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If EA Board could snatch a CEO they like for $5M/year, they would. So why don't they? I'm sure there are thousands of professional managers with solid game industry experience who'd be ecstatic to be offered a CEO position in either company at $5M / year or less. The Board clearly think they are not good enough, and limit their candidate search to people with very special credentials (e.g., those who've served as top executives in large companies, etc.). Such a high bar limits the candidate supply a lot, and then the competition for those candidates between companies drive up the pay (quite similar to NBA or NFL).

Why is Board so obsessed with credentials? Is it because they want to play it safe (kinda like dumb execs choose Oracle over open source solutions because they want to protect themselves from criticism by going with a famous brand)? Or is it because those credentials are truly imporant for the success of EA?

I don't know for certain but I suspect the answer is kinda in between. The quality of a CEO candidate is really hard to judge. So the Boards think like this:

> We'll screen for all the obvious things (experience, references, track record, culture fit, etc.). Hundreds of people will pass that screen. We have no clue of how to choose among them, so we might as well go for someone who's done it before. Perhaps we don't need to be so restrictive. But there's a chance it actually does matter, say maybe 10% chance that a person who's been a top exec before will do better than candidates without such credentials. A good CEO can increase corporate value by billions of dollars over a few years, so even a 10% chance is worth a lot. So let's go bid for one of those bigshot ex-CEOs, even if that means we have to pay an extra $20M/year.

So in some sense, high CEO pay is due to the "religious" belief that whoever made it to the top is super good.

Maybe this religious belief is actually rational, maybe not. I kinda suspect the latter, since other countries seem to pay CEOs a lot less; I find it unlikely that the US CEOs have such unusually high skill compared to the rest of the world. But I don't have high confidence in my opinion.
Not the OP but I can maybe guess at some of the examples. In Java (and I assume C#) because you don't have a powerful enough object system, you end up having to write contorted code often making extensive use of various "design patterns" in order to support testability, the SOLID principles, not having to rewrite a bunch of existing code, and so on. So much of that melts away when you instead write in a FP style, or use a more powerful OO system (like CLOS) or use a dynamic language. I've worked with people who couldn't describe the most commonly used patterns in Java (Visitor for instance) or techniques (e.g. "Dependency Injection") but also people who seem to think everything should be expressed with them, including those that are obsoleted by modern Java features.
Okay, real question: Are you being serious here?

There's a huge logical problem with your argument. The reason why so few immune-compromised individuals die of vaccine-preventable diseases is because they're protected by herd immunity due to people being vaccinated.

When the vaccination rate goes down, you see more people die from vaccine preventable diseases. Because that's what vaccines do: they prevent people from dying from vaccine-preventable diseases. Which, often, is children.
And also a non-negligible probability that people have a shared experience of and may want to objectively consider avoiding it?
Jackson’s father, Chris Oswalt, had no real understanding of what his son was working on.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19211810
> After advertisers complained about programmatic ad placements on anti-vax videos, YouTube removed ads on videos that advocate against vaccination.

uhmm, OK so it's "only" demonetization, but it's driven by Big Business.

How long before Big Business decides who is allowed the right of Free Speech and who is not?

Just sayin...
I don't know why you're quoting that. His device is not a demo fusor, it's actually producing real nuclear fusion.
Sure there is!

The way of "getting around it" is to block all traffic coming from certain countries.

Sure, they might sue you anyway, but just imagine how many tens of billions of dollars in damages would be caused to European countries if Google or Facebook started blocking all traffic going into and out of these countries.

There would be huge negative political consequences, that the citizens of these countries would not stand for.

Also, it doesn't matter if they sue you, if your company is entirely based in the US. american companies don't worry that it is illegal to be gay in Saudi Arabia, so I see little reason why they would worry about bad laws in Europe.

But anyway this is completely irrelevant to the topic of conversation, which is barriers to entry in the tech industry.

And in order to fight these barriers to entry, I will defect, and sabotage any unions that try to do this, at every step of the way.
Sorry if this is off topic, but does anyone know what model/brand of the satphone pictured in the hardware/daily gear section?

Alternatively if anyone here knows that market I'd appreciate some guidance in terms of what brands to look at.
You have nothing to hide? Send me nudes
Then again: Why would he?; There are are thousands of very smart people working on this. While this is an excellent demonstration of his ability, I doubt he could actually outbid professional researchers.
Yes, I see how that was ambiguous. Have changed the language—is it clearer now?

If anyone can figure out how to make it shorter, let me know. It feels a bit wordy now.
Free speech doesn't mean someone has to host your speech.
This is mildly unrelated, but living in New England and being stuck with shitty heating bills in January and February always makes me wonder what things would be like if we had enough common sense to move to regions of the country where heating isn't so vital. There's plenty of space out there.

Sure excessive heat is an issue, but if my heat goes off when it's 2°F I would likely die within a day or two. Not in practice of course (thanks society!) just in theory. I can withstand 102° heat just fine if water is available and I'm a little careful.
Remote work goes against having the best work-life balance.

When you walk out the door of the office, work should be over and done with until you return. Taking work home should be impossible.

Paid overtime helps greatly. It discourages the employer from trying to get free work out of you.

Having a non-zero commute doesn't have to mean commuting for 2 hours in urban traffic. You can pick a location where a tiny commute is possible.
"The Northeast also can’t receive gas from other U.S. states by ship because of a 1920 law that prohibits foreign-flagged vessels from moving between American ports."

wat?
Yeah, I was confused about how this works. But if the link appears at the bottom of the page, then this new page will be more of an afterthought (after reading the current front page and upvoting its stories at that moment in time).
That's an entirely fair comparison. Has CR ever yanked a recommendation before because of temporary manufacturing variances? I don't think they have.

As no, it doesn't mean the problem vanished, but you should already know that when the car industry has problems in their cars, they don't fix them, and it often leads to deaths. OTOH, Tesla believed that an under-armored battery pack could lead to injury and proactively fixed it and also applied to fix (more armor) to all of the cars on the road.

So, yes, it is an entirely fair comparison and there is goalpost moving happening all the time with Tesla. I just never expected CR to do it.
it was figured out almost seventy years ago

I've heard of the "young Earth" movement, but "young Sun" is a new one.
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We have that, but it's called Florida....
Yep. The Jones Act
Are you saying "Big Business" should be forced to advertise on anti-vax videos against their wishes?
Public utility is firmly defined, at least in the US, by the FCC. Even the Internet itself is no longer protected under such definitions, let alone your "right" to speak on a private companies website.

I would absolutely love for the top ~20 sites to all be rendered public utilities. But that would require legislation regulating these private websites as newly minted public institutions and I'm sure the operators of these cash cows would have a word or two to say about the government seizing control of their businesses, even if indirectly through regulation.

Right now, legally, Google can do whatever they want on youtube with impunity - if we want that to change, that will require state involvement, because all these sites are way too big for a crowd of nerds on a forum to influence the business models of in profound ways.
Federal judges are nominated by the President and confirmed (majority) by the Senate. Technically judges serve during Good Behavior, Article III, but that's been interpreted as lifetime. Removal is by impeachment in the House (majority) followed by conviction (two thirds) in the Senate.
The reductionism take seems to be fairly popular on HN in general, and it's kind of frustrating.

You can technically make that argument that humans are natural and therefore all of their impacts are also natural, but the fact remains that when shown a picture of a forest and a cityscape, everyone will instinctively know which one is more natural.

Nature is a useful concept. There are mental health benefits to being around nature[0], there are physical benefits of being around less pollution, there are future-of-the-human-race benefits to keeping things closer to the status quo than we're on pace to do with global climate change. We are changing our planet, in some ways positively and in some ways detrimentally, but it's pedantic to argue that this change is "natural".

[0]https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/study...
> there is a direct correlation to the media they help propagate and the outbreak

interesting, has someone studied that?
Of course it does, somebody whether it is a nation or a website or a piece of paper has to host your speech. Otherwise it will just be thoughts inside your brain.
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This is more in line with Palantir using AWS as their hosting provider. So it’s the same as saying amazon is the invisible backbone behind Netflix.
Isn't there a theory that winters forced human evolution because of the need for preparation?

Not so relevant today. But an interesting thought.
NYers are opposed to commuters now? The city with 1 to 2 million current daily commuters?
The lungs originate from the intestinal tract. Some fish would gulp air. This got better and better... and hence became lungs. (FYI, the gills turned into various features of the neck and lower face including ear bones and the jaw, with some of this happening long before functional gills were lost)
It's about time we had a good 3rd Amendment case.
> (assuming they had training on par with what you received)

Sure, if the board were running a karate-kid-style boot camp where they trained people to be CEOs, those kids market wages wouldn’t be that high. But in fact they are hiring CEOs who already have training and experience. There is no need to get into a nature vs. nurture debate, CEOs are being paid for both.
That seems a little naive.

A baby is born and does things naturally.

The transition has to do with conscious control.
What is the current stance between Redis Streams vs Kafka? Serious question.

Because I prefer not to have both in production.
As the spot history charts depict, AWS pricing continues to drop.

To break through any floor requires a disruptive change in architecture (CPU or otherwise).

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-sp...
> When the vaccination rate goes down, you see more people die from vaccine preventable diseases.

To see this all we have to do is simply visualize history backwards, re-visiting the time before vaccines and medicine in general, and how people just horribly died in large numbers of diseases we don't even think of as deadly any more.

But what are the odds vaccine deniers would believe historic record, right?

The plague pandemics? Never happened; it's just a fabrication to promote vaccination.
How would you reduce it?
I mean - to take the two ends of the spectrum - that some music, movies etc are made because the director/writer wants to make it, because doing so is meaningful to them. They're the ones that get called art, whether good or bad art. Every part is determined by the desires and taste of the creator. They're all about the creators' desires, imagination, experiments, taste, self-expression.

Others are made kind of backwards, first by figuring out the target audience, writing a plot filled with the kinds of things that have made money recently, then making that. Making music/movies by formula. Every part is determined by the supposed desires and taste of the 'target audience'. They're all about marketing and making money.

A work of art comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that people want what they want. – Oscar Wilde

Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything. – Wilde

[An artist] cares about the end-result as a completion of what goes before and not because of its conformity or lack of conformity with a ready-made antecedent scheme... Like the scientific inquirer, he permits the subject-matter of his perception in connection with the problems it presents to determine the issue, instead of insisting upon its agreement with a conclusion decided upon in advance. ...one of the essential traits of the artist is that he is born an experimenter. Without this trait he becomes a poor or a good academician. The artist is compelled to be an experimenter because he has to express an intensely individualized experience through means and materials that belong to the common and public world. This problem cannot be solved once for all. It is met in every new work undertaken. Otherwise an artist repeats himself and becomes esthetically dead. – Dewey, Art as Experience
Former Boston resident here.

Moved to Hawaii after a blizzard and then to CA. The weather is wonderful here and we can drive up to the snow if we want.

We still need heat in the winter but the temperatures aren't as intense.

I do not Boston though just not the weather.
Therac-25 is brought up I like to point out that the Therac-25, which killed 3 people), was released the same year as the Hyatt bridge disaster (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collap...) which killed 114. We really need a new reference case of the potential harm caused by software bugs. Perhaps the recent lion air crash will take that grim mantle.
Not hard to understand when the other discussion HN had about this today was all worrying about censorship.

(Standard disclaimer: nowhere near that stuff, my views are unrelated and uninformed, etc)
I had the same question. Why would they be foreign-flagged if the are from another state?
In the years 1331-1351, half the population of China, and one third of that of Europe, died in the Black Death pandemic. That is preventable by a vaccine.

> forcing people to do things to their body.

Ah, but, firstly, your child's body isn't your body; that's a separate human being who has a right not to have idiot parents interfere with their survival.

Secondly, one person's immunization status affects others around them. It's not just a personal choice. Choosing not to be immunized and being around people is somewhat like smoking.
Fair question, it's not just about the wars he starts/ends. It's about the rhetorics and the planting of seeds of conflict and hate and what becomes of it in 4 years or 10 years or 20 years.

Simple words by a country's leader could ruin relationships between nations for decades or between different parts of society.

You don't just start hating {insert favorite target jews|blacks|muslims|christians|whites} overnight, it takes time. You plant the seeds of hate and let them flourish into ethnic cleansing|holocaust|interment camps|etc.

It's our duty to nip that shit in bud right now :). We have come so far to let that sort of shit take us back.

I apologize for taking this discussion in a political direction. In any case, I think it's important for us to have a strong military and Microsoft helping our military build better weapons/systems/tools is a good thing. A strong America is a good thing - as long as we have no Trumps :)
How many years ago was that? POSIX compliance has come a long way and most of the proprietary vendors (the ones with all the corner cases) are gone. These days not only do platforms like AIX and Solaris have much fewer corner cases, they're even adopting Linux and GNU extensions wholesale. Anyhow, most people can ignore these altogether. Portability between Linux and the BSDs is much easier. macOS is the biggest outlier in terms of corner cases yet in many ways the best supported thanks to the popularity of Homebrew.

C++ is a different matter, but C++ portability is a headache even if you stay on Linux. Likewise, trying to maintain OS-level portability of monolithic codebases between Windows and Unix is a fools errand, which is why Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is likely to only get better.
A lot of science has been dumb luck and doing some random thing at the right time.

I mean I hope for all of us this is one of those cases.
A better definition might be “apart from technology” as opposed to “apart from humans”.
Well, natural gas can be shipped between states, it just has to by US flagged vessels. (There May not be any US-flagged LNG ships).

“Can’t” isn’t true.

It’s like saying “Walmart can’t ship goods between its US warehouses and US stores because foreign truckers aren’t allowed to ship interstate”.

Well, duh.
This is a shortsighted viewpoint of how value, money, and the concept of 'free' works. Someone had to put in effort to put up the websites you use for free. Someone is paying or motivating those developers to keep doing that so you don't have to.

The problem is all free software comes at the cost of either being made by someone who is doing it out of kindness or someone who is pawning your data. You cannot know which one it is.
No, it doesn't. You are not entitled to a platform. You are entitled to safety from the government when you say objectionable things (under most conditions).

A newspaper doesn't have to publish your op-ed. YouTube doesn't have to host your video. You can make a website for free to get your point across without going through Youtube, so they're not silencing you either. Not in a free speech sense.
Which makes it particularly sad the Galax SNPR 1060 eGPU didn't see a wider release. I have one, it's great.
If someone has 99% of the market and there is no publicly available (i.e. to anyone) competing service, it effectively turns into free speech limitation (not legally, just effectively).
It's a $70 difference, and the last page of the article has a chart that includes comparing a 1060 against both a 1660 and a 2060.

Over a 1060, the 1660 gives a +36% performance boost for a +12% price difference, and the 2060 gives +59% performance for +40% price. So if you just want the best performance-per-dollar ratio, the 1660 is better, but the 2060 is probably better overall if you don't mind the extra cost (and it also supports the new RTX enhancements for ray-tracing and such).
Nothing serious man, part of me just want fusion energy to exist (although humanity will probably abuse it ..)
Lucky. It’s not cheap/easy to convert from LNG import to LNG export.
Isn't it confusing to have the word [more] twice on the front page, but doing different things depending on if its at the top or the bottom?

I like the function, but some how "by date" feels more "more" than "more" does.
When a company increases in value by tens of billions and then the CEO takes home hundreds of millions, it seems like there could still be a big discount happening.
I agree. I live in a condo in Georgia and 99% of my heating and cooling is performed by heat pump.
Nonsense, you're entirely free to express the speech in your head however you deem fit.

You're just not entitled to forcing others to express your speech for you.
Saying “how long before X?” is just the slippery slope fallacy. “Freedom of Speech” (at least in the US) means the government can’t take away your right to say something. As far as I know, people can still claim vaccines cause autism. They can even still do it on Youtube, apparently. They just can’t make money doing it, at least on that one (non-governmental) platform.
The USA's neighbors only became friendly after the USA's military got way more powerful than theirs.

Much of Mexico's territory is de facto controlled by enemies of both Mexico and the USA, and Russia has, or at least is eyeing having, an outpost in the Caribbean right now.

The US used its army directly in the New World at least as recently as 1982, in the invasion of Grenada.
sorry for the late reply drdeca, technical problem. Have still to parse your reply. I will try to give you a response anyway.

1) Well, there is no product of \Theta_i, it's sets. It's the set of all the \Theta_i.

2) the article is sequential, so it's {\Theta_i | i in U}.

3) M is the set of all the possible messages that can be sent by the agents, not the actual messages sent. That's why it's message space.

4) the cost mechanism depends on the service itself, that's why its shape is know beforehand. If you have to allocate M&Ms, you know the cost of any unit, the logistic costs (let's say an average or a worse case scenario), etc.

5) nothing is implied on the order of the message submissions.

6) I don't think so, but you are the reader. I'm taking feedbacks to improve in the next articles. One was to add images and diagrams. The claim is just that we cannot have efficiency, incentive-compatibility and no deficits cause we cannot have prices that act perfectly both as a way to recover costs and a way to incentivize agents.

7) fair. At start I wanted it to be longer, and then I understood that a) it was taunting to read somehow b) I had to split it. It's the first of a series. Worst case scenario I will link to this first article in the next ones. Tradeoffs maybe. I wanted to be correct, not just to describe the problem.

8) point 6.

9) from the first source I've taken the general description of mechanism design, and the second was the best I found on the problem. To be honest, the second constrained me to choose the first. And the first and some lectures from Bonn university (Germany) were the best I've found so far.

Happy to answer to further questions, and, again, apologies for the late reply.
The US has done fine until now, in fact much better than China or Russia defending itself without getting into the business of blurring the line between private business and military to the degree that autocratic states do.

So honestly I find these sorts of responses misleading, irresponsible and agenda driven. The US does not need to be afraid of China or Russia, it dwarfs their military capacity ten times over.

And that American workers in the tech industry are conscious of the risks of having the military seep too closely into consumer facing businesses is a very good thing in a liberal society. US tech workers always had a libertarian streak, be that right or left, and the US wasn't defenseless as a result. We'd be very wise to listen to the people who want to keep private American businesses out of government weapon development.
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