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Ok, so counter-counter point. I was recently in the market for a laptop. The one I bought has a USB-C port and two USB-A ports. Because it's a Thunderbolt USB-C Port, it even has a little lightning bolt printed next to it on the chassis.

Previous laptops I've owned with USB-C could charge over it. This one can't. The model with the smaller screen can, but not the 15 inch. The slightly different model can, but not the one with the discrete graphics card.

Why is this? I assume it's because charging the laptop at full utilisation requires over 100W. But really I have no idea.
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Count me amongst those who prized the patina.

A significant number of people in the arts world decried the cleaning - some even petitioning the Pope to halt it.

Whilst skillful, part of the appeal was the passage of the centuries, like shoes or furniture acquiring a deep marbled appearance after decades of cleaning and waxing, or the statue on the Charles Bridge given a unique luster, like a spotlight on a few scenes, by millions of hands over the years. It would be almost criminal to either darken the spots or frequently clean the rest of the statue to the same brassy finish.
Does anyone know of a low cost way of getting a Product ID for a commercial product? I've been working on software for an embedded board and am using the USB port as a debug port. It works fine now as a USB serial link, but it would be nice to have our own PID, just not worth $5000 for a single product.
> one helluva badass

Well it's cheap to say now, but I have thought that. :) Not necessarily about this topic though.

I have a friend, who has lived well, but who long ago was raped by her father... and then when she spoke out in her church community, was accused of lying and shunned as everyone rallied around her father, "a good man".

It seems to me there's a middle ground, which is never struck precisely but often close enough, between the extremes of gaslighting and victim-mongering. And exactly where that middle ground lies changes over time.
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I had LASIK and PRK.

Dry eyes? Check
Can’t see shit in low light? Check
Weird itchy feeling? Rare, but check

It’s still a huge improvement over glasses or contacts. I probably ha e 5-10 years left before I need glasses again due to old age but I’ll enjoy it until then.
Birth rates are highly likely to be tied to house prices in some way, though if it is causal, and which direction causality flows in, if it is, is probably not knowable. All you really need to know is that larger families compete with smaller families for real estate. But smaller families generally have more available income and they need less real estate. Those facts alone are bound to link birth rates to housing costs.
Yes, yes it can. It's 5k for a Vendor ID. That's like a /16 subnet allocation in IPv4, which could easily cost far more than than a Vendor ID.
I agree. I'm coming around to some of his view, and no longer see him as quite so extreme. Still think he weakens his message with the alternative language, like "used" instead of user etc. Always have.

The difficulty of course is right now it's nearly everyone at it. Too early to say if GDPR will make an appreciable difference, though it seems like it should. So that leaves few choices outside of gnu everything or layers of hacks and browser extensions. I have hope that many services will start being much more careful in what tracking and data they actually need after recent events.
Your comment appears to contradict itself. Using the term "full self-driving" implies that you'd recognize something short of that as "partial self-driving". Such a system would presumably have some, but not all the features of a "full self-driving" car.

In any case, it's quite easy to imagine a plausible meaning "some self-driving features": perhaps these features enable the car to drive itself [without oversight] in some, but not all situations (<i>e.g.</i> on highways, but not in cities).
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Having been both clinically depressed and just generally negative and miserable, I think there's a large difference. This article addresses the latter of those two situations in a way that resonated pretty deeply with me. Clinical depression is drastically different and should be treated more as a disease than a state of mind. I don't believe this article comes across as suggesting its conclusions can treat clinical depression but rather are the symptoms of highly negative and miserable states of mind.
What about it? The perpetrators at Abu Ghraib believed the tortured Iraqis deserving of it. In 2012 Lynndie England said, "They weren't innocent. They're trying to kill us, and you want me to apologize to them? It's like saying sorry to the enemy."

Abu Ghraib doesn't boil down to uniform and a prison setting. The perpetrators believed themselves to be in the right and Iraqis to be deserving of punishment before they were ever placed in the prison setting. It doesn't map onto the SPE at all, despite countless commentators drawing comparisons between the two when the Abu Ghraib story broke.
> People can be unhappy without being mentally ill.

Sure. But some people feel unhappy all the time. Sometimes for years, sometimes for their entire life. In their case, it is a mental health issue. It's not something they can just shake off when they hear the age-old "you're depressed because you choose to be" argument by a smug author. This approach is outdated and it doesn't work.
That's a good idea, but only for those who need to have full XCode installed. If you only have XCode Command Line Tools installed, I think it's better to just use console vim + tmux.
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If I could go back in time I'd run the earliest Bitcoin miner on my PC for as long as it generated coins, and then sell them at the height.

I know a few people who mined a few coins for "shits and giggles" and then lost/deleted them before the whole cryptocurrency thing really started going because they thought it would never happen. I might have had some at one point too.
Absolute resources available to raise children goes up though.
Of course it would. But the truth is that while 65000 is a small number cryptographically, it's still a lot of throwaway toy open source projects.
Please could you explain a little how that helped you?
This is a false assumption about how social sciences work.

Like in other fields, academics are repeating experiments and trying to (in)validate results, including for SPE. [1]

That being said, social sciences != hard sciences in the sense that there are no hard laws because humans are unpredictable. That doesn't mean social sciences are worthless, but it does require that one approaches them with a different mindset than e.g. math or physics.

FWIW, I do agree that your criticism regarding the gap that exists from publication to repetition / validation has made many famous. Bombastic-sounding results -> headlines -> public perception -> increased social and academic status of the researchers. By the time the results are repeated and (in)validated it is often too late to reverse that. I don't think that pattern is unique to social sciences however - I keep seeing article after article contradicting each other - e.g. regarding drugs, food, fitness, etc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment#Sim...
I recently refactored my fork of the linenoise library (written in C) from char to wchar_t. C being statically typed made it easy to find all the places that need to be updated if some declaration is changed from the one type to the other. The editor gathers the compiler errors and takes you to all of them. The result was broken though. For instance, in some places I replaced strcspn (complemented span) with wcsspn instead of wcscspn. It has exactly the same signature. This was caught by testing all the edit operations, and a very careful diff review.

Type checking only works when you make a mistake which breaks a type signature. You can call entirely the wrong function with the right type signature. You can call sin instead of cos, or forget to take a log of something. You an swap the arguments to a subtraction: both are floats. Think of all the numeric code in which lots of variables, arguments, array elements and so on are all of the same type. Or string code in which there are numerous strings. Or OOP code where you have two or more objects in the same scope of exactly the same class, which can get mixed up.

The idea that you do not need a comprehensive test suite because you have static types is horribly wrong.
Why doing both? I was considering PRK as it seems safer than LASIK.
Thank you. It's depressing how nobody here is observing the obvious, uncontrolled co-variate in this "analysis": per-capita income:

https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2016/december/link...

Correlation vs cause is no problem for HN if the correlation in question confirms a bias!
I guess I don't know what I am talking about.
That snake was trying to tell us something!
$50k -> $45k is still a much bigger impact than $1M to $900k.
Stover did write the Star Wars prequels, but I don't hold it against him (too much). Abercrombie, Morgan and Scalzi all like his stuff. Caine is pretty much straight Crowley.
It's true that it works. And the other person usually doesn't dread the task themselves because it's about helping someone do it.
I've experienced similar feelings, especially when faced with work that requires, as you say, "tediously assembling all of the glue".

Coding is most fun when you're working on solving a problem. Tedium is not problem solving, so it's hard to get excited about it in the same way that one may be excited by tackling an unsolved problem or undesigned architecture.

I would say, draw up all of the steps of your process, from most abstract to most detailed, and try to turn the work into a process more similar to putting together a set of Legos according to very specific instructions rather than going through a large but trivial mass of work.
Yes, there's a weird way that when we label people, it changes the legitimacy of their condition. It's broader than just how acceptable it is to complain. Other examples are depression and autism. If you're diagnosed with one of those, it transforms you from an unpleasant person that nobody wants to be friends with to someone deserving pity, support and/or respect.

I think there's some kind of value in this. Everyone's got a bit of psychological disorder and for normal people, they can use willpower to bring themselves into a good state. We ridicule those who fail to do that as a kind of motivation to sort themselves out. But with an actual disease that has a name or a distinct experience like rape, we think they're beyond being able to help themselves and no amount of insults is going to be any use in making them feel better.

This attitude also seems to be behind the competing ideas of alcoholism being either a disease or a behavior. If it's a behavior, you can blame the alcoholic for failing to sort themselves out, but if it's a disease, maybe they're truly helpless.
It's interesting to contrast this with yanny / laurel / dress color
I'd like to see some more statistics backing this article, as well as real evidence. Who are the doctors that these people are seeing? Is the survey only finding the population of dissatisfied people?

I got PRK a year ago and have zero issues, and I've also never been sent a survey from NYT asking if I have problems. I know 11 people who got LASIK/PRK and no one has reported issues yet.

There's no way a procedure that causes issues in 50% of cases would be legal in the States.
Factory images improved and then surpassed Cyanogenmod in a whole bunch of ways.
Have other countries solved the problem? Which ones?
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What evidence do you have that significantly more than 10% of engineers earn more than $400K?

Are you talking software engineers? Software engineers in the Bay Area? Software engineers in the Bay Area working for a subset of companies?

I suspect the reason this 'debate' exists is that we are not specific enough with our language to make our meanings clear to one another. :)

To me it's difficult to tell whether the commenters here are disagreeing over the objective reality of compensation distributions or the subjective reality of what counts as 'normal'.
Oh, it's that easy? Just walk on over to wall street and make a fortune? Are they just handing them out or something?
I put this together because I found navigating the GraphQL ecosystem, with all its tools, to be confusing. I thought it'd be helpful, especially to newcomers, to see how the pieces fit together, and to list all* the tools in one spot.

* Except the ones I missed, of course :)
There is a point not addressed here. Some tasks are distasteful by nature, like cleaning manure out of horse stalls. It’s disgusting but I don’t have a problem with it. Other tasks are neutral by nature but infuriating by their very existence. Taxes fit into this category, even when owed a refund. Any kind of job/school application or process that takes a lot more of my time than the person who will evaluate it. I know that negative thought will come, and I don’t want to have them. Also, there are arbitrary decisions to be made that are irreversible and can have huge negative consequences if done wrong. These are also avoided. The idea that a task is avoided because it is distasteful by nature is really saying something about the simplicity and inconsequentiality of it.
every time I go into my shop I spend 30 minutes trying to find my safety glasses...then go do something else.
Caveat emptor Mr. Ramirez. Of course you shouldn't trust the seller of the product to tell you all about the product's downside with all the proper emphasis. The information in this article isn't "coming into sharper focus" just now. Stories like yours were already easy to find on the internet more than ten years ago when I investigated this for myself. I visited several gung-ho eye surgeons. Then read enough online to know that there are serious risks of not very uncommon results, especially for those who particularly value their fine vision. Then I spoke to the surgeons about these risks and they were quite open about them and not at all dismissive. I decided not to have Lasik. My brother went ahead with it and regrets it not at all.

No matter how much trustworthiness and gravitas your doctor exudes, and how much they dismiss pecuniary details, they see the evidence of risk through their own strong incentives. You have a duty to yourself to use their advice as just one part of the puzzle.
> This is where working with the right therapist might help.

What exactly would a therapist do? Saying consult a therapist seems a bit like a trope. It isn't within itself an answer.

Simply talking through the mental block as if it is a rational decision isn't particularly helpful, a lot of the bad roadblocks are something deeper than your conscious mind or inner monologue.

For example, there are many people who have read the books, followed the steps, and still struggle daily with these kind of dread task problem that seemingly get worse the longer you avoid them.
A long overdue recession will solve many of these problems
I still have an old phone on which I'd installed CyanogenMod. Unfortunately, it's old enough that LineageOS isn't an option, the only updates were nightlies, and it never got past KitKat. About the only use case I can find for it now is as a SIP handset for my Asterisk box. I might just chuck it into a recycling bin, since it's a 3G handset to begin with.

There's an unofficial LineageOS build for my daily driver, but that, too, is trouble waiting to happen since VoLTE isn't supported, and I visit Michigan often enough to need it; I'm on T-Mobile, and a lot of their rural Michigan coverage is Band 12 LTE-only.
It's marketing BS of selling dreams to both Entrepreneurs and in turn to employees that keeps the boll rolling for VCs. If you are honest you will realize that it's def. designed to take advantage of employees.
My philosophy is if I hate it and it's not worth my time, I pay someone to do it.

Thing is, watch a 'professional' work in the field you dread, and you will quickly pick on tricks of the trade and workflows that really change it to something quite easy (if you find the right person). Then the dreaded task becomes emulating that person, which is a lot easier the subsequent years. (e.g. have spreadsheets set up like them, follow the same steps, etc.)
This is bang on. Looking at the graph look where Harris County (Houston) and Dallas are.

If the graphs were plotted with increase in population against the change in fertility then those places would be outliers.

Texas zoning and tax on houses work.

The funny thing about housing prices is that a state in the US has handled house prices so well with an economy that is doing well but Texas is often ignored in these discussions.
I had PRK last year. It's awesome.

Dry eyes? Yes, rarely

Sensitive to light? Yes, constantly

Totally worth it
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FWIW, I got PRK laser eye surgery and had 20/15 vision for maybe 6 months. Dry eyes took a few years to go away. Back to wearing glasses again in ~8 years. Stars and lights are now permanently fuzzy at night because my pupils dilation is larger than the surface area of the PRK. YMMV but for me, it wasn't worth it.
".. a healthy amount of skepticism is required .."
What mindset is that, and how exactly is it different?
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Immigration will offset the demographic implosion, at least if current trends continue. But speaking as someone who studied climate science, a temporary population reduction can only be a good thing for long-term human survival. We're above the carrying capacity of Earth for humans, and though we've done a lot of tricks to expand capacity, we're currently putting a large swath of the biosphere in danger.

If there are less people, then pressure for good neighborhoods goes down, and we'll reach an equilibrium. I think it only seems like a ratchet because we're in the middle of a downturn after a 5000 year run of exponential growth.

Doesn't mean it doesn't suck to live in this time in terms of housing -- but in other terms, life is pretty outstanding. The two income thing is mostly new, but then compare the amount of time that medieval women spent on childcare and providing clothing. It's so much better now that they're not expected to spend every spare moment at the spinning wheel.
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Do you suppose you may be suffering from burnout? What you have just described sounds a lot like that.

> What's odd is that I have been capable of nearly inhuman levels of focus in the past.
> It's like a mental block and it's been going on for weeks now. I struggled with this before but powered through it.

These lines signal to me that you may have an unsustainable relationship with your duties.

Some questions will help you reflect ans self-assess how severely you are suffering, or if it is something that can be isolated to your current tasks. Have you recently sacrificed time with family and friends, or scheduled personal leisure time for your duties? Have you sacrificed your hygiene and personal management for your office duties? If you have been unproductive lately, have you seen an increase of unscheduled and unenjoyable leisure and free time? Have you been waking early but still feeling vegetative and sluggish lately, if you are not a consistent early riser?

Back to the task, it depends on how well you understand the problem and how well and accurately time-costed it is. I'll let someone with better experience managing uncertainty in projects reply on that.
I'm a big believer in attacking a big problem after a workout and a good coffee. Also set a time for it. "8 am tomorrow, I'm doing this thing"

After a work out, I can clean the entire house, pumping music in my ears, for example.
You nailed it in a way I could not verbally articulate.
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Seems to me like today's engineer #1 of a startup valued at < $10M should be getting 5% equity, not the 1% of yesteryear.
You're not disagreeing with either the commenter you're replying to or the article itself.
Im now a founder having previously worked in a startup as an early employee and in a senior role as it expanded.

As with many people here I had little faith in options. And now having more visibility as to how share structures evolve this has lessened even further. Despite best intentions as things progress the value of options and non-founder, non-VC held shares frequently take a whack. There is also a whole host of problems including liquidity and tax issues.

Ive have however seen some traditional companies structure early employee incentive in a completely different manor. They leave the cap table for investors and founders and instead arrange either a bonus or a profit sharing scheme that does well for these employees.

This typically works on trust, but Im sure there is a way to formalise it. Either through employee contracts which have a defined profit sharing goals (in a similar manor to a sales persons targets). Or even perhaps through contracts which ensure cash bonuses based on acquisition value are full-filled.

There must be ways to orchestrate it without effecting the finance of the company or complicating acquisition too much. For example, creating a pool of "tickets" associated with future revenue/profit/exit sharing commitments that can then be vested in a manor similar to options.
My grandma had one of these in the den near the pool table.
I think that the US should just use mirror tariffs - where if a country imposes tariffs on our products, our country just imposes the same tariffs on theirs. That way it wouldn't be personal. Countries that take advantage of the US with their tariffs currently in place would need to either suck it up and live with the tariffs or level the playing field.
I had LASEK, it’s incredible. No side effects, and from what I can tell, LASEK has a much smaller risk profile vs LASIK as no flap is cut.

My nyc surgeon is the best. If you’d like an intro, email me.
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Maybe it's because I've been wearing glasses for literally as long as I can remember, but wearing glasses sounds much better than dry eyes and loss of night vision.
I'd like an example or two.
There's also the reproduction crisis[1], if you weren't aware of it already.

When your field can only have less than half of its top papers reproduced in full, something is very wrong with your field. It's to the point where one can safely assume that any psych paper (but especially social psych) is garbage until such time as it's been replicated a time or two.

[1]: https://www.nature.com/news/over-half-of-psychology-studies-...
There's a book somewhat related to this idea called The Two Income Trap. I haven't read it yet, but recently read a good book review of it[0] that discusses the extra competition created by two-income households and tries to vet the book's evidence. It also discusses the related problem that comes from treating "good school districts" as a positional good, causing a negative externality of over-competition and consumption beyond the intrinsic economic benefit of that good.

[0] http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/28/book-review-the-two-inc...
Yeah, this. There is no way that would work.
Appreciate the clarification!

You're right, I don't know what's going on with SF nowadays. I'm interested to learn more though, probably many others would be too.
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