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I flagged this because the article isn't even trying to report in a neutral fashion and the site seems to be full of clickbait articles such as "Study: Non-Stick Pans Make Your Penis Smaller".
Non-AMP link: https://www.wired.com/2017/02/programming-is-the-new-blue-co...
Off topic, but "The Hacker News" should really change their name to "The Other Hacker News"
Luxury / designer products basically advertise by saying “if you buy this you’ll look cool / more beautiful / stylish / whatever”

It’s the same thing
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No, there is an Explore mode(at point of death, you can continue gameplay) as well as Wizard(essentially a god-mode) mode in NetHack.
The ones you execute yourself
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A really curious aspect of this list is the “scale”/depth of the various topics. Some are very specific: “Node backends”, “GraphQl”; some are very general: “algorithms”, “functional languages”.

It is well established that “knowing more” is not really a thing; we just learn to further understand relations and distinctions, feeding our ability to know of more things we have yet to learn.
Police admit that some drone sightings during Gatwick closure may of their own
One answer is that it probably isn’t possible to do what you say, but if it were the failure states are wildly unacceptable. Any “cannon” (or rail gun) capable of accelerating an object to escape velocity from the surface would likely burn the object up during its flight through the atmosphere, spreading its radioactive contents into the air to float around as low level global fallout for decades.

But if instead you just launched it into space on a rocket... well what happens when a launch fails and the rocket blows up on the launch pad? If you’re lucky, you mark a few square miles as no-go zones and then move on to the next launch pad? Doesn’t strike me as a sustainable solution.

One of my favorite ideas is to encase the waste into giant glass blocks, and build pyramids in the desert... but I doubt that’s very practical either.
The other is Verisign, but I am far less passionate and communicative about that one as it was a result of a singular (albeit terrifically bungled) incident, not an on-going and top-down strategy to be a dickish company.
I think you are correct, however I also think many people at least try to roll their own, it's such great learning experience to try - touching the rendering the physics all for yourself, even if it is only primitive.

However I believe this will change in the future and we will go full circle back to people rolling their own for real world use... why? because modern real-time rendering engines are an amalgamation of hacks on how to get beleivability out of triangles and shaders, they are necessarily complex - to the extreme - and you cannot compete as an individual. However the future is clearly path-tracing or some form of ray based rendering (it's sustainable, the hardware has a future there - it's parallel), path tracing being a simpler unified model for rendering makes it's completely within the grasp of individual developers, this would open up a whole world of creativity.
I picked a few points, because rebutting all the article's ill-informed points would have meant writing an entire article myself, and I didn't have time for that.

If you hate blockchains in general, fine, but that's a different viewpoint than what the article espouses.
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Wrong since C++11 introduced external templates for common instatiation types.

Additionally, it is not like every C++ library is full of meta-programming templates.

Finally, there are other languages with library "metadata" and generic data types, which can easily beat Rust compile times like Delphi, Eiffel and Ada.
Well, it was heavily regulated but compared to other cultures, free market.
This name confusion seems intentional and makes me default to unsympathetic, even though I suspect PayPal’s issue is not related to a name confusion root cause.
I used to obsess over the sound quality before. But when I grew as a musician, I started to care less about the frequency balance, dynamic range and started to care more about the emotional content. Now I listen to music on the cheap and convenient bluetooth headphones, going through dozens new songs every day (in crappy streaming quality), and instead of tweaking Ozone settings, use LANDR for mastering and use this time to work on lyrics instead.

Sound quality is not music quality.
> Is there a subtlety that makes that unworkable?

The reason this can’t work is because it has no cost to create a new chain from scratch. I can create a thousand valid PoS chains in virtually no time, and there’s no decentralized way for you to choose the one everyone else chooses.

The only way to solve this is to give special rights to some set of stakers.
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Dear Krispy Kreme Team,
My name is Crystal. I love Krispy Kreme donuts, coding, and my VEX Robotics team, called G3 (g3.wisen.space). I am in a robotics team as a 6th grader currently. When we were making a customized version of 2048 as a coding project in my coding class, I decided to dedicate it to Krispy Kreme donuts, since I love them so much. Every week, for the last 7 weeks, I went to a coding class to learn how to build my Krispy Kreme inspired '2048 Donut Evolution' from scratch. I used the donut pictures from the Krispy Kreme website to act like the numbers in my 2048 donut game, evolving from the original glazed donut to the Krispy Kreme logo.

The reason I am writing this email to Krispy Kreme is that I want Krispy Kreme to take a look at my game (g3.yumdonut.io) and if Krispy Kreme can consider sponsoring my other passionate activity, which is my VEX Robotics team. Currently, we are preparing to go to the VEX Robotics competition, which is during January 12 and the 19th. I would be very thankful if Krispy Kreme would consider sponsoring my robotics team. In return for sponsoring my robotics team, I would give the game to Krispy Kreme for free, so your customers can play while waiting for their donuts for fun. The game is web-based so it can be played on any devices, including mobile devices.

Sincerely,
Crystal and G3
> If Bitcoin is not backed by government force, then why is it worth anything?

> Because no one can be compelled to accept Bitcoin to extinguish my debts to them (i.e. by the courts) and I can't pay my taxes in Bitcoin to my local government (no, "just-in-time currency exchange doesn't count).

Imagine that! People are willing to accept my bitcoin as a payment for their services voluntarily, and not because they are forced to?

Turns out that there are quite a large number of people who like the idea of economic freedom and dislike the idea of this big cartel telling them what they can or can't do, who they can or can't trade with. They might dislike it so much that they're willing to make the hurdles, and take risks, in order to exchange between currencies to meet their obligations under such repressive systems and achieve some level of financial sovereignty outside it.

People want the choice. They want the choice because the government who holds a monopoly over many businesses in the geographical region they reside often does a bloody awful job, and their prices are too high (a giant chunk of ones earnings, then another chunk of everything they buy). Private enterprises could offer far better service at lower costs and have them delivered on time. If they under-perform, people could pull out their money and pay someone else for the services.

The main obstacle for this kind of voluntary trade is the men with guns saying "That kind of business can't operate here because this is our turf."
I don't know enough about wine, but judgding from experience, I can definetly tell the $1,000 and $20,000 whisky bottles apart by taste. And controlled double blind studies usually tell the same story: people can taste them apart.
Barcelona is an interesting case study. The city is currently re-doing some of the city's grid neighborhoods into superblocks. The concept is that for every 9 blocks, the interior roads get shut to traffic save for emergency and service vehicles.

Inside, the previously 3-lane streets get transformed into pedestrian avenues with vegetation, play equipment and benches/tables for the residents.

The contrast between traffic-filled streets and urban tranquility couldn't be starker.

Then there are neighborhoods like Gracia that largely closed off its streets to traffic. Going there is like escaping to a village within the city.

Finally, the city puts a huge effort into building dedicated bike lanes, usually at the expense of a car lane. They're also rolling out a new shared biking system, which will combine electric and traditional bikes in the same system.

It helps that the city has mild winters and 300+ days of sunshine a year, but in any case, they're definitely leading the way for large urban areas to give the city back the people.
Both are strictly opt-in: the choice is made before you die (which can be very close to death, but then most deaths are related to not seeing the death coming, so that doesn't necessarily help), and disqualification from high scores (and/or community acknowledgement) occurs immediately upon making the decision, regardless of whether you subsequently die.

The default is assumption, however, is permadeath.
Ask HN: What day to day tasks do you automate?
I had a lot of anxiety about chores as a kid. As a child, I wanted to be taught very much to do them, but would get yelled at for being in the middle of things if I tried to insert myself. I guess that later my parents would randomly come up chores on the spot depending on how bad of a mood they were in and how much they wanted to annoy the children. I remember still being interested in doing chores but ended up begging my parents for the household to make some sort of chore chart or something so we could know who does what on what days instead of being randomly ordered to do huge amounts of stuff on no notice alternating with nothing. Unfortunately this was not allowed as my mother thought I would scam them by only doing the chores on the chart and not waiting on their beck and call at all times. Actually, this reminds me of a lot of ineffective managers in retrospect.
Yeah, this is an interesting story, but the article/ source is of poor quality, and appears to be heavilly biased based on info people are bringing up in comments.

In fact, the article appears to just be the LA times article (linked in the story) chopped up. Some verbatim, some paraphrased.

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-microso...
Ask HN: Self-hosted Helpdesk
Hello!

It looks like top HelpDesk systems are cloud-based nowadays. Are there any self-hosted Helpdesks that match modern times requirements like mobile-friendly UI, OAuth and push notifications?

Edit: Good API is welcome too.
A thousand times this.

Any cheap op-amp you get on the market has 60dB (seems to be a standard) of noise rejection from the power lines. Add a filter you'll have to put anyway at the internal PSU and an amplifier should be able to deal with about any kind of noise.
A yeti cooler isn't a specialized item, you can find it at most sporting goods/outdoor stores. It would be analogous to saying that they wanted an Apple charger, but went to the Apple store so they knew they would get a genuine item.
Please, it's quite obvious your intent is in part to generate emotion and not purely 'informed exchange'. Your tone is not appropriate to this community. Some things I've learned here: give your fellow conversationalists as much benefit of the doubt as you can. It's wise to avoid tactics of rhetoric such as reductio ad absurdum. Try explain your thoughts in such a way that we do not have to guess.

I'm actually quite sure you have something interesting to contribute, but please, politeness is important here.
Solar doesn't need fuel cells.

Fuel cells are a high capital cost solution to the problem of turning hydrogen into electricity, at higher efficiency. That's not what solar or wind need -- they need low capital cost, mediocre efficiency backup sources.
How effective is an NDA in this case? A lot of NDA's are effective because BIGCO you signed the NDA with has piles of money & resources to sue you. If a developer is ghostcoding for ROCKSTAR and it gets out ROCKSTAR hires ghostcoders. ROCKSTAR is screwed and maybe he was making pretty comfortable money at BIGCO but his pockets are exponentially smaller than BIGCO's. And he doesn't have a legal department to handle the lawsuit either. He'll have to handle it himself, while he's being dragged & disgraced in tech news and on Twitter.

And even if the NDA is with you the agency, do you have a legal team? If you do is your agency big enough or is it worth business enough for you to get into a big fight with one of your former contractors to defend ROCKSTAR? Especially when ROCKSTAR is the one who looks bad to the public and not necessarily your agency?

I'm not saying you're not telling the truth, it sounds plausible but I wonder about the model.
This argument that certain areas _only_ support grass / ruminants gets brought up a lot but isn't accurate. Grasslands are some of the richest areas for growing plant-based crops in the USA.
From my tiny spot on the metaverse, copy-paste compatibility with C's security flaws.
All of the most successful teachers I had placed tight boundaries on when they worked. They were organized, fast, and efficient. One history teacher I had only ever gave essay tests. He would have them all graded by 4pm. As one class was taking the exam, he would grade the previous class's essays. He had been a colonel in the army, and so had learned how to be ruthlessly efficient. One of the best teachers I had. Similarly, had a neighbor who had been a colonel and became a realtor when he retired. He way outworked everyone else, including realtors with many years of experience. He was accustomed to slamming through all the paperwork quickly and carried that to his realtor gig.

I have known many teachers who were never trained to be efficient or organized, and who did not anticipate the paperwork load that comes with the job. They would struggle under the paperwork load due to this.

But, what do we expect from a system run by government administrators with little or no transparency or accountability. The administrators pile on the paperwork, because that is what means quality to them. That is what they do.
He knows (is aware of) what he doesn’t know: you can be sure that he will learn by himself or seek someone with more knowledge when he faces a challenge involving a new (to him) topic / concept / technology.
[this comment was written in response to the parent, which was [flagged] while I was typing]

I find the backlash Joscha receives (also in this talk) from the Social Justice community surprising, given that afaik he never took a stand on the issue.
Let me attempt an explanation, using ideas from this talk.
If a god is a virtual entity that 'runs' next to your consciousness with properties of being omnipotent (knows all your thoughts) and that it judges you for your behavior, you can also have
a Beelzebub as a virtual entity that is not quite as omnipotent, but tries to inject 'bad' thoughts into your brain. But since it is not omnipotent, you can fight it.

Now for these kind of entities to be successful they need to have additional properties to protect themselves, similar to biological organisms.
Any thought questioning it is a threat to such virtual entity and therefore for such entity to be successful, it must have the property that any thought questioning it must be evil.
They also need additional properties to encourage spreading and to avoid mutations.

Rationality has proven to be a good antidote to such entities, so it's just natural that new entities will evolve that have developed properties that give them immunity to that.

I think 'patriarchy' is such a Beelzebub. To simplify it: Rationalist arguments were mostly developed by white men, and thus are thoughts connected to the Beelzebub.
I agree with some of your comment, in particular the fetishisation of a particular way of thinking that seems extremely common among hackers and computer scientists; you can read it here, if you're interested[0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18759388
Note that I meant to write

perhaps the most important continuous distribution family because of the Central Limit Theorem

instead of

perhaps the most continuous distribution family because of the Central Limit Theorem

As for a single book, not really. See my response to the sibling comment for some more insight.
This is, I suppose, very similar to criminal motive, except that we find them sympathetic. A reminder that not all that is (locally, de facto) illegal is wrong.

One man's terrorist &c.
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Banning without explanation seems too common for Paypal?
This is a 2018 internet-connected app, not a 1985 GSM network.

1 billion 100 Byte messages sums up to an almost trivial 100GB. This might be a technical challenge for the neighborhood's web admin but not for any real company.
I’ve been learning programming since 12, got first software job at 18. I’m 26 now. So depends on how you count.
Your first comment sounds like something very serious. The kind of stuff that kills people.
I don’t get why people think “starting your own company” is less risky than working for someone.

I’m in my mid 40s and don’t spend a single minute worried about being laid off or my company folding.

I do however spend a lot of time keeping my network of local recruiters warm and making sure my skillset is marketable.

I have a group of friends we are all in our 40s and we all change jobs at the drop of a dime. None of us have any desire to be in management but we make sure we keep up with industry trends.

In fact, our former manager is in his late 50s and self demoted to a developer after his kids graduated and he is a full stack .Net/JavaScript/Azure Developer.
PayPal up to its usual top class behaviour I see

Have they ever been sued for similar?
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> Global event emitters might be the best way. I'm not sure if redux does this.

I think Redux actions are essentially emitted global events.
> 1. Assume we have some set of "validators" who control the global consensus process.

This setup assumes there’s already consensus on a certain set of validators, but the challenge is arriving at this consensus in the first place.

This is the general problem of proof-of-stake: it assumes the presence of consensus in order to arrive at consensus. This is because consensus is reached by utilizing the scarce resource that is the chain’s token, but without consensus in the first place this token isn’t scarce at all.

Proof-of-work uses something external to its chain as the scarce resource that determines consensus (energy), while proof-of-stake uses something internal to its chain (the chain’s token). This means that when a PoW chain forks, the two chains have to share the external resource, while the resource is copied for PoS chain forks.
Indeed. In a thermal reactor, the energy of the neutrons is moderated down to the reactor operating temperature, and is typically a few tens of milli-electron volts (some tens of millions of times less energetic than when they were produced). These slow neutrons do impart a lot of energy when they are absorbed into a nucleus, but that's because of their binding energy into that nucleus. Due to nuclear shell effects, they add slightly more energy to nuclei with an odd number of neutrons, which is one reason why 235U can be fissioned with thermal neutrons and 238U cannot.
Similar to criminal motives? It seems you never had 0 (zero) dollars and needed to receive a few dollars from your family outside your country with a government fully controlling the flow of capital.
I presume you distribute everything you create for free?
> This name confusion seems intentional

Do you have proof, or do you just happen to feel this way without actually knowing any background story? If you make such an accusation you should state your reasons, preferably observable facts. Both "hacker" and "news" are generic terms after all.

In addition, even if they did mimic the name, I would not see a problem. It's very descriptive, unlike a completely made-up word that someone spent a lot of effort on to establish as a brand.
I lived in Germany in 1986. For over half a year we were told to avoid fresh milk and produce and avoid walking barefoot on grass.

But now I know that Chernobyl was a ridiculously poor design that lacked a containment dome. If you want to build another Chernobyl I'll fight you, but if you want to build a modern plant or research MSRs I'm all for it, because climate change is set to do way worse than anything nuclear has ever done, Chernobyl included.
"Can he even interpret a question as the start of a conversation rather than a challenge to his intelligence?"

How ironic that this should pop up in a post that is nothing but an ad-hominem rant.
This is not a new concept in video games, usually known as "hardcore" or "ironman" mode.

I think a core issue for games is that loss is fundamentally at odds with player agency. In pre-written stories it ends up feeling cheap even if it was influenced by player choice. It is much better suited to games with emergent narrative, such as Dwarf Fortress, Rimworld, Crusader Kings II, or X-COM, but still stings more as an annoyance than something deeply emotional.
It's their software and they can do whatever they want with it. The real travesty here is thinking that just because Windows is widely used it should be given away.
This article reminds me of the whole Japanese schoolkids being forced to keep their schools clean. Sure it works for some schools- the top elite ones where the kids may care about social censure. the remaining ones are typically filthy by most people's standards and in some cases encouraging bullies to shove the work onto the meek. humans in general aren't really going to care about "work" unless there is either punishment or reward involved.

studies have shown how punishment scars kids, i'd prefer creating the link in a kid's mind that work=money rather than sloth=pain
This is an interesting idea, but it's not clear to me that this is going to work at sufficient scale. This isn't clear to me because instead of getting a decent white paper on the implementation, we need to learn how this protocol works through what amounts to a PowerPoint. Sure, the slides are nice and simple, but I need more concrete answers on things like how consensus is determined and how available nodes recover from a disaster.

The slides suggest that a sufficiently complex system will almost immediately get out of sync. The dependency on upstream nodes asserting state about objects before they are acknowledged and successfully applied by the "owner" node means that some subset of nodes will be working on assumptions that haven't been validated by objects they don't in fact own. This seems to conflict with what prior slides say about who can mutate objects.

I think distributed object management is a useful concept, but instance state needs to be owned and managed by multiple nodes for redundancy in anything remotely approximating a production-level system. That doesn't seem to be readily addressed anywhere, either. I'd love to read more about this with the level of detail you'd need from a system that readily has use cases and reference architectures instead of possibilities.