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I don't understand how anyone can spend a career in software development, and still have such a poor understanding of the process. Space and time are far from the only concerns.

>As an example, someone who thinks of the machine as something that can evaluate list comprehensions in Python and use OO to access data elements has no clue whatsoever about what and how might be happening at the memory level with their creations. Hence code bloat and slow code.

Not having to care about details that aren't contextually important is a good thing. When someone is constrained more by development time than by computational resources, working in a high level language means you're explicitly shunting low level concerns so you can spend more time dealing with domain logic.

There are many situations where finishing something faster, which will run 10x slower and use more memory, is a worthwhile tradeoff.
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"Financed with debt" is another way to say "Can't afford".

You can finance an enterprise with debt because it may produce income, and the debt will be repaid. But financing consumption with increasing debt is... dangerous at best.
Which is a reminder, treat the condition not the symptoms.

This needs repeating, over and over again. So much about western medication is about treating symptoms.
Plot the chart of GDP vs GDP/capita. In the UK that tells you everything you need to know about the true state of the economy.
4 out of 5 of your examples are about income inequality, which isn't the same as how strong the economy is IMO. Everyone could be living in a shack and the poverty line = no shack and by your definition the economy would be strong if everyone could afford a new shack if their current one collapsed.
people write terrible java code, java is fine. no surprise scala suffers from that worse since it has a lot more power
I think it’s also because Tesla needs the positive press that comes with reaching their goals. A lot of investors are investing because they want the company to succeed and Tesla needs their trust, especially after missing so many deadlines.
Not sure if its an alternative, but Lego Boost is awesome and not well known yet. https://shop.lego.com/en-US/LEGO-Boost. I'm not sure if its supposed to replace Mindstorms or is an alternative track for ipad driven robots.
Thanks for adding captions/descriptions to your images. As a screen reader user I appreciate it.
May that be because this isn't field of genetics at all, but unrelated one called "behavioural genetics" (using quantitative methods of the social sciences, with similar levels of signal, and none of the certainty of actual genetics) wherein Turkheimer formulated the so called "three laws" not unaligned with GP's point?
The Gizmodo article is basically just the Miama Herald article badly summarized. In cases like this I always recommend reading the original article.
Doesn't look true right now, tax jar has an article showing digital services differing in taxation by state.

https://blog.taxjar.com/sales-tax-digital-products/
"bullshit appeal to authority" "sordid affair" "the extreme detriment of the American people" "It is fake news" "Iraqi war and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent people" "Seriously, grow up." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29M_VElHoFI

This is all about some fairly basic reporting about a car manufacturer and its suppliers.
You would expect to see average wages decrease as companies hire less experienced, less productive workers who are just starting new jobs. So in a way it could be sort of a good sign since those workers wouldn't have found jobs at all when the economy was weaker, but it's hard to tell what's really going on based on that data.

(I agree the economy still isn't good for many people.)
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a keylogger sniffs your password for site X, now they have your password for that site and can log in. If you also had a TOTP code, they can only log in for the next 30 seconds using that TOTP code, but they can't send out an email with your password in a CSV file to their friends and expect it to be usable.

I know I'm wrong because you know everything but I can't get past this particular one. unless the argument is, attackers aren't that lame anymore, then sure.
The WSJ 'reeks of desperation', and the New York Post.

NewsCorp should be given the corporate death penalty.
Sometimes the valedictorian or most popular kid is always going to be better, no matter how much "hard work" in involved. Sometimes it's friends (marketing) and good looks (good design) that get you there.

These are things that GitLab is losing on. Damn thing is so ugly from a layman's perspective, it's probably hard to figure out if they are technically superior because no one uses it.

Private repo offerings are a tough competitive space, too. Everyone knows who Atlassian is.
Omg, Tesla is dead again !!! I swear, I have read at least a thousand articles predicting Tesla's demise.
Would it work in central Texas? It's not as dry as AZ, but it's bone-dry by comparison to the swamp known as Houston.
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Hm, I'd say not agreeing on facts/truth is more of a byproduct of not agreeing on what we want.

As a civilization, we still have the fatal problem that people want what's best for themselves, and we don't have great ways of making them work towards a common good. Worse still, as issues become more complex there are more ways to twist policy towards self-interest while maintaining a facade of group-interest. Evolution has beautifully primed us to do this subconsciously.

In this model, peoples' differing self interests leads to them constructing plausible but different arguments over "facts/truth". The conflict resolution mechanisms (argument) that used to work start breaking down. Society polarizes, stops agreeing on things, and eventually reverts to violence.

I don't think this is The Great Filter though. More likely our civilization disintegrates until it reaches a level of complexity we can handle again, but it's not going to be totally wiped out.
This has been my experience as a CS Ph.D. student at a top US university as well--the pay is way less than industry, but it's enough to have a decent quality of life.

In my department, students make about $40K/year as a base salary, which is not a lot, but enough to get by with. Add a summer internship to this, and your income is not too shabby--I made about $70K this year.

Now, of course, I realize this is half or less of what students would be making in industry. But it's enough that quality of life is pretty decent.
"Huge, immediate gains for wealthy shareholders combined with tepid increases in business investment and decreases in real wages don’t paint a flattering picture of the tax cut’s impact so far"

That's not a bug, it's a feature: that's basically what the plan was designed to do.
> it is rejecting the fact that those measurement results exist

Well, sort of. I prefer to think of it as replacing one explanatory hypothesis with a superior one, one that is actually consistent with the evidence. To wit:

The observation that requires explaining is that classical measurements are consistent across space and time.

The usual explanation for this is that a classical objective reality exists, and that measurement faithfully reflects the state of this reality. This is a plausible explanation. Einstein believed it. But Bell's theorem and subsequent experiments show it to be false.

The correct explanation is that classical correlation emerges from the Shroedinger equation alone. There is no objective classical reality. If there were, it would be possible to construct a local hidden variable theory consistent with all observations. But it's not so there isn't.

It is only because our subjective experience is (necessarily) classical that we find all this hard to accept.

> I skimmed the paper [2] but found no such thing there. Could you locate it in more precisely or elaborate on the idea?

It's the part about Gleason's theorem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleason%27s_theorem

See also:

https://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec9.html
This sounds like a gross exaggeration. Twelve years out? Are first-graders being taught the latest framework or something? Except that maybe it shouldn't stretch out for twelve years, pre-college education is learning the fundamentals that do not depend on the job market. The fundamentals haven't changed in hundreds of years.
> I have no idea how strong the hh relationship with this person is...

ASK Him - do you really know this CEO or is he just another one of your 10,000 Linkedin connections?

ASK The Headhunter to foster an appropriate introduction. Give him say 10 business days to line-up something up. Be transparent about this so there's no misunderstanding.

If he can't or won't -- then, practice courage and email/call the CEO directly.

Surprisingly, they often admire people with the chutzpah to say -- here's why you & I should talk.
Fresh water is a precious resource here on Earth because it is so energy intensive to desalinate ocean water. Once we are capable of mining other bodies in the solar system, there is plenty of water to extractt from other planets, moons, and comets. Getting there and back has proven to be by far the hardest part so far. Either way, water and methane will be the primary hydrogen source for liquid propellant, ion engines, and nuclear rockets.

In space, life support is a closed loop system so a lot of water is recycled anyway and with aeroponics, agriculture requires 80-95% less water. Any industrial uses of water will also likely have very efficient recycling (for example, Intel's Arizona plant recycles at least 60% of their water and their company goal is to get to 100% before mid-century). I believe even now, industrial water usage is far bigger than agricultural or personal.
I don't know why the downvotes. Publishing something takes a lot of directed effort. It's so tough to stop doing (what feels like) the real work, and quickly squeeze out a submission for a conference that has a 10% acceptance rate. Of course publishing is extremely important, but too large a focus on publishing hampers results.
Only updates, and only to JDK 8. Oracle has moved to two version updates per year with sometimes large changes, and they want to prevent fragmentation.

And OpenJDK is GPLv2, so I would think you’re free to update it yourself, or find a third party willing to do that for you (I don’t know of any, but if there is demand, I’m fairly sure there will be one, possibly under a different name, if Oracle claims the right to the name)
I'm left feeling perplexed by this article. So was this another situation in which hysteria got ahead of the facts?
True.

> Tomorrows H̶N̶ Gizmodo article:

FTFY ;)
The first two examples you provided (Kleenex and Disney) have nothing to do with quality, and everything to do with trademarks. If they do not aggressively defend their trademark, even from tiny, rural daycares with 10 kids, then there is a chance they can lose their trademark and it can become generic (see aspirin, cellophane, escalator, etc).
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Ask HN: Tablet for scratch programming for kids?
Is there a tablet or low cost laptop that you would recommend for offline scratch programming language?
Yes but rating a 3 star isn't going to get Uber or Lyft to look into it. Do rate but then contact support and tell them they were a bad driver.
Many of the facts you stated are relatively invariant to the strength of the economy. I do not have good sources to describe how they have changed over time, but I would assume that points 1,3,4, and 5 are true nearly all the time. Additionally, for point 2, real wages going down on a timespan of 1 year is essentially noise in the face of rising real wages by various measures by FRED.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/tags/series?t=real%3Bwages
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The cable thing is completely different and a clear cash grab by Apple. I mean, the Lightning cable is way better than Micro USB, but why it costs $20 is just because Apple knows people will pay that much.
So lazy, why not commit and actually cause yourself to vomit? Then you foil reverse image searches. You could get creative with it and swallow different food colorings and paint beautiful mosaics on your car seats.

Forcing yourself to vomit is not a good idea of course, but if you have no scruples about lying anyways, maybe you deserve a little personal damage to go along with your deceit?
Well, to be fair, I had a kid when I was 22 and getting into grad school.

It's a good thing for him that I've only gotten good at math in the last couple of years.
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If not about PCs, why is Intel doing this?

To be honest, I don't mind a tablet having provision for DRM to watch movies, but on my work PC, not being able to trust it is clearly unacceptable.
id love to answer any questions about launching an e-commerce site with little money or starting your own brand/ product
The new drug is designed to kill plasmodium vivax which is relatevely rare in Africa. IMHO Malarone is not effective against this "softer" form of malaria which would usually not kill you if untreated.

Plasmodium falciparum is responsible for the most dangerous form of malaria and is common in large parts of sub-saharan Africa. Like OP stated correctly, it is (still) curable, but the new drug discussed in the article is probably not an option here.

By the way the plasmodium vivax kind of malaria was still present in northern Germany (and probably parts of the Netherlands) in the 20th century, with Anopheles atroparvus being the vector. It's unclear why it disappeared in the 1960s but sleeping away from cattle and proper water management is always a good idea.
No, but we're already watching two seperate movies unfold in realtime.

http://blog.dilbert.com/2017/02/12/good-example-of-our-two-m...
As someone else said in the thread [1], just existing in America is very expensive. It’s easy to conflate consumption vs necessary expenses needing to be financed, but you do what you have to do.

It takes 20 years of nothing going wrong to escape poverty [2]. Imagine how easy it is to get back there.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17594826

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/04/economi...
If your goal is to go into management, you probably don't love the subject enough to do a PhD.
Ask HN: What are the typical user:employee ratios at various tech startups?
I'm doing some research about the relationship between labor needs and user base across different types of startups.

For example, how many employees did startups like AirBnb and Uber have as their user base expanded? How many were engineers and how many were customer service people? How many exployees do B2C startups require as their customer bases grow?

If anyone can help point me to where I could find this sort of information, I'd really appreciate it
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True, there are many things to do to improve the quality of services/products using the devices geo-location, not only in the gaming business.
Thanks for adding the perspective: I had no idea who these players were in the space prior to you mentioning them. I guess that says something about iFixit's marketing outreach.
One is spammy, the other isn't
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> but never absurdly and increasingly profitable

You are in a tech bubble. Absurd profitability is not required elsewhere.
I had basically the same experience.

It would be really hard to beat the LEGO Mindstorms experience for ease-of-use and learning through experimentation.
Nvidia has historically supported new drivers/Xorg for old hardware for aprox 10 years whereas amd/ati cards still available at retail have been unsupported in as little as 3 years time leaving you with open source drivers as your only other option if you want to install a new version of your distro with your older hardware.

The fact that they are open source is of course a good thing whats not is that they were at one time less than half the performance.

The new drivers from AMD gpus are both open source AND performant.

Basically the proper strategy 2003-2017 was to buy nvidia and install the binary drivers.

At present you can go with either so long as you aren't buying hardware too old to be supported by the new amd drivers. I'm still using nvidia on all my hardware but maybe I will give amd a try again next time around.

It sucks that its complicated but its not as complicated as it seems.
Each of the memory settings are described in the kernel sysctl [1] documentation. The goal is to create a larger margin for user error or lack of memory budgeting. This often precludes ever needing swap and forces user space applications into the memory that is actually available.

[1] - https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt

All of the settings should be calculated per server role and memory capacity after extensive testing of your application settings and performance.

> I'm guessing this triggers a reboot for you when the OOM evicts a process?

It triggers a panic if you hit OOM, rather than kicking in OOM killer which often leaves a system broken, sticky and confused. This should only be used for ephemeral systems or systems that do batch work and can handle reboots. This requires people to find the root cause of their over-allocation and fix them.
> Lots of reasonable people back up their secrets, or even clone them into multiple authenticator applications. I try not to.

Because if they lose access to the 2FA secrets, you lose access to your account. If that's just one account, recovery might be doable (depending on who ultimately is root on the machine). If its your Bitcoin wallet or FDE though, you're toast.

There's also a variety of protocols used for 2FA. I've seen: USB2, USB3, USB-C, BlueTooth, NFC.

As for how people do this: they use a second key, save their key on a cryptosteel(-esque) device [1] (IMO overpriced, YMMV), USB stick, a piece of paper, or gasp CDROM. Where its saved differs. Could be next to a bunch of USB sticks, in a safe, at a notary (my recommendation though does cost a dime or two), in a basement under a sack of grain, ...

[1] https://cryptosteel.com
Is it though? I think it would be really rare for your logic board to die right as you are finishing up a project that you haven't saved anywhere else. But with enough time to schedule an appointment at the Apple Store, enough money to buy a new computer and the knowledge that they can open up the laptop, remove the logic board, hook up a cable that almost no one until this week knew existed and then transfer your data. I bet it almost never happened.
> What exemplified this in my mind, was when I received advice to not go down a particular path with my technical architecture. Yet, 6 months down the line, the architecture works very well, and that same "advisor" has since changed their mind.

Do you have perhaps other examples where you would have much better off or better served had you did listen to someone maybe potentially wiser/more experienced/older than you? I sure have. I know we remember the things we remember, but I bet the times where I didn't listen and should have are a thousand to one, I just choose to remember that one more vividly for some reason.

I gel with the sentiment, but then looking at some other comments on this subject, it does seem to be a very westernized, "American individualism" view on the matter. I wonder what Japanese business leaders would say about the subject?
It would probably end up with similar memory requirements because it has to dedupe. Naively you would need to store all the visited states anyway just like with BFS.

You might see some interesting effects using a bloom filter and an IDDFS. It would turn the whole search probabilistic but might be fast enough that you could run it enough times to remove reasonable doubt.
That's an analogy, so of course it's not directly true. But it's not a particularly wild one. Sociopaths will do whatever they can get away with. The dumb ones and the ones with poor impulse control end up in prison. The smart ones stick with abuse that is legal, like Jobsian verbal abuse and Kalanick and Gates's market abuse.

Whatever your intent, you are in effect justifying their actions. My point is that you can use your exact logic to justify anything that succeeds at the expense of others. It's used all the time with political leaders in other countries who succeed through violence.

Instead of justifying it, we can work to change things. Sexual abuse was perfectly acceptable for decades, probably centuries. But the #MeToo movement shows that standards can change, and that abusers can face accountability. The same sort of change is possible if we want to limit other kinds of abuse. It's up to us.
If I'm understanding the articles correctly, Tesla is looking to recover funds from suppliers for failed deliverables/objectives. Why wouldn't they be trying to get compensated for that?
The RobotMesh python software listed above is free for individual use, and the PROS C/C++ option is completely free and open-source.
Hey I dropped out of grad school too!
Interesting that the article has to frame the reason for combating bad facts with the idea that the children are harmed by being called poisoned, instead of just saying that the facts are wrong. Otherwise they’d be vulnerable to accusations of racism/classism/heartlessness/bigotry.
Starting in your mid-30s, you can get a family, get a job, start making money and eventually get to the 2-3x. Sure, you'll be late to the party, but you'll make it. Moreover, it's going to be a looooong party. Does it really matter if you were there for N hours instead of N + 5?

However, what happens if someone in their mid-30s who has been in the party for quite some time now wants to leave it and go back to school?
I wondered the same thing and did a quick search. It seems that the term "1D fluid" here refers to the Luttinger fluid (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luttinger_liquid), which is a theoretical model.
FTA:
If we are to be consistent in the labeling of Flint children as “poisoned,” what are we to make of the average American who was a child in the 1970s or earlier? Answer: He has been poisoned and is brain-damaged. And poisoned with lead levels far above, and for a greater period, than those observed in Flint.
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I would posit they have been poisoned, just because we are loath to admit something doesn't make it less true.
It is a controlled substance. Further note that the horror stories are seldom, if ever, by people actually using it as intended and as directed.

How to benefit from Ambien if having sleep problems: Take Ambien and immediately go lie comfortably in bed. Have no responsibilities and have the ability to sleep for 8 hours uninterrupted.

How not to benefit from Ambien: Use it to escape life. Use it recreationally. Take it when you have no intention to go to sleep, or even to try. Use it for chronic issues rather than temporary sleep issues.

I certainly don't want to take up the gauntlet of defending Ambien, but in any discussion about it the narrative gets dominated by abusers. And that's an important narrative -- it gets prescribed way more often than it should, and for far longer than it should ever be used -- but there are benefits as well.
I guess so. My impression from reading media reportage of the incident was always that due to problems in the water supply the residents of Flint had lead in their water such that they were even more in danger than Americans generally were prior to the point in the 70's when we even realized that it was a problem.

But assuming the numbers here are being presented in a way that accurately captures the situation, that is not the case and in fact even those "in crisis" today are only imbibing levels that while too high are not even as high as Americans were getting on with at all time prior to the 70's.