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This is almost an unofficial motto of the "prediction markets" trend, which I've heard rather elegantly compacted into the form "make cheap talk expensive"

It runs into a lot of practical problems with standardizing terms, metrics, and especially with actual money on the line, the difficult task of formally eliminating (or even just exposing) the moral hazard minefield that surrounds a mechanism which is doomed to incentivize calculated deception above all other rewards, truth included.
Since this doesn't conform to the pre-existing theory of the development of agriculture I expect it to go poof and disappear in a puff of logic any minute now.
Sure, in principle. In practice spidering the web requires a lot of infrastructure which a 13-year-old might not be able to afford.
Wait until you're in a position to challenge them. Aka a big boss or own your own gig.

I've tried challenging some of the crazier cargo cults over the years and it's always just made me look like an idiot. If you're going against the "experts" it generally makes you look bad unless people see you as someone with the same level of expertise.

I usually try to temper the excitement by appearing conservative and cautious about trends I don't like. Saying things like "Maybe we could do that if X app wasn't full of legacy Y". Disagree with implementing the idea but without attacking the merit of the thing itself.

This may seem like "beating around the bush" or whatever and it is. It's good old politics. Don't attack a popular idea directly, nip at the corners where the "good idea" intercepts reality. Try to let others make the decision that this good idea might not be so great in our situation themselves.

Most of the time, this approach will fail. But the odds are better than debating a popular opinion at work or on HN where you will lose 99% of the time.

Even when this approach fails, people are much more likely to agree with your critique if the idea does fail. "I thought this was great but maybe engineer X was on to something when he said Y could be an issue"
>NXP 80V18 secure NFC module

Does that mean there's an NFC antenna somewhere on the laptop?
Only one settlement so far was found to have flat bread. So Paleo people's beliefs aren't that shaken.
> I wish fewer op-eds got posted to HN

It's important to know what beliefs are circulating. They can have an impact regardless of truth value.
I wonder how those friends who turned him down feel. That would an interesting article to write. I am sure they are mostly super successful, but would still make an interesting article to read.
Did anyone ever figure out what came of bringing a Bush cabinet member on board? Contract for mining data for NSA/FBI?
have we reached peak Amazon?
Why not? We started atomic transmutation with fire.
Google Drive seems to have done this right — the file only counts towards the storage quota of the creator/"owner" of the file.

That particular approach does have some other issues though.
Oops, sorry, I have been talking to folks doing en vivo fluorescent imaging and didn't notice that this was electron microscopy!

Not only is the resolution a lot worse for optics, but I understand that the signal to noise ratio is much lower when avoiding destructive imaging methods.
I work at an Apple certified repair center. Theres a tool called the "Customer data transfer tool" that connects to a certain port on a logic board thats hard wired directly into the SSD. On the other side is a USB C cable that is connected to the machine with a new logic board. This will work even if the rest of the logic board is dead, as the SSD circuitry is isolated.

You can read more about it here:
https://9to5mac.com/2016/11/24/apple-special-cdm-tool-macboo...
Smart ag in Syria
We are N'bat, a bootstrapped team designing an innovative non-profit project on smart agriculture in Syria.

Step 1 is to fund and put together a GSM circuit so plants can communicate data.

We set up a GoFundMe https://www.gofundme.com/smartagsyria but would also be most grateful for guidance and feedback.

Thank you!
Flavius
Google Search seems to meet the business requirements, so Google must have laid off most of its programmers by now. Right?

This is a good illustration of the mindset difference between Enterprise and Tech.
Having a high IQ is less important than ensuring people can actually work together. Some of the worst people I've worked with were incredibly smart but were absolutely demoralizing to actually be on a team with because of their behavior.
Please, generating load is always easier than servicing it.
Seeing as how I wrote the parent comment, I think I am the ultimate authority here on what I intended. Given the context in which I was making the comment, I didn't feel I needed to make a long list of provisos clearly delineating that it applies to x, y and z context and should not be assumed to be a written in stone commandment one should follow upon pain of death. "Rule of thumb" seemed to me to be adequate to convey such.

I have now delineated some of those previously unstated assumptions. If you want to continue to insist I have no idea what I myself think or intended, then I don't think there's any point in discussing it further.
> It could be the iPhone 1, or it could be a distant memory, or it could just be another car.

I think your mistake is thinking that this is a roll of the die. Just because something is difficult to discuss doesn't mean there aren't people that understand it. And many pro-Tesla arguments are systemic, which also makes them difficult to convey (concepts like "game-theoretic equilibrium" are not in common lingo). Many pro-Tesla-ites will sound hype-y because they don't have a good way of explaining their conclusions, not because they don't have a clear understanding.
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Is their pay not comparatively great? Usually when I see this statement, folks are comparing seattle to silicon valley 1:1 which isn't a fair comparison. Seattle is expensive but not that expensive. My friends who work at amzn seem to be compensated in line with everyone else I know, but maybe I'm wrong?
As much as I like digging,debugging and learning that comes with it, fixing things under tremendous time pressure wears me out :(
> “Nobody had found any direct evidence for production of bread, so the fact that bread predates agriculture is kind of stunning,” says Tobias Richter, a University of Copenhagen archaeologist who co-authored the paper. “Because making bread is quite labor-intensive, and you don’t necessarily get a huge return for it. So it doesn’t seem like an economical thing to do.” That’s because breadmaking doesn’t just involve baking: Back then, it would have also involved kneading, grinding cereals into fine grains, and dehusking plants.

But why would agriculture have developed, if people were't cooking the stuff? It's true that making bread involves more work than just boiling grain. But bread also serves as ready-to-eat storage. As does beer. And I can imagine how both developed more-or-less accidentally from leftover boiled grain.
Cool, I’m not special validation. I like the focus on quality while present. That’s what I sell.

If I forget to tell a new partner, now... we gave a great date and then she wants to start texting intensely, and feels I’m blowing her off and has resulted in anger over being led on/brushed off.

No loss on my part, but I always forget on my first few dates after some time off and it results in disappointment or worse on their part, seemingly needlessly.

Careful out there, fellow focus junkies.
I can’t see myself paying $10/month for Dropbox when I can get Office365 for the same price with 1tb apiece for up to five users, plus office for 5 computers, and 5 iPads.
What does their belief or disbelief have to do with whether or not China is a monetary sovereign?

I mean, I suppose they can all imagine that spherical cows exist, but wishing won't make it so.
Could you do something like that from another cloud service? I suppose the difference would be whether 10K requests from one IP address would be the same as 10K requests coming from 10K IP addresses. The further you move from the actual production load, the higher risk that the test doesn't test everything. For example if the network could only handle connections from 5k hosts then the former could pass while the latter failed miserably.
Cheese, you say they had cheese! Damn.
Thanks for the insightful answer and many leads to follow up on.

Just goes to show you what people will do to frame the narrative (& how valuable that narrative is!).

It's like that ol' 1984 quote "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
Yep, but do they do the labor-intensive stuff in the plant that does final assembly? Given that it converted from steel to aluminum in a couple of steps (initially, just the hood was aluminum) and stayed at the same volume, I'd guess "no way".
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Non-advertisers are consumers. That's the term the television industry adopted to differentiate between the two groups.
I had thought about that also, assuming his parents were middle class it's not impossible for them to give him a loan for a few thousand. But even if you were an amazingly gifted coding prodigy I can't see him being able to build a team at such a young age. Who would work for a 15 year old?
Launched smart agriculture project in Syria
We are N'bat, a bootstrapped team designing an innovative non-profit project on smart agriculture in Syria.
Step 1 is to fund and put together a GSM circuit so plants can communicate data.

We set up a GoFundMe https://www.gofundme.com/smartagsyria but would also be most grateful for guidance and feedback.

Thank you! Flavius
> AFAWKT

"As far as we KAN tell"?
The problem is that "luddite" is an ad hominem insult, that does nothing to lay the foundation for a constructive discussion. Typically, such name-calling occurs either when the responder is lazy (and does not wish to go into details) or not sufficiently thoughtful (Read PG, on the Blub paradox). Particularly, when the insult is lobbed in a dismissive tone, it might be meant to reinforce their esteem by asserting their group identity -- this tactic is often deployed by someone playing zero-sum status games (possibly subconsciously).

A simple inquiry requesting clarification/elaboration will help you resolve the situation into the following categories:

1. Person has thoughtful counterpoints.
2. Person has simplistic and superficial counterpoints.
3. Person is not interested in improving their/your understanding.

After that, you can choose to indulge depending on your emotional stamina and the importance of the topic/situation/person i.e. "pick your battles" as mentioned in another comment.

Your best chance of having a meaningful discussion is when sticking to matters of substance rather than knee-jerk ad hominem based on pattern matching. If that's happening, you have nothing to worry about. The best case is often when the other person has thoughtful points that make you reconsider your position or evolve to a hybrid perspective :-)
Exactly. It kills me that the definition of a successful company
is rarely - being able to deliver a product profitably.
Frankly doing an SAP installation with no customization is no different than using a SaaS platform, there are a lot of options, but no code customizations.

All the processes had become "unique" over time, not because the company was special, but because they were coding their own solutions and either the IT staff or the business wanted something done for the benefit of the specific department.

Once the processes were evaluated with a critical eye toward what actually needed to be accomplished, the uniqueness of the existing process couldn't stand up to scrutiny.

Luckily the CIO and the CEO had the courage to face down the IT staff and business leaders, the rank and file cheered for adopting standard processes, they knew the existing processed sucked.
True especially of social media.
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I think it would help if you talked more about the need to start with a GSM circuit for communication. For instance, could you instead consider starting with some bluetooth devices?

Also, what does "smart agriculture" mean to you?
I was curious to learn more about the project, and would like to share some quick feedback; the first thing I noticed was that the first page of the documentation which I opened has multiple spelling and grammar errors:

“Distrobutors have large part of their net worth is invested in the stock in hand. With ERPNext, you can always keep a birds eye view on your stock availability, replineshment, procurement and sales.“
https://erpnext.org/docs/user/manual/en/stock

Second, I noticed that the CI build is failing on GitHub.
aws popup loft is free and matches your list pretty well
Ask HN: Can a generalist lead a successful company run by experts?
Hi HN,

So all my adult life I've had this dream of starting a "multi-media" business. That is, a company that does web, photo, video, or anything else visual.

The thing is, at best I'm an expert in web and photo. But I am far from being capable of being the one man show of a multi-media company.

But I have vision, and faith in my ability to find and contract with talent who can do the work effectively.

Do founders of companies have to be experts in everything their company aspires to do? Or is it possible to get by on just having the vision, and finding others who are experts at actualizing it?
I probably started out thinking "As Far As We Know" and then mentally veered at the last moment. Thanks. Fixed.
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But you specifically say to use it as a general rule of thumb (a general cultural norm in your workplace), and that’s precisely the point I was disagreeing with.

If you both literally said, “It's a great rule of thumb to follow.” but also did not mean it should be a general workplace norm, then I cannot see any consistent way to interpret your original comment.

If anything, the rule of thumb would be to charitably and patiently listen to complaints earnestly, and only delineate special cases when complaining would be discouraged.
Yea probably more likely the super volcano than than Exum hoisting tourists all summer long
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I'm still failing to understand the distinction you're trying to make with a local filter, if it exists only in addition to, and is generally overridden by the global filter.

> I would expect email from LinkedIn to be far more likely to be automatically marked spam for those 25% of users who have previously marked those emails as spam.

This is true regardless of whether or not the filter is global or local, though. That 25% provides the majority behavior for both a local filter and a global filter.

> That doesn't preclude the global filters from also occasionally binning some of LinkedIn's email when the global spam score is so high that the local ham score fails to override it.

It does preclude it, because with a truly local filter, those people are a majority (unanimous, even). Even occasional miscategorization as spam would be completely unexpected. It's only when the filter is global do they end up subject to tyranny-of-the-majority behavior.
For that to be always true, the customers would have to be amoral too. Many companies find success in differentiating themselves to appeal to morally conscious consumers, and even more companies find themselves having to react to them from time to time.
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This is a nice idea, but F for every coin asides Bitcoin for technical development seems...suspect (D- for Ethereum I'm counting as basically an F by your ratings)
The vesting schedule and the sweatshop-esq environment arguably don't make the pay worth it (compared to what you can make elsewhere).

Disclaimer: My knowledge is based solely off of public reporting and first hand experiences of SWEs and TAMs no longer at Amazon/AWS.
A lot of the value of antiques comes from the lost knowledge they represent, whether that's just sentimental "you just had to be there" experiences or more concrete "you don't know how to make the varnish on a Stradivarius" lost knowledge.

For that matter, the distances between systems creates a sort of time-travel effect. You receive their knowledge hundreds of years after the fact, making it implicitly "antique lost knowledge."

So I think the point still stands that all trade would be done using photons.

I would be very interested to discuss how "trade done using photons" is such a 21st-century concept and that it bears as much resemblance to interstellar trade as the black pepper trade of the 13th-century proscribes capital markets today.
The problem is trying to do the exact same thing as someone else. There has never been a business or method of making money in the history of capitalism that has survived by being an exact copy of another business or method. Even businesses with the same model as a bigger one, eg: small vs large car repair businesses, are able to function by having a different pricing point, location, etc. No one seems to understand that this applies to your job too. You're never going to be as successful as someone else by doing the exact same thing as them, because they got there first. Find your niche.
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I didn't see anything that appealed to me either. One other person told me the same.

Maybe Amazon's overloaded system was caused by shoppers checking back more frequently than in past years because they can't find really good deals this year either but keep looking harder and harder anyway?
Well, I hope that any civilization that masters interstellar travel would have moved beyond such foolishness. If you can produce an atom-by-atom duplicate, what does it even mean for something to be "the original"?

http://blog.rongarret.info/2015/02/31-flavors-of-ontology.ht...
It takes 4-5x for my videos -- not going for perfection, just making nonsense into the math words I said reasonably clearly. Jargon can be tough for the automated captioning services. They are improving, and for the version I use for teaching it seems to learn the vocabulary as I go through the class. Maybe next year it'll know what an eigenvector is!
Might be viewed as a heavy sales tactic for the terminals!
> Fair use is being totally ignored.

It might be fair use for the streamer, but it almost certainly isn’t for Twitch.
The bread as described in the article was made from relatively finely ground grain, so unlikely to be accidental, and the article references finds of similar flatbreads from just a few thousand years later at different locations.
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It’s not correct. We have international agreements with China and others nations broadly covering patents and copyrights. We have no such agreements covering regional appellates.
I was just debugging our new corporate intranet portal. Same thing, tons of requests, 17MB page load.

Turns out the intranet team had decided to add a panel for Yammer updates. It doesn't help that the Yammer implementation has errors. For example, the X-XSS-Protection header returns 1; mode=block twice in the same header.

If there is anyone here from the Yammer team, let me know and I'll show you.
It is not better than nothing if it actively confuses the listener. I experienced this recently when I uploaded something that got captioned automatically without my knowledge (new rollout of automated captioning on a university content management system, not YouTube). I got a visit in office hours from a confused student who said he'd spent significant time looking for African and Afghan linear spaces and simply could not find the definitions.

Affine. Affine linear space, my friend.
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Correct, sorry for any confusion.
Serious question: As we near the end of Moore's Law, how much advancement in storage can we really expect from the next 10 years?
There's definitely a few different Aussie accents.

I live in central Melbourne, and most people I meet have an accent very similar to a Kiwi accent, close enough that after only a year since I came from NZ, most people think I'm an Aussie. The accent has been easy to pick up, just say 'feesh and cheeps' and use a high rising terminal (like you're asking a question), and you're good to go.

However, go to the outer suburbs, or rural Australia, or up the coast to NSW or QLD, and you get a whole array of different accents. You've got the ocker accents, the wog accent, the aboriginals have their own accent.
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> They will not be permitted to be a part of digs, they will not be able to find grant money, they will not be able to find a university that will take them in.

That's demonstrably false. Here are a few counterexamples:

1. http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/from-foraging-to-farming-... (Cambridge)

2. https://books.google.com/books?id=G3QPo7lThXsC&pg=PA1#v=onep...

3. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/07/150722144709.h...

These are all researchers that argue that cultivation occurred much earlier than the 10-12k year ago date commonly given, and was often done opportunistically by hunter-gatherer groups.
I have Amazon Prime, and I had no idea that today was Prime day. Haven't seen any marketing for it, and nothing in email until this morning.
Similar ERP implementation cancellation after spending 1bn

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2493041/it-careers/air...
Simulating millions of users should be well within the capabilities of a company as large as Amazon. Off the shelf load testing tools like Locust can create thousands of fake users with one worker.
My workplace switched from Dropbox to Google Drive and it has been a real pain in the butt. It just works worse in many regards, all across the product. People like(d) to say it’s just a feature, except they execute on that feature better than everyone else.
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Here in India, Netflix costs ₹500/mo. Amazon Prime costs ₹999 for the whole year. Both are much pricier compared to regular cable TV, which gives you hundreds of channels for a few hundred rupees per month. So there's a saturation point to at least some of their international expansion unless incomes start rising more broadly...

Also, anecdotally, I only have so much time for 'prestige' TV. They cover Delhi and Youtube in ads everytime they have something to announce--Altered Carbon, which I watched, but then they had Lost in Space, Wild Wild Country, and now a show set in Mumbai called "Sacred Games"--while it's great for subscribers to have a wealth of new material to watch all the time, there may be an inflection point beyond which producing/acquiring more content doesn't grow their audience...