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You may enjoy the game The Witness. The entire game is basically built around inducing that feeling.
are roads not infrastructure? that transports food, and medicine?
Umm, having everyone’s data as a flat directory as opposed to an aggregated database sounds terribly inefficient... You need to somehow build a distributed, decentralized database on top of that flat structure, right? Otherwise your Twitter is just a microblog publishing tool plus a direct crawl RSS reader...

Maybe Twitter is too specialized an example. What about any kind of search? You do need an index, and someone still has to own that index, and “donate” computing power to update that index. You own your self-hosted data, like many of us already do, but there will still be gatekeepers, e.g. Google for our current web.

EDIT: I realized that with a clever enough architecture and probably much more computing power than necessary in a trusted environment, no one needs to own the index. But it seems way more advanced than this protocol. (I’m completely new to this stuff so please excuse my naive skepticism.)
This is a huge lawsuit. Apple clearly states in the press and in advertising that the app store is the only way to get apps that are assured to be safe.

I can't imagine it'll take long before there are many and massive class action lawsuits over this incident. The legal bill will be massive.

I can't wait to see how many precedents get created over the total fallout from this event. Should be interesting.
I was actually hoping this was about actually building your own DIY bookshelf (for actual physical books)...
A "lightweight" "micro-framework" that downloads and runs Chrome in order to make an http request? :/
It's not passion crap, these are older players (mid-30s+) who know better.

At some point folks can make the choice to not only chase money. Here we work 40h, some employees are 90%+ remote, come to the office if you want, actually USE the vacation they earn, 100% health, equity

Balance is the real offering. You think I'm selling passion-bullshit, I'm not. I'm selling: ill pay you less but treat you better. Many folks are happy to just not be a cog in a huge machine.
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You do realize that the Internet is a vast AI with whole humans for neurons, don't you? ;-)
It fits the stereotype of people making lousy generalizations about the generation-to-complain-about of the day.
You're confusing speech and actions. Contract killing is bad not because of speech (after all, the contracting can be done in complete silence), but because of someone actually doing the killing.

Another problem, a much bigger one, is most of what people claim to be "hate speech" these days simply isn't. Post certain factual stats on race or Islam on HN, and you will get banned for hate speech. It's hurt feelings, and they often clash with reality.
My lord, who wrote this article?

Imperial College London physicists have discovered how to create matter from light - a feat thought impossible when the idea was first theorised 80 years ago.

They didn’t discover it, as they say in the same sentence this is an 80 year old theory, rather they demonstrated it in a lab rather than observing it in nature. That sentence also makes it sound like this process may have been considered impossible until they demonstrated it in the lab, and that is just not true.

Plus this stupid site clipboard hijaacks. Feh.
Greek soldiers didn't exactly wear Tevas, they wore a sort of boot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buskin

Also worth noting that, as the story goes, the Marathon runner died upon delivering his message.
The firewall hypothesis is one of the quantum gravity hypotheses that is an open area of research, yes. But even if the firewall hypothesis ends up being confirmed (which won't happen any time soon), that does not mean it's the only consistent hypothesis. Your claim was that the classical GR model, and Hawking's original model, were inconsistent. They're not. They might end up not being correct when quantum gravity effects are taken into account, but that doesn't make them inconsistent.
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It is, we use it often (chefs), example needing to empty 12 bottles of red wine into a pot :-)

Edit: fat thumbs
As a clarification, Foucault did not define the term Homo Economicus [1]. He used the concept from Economics to describe the atomization of the individual inside the capitalist state structure, in contest with the "State" as a push-pull with that power structure.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_economicus
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Not exactly. We (should) elect people whose positions and intellect we respect, essentially delegating decision-making responsibility to them. Not that they will make the same decisions we would make in every case, that's just impossible to expect and not what leadership is about.
I guess I'm in the "most people" category, thanks for the pointing this out. I found someone studying this https://harvardmagazine.com/2017/07/the-rise-of-vegan-cultur... -- https://www.ninagheihman.com/ writing a book "Veganized: How Cultural Entrepreneurs Transformed a Fringe Movement" but it seems they are vegan, so presumably this book will just further the influence you mentioned. Do you know of any neutral academic studies of vegan influence in media?
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The Firewall as spelled out in the original paper is widely considered to be unlikely, not in the least because it violates the equivalence principle. There are weaker versions of the firewall based in M-Theory which exist because there is no singularity, and the event horizon is actually the surface of the fuzzball which takes its place, but that’s a different sack of weasels.
One of the things about living in any society is the violence that is enacted on people is often invisible to you unless you are the target of such violence. You can say capitalism does not include in its tenants that certain people are victims or targets of violence but people are. For example, people who steal are threatened by violence for violating property rights, people who do not pay taxes are threatened by violence to pay such taxes. People who murder are threatened with violence so that they not murder. Violence is wielded by the state in liberal capitalism and one of the most important objects of that violence is to uphold the rights of property holders as well as general personal rights like right to life in the case of murder.

You can claim that "it's not violence" but it is. I won't put words in your mouth, but I imagine the first thought you might have is "well, I wouldn't call that violence because imprisoning a person against their wishes for murdering another is justified." Well, in authoritarian left ideologies, beheading the ruling class was justified because they oppressed the working class, so for them, it is justified within their systems logic.

Finally, in addition to those who are expressly the target of violence under capitalism there are people who by the final result of the ideology, become victims of violence, such as those in prison working extremely low wages as the other poster pointed at. You can claim "it isn't the intent" but that argument is very similar to the argument that the intent of pre-Stalin revolutionary Russia wasn't the statist regime that it became. "It's not actual capitalism" is akin to "it's not actual socialism" which is an argument leftists make today.
That's only true for Amtrak in the US, where trains are pitifully slow, and on top of that you picked one of the least favorable relations in terms of distance and speed.

High speed rail achieves up to 200km/h (avg) as the bird flies, commercial aviation in the medium range may do about 400km/h on average (e.g. the 960km of New York - Chicago in about 2:30). Consider that the turn-around of an airplane is about an hour, and for a train it's likely less than that, and the 1/12 factor you bring up may end up being much less in practice.

Or put another way, there are plenty of medium/high speed rail operations that are profitable while giving a large amount of space to passengers.
Constantly. Good enough to have switched from macOS to Windows 10 + WSL.

Like one other commenter, I use it with ConEmu.
> As it turns out, their strategy of extending an existing language to make it safer worked great, while brand new languages that are safer than Typescript are now miles behind it in terms of adoption

Did it? Adoption seems to me to be a pretty silly metric given all the politics of language choice.
Get into a startup where a lot of these practices/ideas aren't yet fully ingrained/adhered to and grow with your team. This will also let you learn more skills than "just coding" as you will have to wear multiple hats.

Once you are confident you can move on to bigger engineering shops. Or just stay and have a great time building new things in startup world. :)
Are you talking about youtube channel thetechlead?
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> There are so many other factors though that affect hiring and attracting developers to the work you have at your company

Sure, and some of them count as "compensation" in the broad sense. For example, if the company is willing to give me more paid time off, then that's equivalent to higher pay.

Some of the other factors you mentioned (such as whether it's "green-field") aren't compensation and can't be adjusted to attract candidates.

Pay is relatively easy to adjust, so it's an easy and fairly general answer to the complex problem of recruiting and retaining engineers.

> For most developers earning over $100K as it is, an extra 10% or even 20% isn't going to change where they eat, what car they drive, where they live, their house, their clothes, or even necessarily what kind of vacation(s) they go on every year.

I've seen developers change their choice of an offer based on $15-20k. It may not seem like a lot to you, but it's important for many people, and I totally respect that.

My comment more broadly was not just about pay, but about the attitude that "developer shortage" is going to be solved by sticks (pressuring developers to be more productive, aggressive outsourcing), rather than carrots (better pay, benefits, work environment, etc.)

The industry's fondness of trying to beat down engineer comp with sticks for decades (how many times was the outsourcing boogeyman paraded?) is the reason for the current predicament.

People looked at all the "outsource all the things!!1" articles on "CIO Today" and decided programming ain't for them 10 years ago. That's why we lack senior engineers now.

Solution for the problem? According to the article, it's more sticks!

Who writes these things?!
I'm having problems where I am not getting important business emails, but only seeing them on a backup account that gets forwarded all my mail.

Also I am getting mail from a guy in India, and he is also getting my email. It's like our accounts got crossed over.

As usually, there is nobody at google to reach.

How did you get a hold of somebody?
I don’t know what for yet, but I’m absolutely certain I will need to pay for your product. Quite the demo!

If you’re ever in the Chicagoland area, happy to buy you a beer!
This is true, but I mostly know of the concept from Foucault's lectures in The Birth of Biopolitics (in particular the "atomization" aspect you mentioned), which I think is slightly different from those other definitions (which is also why I said "Foucault's").
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26,689 java jobs

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83 erlang jobs
Wow, and in 1915, I doubt a scientist never had a more fortuitous and timely name :)
Dangerous. What happens when your incredibly clever internal algorithm decides a customer is liable to lose money and you pocket their cash, and the trade goes a huge amount the other way? The customer demands their 1000% profits, and sues you when you can't pay up.

Also, if you really had this super always correct algorithm, just use it to place short trades or options trades based on what it predicts across the market and sit back and rake in the cash.
This is from 2014 and proposes the experiment. Follow ups have been interesting, here is one from 2017 (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-17605-6) which actually generates positrons.

And here is the discussion from 9 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15725759
Such comments are common after every "disaster". When Intel chip vulnerabilities due to aggressive caching were announced, the fixes reduced perf for those chips, and these same types of comments were made.

It never happens.
This is the best answer here. You've come to the conclusion that you're good at coding alone, but you don't know how to do it well in a team or company— your team and company. Other answers frame this as a technology problem (patterns and practices) but you'll hack it faster as an acculturation task. Get mentors. Plural. Grab one person in each department where you feel shaky— QA's, solutions architects, operations, maybe product, etc. Tell them you're new at this and you want to ask them questions and work closely with them to get better. (This will not offend them and it will not make them look down on you. If it does, you don't want what they're selling anyway.) Two months into asking them for code reviews and just taking them to lunch and asking about things you know they care about in their areas of responsibility, you'll notice results in terms of your own thinking and output. 1 year in, you'll be very, very good at this.
I've been using SyncThing [1] recently, which does a similar thing but between your own devices (anything from Android to desktop to servers in the cloud). I've been using it on Linux and Windows, and it seems pretty good.

[1] https://syncthing.net
Some statements might warrant citations, while some might not. That is your argument, right?

Given! Now, hop along your merry way!
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What's the difference between using doc vs. HTML as a document format? Why did Microsoft not use HTML instead of inventing doc format?
The last week i found this [1] thread by Notch. He is working in an entry to js13k [2] (a game jam about html5 games restricted to 13 KBs).

He bundled the whole source code and binary data used in the game/tech demo to use the in browser image decompression, avoiding to write a custom (de)compression code, saving KBs this way.

Then he just eval() the needed parts for each thing.

I found this extremely clever, game jam limitations, specially size ones, evolve into clever programming tricks that are interesting both to code and to look at.

[1] https://twitter.com/notch/status/1035811278520872960

[2] http://js13kgames.com/
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Ah, forgot that it doesn’t list the email on the profile. I updated my about page and it should have it now.

Yeah, I’m happy to help everyone!
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I would leave my job in a second for 5k more a year. Admittedly I currently make less than 100k but that 5k more is 5k more money towards securing my family financially.
I would not want to be over 40 and interviewing for a almost any startup, anywhere in the US.

More broadly, I would not want to be the over-40 guy trying to interview for any team where hardly anyone is even close to 30.

Such teams are quite common, especially in startups everywhere, and not just in SV, unfortunately.

I'm not affected by ageism myself (yet), but even if it was only in SV, which is the biggest tech hub in the US, then it would be a huge problem.

But ageism is rampant outside of SV as well.
Similar behavior is so widespread (browser extensions, mobile apps, and now desktop apps) that some legislative solution is required. Otherwise, the companies and individuals doing this will be limited with a light slap on the wrist like in this case.
This is the real spirit of entrepreneurship. Hard work, learn quick, make mistakes, but get it done. With skin in the game rather than burning through investor money.

I hope to read more of these posts, but I know Chris cannot afford to spend a lot of time writing them. Nevertheless I'm looking forward to reading part 3 when it is posted in 18 months.

PS slight grammar nitpick: overtime != over time
You either set boundaries for yourself, and manage your managers expectations and resources or they will pick your expectations and resources. You have to pick one, and I don't blame the business for taking him for a ride.
I guess the question is, if a single listening TCP connection is not a problem because everything can sleep until a packet arrives, what's the problem with multiple apps each opening such a connection?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but any kind of stardom that nets you $3MM post-tax per year will also open the door to great investment opportunities AND a sort of residual income.

By residual income I mean things like being paid to appear at events and sponsor brands. Very low effort work. To be fair, that'll eventually dwindle away, but if he plays his chips right then he could coast on that kind of stuff for a long time.
How certain are you that this analysis would come out in opposition to pretty much whatever advertisers want?
This is terrible but blaming WhatsApp is misplaced. If it wasn't WhatsApp, it would have been another service. Either it will be easy to communicate or it won't be. If it is, it can be used as a force for good or a force for evil. The real problem is so much more difficult that it's easy to try to find something you can do, block the technology, so you feel like you are doing something even if it's completely ignoring the root of the issue.
> Not every company needs smart capable senior engineers. If you are just doing yet another SAAS CRUD app, you may not need anymore than an architect and some mid level developers. Full stack developers are becoming a commodity.

So you recognize even a single simple project like a single SAAS CRUD app requires at least one smart, capable, senior engineer (your architect).

Also, I'd say you're overestimating my definition of "senior engineers". A senior engineer is someone who actually completed a project or two. Someone you can entrust with big chunks of development work and be reasonably sure they won't mess it up.

Your "mid level developers" are likely senior by this standard, especially since the alternative, "a junior", typically means someone fresh out of college (or boot camp) with about 0 real world experience.
> This says a lot about how little the industry cares about software quality. You'd think a bunch of people who make a living out of automating tasks would happily use tools that automate the checking of an importnt source of bugs. Instead, many prefer to use tools that look simpler on the surface and then end up manually testing for the same kind of bugs over and over. So you have people writing in dynamically typed languages who rely on (manually written!) unit tests to check that their program is not mixing up types, and others using unsafe languages and then relying on tests to catch memory access violations.

In the case of a "safer C" I suspect it's largely because it never materialized. C still has its deficiencies relative to Rust, but Rust is the first viable competitor.
The problem with this is a lot of these statements came out during the red scare as a way for the liberal west to distinguish itself from the communist east. Saying "Mao killed tens of millions" is like saying "Capitalism kills tens of millions" because people around the world don't get food for free even though we make enough food to feed everyone. They are similar because the argument is essentially "the central planning lead to famine" which points to a failure of the ideology, not an intended result of the ideology.

Stalin and Mao were brutal and both directly killed and imprisoned between them killed millions who didn't agree with them, but the number is a couple of orders of magnitude less than the oft cited tens of millions to hundreds of millions. It doesn't excuse them of the violence they subjected to millions to, but statements like this make them seem worse than say the result of fascism which has been something that fascists (along with holocaust denial) use to disparage actual communists to benign and reformist social democrats whilst lifting the historical record of their ideology's crimes. For example, look at the nonsensical "universal healthcare is communism" rhetoric in the US.
But the key difference remains: there aren't many personal computers that we leave plugged in and turned on 24/7 anymore.
If he set himself up with a consistent 48 hour no stream schedule, I doubt he would keep losing 40k subscribers every break
This sounds like pure marketing to me. Statements like "Cockroaches are also a raw material in traditional Chinese medicine, known to be able to promote detoxification" and "found that chickens fed with the powder were not only healthier but also grew stronger and faster than normal chickens" without citations sets off all sorts of alarm bells.

And I don't know a ton about this area in general but it seems like if you are separating the organic compounds from trash then compost centers would be the real alternative (rather than landfills)?
I think the best way forward would be Satellite based Internet where people can tune their dish antennas to the sky and get Internet. That would be Interruption free and decentralised. I have very low faith on Bitcoin mining operations to be repurposed for decentralised Internet, though in theory they have the compute nodes no body is free from the Internet service providers. A decentralised network based on existing network can never be totally free or decentralised.
One limitation a site like this runs into is the fact that there's no such thing as an "impartial" view on fundamental questions of value. For example, what's the "impartial" view on whether to accept more refugees from war-torn regions? Just because a view is sandwiched between others on whatever particular spectrum chosen, or t uses dispassionate language, doesn't mean it's "impartial". It's still a view argued from values. Stated differently, for many (all?) questions there isn't a view that remains once we've filtered out all of the "biased" views. To further complicate things, one's person's "bias" is another's "commitment".

Perhaps best to refer to the default view here as "composite" rather than "impartial".
Speaking as a foreigner who asked many Americans what kind of math and physics they learn in school, you guys aren't doing anywhere near enough of both if you want to stay competitive. I've met college students who don't know what was middle school math for us - and not because they forgot.
I feel like this is more than just air flow. You're adding energy into the bottle by causing the water to spin in a whirlpool. It seems like that energy would also help push the water out of the bottle through path of least resistance dynamics (the open end of the bottle).
Yeah, folks tend to forget that not all engineers are in their early 20s, making $150k and content to live with roommates for the next decade (and possibly the rest of their lives).
I know this is going to be an inconvenient reminder for many folks, but: if you play any part in bringing software (or technology in general) into the world, you have an obligation to consider the moral, ethical, and political ramifications of what you are building at every single step of the way.

What happened in that village wasn't an accident – it was the result of careful "growth-hacking", design, product work, and engineering. It just didn't work as intended.

There is no such thing as a neutral line of code, feature, notification, design, business, or product. Full stop.