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I agree. That’s why I favor real offices for doing real work. Still, I occasionally work in close proximity to others. I would not bring along one of these keyboards to such situations and suffer along with my laptop keyboard.
I disagree that mass transit is expensive. If done well, it's the most economic mode of moving a massive amount of people over relatively large distances.

I also don't get what's wrong with walking. For me, personally, it's the best mode of transportation in the 15 - 30 minute range (granted, on a nice day in a city that's made for walking).

To each his own, I guess.
Sure, between two cities. Not so useful for rural-to-city commuting.
Would you rather have peace about something or not? Seems pretty clear to me (which is why I'm a proponent of Stoic practice and CBT).
The lost standing stones of Devon are still hiding from archaeologists
N64 Emulator in VR with JavaScript and WebXR
Ghosting has glided into the workplace
> I disagree that mass transit is expensive

Capital intensive would have been more accurate. And in terms of maintenance, too, it’s more expensive than a road. Its economics only balance above a certain density threshold.
The book Return of the Straight Dope (copyright 1994) has this question "Why do so many public buildings want you to use the revolving doors rather than the regular doors?" After a brief discussion about protecting against loss of air conditioned or heated air, Adams concludes with:

So much for the rationalizations. The real reason you're told to use the revolving doors is so the real estate operators of the world can test your willingness to play ball. Do you follow directions and use the revolving door, or are you one of those independent types who insist on doing their own thing and entering through the swinging version? If the latter, be forewarned: when Donald Trump takes over, you're history.

I thought it was funny at the time.
Yeah it is a hard problem. But given a small amount of FPGA fabric to be used by each minion core, they could probably achieve agnostic IO.

Both Green Arrays [1] and Xmos [2] have a similar arch when it comes to IO.

[1] http://www.greenarraychips.com/home/products/index.html

[2] http://www.xmos.com/
> I often wonder what civilization would be like if adults asked the same question to themselves and then lead a life where they focused on that instead of being pressured into "making a living".

I imagine we'd have an abundance of pilots, and actors and a severe lack of toilet cleaners.
My father was short tempered, very loud, and an unusually large man in stature and presence. Additionally he worked nights, got a couple hours of sleep, and then woke up and took care of my brother and I for breakfast / school before sleeping more. He was not someone to mess with in general, let alone at 630am on a Tuesday.

I think the threat of being screamed at and intimidated made my brother and I two of the most well behaved kids I knew. I would see my friends going bananas and think, “are you guys out of your minds?”

I’m not advocating this style of parenting, and I won’t replicate it, but I can’t deny that the old school mechanism of raising kids was basically “sit down, shut up, or else!” and it made kids much more likely to listen. And the view of children as mini adults who could be useful, if properly trained, has been the default parenting style for thousands of years.
Ah ok, yeah TBH I didn't read the article, but was guessing from the headline this is what they meant since in exponentially scaling problems theres always room at the top (unless explicitly proven otherwise).
One of the unique pleasures of Hacker News is the slightest of smiles caused by someone unafraid to share a feeling that is powerful to them, followed up immediately by an exhaustive and somewhat mocking explanation of how their feeling is grievously incorrect.

To contribute to the conversation, the fast service convenience chain with ‘hot’ ‘dogs’, an electrical and surprisingly loud ‘nacho’ ‘cheese’ squirting device representing a vast achievement of modern engineering, half gallon fountain beverages, and many delightful American locations is called 7-Eleven. No, I don’t get it either, and I hate that I know it. Merely helping international folks Google just what the hell this thread is about, though I wonder if you were missing much without my aid, because 7-Eleven is practically Americana made into a storefront and I’m pretty sure you already know exactly what goes on at one.

Within this audience, they’re known as the place to step over homeless sleepers and incognito buy cigarettes before their morning standup sees them at Sightglass or Four Barrel or whatever.
My phone has the capability of a billion dollars worth of super computers back in the 1980s. Its not sensible to assign any economic value to that. I'm not richer because I have better technology today than before. Trasistors have just suffered massive commoditization and their prices reflect that.
I bought Das because I thought I wanted a better keyboard and remembered that back in the day I loved my mechanical "click" keyboard. It turns out I was wrong. The (brown) switches were waaay too loud for my (and my coworkers') taste and the quality of build was simply appaling given their price tag. Not totally bad, but worse than any "normal" Logitech kbd. I got rid of it after ~5 months.
I agree. What the invisible hand of the market and society at large value rarely align with what an individual values (and enjoys) -- a cosmic joke of the human condition imo.
Sure, I can imagine a world where scooters are as common as bikes. But is that enough to justify a $2B valuation for a scooter-sharing startup?
Mind going further? I read “leveraged” as “debt-funded”, but VCs get their funds from LPs (or from cash on company balance sheets). Where does leverage come into play?
I wasn't referring the experimental physics. I was referring to how we perceive the wold in the absence of physical laws.
If everyone lived in New York or San Francisco, there wouldn’t be any need to construct a bridge in Ohio in exactly the same way there’s no need to build one over the Onyx River in Antarctica.
> I'm not richer because I have better technology today than before.

Why not though?
Are you maybe thinking of the front torque gauge? Thats the only gauge I can think of on the classic Skyline GTR that isn’t common on most cars, but that’s still not a traction circle like GP referenced.
Very cool, I think I will try using this as my standard google drive solution on linux.

One thing I haven't found in your paper is how the software handles conflicts. Suppose I have two or more machines hooked up to the same account, all simultaneously modifying the same file in different ways. What's going to happen? I guess this would be mostly up to the server side and out of your control, but maybe you can point me to a specification on how such issues are handled?
Looks quite worthwhile, thanks! Found this discussing him: https://markmanson.net/ken-wilber ("The rise and fall of...")
My keyboard at work is a 122-key IBM Model F. I bought a relatively expensive adapter to plug it into a modern computer, and I don't regret it at all.

While I know there was a bit of a reboot-project a year or two ago, other than that there really hasn't been anything that quite matches the feel of the Model F, and it's an absolute joy to type on. It's also a wonderful tool to make a lot of noise and annoy coworkers, so it's great on two fronts.

The way I figure it is that I spend a majority of my day typing on a keyboard, so it's worth it to me to have the tool that feels right to me.
I meant the sister/offshoot of LSP:

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-debugadapter-node/tree/m...

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/extensionAPI/api-debuggin...
I understand that, but I think the definition of surprise is too ambiguous to really make the inference. I think that surprise could just simply mean he doesnt know when it will happen- so it could happen at any day at noon. Does he have to be legitimately SURPRISED that he is being hung? It really just seems to me that the person on death row is delusional if he makes the inference that it cant be any day because it has to be a "surprise"
Seconding this. I was amazed at how inexpensive good, fresh food was in the UK when I visited recently.
>It's certainly not cheaper, for developers, to build highrise aparments in the city than upscale tract homes on tiny lots in an exurb.

Why's that? At the margin, at least, it seems unlikely that this is the case - it's probably quite a bit cheaper to add an additional floor to a 50 unit/floor high-rise (when it's being constructed, not after the fact) than to build 50 detached single-family homes in an exurb, for example.

It's true that externalities can be, well, externalized, but that doesn't mean the difference in absolute costs shouldn't be considered. At the end of the day, someone still has to foot the bill.
Prosthetic hand can sense pain using “electronic skin”
Well, today is a national holiday for me but about a dozen of us have to be at work (long story). For the next three hours, short of an emergency situation, we have literally nothing to do. No cellphones, but half of us are playing X-box (not networked). The other half are surfing the web, two of those are trying to find a way to watch the world cup despite our security filters. I would much rather be walking a dog on a beach, or flying fighter jet. My point: what we want to do with our free time is constantly limited by current circumstance. Letting kids do whatever the want, within the limitation that it must happen inside the classroom, will inevitably result in X-box and we surfing.

How about this: Give the kids a fire pit. I'd bet that most of them would rather learn how to start and maintain a fire than play x-box. I know I'd rather be chopping wood than sitting in an office chair.

"Fire pits and power tools good for preschoolers"
https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/parenting/little-kids/pre...

I've met US teenagers who don't know how to use matches.
What's the difference between mist.io and Apache's libcloud?
As in asking the question to other adults or to asking it of one's self?

If the first: I agree, it would be interesting to see the changes. Would we see more of Google's 20% time?

If of one's self: I think many do. I don't think the change would be as large. I already see many people spend their time on projects they are interested in. And I've seen that work be discouraged in favor of the assigned tasks/priorities. That discouragement can lead to a negative feedback loop of discouraging others.
The next step is getting the people to generate the chaff themselves, by inciting disagreement over bikeshed issues while making sure the core agenda remains generally unquestioned.
Why choose SMS today given it’s message length limitations? Also there’s the lack of security: SMS isn’t encrypted and can be sniffed. It’s expensive, while other modern messaging alternatives doesn’t charge by message.
That makes a lot more sense!

The Google preview says 2001 for me, which it gets from https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98233.Founders_at_Work (note the "first published 2001")

But Gmail wasn't out then, so that can't be right, and I must have read it in 2007 or 2008.
This sort-of reads like an ad...
Well, before breaking out a higher order analysis, I'd like to at least see a real first order analysis. The argument from potential at infinity is dispositive, but let's do some practice anyway:

Let A be the area of the capacitor, and dr the distance between the plates. Let c be the appropriate electrostatic constant for the coulomb force between a proton and the charge density on the plate.
At a point a distance r from the capacitor, the field effect from the negative side is, ignoring curvature effects, about

cA/r^2

The repelling charge from the other plate will be about

cA/(r+dr)^2 = cA/(r^2 + 2rdr + dr^2) ~ cA(1/r)(1/(r+2dr))

So the difference between the coulomb forces, i.e. the net force, will be approximately

(cA/r)(1/r - 1/(r+2dr)) = (cA/r)((r+2dr - r)/(r^2 + 2rdr)) ~ cA(2dr/r^3)

So the net force drops off approximately as the third power of the distance, to a first order approximation. Integrating over the radius, we have that the potential goes as -1/r^2, with the approximation breaking down near r=0.

Actually inserting appropriate constants of integration would make this argument robust, but would also just reduce to the argument from potential at infinity. Either way it's clear that the effect can't just be ignored out of hand.
> Both sometimes contain astonishing levels of obviousness (used here with negative connotation)

I recently (re)read something very interesting about 'obviousness' in philosophical writings. The idea was that when a claim is obvious, it is because you are not the target audience for that claim. For example, you live in a world where Sartre lived and wrote and had an impact; the ideas that he wanted to convey are no longer novel, at least partly because he conveyed them and they became part of the culture. (Though even today, there are likely people to whom the claims are not so obvious as they are to you.) The essay starts off talking about claims that are obviously wrong, not obviously right, but later applies the same reasoning to obviously right claims. I am going to abandon an attempt to summarize a 1000-word essay. Just go read it.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/11/read-history-of-philoso...
It was my understanding purposely filling your child's schedule is a mixed bag. It could help a child or hurt them significantly. That kind of filled schedule adds stress and removes exploration time.

I never would have been a programmer if my parents filled my schedule with football, like they wanted to.
Condensed matter theory. Consider: there is only one vacuum, the background upon which all of HEP/cosmology is set, and one collection of particles (the Standard Model). On the other hand, there are vast numbers of different crystal structures and non-crystalline phases of matter, each of which defines a different background with different properties and different particles. Each substance defines a new universe, which ultimately emerges from the Standard Model particles in the vacuum, but can be much more fruitfully studied on its own terms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condensed_matter_physics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasiparticle
Out of curiosity, what were your feelings like towards your dad at this time? Was there a lot of fear around him? Did you "like" him?
"Those funding Mr. Jackson's work have known the answers to California's problems in 2018 since at least 1979" is not ad hominem, it's meta. Ad hominem would be "he's a jerk." PRI is a stopped clock. You are free to decide this is one of the times they are correct.
Right, although I don't know how popular Green Arrays have been in the real world outside FORTH fanatics. Xmos was new to me but looks interesting, thanks.

One thing I forgot to say about minion cores is that they could be used to control external chips. For example if you had an external gigabit ethernet device which could do DMA then the minion core would only have to bitbang the control plane (per packet), which seems much more achievable.

Of course this just moves the proprietary IP outside the SoC into an external IC - I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing in itself.
Sure, it's capital intensive. But that goes for all necessary infrastructure in dense, urban areas.

Shit needs to be channeled away and cleaned, electricity and networks need to be provided, water has to be served, etc.

Public transport is not different. And calculated on the amount of people it serves I'd argue that it's cheaper than cars. Especially if the externalities are factored in.

I'm not saying that scooters can't add something to the mix if done right. But the situation - as is - is not as bad as you make it out. Especially for cities that do it right.
It’s a thing. The article also talks about water pipes, “which leaks enough drinking water a day to serve 15 million households”.
Actually, you're right. However, the paradox arises no matter what the prisoner concludes. If he concludes that the hanging won't be a surprise, he will be surprised by the outcome (the knock on Wednesday).
There wouldn’t be civilization, we’d all die pretty quickly at the hunter/gatherer stage.
> In the western world the answer to that question is often some addictive activity such as playing video games, watching videos on youtube or something similar.

I was a relatively free-range child. I had a bike, I had a pocket full of quarters to call home if I needed to, and if I wanted to I could stay home and play video games (we had an NES, followed by a SNES, but not that many games).

What did I do? I rode my bike to the library and took out books from the programming section. The first ones were video-game inspired. You could get the source code of a game in a book and type it into the Vic-20. I was obsessive with it. Once I'd gone through all of the game-books they had, I started making my own. And then we got a used XT and it. was. on. Quickly went from QBasic to a C compiler (PowerC, if I recall). Around '97 or so we got a Pentium 1 and I heard about this thing called "gcc" which was apparently a better C compiler, so I ended up installing Linux.

And here we are, 20 years later and I've turned all of that into a great career. At the time, my parents were pretty dismayed that I wasn't into baseball, or soccer, or basketball, or whatever... But they did a great job at keeping things balanced. Don't want to play sports? That's ok, but we've got to go take the dog for a walk.

I fully accept that a lot of the computer-related activities are significantly more addictive now (and passive) than they were back then. If I wanted a new game, I had to ride my bike to the library! But... I'm always leery of people who suggest heavily restricting screen time just because it's screen time. If that's the direction someone's going, they might just need a little nudge to make it a more productive learning experience.
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>We have the equations and get the correct results, but we still don't know what's really behind measurements

That's pretty much true for classical physics as well.
Your reply sounds like an absolutely classic reply of someone driven very much by social status signalling. Especially the whole “I don’t buy into status-seeking; I just like ‘quality’ experiences” thing — which just begs the question, where does your notion of quality come from?

“I enjoy walking to my local shops...” is the same as saying you like being high-status and commanding the existence of a local bazaar that caters to the tastes that you and other city-dwellers have glamorized.

> “These are not status symbols, these are the essence of a joie de vivre.”

I can scarcely think of a stronger appeal to status-seeking than this.

(I don’t say any of this to be critical of you. I live in a large city and am fully aware that part of why I enjoy it and identify with it is all based on deep-seated, culturally-ingrained, and even subconcious emphasis on status-seeking. I just mean that it’s so deeply woven into our lives that we don’t realize and often think we’re somehow “better” than that, which is just more virtue signalling.)
The destruction of unions and other forms of organized labor.

Without any strong, organized resistance to Capital owners, they were free to redirect more and more of the profits from productivity gains to themselves. The resulting disparity created a kind of feedback loop that further entrenched the power of Capital owners, as some of the excess wealth they now possessed could be put to use subverting the American political system to serve their interests.
Enjoyable read but quite the dire ending. Of course that's the point; this essay wasn't meant to bring you happiness.
Indeed, and several components are actually written in Rust, including the "recovery netstack" (whatever that is): https://fuchsia-review.googlesource.com/c/garnet/+/165955
I was around then.

The pre-YC incubators operated on a completely different model. They typically had shared services, centralized control, and were rarely filled with entrepreneurs doing their own thing.

"Accelerator" was a term that YC used to distinguish themselves from that model, and whether or not they were the first to use the term what they did was truly different.
Motorola Plans to Announce Something ‘Big’ on August 2nd
It’s not at all clear to me why carbon trading is useful. If a ton of CO2 emission is taxed $5 and a ton of capture is credited $5, what’s the point of trading certificates?
I like this perspective very much. George Carlin in his later years has a lot of it in his shows.

And of course the great humor of SMBC: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-10-10

Share some comedians, would love to see some new stuff.
An excellent book on this subject is "The Fall-Out: How a Guilty Liberal Lost His Innocence" by Andrew Anthony [1]. From the book:

All but the most obsessively hard-line anti-communist grew up in post-war Europe accepting that the political witch-hunts conducted by Senator McCarthy and his acolytes in the 1950s were a severe assault on freedom – which indeed they were. Yet if you took McCarthyism at its most demented and placed it against the Soviet model at its most liberal – say, for instance, the Khrushchev era – the repression in the East was incomparably more ruthless and extensive than in the West. Almost no one now, except for the most zealous Stalinist, would dispute this fact. Nonetheless the litany of human rights abuses committed by the Soviet state from Prague to Vladivostok never elicited the same invective of intellectuals or protesters in the West. Two books were kept with two totally different methods of accounting. Why?

[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fallout-guilty-liberal-lost-innocen...
I don't know how to respond to this. Companies are being more aggressive in off-loading their costs onto the workers. And given the consolidation in tech, the employers have even more power to dictate the terms.

We are seeing similar behavior with unpaid internships.

I have experience with FANG companies and most employees have huge gaps in social,life,cultural and historial experiences. When it comes to a Liberal Education, they skipped leg day.

Are you saying that new grads need to understand packer, docker, 3-way git merges and react?
"we don't want society continuously drugged like Brave New World"

Could you expand on that? What makes that wrong, exactly?

I'm not disagreeing with you, just curious about your point of view.
When you are really rich, consumption becomes tedious.

If someone has $100M income after taxes, they might invest $50M reducing the ROI of the capital in economy during the economic boom when there is enough capital and cheap credit already.

What to do with the remaining $50 million? It's hard to eat, travel or use services to spend $50 million per year. It's possible, but it takes some real effort. Helicopter ride every day barely registers.

You can always buy a bigger house. $50 gets you a nice one. If you put $150 million you get even better. Property prices increase.
Why not? The global bicycle market around $28 billion in sales per year.
Probably because it does not translate into food, health, and shelter security for the vast majority of people.
https://jmp.chat/ supports MMS and concatenated SMS.

JMP has full support for sending and receiving picture messages, and can receive group texts as well (which Twilio doesn't support). Sounds like JMP is what you want for an SMS-over-XMPP solution.

You can even port in your number from your existing VoIP carrier - see https://jmp.chat/#existing for details.
> is that enough to justify a $2B valuation for a scooter-sharing startup?

For a 5% earnings yield, they would eventually need $100 million in income. There are probably $100 million in profits in New York and San Francisco alone. So yes, if this works that valuation seems appropriate.