a key philosophical difference. MapBox is venture-funded and recently raised again, while we're bootstrapped and don't plan to raise VC money. This allows us to exist by providing a quality service to our customers without the need to grow exponentially or incessantly. (This is not a knock against venture funded companies; we just believe there's more than enough room for both philosophies in map services companies.)
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Old ideas, but they'll still catch people out.

It's interesting to see how well, or badly, the syntax colourization in NeoVIM copes with the various entries.
> There's a flaw in your logic: You assume that everyone keeps using every app they bought forever. If that was the case, pay-once would be unsustainable.

There's also a flaw in this logic: It assumes that all apps require some kind of server provided by the developer in order to run.

Once upon a time, standalone software was standalone and could run in perpetuity without requiring anything more of the original developer. It's still entirely possible to write software like this, there's just a trend away from it due to the prevalence of always-on internet connections and the ease of keeping some of your application server-side as a form of copy protection.
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> There are no ads without tracking.

I can definitively say you're wrong because I saw a billboard on my way to work today.

Also, in the early internet days tracking was referred to as spyware and security software would uninstall it from your machine.
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Funny, the compiler seems to have a hard time with it. Running it OTOH is instant.
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This article actually makes me feel better for living in the US for almost a decade, now in my mid 30’s, having less real friends here than fingers in my left hand.
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Holography does this though with much stronger lights than regularly experienced.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holography

Why not just take this idea to its analog completion - does an analog light amplifier exist?

Some google searching says the answer is nay. I guess analog amplification of electricity is a lot simpler than light because of quantum effects.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170105123047.h...
Ha ha, I've also cursed Wired for all their ads, particularly at the beginning of the magazine. Them and the subscription card, though at least it can function as a bookmark.
It's better cost wise for heating for now. Gas prices have been at a historic low for the last decade or two. That doesn't mean it will stay that way. And it emits CO2.

In areas with cheap and clean electric heat (like, say, Quebec with its massive hydroelectric sources and relatively cheap electricity) electric heat really isn't bad at all. And it's potentially more future proof for the addition of renewable electricity sources later.
One point which I haven't seen made here is that perhaps economics is a reductionist approach to something which cannot be easily modelled in a reductionist way.

Nobody here expects everything we know about Physics to become largely irrelevant tomorrow. But deep within is the assumption that the underlying models we build today will hold true tomorrow. An electron will always be an electron.

Now let's look at biology: a frog today may not be a frog two-hundred years ago. Microbiologists are finding new species that simply didn't exist 50 years ago. But there's a shred of something fundamental there at the physical level: a reaction involving biological building blocks can be deemed to be as true as hundred years from now; whether or not organisms develop more stable sets of chemical reactions.

Psychology and social sciences are changing because people are changing and their environment is changing. Pretty much the only thing that remains constant is that people have fundamental needs. As people become aware of cognitive biases, and more are exploited by them, suppressing them becomes not just an issue of utility but of survival.

Yet somehow, we expect economics, which in many ways is the study of a very dynamic system which builds on social sciences where the underlying rules are changing and the very reductionist terms we are using are changing, to yield results which are accurate and work at all times. Can we build better macroeconomic models? Almost certainly. Will they be valid in 100 years time? That depends.

If we think to Physics, Thermodynamics gives a field that seems to be universally true -- if you come up with a model that violates the second law of Thermodynamics, it's fair to say your model is wrong. It doesn't matter if you're studying distant stars or subatomic particles. At the same time its predictions are somewhat vague -- we can derive upper and lower bounds on things, and say with an almost certain degree of belief what cannot happen and use this to derive models that are consistent.

We don't seem to have much like that for economics, although if we focus on resources we can clearly see there is a physical upper bound. That seems like it might be a better direction to approach the problem in than from the end were even the idea that employers employ people to create more value than the money they pay them cannot be taken to be universally true.

Of course, nobody has any incentive for denying most Physics, with the exception of the 2nd law of thermodynamics -- because there is immense money to be made by charlatans promising infinite energy in exchange for lots and lots of money. Given economics deals with matters that can have direct implications for those with lots of money, we would be naive to not assume the same to have happened there.
I mean, Chrome Dev Tools uses that key combo as well, I wouldn't say it's ripping anyone off.

Vim and emacs, as well as other editors through the years have had multi-line editing in various ways. Sublime didn't rip them off when it did the same thing.

Editors sharing ideas is only a good thing, it's not a zero-sum game.
Ah, this seems to be the root of the problem: trying to min/max life. This is a problem I associate with a purely empirical/rational worldview, which is the current societal norm and is therefore encouraged as the ultimate.
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Most inverters don't work without connection to the grid. If you flip the fuse or meter box to go "off grid" the inverter will stop working that very same second.

You can however get expensive inverters than do work of the grid, but they are, as mentioned, expensive compared to a simple grid-tie inverter.
Around here, they have dismantled and removed bike racks at schools because kids are no longer allowed to bike to school.

Too dangerous and the school does not want any liability for a kid being struck and killed.
I think CTFs are like escape rooms but without the fake connection between the challenges. Still as fun to solve with friends, but there isn't that "fake" feeling that would ruin it, like it does ruin escape rooms for me.