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Based on my personal observations, I don't know that any of those "benefits" are true. For about eight months of the year, I have a 3-day weekend every other weekend. (Nine hour days with every other Friday off and eight hour days on the other Fridays.) Around September, I burn vacation days taking the opposite Fridays off, so I have at least a 3-day weekend ever weekend for the remainder of this year. I've done this for a number of years now.

I don't find myself healthier. I eat the same and I'm a little more active; but, not much. Not enough to make a real difference. Increased physical activity on one day is not better than spreading it out over a week.

I don't get more sleep. Numerous studies say to keep the same sleep schedule every day and one day is not going to make a difference,

I'm not less of a jerk. Having Friday off does not do anything to my energy levels on Monday - Thursday. I try to sleep and eat right all week.

I don't think am better at my job. While there is some less stress because I have an additional day not to think about it; I am also not around for anything that might come up on a Friday.
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> original title is the title of the article. Otherwise anyone could rewrite any title and call theirs the original.

Those sentences seem to contradict each other. Let's leave original title ('Google CA') and current title (whatever it is when you read this) as their existing meanings.

The ancestor post said 'Google CA' was misleading despite the article contents saying Google is making a CA. I criticised the action, which deserves criticism, and very specificaly did not criticise the user.

But I don't really want to expend any more energy here and suspect you don't either so let's leave this discussion.
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What scenario am I in where I would have a sword, have it shattered and be in trouble?

In war, people mostly use polearms. In a sword fight, as has been shown in many HEMA videos i have seen, it's over in a single exchange. At that point it doesn't matter if your sword is shattered or not. And the idea that your sword being notched will 'put you off the flow' just doesn't buy it for me.
Such a thing is not possible, because news is not neutral. Specifically, the decision of what is newsworthy is not neutral. I understand that certain US papers - NYT? - are considered mostly value-free in their reporting, but from my (left wing) perspective they appear highly ideological.

I have some sympathy for UK newspaper attitudes that "we have a point of view and we're proud of it". The fact that they are all terrible rags written by the worst kind of hacks is a separate problem.

As for sibling argument that the FT have no agenda, well, the clue is in the name. It's written for upper management. The fact that such people don't need or want their news as heavily filtered as their underlings is more an expression of the requirements of capital that anything else. Upper management can't afford ideological flights of fancy when they need to keep the system running.
I guess a good option is to pick "reference topics" as measuring sticks. Read about something you are intimately familiar with. If the reporting matches your experience you can assume it's relatively unbiased. If there's a strong mismatch you can assume it will be present when covering topics you are not familiar with and cannot judge correctly.
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IP blocking is ineffective[1] and can have noticeable collateral damage[2]. As has been discussed at length in discussions about tracking people for copyright protection/enforcement reasons, IP addresses are not a suitable method of identifying/locating/tracking people.

[1] they could just connect from somewhere else next time: mobile instead of home network, coffee shop wireless, day-job guest wireless, train/bus wireless, friend's wireless, tethered to friends' mobile connection, ... - in fact the poster may have used an alternate location this time just-in-case[3].

[2] if a public address/range is blocked, or a range used by a large employer or educational establishment, that could affect many innocent users while not affecting the problem user.

[3] people determined enough to be dicks that they take time to sign up for a throwaway account, are likely determined enough to post from another location and dickish enough not care if other people using that location get blocked because of their action.
Note however that unofficial results are out usually the same day. Other than not being vetted yet, these unofficial use (afaik) the same counts the official results use.
> It seems you can't be charitable without someone telling you you should have given more or given to someone else.

"Extreme taking and extreme giving" is what kings, emperors and other tyrants did (and still do).

A billionaire can give away 99.9% of his/her earnings every month but s/he is acquiring extreme power in exchange.

Being able to control the money tap is power.

> It's not a great way of encouraging charity.

Good. That's what taxation or other forms of redistribution are for.

Contrarily to charity, it does not create patrons/heros/tyrants
Agree. I also think it's very important to point out that he has been doing an insane amount of work, under an insane amount of pressure (and not just external, also internal, by his own character), for decades. Anyone who is minimally obsessive and has been leading a project involving a lot of people for a while knows the feeling. Now, with open source it can get even trickier, and the scale of the work he has been doing is comparable to few other projects.

This is not to excuse him. But when he acknowledges it himself, I think everyone should be empathetic with that. I think that judging without taking the context into account is outright cruel. Universal morality standards are cool, but we shouldn't forget that in the end we are all still just humans. We all make unforgivable mistakes. Only some of us realize and admit them.
People underestimate how difficult it is to learn to read written music. You have to learn the notation, parse its meaning, and then embed the finger movements required by the notation in muscle memory so you don't need to think about them consciously.

The most efficient fingerings are often not obvious and feel very clumsy to beginners - which is why they're written into piano scores. If you do what's easiest you'll cripple your progress later.

And ideally you need some awareness of phrasing, context, and other elements of musicality, which some people will be born with, while others have to learn.

Your brain is translating a complex set of symbols into a complex set of movements, while being aware of context and state.

A different kind of notation will do very little to make any of this easier.
US federal budget for 2018 is ~4 trillion. Bezos has just donated 2 million. If that’s really your concern then you should try to keep things in perspective.
If you want to talk about the economy’s ability to generate jobs, then U3 is the best metric. U6 contains everybody who chooses not to look for employment for whatever personal reason, whether they’re discouraged or simply just don’t really need or want a job.
If Linus can become polite, I am sure desktop linux can also happen one day.
I also was majorly, majorly deceived about my equity stake, even though I was one of the two all-in founders and built both of our products. I suggest you insist on helping with the initial legal. Have your own lawyer review the documents. Insist on seeing the cap table if you are mostly taking equity. I highly recommend calling references if you don't know your business partner well. Finally, I suggest playing a visible role in representing the company to the outside world. This way, your cofounder will have a difficult time hiding you from future investors.
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Stating a "wet streets cause rain" is too obvious and will be picked up as a fallacy. But to really con people say: "there is wet streets and again the rain appears" so the reader makes the false arrow of causation in their mind although you didn't say it.
The alternative is having a fact based discussion of the causes and effects.

"It may simple be that a facile understanding of the world is perfectly acceptable for most topics."

I agree, for most practical things it's sufficient to register a thing has happened without deeply understanding the causal premises leading to the event, nor the implications.
The printing press made monks copying manuscripts obsolete. Software created by volunteers is rarely better in performance and features than software created with commercial support, and the Open Source aspect is mostly a red herring here. I'm not sure your examples are making your case very well.
Someone should have bought the Village Voice.
Policy seeks to increase the pay of the employed and reduce the unemployment. Increasing pay increases unemployment in principle, but the the bond between the two is fickle and difficult to predict. Sometimes it's an extremely weak bond, sometimes it's strong. Its precise strength is difficult to pin down even with hindsight.
Our society is such that we typically work 8 out of 24 hours(33%), 5 out of 7 days(71%) and 11 out of 12 months(91%), with exceptions ofcourse. All those aeons of evolution so as to come out of our caves and settle for this?

IMHO we should be working less and have more free time for activities that would be good for our spirits/souls/minds.

Where are the robots, AI and all the other technological wonders that we were expecting for the 21st century?
Apple now strives to design and build products that last as long as possible
People keep saying things like that but no one is linking to threads we can read
>Your proposal is not going to work

and

>I'm not seeing the benefit of this

are very indirect statements in my vocabulary.
I'm interested to know what people think about this with TypeScript - quite a lot of the weird behaviour in plain JS is rejected by the compiler, eg, "true == 1" evaluates to true in plain JS, but is a compiler error in TypeScript since it rejects bool vs number equality checks.

So with TypeScript code, I've been continuing to use == as in most other languages, with the expectation that any odd comparisons will be flagged by the compiler. On the other hand, I've not verified myself that it catches them all, so I wonder if anyone has come across other edge cases with this that could cause problems down the line.
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US federal budget for 2018 is ~4 trillion. Caifornia’s 2018 budget is ~200 billion. Bezos has just donated two billion. Keep things in perspective.
Is it a good thing?
My day has a two-hour commute at each end anyway, three or fours days per week (I'm remote the other days) so piling on an extra 2 is pretty much out of the question.

I'm not in the US so I can't answer that!
>> 1. The Passion Hypothesis Sucks

For me, there are two fundamental assumptions in this piece of advice, both
mistaken: that you only get one ("true"?) passion in your entire life and
that's that, and that this passion is for one very specific ...thing, that
exists in a particular space and time.

For instance, under those assumptions, Charles' Babbage's "passion" would be
about "mechanical computers", based on the fact that he dedicated the majority
of his resources working on those, towards the end of his life; so they must
have been what he was passionate about.

In reality, reading his autobiography, it's obvious that Babbage simply had a
mind that would not be constrained and would jump from interest to interest
throughout his life. He happened to get his teeth sunk into something really,
really big with mechanical computers and, having so dug his way into a rich
seem of new ideas, he invested most of his resources in mining it for all it
was worth. But he was simply interested in anything and everything- and,
particularly in things that worked.

As to the second fundamental mistake, the fact that Babbage became interested
in mechanical computers was a happy accident: he was born at a time and in a
place that enabled this interest. Were he to be born 1000 years prior, or half
a continent away, he would have probably never have heard of such things as
mechanical calculators and never have gone down in history as the inventor of
the first ever general computer (and also, btw, of feature creep).

Perhaps -no, certainly!- "find your passion" is bad advice when it makes
these two assumptions about how a "passion" is a very specific thing that can
only exist in one place and time. But, when "passion" points to something
deeper about how one's mind functions and where one's natural proclivities
lie, then it's actually good advice: to find your strengths and your
weaknesss, and play to your strengths and avoid your weaknesses.

Then, there's those of us who can only really apply ourselves to a job if it
is scratching an itch- for working with our hands, for things that work, for
abstract ideas, for the wonderment in the physical world, for inspiration and
creativity, for hard work and contributing to the community- etc, etc. Only
when we are really interested in the thing we do can it keep our full
attention and our full focus for long hours and longer days. For such people,
"find your passion" really means: "find something that makes you work hard and
use it to live a productive life". It means: "maximise your potential".
It's idiomatic to use == to check for both null and undefined at least.

A lot of people seem to have a perception of languages as being handed down by some language gods, and apparent problems with the language get explained away by "mere users" lacking knowledge, perspective, discipline, etc.
Work life balance sucks.
Unless you believe that commerce is a goal in itself, and that building a successful business contributes positively to the world by default (I'm sure many people do believe this so just getting it out of the way), then you have to look at the outputs. For Amazon that's largely:

- extremely poor pay and conditions for Amazon's workers

- dominance driving smaller less-efficient enterprises out of business; this isn't just sentimental: efficiency is about driving cost down, including labour costs. SMEs employ more in aggregate than the large businesses replacing them, so typically Amazon is unlikely to be a net job-creator.

- Amazon pays very little corporate tax, both by running low-profit/high-cashflow, through other methods particularly for it's operations in Europe, and they used to evade sales tax almost completely in the US. Tax = vital public and social services for citizens, so that's a big net negative.

- Jeff Bezos' personal tax story is not dissimilar.

etc. etc.

This isn't a criticism of Bezos or Amazon, but of large multinational corporate entities and their contributions to "charitable" causes in general. CSR is always an a attempt to offset something.
> LINE (x1, y1) - (x2, y2), 5, FB

> Can you remember what it does? (no, it doesn't draw a line; it would, if not for "FB").

Yes. Draws a filled box (FB), from top-left (x1,y1) to bottom right (x2,y2) in Purple (colour 5).

Although thinking about it... I'm pretty sure that the co-ords of 0,0 were bottom left, not top left on DOS based graphic screens, so is quite probably bottom-left to top-right.

Source: One of my first 'paid' jobs was as a QB45 programmer for an accountancy firm in the mid 1990s.
The newspapers I read tend to get things right at least in my area of expertise. Even when they reported on events or initiatives I was directly involved in, they got the (sometimes incharitable) facts right. The ones that don't, I don't read.

It does seem strange to continue reading a source that gets things wrong all the time. A friend's commentary on those: "Just consider them entertainment. Some readers want to be entertained in ways reality can't offer them."
Sure he could raise all amazon staff salary but that doesn't alter the fact he is charitable.
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Have quite a few friends who are dancers - and they are taken advantage of! One recently commented that she had been working as a dance teacher, but was considering joining the police because she realised when a recent administrator was taken on that the admin salary was twice what hers was. And yet supposedly she was one of the core enablers for her organisation - without which it couldn't function, and yet the admin postion was generic...
Or maybe, human psychology is too complicated with too many factors influencing results to be easily reproducible. The crisis is then more in the expectation you have and about initial small scale experiments being treated as "truth" and expected to work across cultures, social groups and social situations. Apple always falls down, but how people respond is sensitive to a lot of context.

Some of crisis are frauds or shaddy science (prison experiment). Some of it is the simplistic expectation that since experiments in basic physics are simple, psychology and sociology should be equally simple.

Lastly, these science are call soft, because they use less math and deal with fuzzy issues.
I really hope he doesn't change on code quality standards.
It's not only about costs. It's really about hard work to deliver the best for customers.

Many online retailers simply do not make efforts to deliver, quite apart from any cost consideration, and then they moan about Amazon.

In addition, it's also about creating trust. Buying something online requires more trust than buying from a store so convincing people that it's safe and that there won't be any issues with returns and refunds is a big part of getting people to place and order and to come back.
> The state of news sites is well known to everyone on HN. It's not nice to have this same comment pop up every time instead of discussing the article.

This is a technology website, I find UX discussion pretty relevant since all these news sites have horrible UX, and it should be pointed out each time they fail at basic UX. They don't need 50 nag screens. They could put most of them on the side or the top of their page, including GDPR notices. The reason why they use these invasive and annoying nag screens is that browsers ended up blocking all these annoying window based pop ups at first place.

Online news media just can't learn their lesson.
Well, there is the move of capturing the opponent's blade against the guard, and then closing to stab with one's knife. The risk there is that your guard will fail. But if the opponent's blade breaks, they're likely in worse trouble.
I totally love its pastel colour styled gray look and feel of olden days. Very Nice. Is this an implementation from scratch?
It would be better to hide the consent banners (use any good ad blocker) and delete the unauthorized cookies anyway. Without having your explicit consent they cannot track you (they still might, but it'd be a violation) so the cookie manager is just a way for you to enforce your rights.
The issue there is that TS allows dropping out of the type system with `any`, so it might not actually be checking the types you're comparing, so I'd still use ===.
There’s nothing bad about a ‘hot’ economy. It simply presents a different set of challenges that haven’t really been an issue for quite a while.

Rising employment means rising inflation, to reduce inflation you increase interest rates, but if you do that too much you’ll slow down growth, and if that happens employment will slow down.

I think you really could have benefitted from reading the article.
Hello everyone. This is one of the first things I've made in the Go language. I made it because (a) I think automata theory is really cool and (b) it's something I am hoping to use in a parser I'm building.

Anyway, please check it out; if you have comments/criticism, let me know. Thanks!
I think there's too much focus on raising wages. While that's not really the way to improve the situation for low incomes. One should seek to raise the buying power. A stronger dollar, can mean higher buying power for imported products. Keeping the inflation low is also as important as raising wages. Another positive factor is increasing the productivity. The more you produce, means there's more stuff for everyone to buy and that drives the prices lower.
> What could be successful is a Linux distro that unites frontend devs and designers, but where the different tools and building blocks of that distro are used outside of the Linux ecosystem, for professional interface design on other platforms.

A lot of KDE apps work just fine on windows and macOS. Krita, Digikam... the tools are the same for every platform including iOS and Android: Qt, QtCreator. It's made for designers : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko3YPM_tStM
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Wooaawww so much of sources
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> arguably justifiable

Very curious about these justification arguments. How on earth is tax-avoidance defensible in a thread about philanthropy?
From the linked wikipedia article:

"One example is that of C. S. Lewis (who did not know of this phenomenon but nevertheless has a case of it). After reading biographical interpretations of his own works and realizing how incorrect they could be, he began to read other biographical interpretations with more caution, aware not to accept everything stated at face value."

A facile understanding might be perfectly acceptable — as long as you accept it for what it is, and allow for the idea that you might be wrong in your understanding.
Regarding your first question, the only way we could even determine if it a meaningful question to ask is if we demonstrated conclusively if gravitons exist or not, which would require a quantum theory of gravity that we currently just don't have. Great question though.

Regarding your second question, yes. And as we increase our number of gravity wave followed shortly by EM wave detections, I'm willing to bet that the difference between the two will become a very useful tool in the cosmic distance ladder toolbox.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_distance_ladder
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18000698 .
Yachts depreciation is huge as people who could pay that much don’t tend to buy used without heavy discounts. So, he was right cost new says little about current value.

Worse for the manufacturer, it’s unlikely for anyone to want the same design without heavy modifications should the original buyer become insolvent.
Controlling the supply of money is all the Fed is doing here, which is nothing even similar to central planning.
> However, what about a genious which politely replies something along the lines of "I'm very sorry but I don't think your contribution aligns with the goals and/or philosophy of this project.".

Do you really think you can provide that kind of consistent response to different types of people? Your reply is most of the time dependent on the people you are interacting. It is very easy to draw a nice person to a fight or being rude. It is very hard to analyze because the scenario sample space is infinite.
I never understand why people say things like this. It's not even remotely true. For instance we can quantify the salary comment. A quick search for fulfillment center work showed salaries starting at $12-$14/hour. The median pay for retail work, by contrast, is $11.24 [1], which means 50% of workers earn less than that.

It's not possible to similarly conveniently quantify concern about counterfeit, but if you think they genuinely do not care about it then I don't even know what to say. Even from a purely greed centered point of view, counterfeits hurt mid to longterm revenue.

[1] - https://www.bls.gov/ooh/sales/retail-sales-workers.htm
This doesn't sound like how newspapers work.

Take a state propaganda outlet like RT.com. They have plenty of stories on topics I know about that are just fine.