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If you haven't had the chance to play Scratches, another game mentioned in the article, you should. It's fantastic and has a really great soundtrack. The developer is launching a new scary adventure game, soon, and it looks really really good.
"You shouldn't work long hours" is consensus advice masquerading as contrarian advice. You can see this for two reasons: (i) count the number of people in threads like this who advise against working long hours; (ii) go to Amazon.com and count the number of books that advocate (often using empirical evidence) against working long hours. The same is true for "you shouldn't multitask". Everyone thinks they're clever for saying this. But in fact it's just consensus advice (and of course: there are good reasons to think it).

The question then is: under what conditions is the consensus opinion wrong? Why do notable outliers (i.e., people like Elon Musk) do the opposite of consensus and perform so well (Elon in particular not only consistently works 80+ hour weeks, but seems to multitask quite a bit)?

The interesting data points are always the outliers, not the averages.
Ask HN: Argentinean Indie Hackers how do you deal with stripe not working?
Is there a fellow Argentinean here that knows how to replace stripe for charging international customers on a SaaS?
AFAIK the IPCC report doesn't include nonlinear ice dynamics. Can't find a source right now.

I recommend Eric Rignot's presentations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3ivlofypzE

IPCC is conservative.
I can't imagine this being abused at all.
The arguement in [1] doesn't make sense to me. Xilinx tools are free, as in beer, and the sale of ICs funds those tools so they are implementing your system of a "tax on every chip". Surely the VP of tools at Xilinx knows this.

What problem are you unable to solve with an FPGA because you do not have the source code to Vivado?

I understand why Xilinx doesn't want to release their source. They don't want to support it. Supporting code is a huge overhead and it's not clear, to me anyway, what Xilinx gains from the expendature.
No party has ever had a bowl, however, it may be possible to research opportunities for introducing them in the future.
So the west would rather than millions die from cancer than make health information more accessible to researchers.
Just a stab, but it could be PTC Creo using wiring looms.

Example image of wiring an assembly in Creo:

http://www.arbortext.com/-/media/Images/CAD/PTC-Creo-PCX---1...

I am not aware of the interface method Creo uses for wiring or resolving connections, it could be purely graphical with no resolving at all. If so I would assume that the electronics/pcbs you can see in the original article are likely just 3D STEP models exported from the ECAD package into Creo.

Sadly, the market does not currently (to my knowledge) present engineers with one single software solution for ecad->mcad>wiring>assembly>release, instead relying on various software packages, licenses and extensions on these with each user (company) forging their own local workarounds to bridge or replace specific steps of the process.
IIRC, IPFS itself is not anonymous. What makes this anonymous?
Depends. There was a time in my 30s(IIRC) where I had 3 contracts going at the same time. It was exhilarating. My mind was constantly humming and I was really into it. I was pulling about 80 hours a week for a few months. It really depends on the type of work and how much it engages you.
I like Bogleheads. It's a little conservative as far as investing goes, but people are nice and there are good conversations.
Apple would rather you buy a mac at home, a mac in the office, and an ipad for the commute--all tied together and locked in the apple garden with an icloud subscription--than let you get away with all this use out of just one device.
That's not the explanation; the explanation is what I said above: off-topicness, drama, metaness, troll topics, self-referential rants, and tedious back-and-forths.

What I described is really a 3-month probation rather than a ban, during which your comments will default to [dead] but we'll be happy to vouch for the good ones. Since our software doesn't do probations, we have to use the ban system to do this.

When you use Hacker News as intended—i.e. when you post out of intellectual curiosity—your contributions range from fine to wonderful. But you're doing way more than this. You post many things that come from a very different place than intellectual curiosity. Those posts have a lot of energy, but they're not interesting in HN's sense of interesting. When you do this, you lower the signal/noise ratio here, often very badly. Other users get sucked in for their own reasons, resulting in large, tedious subthreads that nobody else cares about. That's not what this site is for.

Lowering the signal/noise ratio is the reason why we moderate anyone here. It isn't personal. Personally, we admire your cleverness and like you, which is why Scott and I have spent so many hours communicating with you, trying to help you, trying to get you to fix this. Most anyone else would have been banned a long time ago.

I'm sure it's true that we don't know all your accounts. And I'm sure you can create all sorts more trouble for us if you want. But for what reason? Doing that is not going to feel any better.
Unfortunately, even with higher magnetic fields, DT fusion is unlikely to ever be practical. That's because the power density of the reactors is inherently limited by wall loading and minimum size considerations from neutron cross sections.

Look at the numbers. The power density of a PWR fission reactor core is 100 MW/m^3. If you consider the volume of the primary reactor vessel instead, it's 20 MW/m^3.

The power density of ITER is 0.05 MW/m^3 (counting gross fusion power). Even if you just include the volume of the plasma, it's 0.6 MW/m^3.

What about higher field concepts like MIT's ARC reactor? If you look at the paper on arxiv where details are given, the power density is 0.5 MW/m^3 -- 40 times worse than a PWR.

The low power density is devastating to the economic case for fusion. Magnetic fusion reactors will be complex, expensive things, with superconducting magnets, complex cooling systems, breeding blankets, heating and control systems. They will be much more expensive per unit mass or volume than a simple PWR reactor vessel. And much of that complex system will need to be periodically replaced due to neutron damage. If the power density is 40x worse they cannot possibly compete.

Yes, (SP)ARC is better than ITER. But ITER is so horribly bad that a reactor can be an order of magnitude better and still not have any real chance of competing.
I find this reality highly disturbing, but, as you mention, the average user is impartial if not completely ignorant. I think Google is very clearly exploiting both its monopoly and this end-user ignorance to centralize and control all aspects of the web and user devices. It's not far-fetched to consider that soon there will be no OS on the PC, but rather just Chrome as an interface to everything Google and the web. And so controversy like this is momentary and seen only in a vocal minority, quickly forgotten. Just a couple months ago, Chrome was found to be scanning user files for malware - this was quickly forgotten, probably even by the very same vocal people discussing Chrome on HN today. At this point, it's almost faux outrage.
Mixed Reality Interfaces and Product Management
In days like this, a little bit of science and a ton of human ingenuity brings a smile to my face. Stuff like this is what happens when we come together and use our tech for the greater good - keep it up! Amazing that Japan has "Crickets" hopping around on asteroid!
I think your frustration largely arises because the problem you work on is uncommon. The goals you are working towards are very large and error is not an option because people die or at least massive property damage occurs. Most applications aren't like that. It doesn't matter much if 1/10k image upload to Instagram fail. We have a lot more Instagrams than autonomous cars so the engineering culture conversion is largely dominated by those trade offs. It's interesting because I think we see experiencing the pendulum having swung heavily towards Agile. In the past we used to slow down some crud apps by first drawing UML diagrams. Fingers crossed that we can discover a wider, more differentiated range of engineering practices.
Translation: Anything that disagrees with dangs homophobic, neonazi politics is not tolerated on HN. Unless you agree with him, your opinions are ideological rants. If you do agree with him, of course, abuse, name calling, stalking, harassments, threats of violence, violations of the law and hate speech are ok... as dang himself engages in and provides cover for regularly on this site.

Anyone who dares point out this hypocrisy or dares to think for themselves, for that matter, will be censored immediately.

Because like all nazis, dang is an intellectual coward who cannot defend his positions, will not recognize his own hypocrisy and abuse, and thinks that silencing people so that the "HN record" only shows one side makes reality.

Reality is you're an abusive, lying asshole, and hypocrite.

You don't care for diversity, you seek to create a monoculture of group think.

And anyone worth a damn has left his site or been driven off.

Oh and of course I'm shadow banned. This is what I get for coming out as gay and admitting "I'm not aleftist".

Thats all it takes.

Dang you are such a lying piece of shit. Karma is a bitch, fucker.
It's a sample return mission! They're actually going to try to bring bits of the asteroid back to earth
Enjoyed the post. We have made a ton of flashing and testing jigs for my company (flair.co) and I have 3d printed a few but in general, laser cut acrylic seems to be the most popular route unless you need something more than a 2D profile. My favorite strategy is to design them in Fusion360 with the assumption they will be laser cut and then if I don't have access to a laser cutter and/or material, I can still 3D print. Designing for the lost common denominator makes this easy/fast/cheap. Pretty much most anything basic on a laser cutter can be made with a 3D printer if the size isn't too big.
I thought long and hard about that one and decided that fines should be remitted to the social security administration and booked against the perps account as a contribution.

As far as I can tell this is extremely easy to implement. And utterly removes any mal-incentives.
I'm waiting with bated breath for the first massive GDPR case. Doesn't matter who, really. Just so long as the powers that be have fires lit under their asses.
That is an extremely narrow example that ignores many other scenarios, some of them privacy related and some of them functionality related.

But I'll bite. In the scenario you just described, can't Alice still just look at her local history and get all of the same information? I just tested -- local history is accessible across accounts in Chrome 69.

So this change doesn't actually protect people who are sharing computers -- a private browsing session is what protects them. And this change doesn't make private browsing any easier.

Also in this scenario, if Bob isn't checking his email or something, he's very unlikely to go log Alice out of her account. So the extremely minor privacy boost that doesn't actually exist because all of Bob's history is still stored locally will still only happen if both Alice and Bob use Gmail.

Which makes it sound like this entire feature was the brainchild of some executive who genuinely can't comprehend someone borrowing a computer and not immediately signing into Gmail. A much better solution to the problem you're describing above would be to draw more attention to private browsing sessions in the UX, or to just have some kind of notification when the user signs out of Gmail.

Heck, you could have the same exact feature, except drop the auto-login part and only have the auto-logout. That would still be a useless feature because of the reasons above, but it would get rid of the vast majority of the privacy concerns the tech community is currently raising.

Auto-login is not necessary to fix the problem you're talking about.
But the cargo cult monoculture you nazis enforce with your abuse and repeated threats of violence are very SJW SV leftist.

Translation: Anything that disagrees with dangs homophobic, neonazi politics is not tolerated on HN. Unless you agree with him, your opinions are ideological rants. If you do agree with him, of course, abuse, name calling, stalking, harassments, threats of violence, violations of the law and hate speech are ok... as dang himself engages in and provides cover for regularly on this site.

Anyone who dares point out this hypocrisy or dares to think for themselves, for that matter, will be censored immediately.

Because like all nazis, dang is an intellectual coward who cannot defend his positions, will not recognize his own hypocrisy and abuse, and thinks that silencing people so that the "HN record" only shows one side makes reality.

Reality is you're an abusive, lying asshole, and hypocrite.

You don't care for diversity, you seek to create a monoculture of group think.

And anyone worth a damn has left his site or been driven off.
Just anecdotally since I used to manage the computers at a public library, we did have time software that would reset the computers back to a clean state after they either were done and clicked "end session" or they left it unattended for a minute.

I'm still against this Chrome change for the same reasons, but I would hope other libraries do the same thing as we did. From my experience library tech people are usually really privacy focused.
>You still didn't answer the main question. What are these CS grads going to do without any practical skills when some can't even pass the FizzBuzz challenge?

Nice straw-man you built there. If these graduates have either fallen through the cracks for four years and not learned a damn thing, I don't see the point of holding everyone back and forcing them to have remedial write iOS and webpages classes for four years. Why would you assume the outcomes would be any better?
Can some of you chime in with your experience here re: consulting and hours.

None of the consultants I know of would estimate a time requirement (other than something incredibly loose) for any kind of job bigger than a few hours. The MO seems to be some version of:

"You give me [the consulting firm] a maximum per week that you can afford on this, and we will have a weekly stand up where we talk about what was completed, what will be completed by next week, and how we can allocate resources to accomplish these things."

To me this seems like an incredibly good way of managing this relationship. However, plenty of people I talk to on the other side (trying to hire consultants) insist that they need a full bid of how much time a project will take.

I almost always tell these people that I can't really give them that answer, and that I also to be wary of anybody who actually responds to this question.

Am I the strange one here?

I almost wonder if this is the source of the overage that is being talked about in this article. They're quoting them $foo hours per week, when in reality it will take $foo/4. So when they get the work and finish it at $foo/2, they don't lose money.

That seems really dishonest to me.
> most obviously, that the continent was much colder, and therefore supportive of much smaller populations,

Okay, but we're assuming a population capable of migrating as far as San Diego, and capable of hunting mammoths. You'd need enough population to sustain the many hundreds of years of generations it would take to get that far, and just exactly the sort of population balance where they wouldn't leave any obvious traces? And given they made it halfway down the continent, and through the most inhospitable places, why didn't they go further south where they could have immediately flourished in lush lands full of megafauna who hadn't evolved to fear us? Humanity's record seems full enough of such population explosion incidents after all, including the Clovis-people themselves.
The tens of thousands of highly educated Europeans who voluntarily work in stressful finance jobs in New York provide an interesting counterpoint to your argument.
Translation: Anything that disagrees with dangs homophobic, neonazi politics is not tolerated on HN. Unless you agree with him, your opinions are ideological rants. If you do agree with him, of course, abuse, name calling, stalking, harassments, threats of violence, violations of the law and hate speech are ok... as dang himself engages in and provides cover for regularly on this site.

Anyone who dares point out this hypocrisy or dares to think for themselves, for that matter, will be censored immediately.

Because like all nazis, dang is an intellectual coward who cannot defend his positions, will not recognize his own hypocrisy and abuse, and thinks that silencing people so that the "HN record" only shows one side makes reality.

Reality is you're an abusive, lying asshole, and hypocrite.

You don't care for diversity, you seek to create a monoculture of group think.

And anyone worth a damn has left his site or been driven off.
Can you explain I more detail how I can get cheaper audible?
I don't remember, to be honest, I was a child.

I haven't wanted to go play it again because I just know that it's not going to be the same, and I don't want to ruin amazing memories.
I sort of want Google to go further with this change, and simply have a "Sign in to Chrome, Google Sites, Amazon, and everything else" button.

In fact, it could also sign you in to local applications like Photoshop and Word.

They could call it the 'logon screen'.
I agree that it is worth acknowledging that it the tech crowd as well.

But then, who should you be listening to about whether to vaccinate your kid? Jenny McCarthy on social media or a bunch of people who each had to spend several years of effort to be called a doctor? Obviously, go with the better user experience.
Thanks for the explanation. It seems to assume that Gmail is the internet. If people sometimes use Facebook or forums or games instead of Gmail, then history will appear to sync to random places, no?
In any non-politically-charged scenario, I might agree. Unfortunately, CoCs too often end up being a screen for abusers to hide behind. I have witnessed large projects adopt CoCs, then turn around and selectively apply them to people who express "wrong" ideas (either in code, issue trackers or on Twitter in unrelated discussions).

In this case, I'd prefer to either have something more objective, or nothing at all for such abusive people to hide behind.
AWS Route 53 provides full registrar services for a while now.
As long as they don't really gather any data without an additional consent, I can't see how it could be. IANAL, of course.

But, if I was responsible for GDPR in Chrome I would be very worried that they are conflating "signed in" and "syncing" some places in the code, since this appearently used to be the same concept, per the old privacy policy.
Kind of fitting that Myst was at the edge of technological capability back then, stretching cdrom tech. Now we are at the ‘barely able to do it cheaply’ stage for VR bringing it back to that medium or Cyan doing something in VR like the old days we need imagination from the players too, letting imperfections slide as long as the story is there.
LOL that is putting the Fox in charge of the hen house.
This origin story of XMLHttpRequest being an afterthought explains why the class name has inconsistent capitalization which interestingly enough I never noticed until now.
Does that usage not fall under the UK/EU's equivalent of fair use?
Oh yes, they knew what they were doing. Rural votes typically vote more conservatively and urban votes typically more progressively/liberally. Giving rural votes more weight was definitely the strategy to get more weight to conservative votes. The cities versus rural counties "Cold Civil War" is absolutely the intentional consequence of the Republican strategy over the last many decades. The next question is how long this particular civil war stays cold, given how much increasing ammo (lit. and fig.) is being stockpiled by each side.
The problem with this argument is that in engineering, the goal is not just to get something that works, it's to get something that works better than the alternatives.

That means it's inescapable that there will be losers, regardless of how much is invested. There's no guarantee that fusion will win this competition, and good reasons to think it won't. Fusion may well go into the bin (with lighter than air passenger aircraft, superconducting digital computers, and MHD coal powerplants) of technologies that just couldn't cut it.
Thanks for sharing this. Would love to see a more compacy version of this but either way, it doesn't seem like a really elegant solution.
> But the more important part of things is that HN has what, maybe 10000 active users? Chrome has over a billion. Even if every HN commenter was vehemently against this change, that's less than 1% of 1% of Chrome's user base. If this change makes the browser better (using whatever metric you want, I'd argue the correct one here is privacy), even marginally, for the average user, at the cost of a few people believing that the browser is behaving badly, that seems like an overall good change, doesn't it?

Well what percentage of those billion users understands what's going on, versus the 10000 users here? Google's business model does depend on duping people who don't know any better, so maybe this isn't so surprising..

In any case, I don't think there'd be so much uproar if Google hadn't snuck the change in without telling anybody. There are release notes, why not use them? Why is that so hard to understand for a company that prides itself on hiring the best and brightest?
An addon that is not enabled by default, doesn't reference what it's supposed to be "advertising", and will only do anything once going to a specific page after it's already been enabled doesn't seem like a very good advertisement.
It's a concrete example, but I understand your point that "in practice" we know what dynamic vs. static typing means. Personally, I think a lot of that just comes down to marketing, though :)
> Does it though?

It does more than that. It allows for a path forward/establishes a slippery slope. Now a group that is most earnestly behind the implementation of the CoC to now point to this as a tipping point where the tyranny of the majority is accepted (and can now make modifications since you already agreed to a CoC, what are some nomic modifications to you?). This runs counter to the existing, unstable hierarchy.
Note that this is the "stable roommates problem" and does not necessarily have an "optimal" solution (where "optimal" means "no unmatched pair of people would've rather been matched together". Eg, if Albert prefers Bob over Charles, Bob prefers Charles over Albert, and Charles prefers Albert over Bob, and all three prefer being matched with the last person over anyone else).
I wasn't comparing effectiveness - I was asking where the money comes from. As far as I know, pulling up stolen vehicle information doesn't stop at the county/city/state line.

Also, after the first failure the FBI tried again with a bigger budget and better process and succeeded[1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinel_(FBI)
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