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I brought them up. You hand waved about unrelated scams from unrelated persons. The sheer gall to act like you've been engaging in good faith is remarkable.

Do folks normally volunteer for your made up research quests after this much acrimony and baseless conjecture? Ridiculous.
Wouldn't there be an implicit bias towards those who don't want to return? The others made their way back to China.
Could you please not post unless you have something civil and substantive to say? We eventually ban accounts that only post snark.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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I thought the premise of this subthread was that the website doesn't work fine.
Please point me to any other relatively no-holds-barred type of contest that has "traditional" martial arts finishing strongly.
This is missing so much key information into its usefulness that I really question who this article is geared towards. There's no mention of supported frequency ranges, receiver sensitivity, antenna sizes, polarization, location of the stations. They talk only about downlink, so I assume that this is only for downlink and that there's no uplink possibility, but if there is there's a whole new range of technical specifications that would need to be discussed.

I usually say it's 12-18 months between when an AWS service is announced and when it's actually useful and stable enough to use in production. In this case, I'd easily double that.
Sonatype NPM event-stream 3 distributing a malicious package
But those employees who _did not_ care about morality also would have their stock decrease by 10% in value due to no fault of their own. Therefore, it's only ethically correct for those who want to take the stance to also accept a decrease in stock compared to those who didnt.
You should think of Rust as a better systems language, a better C.

I think C++ is a more apt comparison. C is such a barebones language. Yes, it's very unsafe and Rust goes a long way to fix those issues, but Rust brings a lot of other features along with it which dial the language complexity up to 11.

I would like to see a simple language that fixes C's biggest problems. I think that would be really interesting to work with. Nobody seems to want to do it though, or if they have, they haven't been able to get any attention.
In simple terms space it not chilly but vacuum, so the heat can't go anywhere.
Has anyone thought about the effects of NOT having google search product and services in China? I read a lot of negativity about how it is ruining the culture and personal beliefs about freedom. Has anyone balanced it with what is the upside to users (not money for Google)?
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That still making the rounds? I remember in the coding bootcamp kids were going on about it, so I asked my psych about it as an alternative to adderall (always willing to explore treatments to my adhd), and she was surprised to hear people were taking it thinking it was like adderall. She said "people with narcolepsy take that, it doesn't help focus at all." This was early in days of it, looks like it's a known thing to try to use modafinil as a cognitive enhancer, though there's little data to support it actually works like that:

Modafinil, sold under the brand name Provigil among others, is a medication to treat sleepiness due to narcolepsy, shift work sleep disorder, or obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).[3][7] In OSA continuous positive airway pressure is the preferred treatment.[3] While it has seen off-label use as a purported cognitive enhancer, the research on its effectiveness for this use is not conclusive.[8][9] It is taken by mouth.[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modafinil
looks authentic to me, but if it gets the job done, do I really care if it is authentic?

no. the answer is no.
But when I'm on vacation then my Mastercard in combination with cash works without hassle. There is just one big win with crypto and that would be if I want to send money to someone over distance reasonably anonymously. That is where I can see a real gain over my current setup offers.
Not as well as intuition suggests. Deep space is cold, but also the sun (and reflected energy from the Earth!) is pretty hot. Without air, there's no convection so it's all radiated energy transfer, so you're limited by how much surface area you can "point at" deep space while not also pointing it at the sun.
The article's logic is a soup sandwich of two huge misunderstandings:

First, "Theory of Mind" is something experienced at a high level directly. We do reason about our own and other's actions, (both successfully and unsuccessfully of course). We still have much to learn about how this works and is implemented, but I don't think it is controversial that each of us do develop theories about our own minds and others and use that along with other information.

Second, "Theory of Mind" does not mean "a scientific theory of the mind" it means that each of us develops internal theories of our own and other's minds. In one case "Theory" means something in our heads, in the other "theory" means a scientific body of knowledge.

This seems to have confused the author greatly.

So "Theory of Mind" has nothing to say about how neural circuits record information about locations in a maze and whether that recorded information can be considered "meaning" or not.

"Of course you could argue that what Nobel Prize winning research shows about rats is irrelevant to humans."

Wow! This really underlines that second confusion. Of course rat's brains can tell us something about <<theories of minds>>, but since we already know rat's don't model each other's internal actions with the detail we do, it would be problematic to view them as reliable sources for investigating the particular theory of human minds called "Theory of Mind".

Sigh.
My theory is returns to scale are much, much higher.

All this whiz-bang shit startups do like AI, machine learning, really even any kind of custom software or process innovation, just isn't possible when you're small. There's no scope for it.

The reason it's a bigger problem now is because we have bigger markets globally and better tools, both of which create winner-take-all effects.

20-30 years ago you might start an auto parts distribution or manufacturing business, or a niche software business, or something else. It's a lot different when you have to compete with the best of the best globally from day 1 without any of the advantages the incumbents (e.g. data, existing channels to market, established brand) can bring to bear.
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Soooooo..., you're angry you no longer will get a illegitimate boost in front of your peers?

Can you hear that? It's the sound of the worlds tiniest violin playing you a sad song.
> In the aftermath of the crash, pilots have expressed concern that they had not been fully informed about the new Boeing system — known as the maneuvering characteristics augmentation system, or M.C.A.S. — and how it would require them to respond differently in case of the type of emergency encountered by the Lion Air crew.

There's still more to learn about this disaster played out. But if what we've learned so far holds up -- that Boeing added a significant feature without proper communication or obvious way to override it -- I hope Lion Air 610 becomes part of the ethics curriculum in engineering classes, along with Therac-25 and the Hyatt Regency walkway collapse [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collapse
Per country means nothing. We could just subdivide the world in to hundreds more countries and all celebrate how none of us has more than 1% of the global emissions.
Police in cars are not just driving idly around most of the time. There's always something they are being dispatched to investigate (not always with lights/sirens). It's not that unusual that you weren't able to flag the car down.

I witnessed a hit-and-run in Chicago, tried to flag down a cop that passed by less than a minute later, he did stop for a second but said he was on another call and to call 911 to report it.
This is nonsense, they did not cry against PRISM like that. Ohwait, they did not know at all, until Snowden told everyone. So STFU Googlers, precentant has been set already.
That code seems somewhat like Python's chained exceptions.
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Is it really cost effective to roll your own for that kind of thing? I would have thought there were enough off the shelf satellite/m2m solutions for remote connectivity, eg https://www.orbcomm.com/en/networks/satellite
Huh. For me, the first 10% is boring. You’re not doing anything interesting, just looking for resources and laying the foundations for something new. The middle is where it gets exciting, you’re striking out in new directions, building, and expanding. The end is a bunch of tedious micromanagement.

Either Civ or personal projects.

Although usually with Civ these days I try to win before I get bogged down with micromanagement.
Meet ‘Bitski’, the single sign-on wallet crypto desperately needs
Good point. It's probably a design focus of companies because it's named, and self-contained. You can put "Font" on a schedule, and a budget, and an A/B test. Your programmers can't really complain that it makes any other task more complex. It's the holy grail of design: some pixie dust you can sprinkle on at the end, which impacts nothing but makes everything prettier.

If, say, physics-engine-based layouts became popular for general user interfaces, it would take over the entire development of the product. It would affect every part of the budget and schedule and architecture. You couldn't feasibly A/B test it.
The ISS has as much heat venting hardware as solar panels
Because that's the only way to solve moral co-ordination problems?

If you leave a morally odious contract on the table (lets say it's cutting up human babies for baby veal) knowing your competitors will take the project, enrich themselves, expand, and develop the capacity to engage in larger, even more odious business, then what's the proper course of action?

Do you cut up babies because fuck morals? Or do you try to get no one to cut up babies? What if you have imperfect information and aren't certain if your competition would do it? What if they have imperfect information about your intentions and decide to take the deal purely on that basis?

Should be straightforward to recognize how corrosive this cycle gets.

EDIT: some people seem to be upset with the baby example. Just exchange that with anything you find clearly morally unacceptable. Like selling reverse mortgages to elderly people with limited capacity, or signing people up for ponzi schemes or adding intentionally addictive additives to a harmful consumable product, etc.
It is not only accurate, but agriculture is pretty much the worst case.

The problem is that demand for food is rather inelastic. You are going to eat when you are hungry, and if you're hungry enough you'll pay whatever you can for that next meal. But food production is highly variable. For example the 88-89 drought in the USA dropped food production by 29%. Therefore to have enough food in a bad year, we have to be willing to overproduce in a good year. Which means that we guarantee an excess supply, and therefore a very low free market price.

How we get there is arbitrary. We can subsidize exports, we can buy up food to throw it away, we can pay farmers to not grow food in good years. All of these are done somewhere. There is no first world country that doesn't do at least one of these because everyone understands that it is a national security issue - if your people go hungry you're likely to get civil unrest.

As a concrete demonstration, consider the Arab Spring. One of the contributing factors was that China had a severe drought. To ensure their political stability, they bought wheat on the international market. Thanks to the laws of supply and demand, the cost of wheat doubled. Poor people in Arab countries that couldn't subsidize their citizens suddenly went hungry. They revolted. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_of_the_Arab_Spring#Chin... to verify this sequence of events.
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How to get the perfect sounding voiceover for your startup's explainer video
There should be some kind of cooling-off period between when these can hit the front page and when the comments begin, proportional to the length of the document. This one is 200 pages, so the first useful comment on this report will appear tomorrow at the earliest.

The only conclusion we can draw right now is that some software company has an exclusive contract to provide the government with PDF export applications that do not generate hyperlinked tables of contents, and that publishing such a document is in fact a crime against the people.
It just feels like indulgence on the part of the reporter. They really need to do a better job at TL;DR. I thought that the idea with reporting was that you were supposed to deliver all the information, and then iteratively peel back layers if the reader kept reading? That art seems lost.
Obvious troll is obvious. Try to name a non successful React/Vue/TypeScript/Node/WASM project. ES8 is here. I guess next you'll say Sublime isn't the best. I don't know why I keep coming here...
Consanguinity isn't the only restriction on who can marry who- polyamorists still can't marry multiple partners in the US, thus they cannot marry whoever they please.
Yes, and it becomes even more politically difficult to request more funding for police departments when activists paint all police with the same brush and sometimes want to literally abolish the police.
> someone did take your job there. And they're almost certainly happy to do anything asked.

If talented engineers were that easy to find, Google wouldn't have participated in illegal wage-fixing; and that's without selecting for engineers that want to support an authoritarian regime. Statistically speaking, every rejection drives up the price. To wield even more power, we'd need to form some kind of industry-wide union.
IMHO there isn't much effect of Google not being in China. Baidu works for Chinese uses. I've seen an argument that Google would be a better, freer experience, but Dragonfly shows that wouldn't really be the case.
> I'm not sure diplomacy works when someone is actively shooting at you or other people.

Most of the time, police aren't being shot at. And they tend to react to peaceful protest exactly as if it were a riot. This is well documented.

Here's an example I was present for: Peaceful protest at the university. Cops in riot gear show up, fly around in helicopters, etc. One of the cops pushes/bumps a girl who then bounces into another cop, who slams her against the hood of cop car, arrests her, charges her with assault, and tries to get her expelled from the university. (The same department, six months later, gave us this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AdDLhPwpp4 )

> I'm glad you're not the majority. Because the world would be pretty shitty if all the police responded to was physical assaults and above.

If that's not the world you like, let's fix the police!
You can know if consumers are dissatisfied, which is a sign of market failure. It's impossible to prove that harm doesn't exist, because you can't prove a negative.

If the monopoly does start substantially harming consumers, then I'd say that's when action should be taken, not before the market has a chance to respond.
Can someone explain?
Following Eric Lowe on Quora for a long enough time has taught me that "real-world fighting effectiveness" is the biggest red herring there is when it comes to martial arts. You either come out of physical violence alive or you don't, and while training in empty-handed martial arts might save your life, training with a gun is the only realistic self-defense training worth doing. Except, you know, for confidence. And if it's confidence you're after, breaking hard metal files with your bare hands is hard to beat on that front.

I really don't think hardly anybody in the developed world is ever going to face a true combat situation where they can actually use their empty-hand skills. It means they couldn't run away, lost their gun, and couldn't find a improvised weapon. The actual military doesn't train it any more other than for confidence. When you train MMA, you're really training for MMA competitions, not for any kind of real-life combat situation, cuz MMA won't help you there.

We did do bare-knuckle, few-rules sparring in Merpati Putih and it was legit my favorite thing to do. We hit and got hit hard, but I didn't get near the amount of sparring time I wanted. Even so, I'd have put my MP skills against anybody else's in a typical bar fight. Not now of course, those days are long long gone. My survival strategy these days is to de-escalate, and if that doesn't work, submit, and if that doesn't work, go momma bear and hope I survive.
It's interesting how 7.71% of respondents said they felt they were underrepresented due to being non-heterosexual. If 7.71% of Rust users are non-heterosexual wouldn't that be roughly in line with the expected number, since less than 10% of people fall into this category? It is also possible that this study is not a representative sample of Rust users, but then that also makes the rest of the results less useful as well.
> I don't think Google has so much changed as their employees have changed.

This is exactly it. A lot of people who genuinely loved technology, programming, were nerdy, etc long left the company.
Could just be an arrogant of becoming big, and selecting for physical attribute diversity.
I'm glad this exists, but a bit disappointed that I don't see a single name I recognize.

Brad Fitzpatrick, Rob Pike, Ken Thompson, Jeff Dean, Sanjay, etc etc plus a lot of less famous people I know who work there. None of them have signed this open letter.

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I recommend the author org add a call to action. There should be an easy way for other Google employees to add their name to the list!
The core of this report is intellectually the hardest pill to swallow to both sides: there's not enough data. Unfortunately, human beings are highly uncomfortable acknowledging that they don't know something, our thinking is not used to this. So, instead, both sides will continue to quote selective statistics and anecdotes that prove that they're right and the others are wrong, and will ignore all the evidence to the contrary.
No, GP is essentially saying: It's clear one accomplishes more in a smaller amount of time. That's far different from all else being equal. Granted, using age has less value than using time-in-field, but they are often proportional. Also, granted, you could argue that amount accomplished is a poor metric to use, especially when joined with speed.
Unions are rarely formed unless conditions are particularly bad. One upon a time in this country, the national guard with machine guns might have been called out to clear a strike/protest. Most people are very happy being ignorant of their surroundings or influence of.

The most I've ever done is threaten to quit if a project for the RIAA was accepted by my employer when I was invited into the pre-pitch meeting. It just depends on a specific case.
Are there any legal restrictions on what the Chinese government can ask websites to censor? I am not aware of any, so I don't see where there would be an opportunity to protest.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18546130.
>less than 30% of people believe that police behave lawfully

If you ask someone if they think a large collection of individuals behaves lawfully, the answer should always be "no" because with a large enough group there will always be criminals in that group.

If you're instead thinking about whether police break the law in an organized and collectively deliberate fashion, that's an entirely different question.
It’s a slur and I am surprised it wasn’t taken down. Not different from “you liberals” kind of language.
Thank you for sharing. Stay safe and warm.
The original English lyrics of "Radioactivity" ("Radioactivität") are "Radioactivity / is in the air for you and me" [1].

The version with "Chernobyl – Harrisburg – Sellafield – Hiroshima / Stop radioactivity ... / chain reaction and mutation / contaminated population" [2] is a later rewrite. In live performances, "Hiroshima" is now replaced with "Fukushima". The music is also darker than the original.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjCxJ8ErpYg

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EBTn_3DBYo
[not the parent] Apple.com's cheapest lightning cable is $19.99, and I don't recall ever seeing a 3rd party discount a genuine product by so much, and it says "Non-Retail Packaging" which is a bit strange, so I'd assume it's a knock-off. But you make a good point — it says "Apple" and it is the first result that looks exactly like the original: my family members would probably buy it.

On a related note, is this an AmazonBasics knock-off? https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-Lightning-USB-Cable-Cert... or are they really selling a product that bad (looking at the reviews/photos)?
If I said to you, "Americans do not believe in evolution," by your logic, I am correct. This is because 30% of Americans do not believe in evolution: http://www.pewforum.org/2013/12/30/publics-views-on-human-ev...

How about I said to you that all men are descendants of Genghis Khan? Well, 1 in 200 are, and Eric Swalwell is 1 of the 198 Democrat representatives (though that percentage gets much lower if we lump in total Democrats in elected office...) http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/08/1-in-200-men-...

My claim that the president's factually incorrect statements, are factually incorrect, remain unchallenged in any rhetorically effective way, though I invite you to try again if you please.
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We've banned this account for abusing this community with an ideological agenda.

> Please don't use Hacker News primarily for political or ideological battle. This destroys intellectual curiosity, so we ban accounts that do it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Not at all. At least not in any realizable way.

Even if a "trust minimized machine arbitration system" (which Bitcoin isn't) had much practical use and so displaced existing non-automated services, your notion of value still doesn't make sense.

As an consider email. People used to spend a lot of money preparing and shipping/mailing physical documents. Much of that has been replaced by email. But what's the price of sending an email? Zero, or as close to it as makes no difference

Is email valuable? Surely. Does that translate into a high price? Definitely not, because supply is approximately infinite.
I don't program in Rust regularly, but it's on my short list of languages that I keep up on and am a member of the local user group (Meetups, to use the commercial implementation). I have a trio that I keep up on, C# (gen purpose, my language of choice), Rust (systems) and Elixir (web).

I only really use C#. I've kicked the tires on Rust and Elixir, and I could see myself using Elixir on a personal project but unlikely I'll ever have a good usecase for Rust.

It does power a large portion of my Firefox browser, so from that sort of usage viewpoint I'm using something built with Rust everyday, which I can't say likely will never say for Elixir, discounting the other language on the BEAM platform.
Pardon my ignorance, but I thought Taylorism was primarily about measurement, & standardization of work practices. Could you elaborate on how it views organizational structures? Or do you just mean a mentality where managers end up viewing themselves as scientists and then viewing their workers as various dials to turn?