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Ask HN: Did you get a decision for your Startup School application yet?
Because nobody cared about the patent in the first place.
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Seems like selection bias for at work. I am curious how many of the subjects were pyscopaths.

As a pyscopath, i agree with this experiment from what I've observed in wild, people almost always help to traiter and seek immunity regardless of the severity of the act.
I had a similar experience in primary school in Spain (though punishment was never phisical).

The incentive is that if the class is made of, say, 30 kids, you are appointed once and then suffer through the appointments of the other 29 kids (a little less in practice since known troublemakers won't be put in 'power' for obvious reasons). There are plenty of opportunities for mob punishment if your mates don't feel you're being fair.
Though Matroska is the clear winner in this regard.
Babbage's notes describe what we would call branch-if-zero and branch-if-negative instructions which you could use to implement repetition. Control flow was the least well developed part of the instruction set though, presumably because it would be trivial to implement compared to the arithmetic operations so it could wait.

If you're interested in that kind of thing I wrote a description of the entire instruction set a while back: http://h14s.p5r.org/2012/11/punched-cards.html.
> How should I hunt a job for the position of a software developer
Check online job sites for companies that are looking for developers and apply. Just apply to every position and ad that sounds interesting. As long as you don't lie about your experience level you shouldn't have too much problems. Make sure your cv and cover letter look nice and are relevant for the position you're applying for.

> How difficult will it be for me to get a job as someone who doesn't have any professional experience.

Depending on where in the world you are it may be super easy or it may be very hard. It's all about local supply and demand.

Lastly, most of us didn't have much of an idea about how professionals work before we became professionals.
In Austria it's harder to get exempt. If you rack up 2% of your net income in those charges you can apply for exemption. 80% of Austrians never have been exempt, only 4% sometimes hit the cap and about 12% get an exemption due to specific illnesses which are costly.

I have seen the system here and some of the effects that come out of it are interesting. Because if the cost of a drug falls below the "recipe fee" it bypasses the insurance and is directly charged there is a mysterious amount of drugs close or below the recipe fee.
ΔΣ converters ("1-bit ADCs") have been commonplace since the 1970s; typically they use some feedback tricks to get better signal-to-noise ratios than you would calculate straightforwardly. 1-bit DACs were common in CD players throughout the 80s, and the SACD format about 20 years back was a raw delta-sigma bitstream. Unfortunately the Wikipedia article is not very good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta-sigma_modulation

Fundamentally, the reason they're especially accurate is that most of the usual sources of error in digital–analog conversion just don't exist in a 1-bit ADC. INL? Zero. DNL? Zero. Nonmonotonicity? Please.

Clover, by contrast, is interesting to me for a different reason: a lot of ANN inference stuff seems to work fine at 8 bits of precision. It'll be interesting to see if those results can extend to 4 bits.
Scene stuff creates demand.
It's harder to convert from a sane system to a weird system. It feels more like a punishment :-)
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Well I dunno, why did my company hire me as a mid-level frontend engineer straight out of a coding bootcamp? A lot of people didn't want to, I just went and found a company willing to... Is the market not as robust for .net?
A downside of base58 as implemented by Bitcoin: leading zeros are optional, so there are multiple possible valid encodings of a single address, and addresses don't have a fixed length.
Ask HN: Parallels observed between tech companies and Stanford Prison Experiment
Have you observed any?
They announced a year or two ago they were changing their budget to be less film and more their own content. Which makes sense given they have to license things in each region vs making something and being able to use it globally.
I am frustrated with articles like this that keep pushing a higher and higher "acceptable" tip percentage.

20% is not normal. 20% is very high for very good service.

15 years ago, 15% was normal. Now the minimum on these pos pos's is 18.

I tip 15% and no more unless service was well above normal.

And I have no qualms about hitting 0 for anything that isn't sit down service, including Uber and Lyft.

We have to fight this tip creep or we will live in a world where every service employee is paid with 100% tips by those that feel guilty enough to pay it while all the cheapskates freeload.
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The website (on logging in) says the decisions will be out 'by' 20th August. Since we're pretty close to that date, and I haven't got my decision yet, I thought of posting it here to see if some people have their decision already.
Interesting, I thought OR was the only state like that. Of course, 'round here minimum wage is like 15 bucks, going by the ads on the In'n'out.

Edit: how do you account for this page which indicates a (slightly) lower tipped wage in CA? https://www.minimum-wage.org/california/tipped-employee-mini...
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Thinking too much can be bad for your brain too, which is why I'm grateful this article immediately turned black and unreadable on the HN Android app.
Deep Focus and Flow Mode Spotify List for Ultra Productivity
FOR WORK AND WORK OUT:
https://open.spotify.com/user/kalibushi/playlist/4Jfoid5mFxmXNmD6Q2nold?si=b-V_1NV7T4yE9lXJ2cvbvA

Electronic dark sounds with high BPM and lack or lyrics to enter Flow, deep focus and a high productivity mode.

Higher than usual BPM + soothing bass will keep you in an alert mode & higher attention that boosts productivity while avoiding you from falling into a lethargic state.

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This isn't a bad guess! I don't know why it was downvoted.
The manpage namespaces are called sections. I think it would make a lot of sense to put these pages in section 1u ('u' for 'um').
Same at a restaurant. They are charging me for food in a nice environment. What am I tipping for? I don't want a nice conversation with my waiter.
Bike-shedding: how mature are you as an engineer?
> I don’t disagree with your sentiment, but a major problem is that the US healthcare system’s function (or lack thereof) is based on price discrimination e.g. the list price for a doctor visit might be $150, the doctor gets reimbursed $15 for a Medicaid patient, $60 for a Medicare patient, $90 for privately insured patient, and a $135 for a cash pay patient.

But all of this price discrimination is bad -- it's hurting everybody. Medicaid and Medicare patients paying less causes more doctors to not accept them. Privately insured and uninsured patients paying more imposes costs on working people and small businesses who have to subsidize a government program, not through taxes in proportion to their revenue or wealth, but through higher insurance premiums in proportion to their number of employees regardless of how much the employees make.

Eliminating that sort of price discrimination would solve a significant portion of the problem by itself, by eliminating that cross-subsidy and requiring government benefits to be funded overly and by the people who can afford to pay rather than covertly through higher private insurance premiums on people who can't.
For the people saying that this would have unintended consequences, that may well be the case. Somehow, the rest of the world seems to get by without the same tipping culture.

Moving towards a fair pay for work culture may require more than just 'not tipping', but we already have many examples where it is the case. Prices may go up, or tax laws need to change, but just because there are thin margins in the industry doesn't mean that the only way to survive is to force workers to live off their tips. In so many cases it seems like tipping culture merely serves to hide the true cost of a meal or service.

Similarly, the odd practice of not including any taxes in the sticker price on goods. This one in particular feels anti-consumer, and seems to persist because sellers worry that their prices, if listed including taxes, would seem higher than the competition. I'm surprised more retailers don't buck this trend more often; realising that taxes were included in Cafe du Monde's list price for their coffee and biegnets made the experience even more enjoyable than it otherwise would have been, and definitely contributed to a few of the midnight treks I made to get that particular treat.
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> Verifying signatures was O(n*m) where n is the number of checksig ops and m the transaction size. This makes it possible to generate transaction that are absurdly expensive to validate.

That's what sigops limits are for: https://curiosity-driven.org/low-level-bitcoin#signatures
And a weaker NYT piece on the same topic
'It’s Not Technology That’s Disrupting Our Jobs
The insecure nature of work is a result of decisions by corporations and policymakers'
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/18/opinion/technology/techno...
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There was a series of adverts based on this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gib916jJW1o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxELSzay2lc
We are talking about Toronto here. Your laws don't automatically apply.
>>> I think it's important to write code that is "brittle" enough to just satisfy the requirements

100% agree and the idea behind my post was that writing code in such a way requires a lot of experience and an appropriate mindset.
Just an aside, the repo complains about the length of curl's manpage, but that's what I love about it. Fond memories of sitting on the train home from uni, and browsing big long manpages looking for interesting new options to try out.
You mentioned evil and put emphasis on _TunnelBear_ in your apps list (which I was shocked to see Chromium listed in). Could it be logless VPN services are actually more dangerous than those which log activity?
I did not try and start a free trial and the story is accurate. I take the blame, fool me once as they say, as apparently netflix is part of the Visa Updater program [1] which allowed them to get my new details without me giving it to them. A learning experience for sure. It is meant to prevent lose of service when you get a new card. I had never heard of it before so had to learn of it in a difficult way.

[1]-https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/download/merchants/visa-accoun...
I think part of it is that they were kind of told they were doing something morally good by helping make the case against prisons and advancing a certain version of social justice. One takeaway could be that social justice ideology can be used to perpetrate horrific things, as long as the ends appear to justify the means.
That's interesting. I'm in Illinois and can only use paper scripts for controlled substances. It is quite annoying to have to physically go into the doctor's office to get my Adderrall prescription because they aren't allowed to use a digital script.
Why I refuse to code Android apps in Kotlin
Yes those were fine.
I'm in Illinois and have to get a paper script for my controlled substance prescriptions (Adderall)
I’m a programmer and respected Ada Lovelace simply because of her having the title of the first programmer. Now I think she deserves more recognition because she also envisioned the modern use of computers in everyday tasks. Amazing.
Shifting the burden of paying employees to the customer via guilt and coercion is what's wrong here. Customers should not be made to feel like an asshole for not appreciating seeing their quoted price go up 20%. Lobbying Congress? Start with not supporting dickheads who do this. Charge 20% more and pay your employees properly
brutalist != ugly

At least not necessarily.
I don't think that changes the expectations on the waitstaff side, or the sense of obligation on the tippers' side.

The mountain that needs to be climbed here is about narrative/social norms, not real economics.

Unfortunately I think that bigger than shifting social norms will be shifting customer price expectations. If you kill tipping, expect wages to go up, even in CA, as staff expect (and perhaps legitimately require) a certain level of income, regardless of origin.

It's a little like subsidized gas. The US has been underpaying for gas for so long that I've got no idea what political martyr would try to put that cat in the bag. When a market distortion lasts so long it becomes part of the social fabric, it's real hard to just kill off.

I'd love to hear about times countries have been able to pull this off at scale.
AFAIK, Common Lisp doesn't have a portable threading/multiprocess story, and asdf appears to target the standard / lowest common denominator.
At age 28, after 14 years of pretty intense computer usage... my body is an absolute mess. I work out, do yoga, run. Nothing completely frees me from the pain I have mostly from sitting all day, every day for my work.
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Even people with zero technical knowledge aren't likely to hire a team of people with zero experience accidentally.
To be quite honest, I resist ever reading man pages simply out of purest spite for that one well-known acronym.

I’ve never found actual help at the command line, delving any deeper beyond the --help switch.
As a Swede I've definitely noticed a lot of these things in Swedish pop music. It's fun if a bit embarrassing.

What currently annoys me, though, is that there's this one mistake which always stands out when I hear it, but now I can't remember what it was. I thought it was in an ABBA song, but after going through their lyrics I can't spot it. It's an international hit by a Swedish band in any case. One in which a Swedish idiom is translated word by word and ends up meaning something entirely different.
Thanks, I posted that on mobile and didn’t notice.
Designed by Jony Ive?

http://appletothecore.me/files/pasted-graphic-1232chjoy.jpg
And when one's mental health diminishes, it affects everyone around them, virally.
I started stretching and walking around once an hour or so few years ago, and it is the simplest most efficient prevention to various pains.
Even in harsh deadlines, when I feel the slightest pain, I stop everything, and get-up/stretch/walk around for 5 minutes. Health is above everything else.
The employees who don't do anything yet think it's right to shame others into tipping them for nothing are the ones who should be ashamed. After accidentally tipping a few times for no reason, I have made it a priority to resist this bullshit. It's not my place as a customer to pay more for no reason just because most jobs in this country pay shit and I'm supposed to feel pity for the employees. Yeah the whole situation sucks and we should eliminate tipping altogether and have a livable minimum wage, but this is one way workers are not going to get sympathy. We can all fight for a proper minimum wage or they can nickel and dime the rest of us into not caring about their situation due to this kind of bullshit. I for one am going to specifically make sure not to tip wherever no service exists and whenever asked to before any service rendered, even if there will be a service rendered. I hope others have enough common sense and character to do the same.
A number of restaurants have tried this, and more broadly, JCP tried something of the same sort (charge the "real" price, do away with the manipulative abstractions).

You start hemorrhaging customers. People's baselines for how much food costs are old and calcified, and customers flat out can't be counted on to act rationally and in their economic self interest.

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/jc-penney-admits-marking-pri...
To me it just seems convoluted. I think the fact that everyone has "cheated" to see it just shows that people like to take the path of least resistance.

They have created this complicated solution when there is a much simpler one. How about just NOT loading up your website with tracking / analytics / ads (shock and horror?). You could still have the same magazine style with no distractions. At the end of the day it would serve the same purpose?
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In Australia there have been talks of culling sharks or putting up massive nets along beaches. A deployable distraction or deterrent against sharks would probably be more cost effective.
The "C translation" of the program by the article author:

https://gist.github.com/sinclairtarget/ad18ac65d277e453da5f4...

It's definitely far from being trivial!

Also note the use of floats in the C version. A lot of simpler CPUs didn't and still don't have floats.

Fascinatingly, the Analytical Engine's number representation was 40 digits (and later: 50)(!) base 10 (but not "floating" but "fixed" point):

https://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/authentic.html

Moreover, a lot of simpler CPUs also don't have the "division" in the "instruction set", the Engine has it!

Given the emulator already existing, maybe somebody will now create the cards from Lovelace's program, and run it as intended?

https://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/emulator.html
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Once the data exceed L3 cache,
4-bit is fastest since the dot
product is memory bound: data
movement from RAM becomes the bottleneck.
The speed-up is up to 6x over
the 32-bit version.

Large linalg operations are memory bound.

I learned this the hard way hand coding an arm32 5x5 gaussian blur. When benchmarking my first version, using two passes of the separatable 5x1 and 1x5 filters, I had a facepalm moment when I realized I was really only measuring two round trips to main memory.

Operating on 16x8 pixel blocks, which fit within the register file, required most pixels to only be fetched once and almost doubled performance.
Have you seen a chiropractor?
I think the curriculum is likely to change over time.

Change that occurs over decades is still change...
An Open Source Blockchain Project to Save Your Local Bike Shop
I'm a cycling enthusiast concerned about the long-term prospects for the Local Bike Shop (LBS). The independent LBS simply does not possess the buying power to compete on price with online and big box retailers and, as a result, has been relegated to MSRP “show room” status.

The basic concept is to take a page out of the Filecoin playbook and apply the "Distributed Storage Network," "storage" and "retrieval" market concepts to a network of physical LBS locations. This would enable the LBS network to negotiate competitive prices with suppliers and cost-effectively store product, all while maintaining their storefront presence.

Before posting the project over on Github I wanted to get some feedback on the general concept here because, if there's one thing the Internet's good for it's shredding well-intentioned ideas. Will post the details in the comments. Let me know what you think.

*Full disclosure, I am an employee of a large e-commerce company so while I patronize my LBS whenever possible I'm also guilty by association.
That would emit a beep from the speaker, right? So long ago...
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"tip creep" is a really great term for what's going on.

Services that don't have tips encoded in wage law (like restaurants [mostly]) are either passing along large scale pricing errors, or begging for arbitrary, subjective price increases beyond what's needed to run the business. Neither of those should be met with a smile.
It's not a tax exemption, it's tax evasion. Same for all those "cash only" places - they're simply not declaring most of their income.
> Milton Friedmans

That guys a quack and everything he's done has been debunked.

The definitive work on this was Kenneth Arrows work in the early 60's.

See Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care.

http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/82/2/PHCBP.pdf

tl;dr: Markets don't work for healthcare. Full stop.
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Social media knows how to play the game. It knows how to keep the herds hungry, happy, and most importantly loyal to the system. It strikes where it matters most --into the heart and mind of users. Poking the ego of 'self-worth', counting likes of social acceptance, sharing ego driven personal stories or unmattered opinions to get more and more attention and standout above the rest of the flock. Everything is a contagious fabricated reality that could be a slow poison to a naive.

The bigger picture is it doesn't matter that much because that's the purpose of the business and it is sure succeeding. But we all have our own choice, we can use it either to advantage or disadvantage. Still, somehow it is fortunate for us present generation that we are now living in a complex system that makes things simple, it will keep on progressing and we must keep up so we can enjoy the minimum substantial benefits. I think we just need to understand the rules and we'll be OK.
I've been waiting for something like this. I take it as a sign of maturity of the bitcoin/blockchain ecosystem when people can actively discuss all the issues that the founder missed instead of letting hero worship getting in the way.
tldr tries to fix that: https://tldr.sh
I recently discovered Disc Golf [1]. It's basically golf but with a frisbee! Here's one of the best players going through one of the best of his rounds [2]. Anyway, it seems popular and I was amazed I never heard of it before since I play Ultimate every summer.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_golf

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=352G0B4OClU
That's an excellent writeup.

The site seems to be devoted to old Hollywood, and has long, deep analyses of films and the people involved in them.

So good to see long-form content that's written for no reason other than a passion for the subject.
> Turns out it could be wrong.

> In his sharply reported article, "The Lifespan of a Lie," Ben Blum lays out why the Stanford Prison Experiment and its supposed conclusion could be bogus.

It is a running joke that it was a shitty experiment. Could we just move on.

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2013-06-30
Civic duty, of course!
Herbal supplements might work better.
The MacBook Pro 15" does not have a 4K screen. Lenovo on the other hand do sell workstation-class laptops with 4K screens (3840 x 2160). The X1 Carbon is comparable in size to the 13" MacBook Pro and offers a similar 500 nits IPS panel.
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Political will isn't enough. The NHS needs tens of billions to backpeddle years of decline, to re-in-house services and surge-hire staff where they're need with appropriate incentives.

Doing that in a climate of contracting economical growth and leaving the EU (where 40% of our nurses come from) makes this impossible without politically suicidal borrowing.
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I wonder if Stahlman would consider using a FLOSS-only smartphone. He could use wifi only so he doesn't have to give away his location to a cell provider.
It is not a good idea to use the backslash as the trigger key since it is the traditional line continuation and escape character on UNIX.

Furthermore it is not a good idea to replace the command line with a menu since that limits what is possible in UNIX. If we didn’t design a menu driven system on UNIX in the past 40 years there is a reason for that:

http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/
Tying energy consumption with profit? Or externalities don't count?