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Yey, living in SF where junkies shoot on the street and everything is littered with excrements because fuck you good social security system.

Let‘s live there!

Plus, everything really expensive to live there. And if I work at Google I drive two hours with a bus there.

I don‘t know but reading about that place it‘s insanity.

And the output is Hit and miss. I know of no startup in the last ten years that‘s any substantial or enhancing live tremendously.
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So you’re saying that government control of speech is bad, but government control of behaviour is good?
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This is hands down the most sensible thing I've read in 10+ years of HN. Thank you for sharing your story.
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> The US used its army directly in the New World at least as recently as 1982, in the invasion of Grenada.

Or even more recently in '89 down in Panama.

Or in Haiti in '94 -- though that one wasn't necessarily an invasion but the troops were in the air if diplomacy failed.
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A ray tracer sounds good.
Thank you.
> we have the comfortable lives we have now

"We" = the 1% which reads Hacker News? Speak only for yourself

You uses fallacies to spread misinformation about war. No source, no number, no reference. Convenient.
I miss the demoscene. Even coded a couple of demos back in the day (unrelated to cracking, though.)

Some of the Farb Rausch stuff was phenomenal (http://farb-rausch.de/)

I sorta feel like some of the magic is gone now, though, because computers are so powerful. There's no graphical effect that you can't either do directly, or at least fake with sufficient realism that you can't really tell it's fake.
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>if you can access your vote through a code, then your vote or that of others can be bought //

Isn't that the status quo, currently it can be bought but no one can verify; under my system it can be verified by the person in the poll both.

If someone paid you then you give them the "vote code" that corresponded, for you, at the time you voted, they falsely verify and you can still actually verify - in most votes just be remembering one letter. It's two factor with deniability because the second factor is only in your memory.

I'm in UK, but have never come across "proof of counting" in a vote, where are you, how does that work?
Agreed. He makes it very obvious he is damaged. The quality of the life he has is as obvious as the quality of hitting yourself with a hammer on the head repeatedly.

That does not make him less attractive - but you would have to be already in a very bad shape if you felt any compulsion to emulate him.
But arguably, the 2060 is already the wrong card for the future of ray tracing. This current batch of cards are barely able to handle the limited ray-tracing features in the few fames its available in: i.e. one-bounce global illumination to a single light-source or reflections or ray-traced shadows.

If ray tracing does become increasingly relevant, this batch of cards (and especially the 2060 at the bottom) are likely to become dated rather quickly. Also as with any bleeding-edge technology, you're paying an early-adopter premium for something which is likely to see relatively large inter-generation improvements.
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I believed it to be more popular but it seems no one has mentioned that site so far...
If ray tracing becomes widespread in games, my bet is you'll need a new card to run that ray tracing with a good enough visual fidelity and high performance anyway. This is just the first generation.

I think of RTX like the first Oculus Rift. You shouldn't buy it to be future proof, it will be anything but, you buy it only because you're an enthusiast that want to play with the latest tech early and plans to upgrade before it breaks or become obsolete anyway.
Fully understand that. But beyond the cost, my main concern is communication bandwidth. So productivity. Not even sure 3 people would be as productive as the right guy.
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>Hundreds of years old, because if you want a standardized school system you have to at least seem to judge pupils by their merits in vaguely similar ways across a very diverse set of schools and educators.
We can't know beforehand what is the right way to teach (or what one should learn). Only time can show. Imposing control over education makes everyone live by the same mediocre standards; you reduce dimensionality to just one scale from number A to number B and you cut out the randomness.
At the end you get the same situation as in every field where you impose any sort of metrics: teachers and students just try to game them.
>Being someone who decides what to measure is a position of great power and responsibility
Humanity had whole 20th century to see how central planning works. One man or thousand can't do the job better for a multimillion society that each individual or groups of individuals can do themselves.
Indeed it's a position of great power and it attracts corresponding type of people whom one should keep away from decisions that would affect millions. Whether they want to use with good will or malicious.
>and I sincerely hope we get better at measuring the right thing, not measuring at all when it would do more harm than good, and knowing which to choose.
That's sort of a fallacy. Using a broken or completely irrelevant instrument is not a good alternative to not having an instrument at all.
Again, by imposing metrics on extremely complex things you reduce the number of dimensions (from infinite to calculable). It makes it look like it's under control, but that's just a self-delusion. At best it does not help at all, at worst it eventually produces a crisis.
It's difficult to tell from your comment how old you are, but I'm in my late 40s and it took me until well into my 30s to find the balance that works for me. It's difficult when so much work seems to require being unquestioning / amoral at best and immoral at worst. The only fixed ideas I had in my head were not working for defence or advertising companies (thanks, Bill Hicks). I now make a nice living running a digital agency that builds websites almost exclusively for third-sector clients (education, non-profit, government etc.) but it took me quite a while to build the skills that would allow me to do that. I can highly recommend starting your own business, no matter how humble, once you've gained enough skills to make what you do valuable to the kind of people you want to work with. The added benefit of working in the third sector is that I'm generally working with nicer people. I think this is partially just the kind of people the sector attracts, but also because the people who work in it aren't so conflicted about the value of what they're doing. So many people I've worked with in corporate environments get fixated on things like status and money, and it just seems to make them bitter and miserable. Along the way I remember one guy in HR in particular who got incredibly excited about me building a link between their HR system and their website so a job that was posted on their HR system automatically turned up on their website. I couldn't believe how small his world had become.
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Yeah in my experience it is more conservatives (mostly fundamentalists) who have a persecution complex about it. Which is very differently from those who are or were persecuted.

One brings it out and up everywhere as self-justification as they aren't actually being persecuted haven't tweaked their behaviors from even negative receptions. One may call them drama llamas trenchantly but more charitably it is identity based instead of experience based.

The other is met with far more guarded pessimism and even with angry backlash tends to be in "friendlier" spaces or stressed. It is more confided than presented usually, more angry than righteous. Actually some degree of trauma territory.

These are individual situations based on experiences fundamentally. Ironic inversions of the typical and coexistence of "real" and "fake" persecution behaviors are possible.
There is a near unlimited number of places on the internet to store small chunks of data like this.

You could even split them across millions of pastebin pastes.

It's only CORS headers stopping many of them being useful, but a Chrome extension or pirate app can easily ignore such things.
If you’ve lived in any place long enough, most of your friends and support network do as well. Think about that.
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AKA pervasive corruption. See, also, Vietnam.
Yes. But there is a very real difference in escalation as a last resort and as the default.

The Prisoner's Dilemma is about operating with zero knowledge from and coordination with the other parties. Diplomacy lets us avoid that in the real world.
GDPR doesn't automatically mean right to remove any information. Transactions required for legal reasons, ie money laundering prevention and purchase disputes, can (must) still be kept.
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A surprisingly well-written and lucid article (given the woo-woo topic), exploring the memetic nature and evolution of stories.

Selected TL;DR quotes:

"As a psychic creature simultaneously parasitizing and nourishing the human mind, narrative was so thoroughly successful that it is now all but inextricable from language and thought. Stories live through us, and we live through stories."

"The increasingly large brains of our ancestors, all the more attuned to the world’s complexity, needed a way to organize this overwhelming torrent of information, to pass the multiplicity of experience through a reverse prism and distill it into a single coherent sequence. Stories were the solution. A story is a choreographed hallucination that temporarily displaces reality."

"And if a recorded story finds itself utterly alone, it is perfectly content to wait indefinitely for the arrival of a new audience, whether that audience be human, alien, machine, or something else altogether. Stories are capable of symbiosis that transcends species; they are also a kind of life that transcends biology itself. If any organism can achieve true immortality, it is surely the story."
That sounds like a CPU bottleneck, or else very poor optimization. I cannot imagine WoW is that demanding on a GPU.
I think that misses the step inbeteewn, where the platforms that connect the world started to prioritize "growth hacking" and keeping the user glued to the screen as long as possible above all else.

You do not need agressive autoplay, recommendations plastered everywhere and "we miss you" emails every few hours to organise the world's information.
30 years ago the most powerful intel cpu was a 386.
I’d be very careful to make predictions with absolute certainty like you given that we have already a level 4 commercial self driving service in Phoenix and it will expand in other cities during the course of the year.
It’s also worth noting that until 5 years ago the absolute earliest and optimistic prediction was to have self driving cars in 2020, and this prediction has already been beaten.
Methinks you underestimate carpentry and plumbing as professions.

I agree that this is a great way to unearth some talent trying to break through.
For me the front page is the "last 24 hours" view on hn.algolia.com.

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It can also show the stories from arbitrary periods including single days like in the new "more" feature being discussed but it orders them by points rather than how long they were on the (real) front page.
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As a mere reader, if non-US-flagged ships aren't allowed to stop at two consecutive US ports, then it seems likely they'd head to California instead of Hawaii, since it is the larger market, leaving Hawaii, which would otherwise receive cheap cargo on a mid-way stop, instead having to them import it from the mainland, so paying shipping for both the initial foreign-to-mainland trip and then a low-competition and more expensive US-flagged mainland-to-Hawaii trip.

If they could stop at Hawaii before and then after mainland, then they could drop off containers when passing each way, lowering Hawaii's costs.
You seem to be hedging and I'm not sure why. Your core point is one that every good engineer should understand: not all important things can be practically measured. We've all watched metrics or standards defined with the best of intentions driven into the ground by a narrow-minded focus on the wrong numbers. Why should we be surprised that this is true in economics or politics or philosophy?
Bruce Schneier had a really good essay on what happenned: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/01/power_and_the...

> What we forgot is that technology magnifies power in both directions. When the powerless found the Internet, suddenly they had power. But while the unorganized and nimble were the first to make use of the new technologies, eventually the powerful behemoths woke up to the potential -- and they have more power to magnify. And not only does the Internet change power balances, but the powerful can also change the Internet.

Internet is just a force multiplier.
I wonder if the "kinds of engineering talent" issue aren't a bit an issue of finding people that can be trained on the job/betting on the right people instead of just trying to get "person that does this exact thing at FAANG".
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The fact that you're reducing my comment to mere categorization kind of proves my point. "What it means to be human" is not a category of activity, it's an ongoing process that we create through living in a world with other people and finding meaning in our interactions with our predecessors (e.g. examining ancient art or living with the insufficiencies of a building that was built centuries ago), our peers in the present, and our considerations for those that come after us in the future.
The correct response is generous severance to the employees who sign this letter. If a US company doesn’t participate in the defense of the US, it is going to be basically unsustainable to get any immigration permitted for technology employment.
Some things shouldn't be measured, or be about any external validation. I'm sure that old lady wasn't doing it for recognition or reward, but just because she felt it the right thing to do. A sense of personal or civic pride if you like, or wanting to make her little bit of the world that bit nicer, for everyone.

It's something we mostly forgot. Parks and gardens are maintained at lowest, most efficient cost; businesses build the cheapest box building planning laws let them; people couldn't care less about much of anything beyond them and theirs. Everywhere you look things are that much more dull and uninteresting, or messy and rubbish strewn than they once were. I suspect it was an intended consequence of the Thatcher/Reagan years. It's certainly removed a lot of the humanity.

I can give no better example of striving to make the world a tiny bit better for no recognition or reward than this story from yesterday: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/feb/22/man-who-tend...

If you click through to the twitter threads that initiated this, you may end up with grit in your eyes. :)
I think one of main things keeping Europe more or less stable, is that Russia's armed forces are probably more broke-dick than the EU's.
> And even when we do manage to measure that positive ripple effect, do you want to?

> The reality is, numbers are used for accounting. If we start keeping an accounting of small actions such as that...

This is a really good point. I think your point fits well with a sibling comment to yours, Gibbon1 pointed out something called The McNamara Fallacy which says we often trick ourselves into believing that the most important things are those which we can measure quantitatively, that they must be more important if only because they are measurable.

I do still wish we were better - on a level above The Individual - at recognizing the ways we add value to one another's lives. I do feel like, on a societal and systems level we're missing out on a lot of the little ways we make each other's lives more colorful, the ripples or 2nd and 3rd order effects. Taken as a whole, all of these little value-adds, everything from the artist, a neighbor's little garden, to the guy on my team who writes hilariously snarky code comments, I think these things probably add-up and affect us more than we realize.

Maybe we need to be better at teaching from a young age to notice those little ripples? Anyway, thanks for your comment, it helped me see it differently.
To he honest, I think 4k is more relevant in terms of benchmarks than it is in real-world impact. At the monitor sizes most people are using for gaming, it's barely discernible from 1440p.

The push for 4k gaming does a lot more for hardware manufacturers who want to sell the "next big thing" than it does for actual users.
My strategy is to avoid Medium posts.

I usually check out the comments to see if it's worth the annoyance, and if there's strongly positive feedback, I will read it.
drum circle? /s
It's organized by days, so how about "daily"? Nice short word that is intuitive to me.
I'd say the "new" technical challenge for those so inclined is 64k demos and such.

Also there's still a lot of people who make demos for the old platforms, like the c64, Amiga, Gameboy...

Take a look on http://www.pouet.net/ if you are interested. Some demos have been recorded as video so you can watch them without the actual hardware.
>The "long tail" is made up of a few dozen companies like SAP, Oracle, Alibaba and Tencent, with the rest of the market practically representing a rounding error.

Are Alibaba and Tencent Really in the long tail? I believe Tencent could be since it is about 3rd of the size of Alibaba, but if I remember correctly Alibaba will overtake Google by 2019 ( They had ~90% growth in 2018 ), and 2018 were already close to matching Google's Cloud Revenue.

I wonder if OVH is also big in the list. And Apple? Surely the Server Back End to services 900M iPhone users can't be small. How do they compare to say, Google in Server Purchase Terms?
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These cars will have accidents, and they will have victims. Perhaps there is another hidden benefit for offering them to retired people - they have already lived most of their lives, and if an accident happens, it will be less of a loss.
Or 'old' - it's already next to 'new'.
A lot of stuff that I worked on looked like a net-positive at first, but ended up as a zero sum game.

Now I'm producing an affordable, detailed video course that teaches ordinary people auto engineering. It's the most satisfying project I ever worked on but I'm very dependent on companies and products that I don't love: Google, YouTube, Facebook. I don't enjoy dealing with things like Instagram and that directly costs me a lot of money.

I think my Youtube stuff is amongst the best out there but I refuse to put yellow text, red circles, and my own grinning face on the thumbnails. I don't waste 30 seconds at the end of every video begging people to subscribe, ring the bell, support me on Patreon, comment, hit the thumbs up. I'd prefer to tell people what they need to know and send them on their way - that's directly at odds with YouTube who want to keep them from actually going out to the garage at all costs.

Unfortunately, even producing quality stuff you still end up taking a daily swim in a dirty sea filled with everyone else's floating bullshit.
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So the problem is the algorithm. This is baloney. It's like when there has been the columbine massacre: everybody pinete pointed the accusing fingers on the music of Marilyn Manson. Yeah. Of course it's cheaper, easier and a good scapegoat. Better than take the responsibility of a totally failed parenthood. Or a totally failed school system. Yeah. The fault is in the social network that "helped that snowflake to commit suicide by flooding her with suicidal contents". You all must be joking, right? That parent is just deluding himself. The fault for the death of his little daughter is his own. Period. Accusing pinterest or instagram is understandable but totally hilarious. Where was that father when she was putting suicidal contents online? How come that he wasn't aware about how messed up her daughter was? And now he screams and cries that the fault is too be find in the WWW and you all agree with that??? You are as messed up as that man. I hope none of you have progeny and will never have. Sick.
You have to remember, not everyone is an an engineer, let alone a good one. The point Toofy is trying to make is about society as general.
> spent the time and money to remediate all defects

Surely you mean to design systems with modularity that helps RAM-limited brains made of meat to avoid defects and defense-in-depth which reduces the impact of defects.
The board and the CEO are people who have known each other for years.

On the other hand, I don't think that is the only source of problem. Companies have gotten way too big and the experience of running global conglomerates is simply not common. Add risk aversion to it and the same people, whether succeeding or failing, end up getting hired over and over. It's a lack of supply and lack of competition.
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Amazing - a 39 year old bee! Incredible that someone could still recognise it despite the ageing.