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>Scientific skepticism is always healthy and should be welcomed.

I strongly disagree.

Principled scientific skepticism from practicing scientist and expert is welcome and can contribute.

Layman scientific skepticism in hard sciences like physics is worthless and even harmful. No matter how skeptical a layman who reads popular science magazines is, they don't contribute. Only thing we can do is to learn. Our judgment and opinion is worthless.

People want to understand, contribute and discuss, but even if we have the education to understand the issues, we don't have the time or interest really think it trough. Everything valuable flows top down from experts to the layman.

Generic examples taken from the history like "Even gravity we thought was fully solved until Einstein doubted that we understood it fully" are just using different words to express tautologies. They don't provide information to the issues at hand.
Is this from NVIDIA itself? The only indication that's the case is from a line in the blog post.
I'd rather save more money, by not spending that amount of money on such a machine in the first place. Also, I'm not sure how "halving in price" is "holding it's value well". Investing 1,000 to 4,000£, or more, in something that in a few years will be worth 500£, does not sound like a good deal to me.

Besides, that only works if you, as a mac owner, treat your machine well. From looking at second-hand macbooks, it's very difficult to find one where the screen isn't bent, or badly damaged, or where the battery (which is not easily user-servicable) actually holds a charge.

Personally I'm not even sure how you accidentally bend a laptop screen in the first place. All the thinkpads I've bought have been not only in fantastic condition, but almost every problem that presents itself (If any does, of course) is fixable for less than the price of a new machine.

I also believe I forgot to mention, that the older thinkpads have not only screen upgrades, but people in China producing motherboard upgrades? I could upgrade my $60 X200 to a recent-generation i7, with USB3 / USBC ports, fast graphics, etc. for even less than I could have bought that other Thinkpad with the same specifications, for.

Oh, and for the final dose of laptop superiority: Almost all thinkpads since before the X200 have keyboard drains. If I spill my drink on my laptop, my laptop still works.
> And yet zeppelins were flying in 1900; a year before, in New York City, the first pedestrian had already been killed by an automobile. Was the notion of air travel, or the thought that the car was going to change life on the street, really so beyond envisioning—or is it merely the chauvinism of the present, peering with faint condescension at our hopelessly primitive predecessors?

I heartily recommend doing the Carousel of Progress ride at Disney World. It’s a quite eye-opening look at how little life has changed in the last 150 years.
Well, I hope the pilots were not so dumb. I mean, there is still the FDR and recorded radio comms. If they took that time to overwrite the CVR, then they will probably lose their job anyway due to the suspicion of hiding, even when they would be acquitted of wrongdoing in a legal proceeding.
I‘m by no means against a high fat diet, but you CAN overeat on fat. The type of fat also matters - eating mainly omega-6 fats and low omega-3 will lead to inflammation and thus disease and potentially obesity. Easy to see from literature.

UPDATE:

Eg this article from 2009: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/circulationaha.1...
No, definitely not, but sometimes a visual can help people take science more seriously. If advances like lab grown organs are only ever written about, that's more people who will see science as mystical or perhaps even fake. As they say, a photo is worth a thousand words.

I am just curious as to what the process really looks like.
My technique is caveman compared to the article, but I habitually roll down the windows before I back out of a parking spot, so I can listen for as well as look for anything that might be in the way. I think I started this after our son was born, born of an increasing mindfulness of kids and their associates (balls, toys, pets.)
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The Blizzard argument was that because the license is granted to you only under the EULA, breaking the EULA then becomes copyright infringement. That didn't hold up.

No, what worked for Blizzard was DMCA. Because they had an ineffective "anti cheat" system in place, somehow they found a judge willing to consider a bot evading that a violation of a DMCA copy protection device.
I'd like them to conciliate this rule with companies whose only business purposes are to sell that data, like TLO from the other HN frontpage article.

Even ignoring the fact that their data
finds way into automating identity theft financial fraud, it should have been impossible to conciliate a business which purpose is to sell your data (with no consent or even ever interacting with you) with any identy and data protection law.

if anything, those two things happening show that financial laws are also arbitrarily enforced. being a small bank, or from east asia, you will feel the wrath of the law (e.g. voya, hsbc money laudering, etc). but if you are a huge american financial institutions you can get away with even more (e.g. bank of america many many recent woes in data loss and consumer abuse).
This 'brat' is no different than any other theif. If you defraud a company, and further, make a profit doing so, you deserve what you get. Don't excuse terrible behavior.
There are a lot of small, specialized, stable companies that fit your description. The challenge will be to find these companies and get hired. Usually their turnover is pretty low and they don't grow much so there is not much hiring going on.
General relativity is incredibly well tested. Showing that general relativity is wrong would be the physics discovery of the century.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_general_relativity
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People on keto do (high fat moderate protein low carb diet). There’s even a pregnanacy keto subreddit.
This article is not readable even in incognito mode, where it claims that I've read my share of articles this month. Tried the 'web' option which also had no effect.
It's a different database altogether - document-oriented at that.

https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/rtdb-vs-firestore
A medium can have independent dynamics (consider waves in a bathtub: you can pull the plug, or move the whole thing around; you can't do that with a fundamental field).

It is true that from a slightly different perspective, modern physics has arguably resurrected a kind of aether (think condensates in quantum chromodynamics) - it's just that said aether is Lorentz-invariant...
It’s an arms race. You can still write cheats with computer vision and automated control input and have an unfair advantage, and that has nothing to do with client and server responsibility delegation.

There are a lot of games that get this wrong but even games that get it right can be cheated.
>For whatever reason, dark matter seems to repeatedly rub people the wrong way today, more so than any other scientific concept I can think of.

I think that it is because it is so hard to understand. You can't see it or touch it but it is supposed to make up the majority of mater in the universe. So what is it then? For a lot of people that's a hard thing to get and it would be easier if the answer was something we understood like the scientists being wrong.

In that way it isn't any different than creationists or flat-earthers. Of course dark matter "deniers" don't have the same religious convictions of creationists.
Some government jobs fulfill many of your requirements. Not all, to be sure, but some.

I am a roboticist at a government research lab. It's a good gig. The nice things about it are steady work hours (I'm not actually legally allowed to charge more than 40 hours a week, and none of my bosses over the years has ever pressured me to work unpaid overtime). No open offices, anyone with seniority has an actual office with a door. Everyone else gets a fairly decent cubicle. Many (not all) government jobs let you telecommute, at least part of the time. Colleagues tend to be competent and not stress-inducing.

We admittedly do have more meetings than I'd prefer, but I'm currently working on a rather large program, 200+ engineers, and I'm sort of the scientific representative to program management so it's not surprising. There have been times when I had one meeting a week or fewer.
Firebase offers a variety of individual services, and most apps pick up only the services they need. So reporting service-by-service makes more sense.
I think the OC was more about non-democracies
Absolutely, but that requires me to implement and set up long-term maintenance for a software system, and then train non-technical people in its use. Not gonna happen.

The other thing is that the model has been the basis for software's approach, in a way that has too much inertia. For example, Word documents that are drafts are saved as individual files. Why? If the filesystem enabled it, programs could save deltas and have an interface to freeze a draft.
I’ve been practicing this for years and it’s quite useful. It’s not like seeing of course, but I’m able to get an idea of a room size and material hard/softness. Useful for not walking into walls in the dark or finding something when I don’t want to wake my SO.

In general I’ve always been into sound and I think a lot of people have better hearing than they think, but never learned to hear well. I find it odd that we have such prominent childhood learning focused around sight (shapes, colors, etc) but barely teach children anything about hearing beyond animal sounds. I’m not advocating golden ears courses for kindergartens, but listening skills can be quite useful in lots of situations, not the least of which is situational awareness.
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They OCR'd PDF documents. Interesting (and I wish I had time to do it to some of the PDFs I've been reading), but not earthshaking. Particularly with 98% accuracy; if 1 out of 50 characters are wrong, searches are going to be problematic.

If you find the term, yay; if you don't you can't really conclude it's not there.
There are comments above about prolonged fasting (more than typical IF) and long distance running.
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Ok sfconservancy lets ignore the 1000+ plus patents and focus on this one its no wonder linus said you guys were a bunch of dicks.
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Consider the defense industry / government contractors. I'm not sure what kind of salary you're looking for, but the defense industry / gov contractors pay fairly well (I'd guess ~150k ish for someone with your background) and checks most of your requirements.
I had an office (in the company which pioneered individual offices for their dedicated building for creatives many decades ago), and I have worked in open office settings. There are times when you want to think on your own, but I don't think it is impossible to achieve if you have a good pair of noise cancelling headphones. In return, you get to interact with peers more openly. Not to mention the cost savings for the company. This is absolutely a win-win. Although, the devil is in the details, and they are neither easy nor cheap: Open office settings have to be implemented with the flexibility to occasionally work from home; ample amount of meeting rooms for impromptu huddles; well designed ergonomics; absolutely relaxing decor and setup.
There are many factual errors in this article, and some ridiculous amount of hyperbole. Several Rust developers have already addressed the shortcomings on Reddit [1].

[1] https://reddit.com/r/rust/comments/9nsjmj/the_success_of_go_...
I may actually use it for my natural language logic checker.

(This experimental program analyse human text and detect if there is a reasoning error, if so, which one).
It already has 100% of success for syllogisms.
But I will in the future be hit by combinatorial explosion and gpu acceleration will help me, even if dictionnaries are not my main data structure.
This has been a project I've been working on for the past month. The app is a wiki style database for board games! The base set of data was gathered from Amazon's API and has been supplemented by user submissions since then.

Key Features include:

- Price Alerts

- Game Lists (Favorites, wishlists, etc)

- Rules Q&A section

- Official game website and rules links

- Prices from Amazon, Cool Stuff Inc, Miniature Market, Game Nerdz, Card Haus

- Commercial & Non-commercial available API

- Links to reddit conversations of the game

- Price based filtering

- Game data (of course)

I'm continuing to build and expand the functionality and would love feedback on your experience with it.
It may seem to you like you're asking for advice, but may come across to others like you're complaining.

We'd all prefer a better work environment, with better people and less stress, so that we can thrive and have better balance in life. You haven't mentioned anything that you're doing to get there, besides asking somebody else (HN) to hand you some sort of 'insightful' answer.

The insight may very well be that given your current skillset and level of ambition and willingness to sacrifice, you are right where you deserve to be. If you want something to change, the only variable you really have control over, is you.

I'd give a 2pac quote, but it'd get flagged so I'll link it - the last line is for you.

https://genius.com/2pac-starin-through-my-rear-view-lyrics
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a) Try a different network

b) Get a subscription to The Economist
We need someone to post a paywall-bypass link. I don’t have the means or the knowledge to find such a link.
My first job out of school was with a consulting company (think SapientRazorfish, Accenture, Deloitte). What I found interesting is the vast majority of my colleagues were 'older' (35-40+), and these positions are primarily remote WFH. Consultancies love more experienced developers because they know they'll get the work done. The pay is definitely above average too.

Consulting can sometimes lead to more hours depending on stage of project (so be strict on work/life balance) and there might be a lot of travel depending on the project/client. But the clients will be brands you know and the project will be technically interesting and worth millions of dollars. I figure if I ever get tired of the startup game when older, I'll move back into that space.
I've never dealt with HIPPA; what restrictions does it put on internal use? Who, within Google, could they share raw data with? What about "anonymized" data?
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What would you rather people do to them then? Brats need to be put in their place.
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With the birth of our daughter, we had a different, and more complicated experience.

Pre-delivery there was no pressure to do a c-section. None at all. My wife definitely did not want one.

At the time of delivery, though, there was very much pressure to do a c-section. Although the admitting resident didn't seem to pressure my wife, care was quickly transferred (because of shift reasons) to other physicians (resident and attending) who did.

The way this manifested, though, was sort of subtle. For example, my wife had a procedure done to speed up the delivery; however, as we found out later, we were definitely not sufficiently informed of the consequences of the procedure, one of which was increased likelihood of a c-section. They tried to talk my wife into a c-section, and then when she declined, they tried to talk her into other procedures that would speed up the delivery, and would omit mention of the fact that they were associated with increased likelihood of c-section. Overall, even if c-sections weren't being explicitly mentioned, they were kind of relied on or assumed, for time and convenience reasons. The discussion was sort of like "Oh you don't want a c-section? Ok, then how about X to speed things up? Oh--I forgot to mention that now we probably have to do a c-section? Oops!" It came across as manipulative to me.

My wife did not have a c-section, but this was probably only because the nurses there (who were phenomenal) were actively arguing with the physicians to not do one, and to wait. We weren't really in the hospital that long either.
"My only concern hiring older engineers is that they are stuck in a rut."

Wow, better check that bias.
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Did you consider pre-sales/professional services consulting. Most folks who do this that I know are in their forties. Good pay, interesting work, and relies a lot on soft skills
Same way code that runs on x86_64 is open, I suppose. neither the isa nor implementation is open, and yet the code is, right?
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It's probably simpler and cheaper to just clear all your cookies for economist.com and any subdomains.
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That argument never made sense. If a farmer sells some rice to someone else, who then turns around and sells it for profit, the farmer doesnt get to dictate what the trader can do with the rice.

Copyright has no legitimate economic or technological grounds.
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Please cite, I am not aware of anything conclusive.
> Do you suggest I go solo and take on development jobs myself

Yes.

You don't want to help juniors. You don't want to waste your time in meetings explaining things to "incompetent" managers. You only want to work in a private office on your own schedule. You don't want to be stressed or asked to put in extra hours. You only want to work on "hard technical problems" that you find interesting.
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Exactly, it’s hard to generalize mouse dietary studies to humans because they’re not anything close to an apex predator, humans are. Our biology is evolved to preferentially run on fatty meat from large game animals (that are now mostly extinct thanks to our prowess).
1. Humans aren’t mice and this kind of reporting is extremely irresponsible, because this is how policy gets made.

2. HFD (high fat diet) is a synonym for diets with a high fat content that are still high in carbohydrates. If the diet used in the experiment is also low in carbs, this is explicitly mentioned.

Indeed, from my reading, they fed those mice with Kliba-Nafag 2127, a diet used in experiments that has sucrose and vegetable oils in it. They even report testing their preference for water with sucrose in it ... so what the heck is the study measuring anyway?

The clear confounding factors in all studies of “HFD” are sugar and vegetable oils. It is mind blowing how this gets reported as valid science.

How can this even pass the review process? Are the standards nowadays so low?
Their behavior might be terrible, but calling it 'defraud' is a bit weird, isn't it? Sure, we should be able to have gameplay without cheaters, but copyright, EULA and making money off of that is hardly comparable to any physical thing.

Imagine someone making paper boats out of a book, selling them for one dollar each and the book has 300 pages (but costs 20 dollars). Is making paper boats suddenly copyright infringement? Or breach of contract? I think mangling law for profit this way is a load of bs and if this needs to be handled in court, the way to do it would be finding something that actually applies.

At the same time, if the law doesn't provide anything for this type of cheating or selling software to help you cheat, then that is something that could be addressed, instead of hacked together (pun intended) by applying some bs law that should have nothing to do with this. Also, it would be much better if Epic gave the money to the security department instead of lawyers to actually fix the issue (it's an engineering/security issue, not a law issue).

I'm glad this nonsense lawyering pretty much only exists in the USA and not the real of the world.
Excuse a layman's observation here.

The dark matter problem rings as yet another mass-related anomaly we stumbled upon previously but on a nuclear scale.

"Mass defect" [1], as appropriately named, is observed on a nuclear scale (whole nucleus mass is less than mass of nucleons that the nucleus is composed of). It is explained with binding energy required to keep the individual nucleons of a nucleus together.

That is an 'invisible' mass that gets subtracted from the 'free' mass of nuclear particles as measured.

Any possibility to project such analogy onto a galactic scale?

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_defect
> The need for escapist leisure activity is something only relatively privileged people have.

Are you kidding? Escapist leisure activities is one of the most broadly consumed forms of entertainment. Have you ever heard of TV or movies?
> The results from our mouse study certainly cannot be transferred one-to-one to humans, but studying the effects of maternal overnutrition is almost impossible to do in people..

I don't want to be that guy, but shouldn't this article be named "For Mice, High Fat Diet May Affect* Offspring"?
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As a side note I believe the whole purpose of HSA is to diminish gpu data access latency by being more synchronised with the cpu.

http://www.hsafoundation.com/
have you considered you are in a rut, and it might not be a very good one, so people with seniority call you out, while the freshman/woman you keep hiring and doctronating just reinforce your own bias?
You don’t need to be an idiot or charlatan to be wrong or to be missing something important. All the people who didn’t know about germ theory, or who thought the earth was flat before we could prove otherwise, were they all idiots? No.

But, human ignorance is not to be underestimated, and the amount of knowledge we have about the universe is not to be overestimated.
I'd improve that a bit by changing it to, "For Mice, High Fat Diet May Affect Offspring."
You don't agree at all that increasingly critical parts of society have been subsumed by the Internet during the last _28_ years? What planet are you living on?

Please elaborate because I don't see how you can even remotely defend what you wrote.
There have been lawsuits about re-edited movies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re-edited_film
MMOGlider basically lost because they said it "copies parts of the game's memory while running"... copyright laws in this way are a load of horseshit. I own my CPU, my RAM and my disk and I have every right to control your code if it runs on my computer.
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It makes me sad that CUDA is more popular than OpenCL. I would be willing to sacrifice some performance for portability, openness and avoiding vendor lock-in.
I can imagine that would motivate, yes, but for me the point of side projects is to explore things that are less commercial, more researchy.. things BigCo wouldn't pay me to do. And to do something commercial while at BigCo would require quite some paperwork for BigCo to agree. And it is not like I need to be doing commercial work on the side for financial reasons.
That’s true, and beside the point. The problem isn’t reporting individual services, the problem is giving the impression that uptime for individual services equals uptime for Firebase as a whole.