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Whoopdeedoo... Z1 didn't go anywhere... the UK were allies using the tech for codebreaking... and you can't get more military industrial complex than ENIAC.

You can parse my words however you like, but my general point is that the US military industrial complex was the biggest driver in the creation of silicon valley.
The Jones Act is highly protectionist, both in original intent and in actual effect. [0] The act grants a virtual monopoly on domestic island freight to the few US flagged carriers. You may have heard that things in Hawaii are expensive because "they have to ship everything there." That's true, but misleading. A gigantic share of US consumer goods are also shipped from China, but you don't hear similar complaints about the cost of goods in Tennessee . That's because the US carriers can literally charge anything they want [1].

Your analogy isn't accurate. The accurate analogy would be "We don't allow trucks manufactured outside the United States, owned and operated by non-US companies, and driven by non-citizens to carry cargo between American cities.

[0] https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2017/10/05/h...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_price
The examples you chose (TCP/IP, airplanes, etc.) show pretty clear willful misinterpretation, and I think you know that.
A new manual to old Linux.
Acknowledgment is worth more than compensation.
Aren't you just hoping that people who seek peace and diplomacy are on the Chinese/Russian/etc side when shit hits the fan?

What if they aren't? You can have all the peacekeepers and diplomats in the world, but if the other side isn't willing to play by that game, then they wont.
Have you ever seen a TV show or movie with an interrogation scene? I assume that's what the poster is referring to. Not recording people in their homes or anything untoward like that
Oh really? People with money to buy a car but who can't safely drive are the ideal customers for self-driving cars? Mind-blowing!
The smallpox eradication should be at the top of any list of audacious moonshots. According to Wikipedia, there were 50 million cases annually around 1950. By 1979 the disease was eradicated globally, mainly because of a massive international campaign lead by the WHO.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox#Eradication
Waymo has already launch this in Phoenix for customers.
> It's one of the reasons desktop linux lags so far behind

You really can' fault desktop linux at least performance-wise. I have ~3ms input latency in vim on xterm. Good luck beating that on windows, or even a mac.

The reason linux on desktop lags behind is simple - 99% of desktops and laptops come pre-installed with either windows or macos.
It's workable, but there's a problem. The fake-it-til-you-make-it self-driving car companies have unicorn-sized valuations. One that's actually doing it is measured on cost and return on investment. This competes with taxi and van services. You get rid of the driver cost while taking on lots of new costs. On a small scale, it probably loses money.

Navya and Local Motors, with their little slow shuttle vans for airports and such, have this problem.
AWS is still 10x-100x more expensive than renting bare-metal unmetered servers and running everything yourself, so I don't think the actual hardware factors too much into their pricing.
Very true. Translating dukkha as just "suffering" is a vast oversimplification.
How should liberalism respond if 100 liberals can be silenced by 1 authoritarian with a machine gun, and the ratio of authoritarians to liberals is 1:99?
The USP of USA is that it promotes your self-actualization in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_need...
Is that true? A Canadian truck wouldn’t be allowed to haul cargo between Detroit and Buffalo, for example?
Please don't break the site guidelines by bickering like this on Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Beyond Worst-Case Analysis
Does 5G Cause Cancer?
I'm confused on who or what misled you to believe that imposter syndrome only exists within the CS bubble. It's a human phenomenon. Sometimes it is purposefully fueled by junior developers being talked down to be senior developers who at best feel threatened of being exposed (do I really deserve to make double what a junior dev makes?) or at worst are simply misanthropic. Many of these senior developers are surely skilled at walking the DOM but due to their toxic attitude must be managed with kid gloves like so: https://hbr.org/2016/10/how-to-manage-a-toxic-employee
Let's try this a different way. If you can't make your points without attacking people, you can't post here, and doing it repeatedly will get you banned. Please follow the site guidelines from now on.
I wonder if Y/C will relocate? Y/C HQ2?
Imagine if American engineers had boycotted weapons development when they saw the effects of napalm in WW2/Vietnam and that's where progress stopped.

Governments would still throw napalm and bodies at problems. Many more people would be dead and conflicts would have escalated even further. Overall, refinements in sensors, targeting, and munitions have saved lives.
If there are no qualifying LNG tankers then “can’t” is completely true.
Any plans to update the official Hacker News API? I’d love more features, such as ability to reply and upvote, but more importantly, the API currently requires using a really old version of Firebase SDK. The rest API is an alternative, but it doesn’t work well due to the design of the API needing a whole network call per post/comment.
There seem to be a few indications that there is opportunity for change, and RISC-V could make gains, eg

https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/02/05/the-era-of-general-p...

https://www.sigarch.org/simd-instructions-considered-harmful...
My mom is getting up there and when I think about this and Lyft/Uber really the Gap is with Lyft/Uber you don't always know if you'll get a driver that will help you with heavy or bulky objects. With a taxi you wait longer but you can request it. But with Lyft/Uber there is still a good chance there would be help (currently).

With self driving there is no one to help.

As you get older you would want someone to make sure you got into the place. Someone to help you with groceries or other objects to the door.

This would nessiciarily drive you away from local business and to delivery for everything (online likely). And make it less likely you'd take the car if you needed assistance.

Eg as you get older where you have trouble driving you're likely going to need additional assistance that just a car can't provide.
Your golden age of biomedical research is powered by the silicon revolution.
Sure, but every time you move down the stack a level, you shrink the network effect by several orders of magnitude.

Linus' argument is that x86 stays on top because everyone is developing with x86 at home. It's much less convincing to argue that x86 will stay on top because the people writing JVMs use x86 at home. There just aren't that many of them, and if they get paid to write ARM, they write ARM.
My basic understanding of NATO is that it says:

- If any NATO country is invaded by anyone, all NATO countries will go to war to defend it. This doesn't apply if the NATO country is the aggressor.

- It outlines some minimum funding commitments, but those are more aimed towards the non-US countries involved.
> We once envisioned the internet as a place of revolutionarily open discourse, where any idea under the sun could get posted somewhere and read, no matter how crazy or bad it seemed, with the worst ridiculed and dismissed, but still able to be read, and the best rising to the top.

Who is “we?” Who envisioned that? And who gave those people the right to speak for the rest of us?

Free speech exists within the framework of social norms. You can think and say what you want, but that doesn’t mean that you get to think and say what you want in your places of work, community, etc., without social consequences from other people. That’s a central part of the freedom of association—nobody has to let you say what you want in their spaces. Ostracizarion, shaming, and exclusion over speech, actions, and beliefs is a central and important part of constructing and maintaining the social fabric.

All that happened to the Internet is that it became civilized. And like every other area of civilized society, people imposed their social norms on it. Free speech still exists. Nothing is stopping you from setting up a web server and posting whatever (legal) thing you want. But nobody has to accommodate you and your thoughts in their spaces. And they are free to ostracize you for the things you believe or say.
>People are also free to vote for people like Ocasio-Cortez

She got elected because of the primary. She isn't exactly a vote magnet.

>That's probably not what most want, myself included, but here we are going from 20:1 in the 70's to 300:1.

You are fed a narrative. There are people actively working against capitalism that will try to craft a narrative at every turn. Think critically about what you just said:

CEO-to-worker pay ratio has gone from 20:1 to 300:1 in top firms in the US. That last part is very important. The evaluation of those companies has increased as has the average number of employees. The CEO of Walmart needs much better skills compared to the CEO of a corner store. Walmart has over 2 million employees nowadays and they have a revenue of $500 billion. On the other hand, the skills and responsibility required from a clerk at Walmart are similar to the responsibilities and skills of a clerk at the corner store.

>Something reasonable needs to give here,

People need to stop buying into a narrative.

>and the answer isn't everybody becoming a CEO.

The reason he brought up everybody becoming a CEO is because the job of a CEO of these top companies is very difficult. You need very skilled people that are also very positive towards the company, because even the smallest mistakes by them can make the company suffer a lot of losses.
> Chrome OS can not even install other borwsers by default

We live in weird times when there is (almost) only one browser left... Chrome (chrome-clones). The argument may soon be moot regardless of market share or other variables.

(Of course, I'm stretching this a bit for effect but it's scary to think about).
more expensive than...running everything yourself

Only if you value your time at zero.
Virginia here, I just converted my house from oil to gas a few months ago.

Fun fact: heating oil is just diesel fuel. I ran out of oil a while before the gas installation and didn’t want to pay for the minimum 150 gallon delivery the local companies required, so I made it through by visiting the local gas station with some gas cans a few times.
Oh, absolutely the divide was already there. But, well, let me put it this way: We know that the Russians' goal was not just a Trump win, but American division. They'd be idiots if they weren't trying to exacerbate these divisions.
- Right now there is only one income percentage tier. We are trying to keep it simple for the trainees and the financing side.

- Everything is remote (the program is online)

- The 15% goes back to other students and the rest covers our other costs and expenses.
My hacker news spin https://8hrs.xyz does something similar to this newly added more btn. Why add this now ???
Natural gas leaks kill trees. It's a big problem around Boston. E.g.: https://arlington.wickedlocal.com/news/20180726/guest-column... and https://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2015/11/27/gas-leak...
He's saying that everybody can run their own business. If it's so easy as people try to make it out to be, then why doesn't everybody do it? The answer is that it is too difficult. He's trying to make people realize why these top CEOs are paid so much.
Concerned why? Because of moral reasons? If not, you need to explain further.
The Power Mac G5 SDK for the Xbox 360
This is so utterly untrue and directly related to what Linus was talking about.

Those bare-metal servers are basically 1:1 what you are developing on.

I can install an instance of my application
on them in minutes.

It's AWS that takes significantly more time to set up and learn.

Most people using AWS are spending big bucks on an 'automatically scaling'
architecture (that never just works) that will cost them many thousands of dollars a month, which they could have comfortably fit on a 30 bucks dedicated server.

You can pay a dedicated system administrator to run your server (let's not kid ourselves, you probably just need one server) and still save money compared to AWS.

With AWS you're not only paying Amazon, you're probably also paying someone who will spent most of his time just making sure your application fits into that thing.

Take my use-case for example: I can run my entire site on about 8 dedicated servers + other stuff that costs me ~600-700 euros a month.

Those just work month after month (rarely have to do anything).

Just my >400TB of traffic would cost me 16,000 bucks / month on AWS. I could scale to the whole US population for that money if I spent it on dedicated servers instead and just ran them myself.
Okay, I’ll bite. How would it endanger people if I weren’t vaccinated?
Temper the corpo wank with an AvE teardown of a KA mixer. https://youtu.be/0qKp-0h9P18
> And yes, it's sad that people apparently had cases that depended on this odd behavior, [Linus]

That strikes my ear as very odd. I suggest twenty years ago, perl taking devops by storm, that sentiment would have been nuts. So what's changed?

An increased emphasis on security (so a characterization of "corrupt" vs "truncated"). A shift in development focus away from shell level. What else?

So a preference now for say a better foundation, better low-level glue for other tooling (where the action is), "crippled but dependably strict". Over say more usable, shell as a hands-on abstraction level, "here's a workaround for yet another bit of unix brokenness so you can better build with it".

Curious. That's a fun aspect of history we don't teach well. All the things, which if you were dropped back in time, you'd do a double-take of "Wait, WAT?!?"
The vast majority developers I know of who are targeting the cloud, do so using MacOS or Windows and then deploy to servers running Linux. It is clearly not the case you need the same environment “at home”, as you have in the data center.

I do agree with the idea that a cross-compiled environment makew your target environment “more distant” and this is less efficient. However I don’t think that’s at all what’s limiting ARM from cracking the server market.
You are correct. In fact, one cruise line did attempt to build a ship in the USA during the early 2000s for the purpose of running cruises in Hawaii. The project was a disaster. Norwegian Cruise Lines bought the ship's carcass, towed it to Germany, and had it turned into an actual passenger vessel. They were given special dispensation to run the cruises anyway when it was finished.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_of_America
What can I say? One of my grandmothers came back from Auschwitz, the other from Lichtenwörth. Most of their generation didn't survive. And then I went to Yad Vashem when I was 16. That was a grave mistake. Don't go to Yad Vashem at 16 especially not when you have relatives affected by the Holocaust. I haven't seen a World War II movie since, I can't.
"It is not unreasonable for it to be concerning." is a position, by the way.
Sorry for the slow reply. I put two vertical stips on the back of my devices where my fingers rest. Or like on my surface pro horizontally but closer to the edge just to catch my fingers if it starts slipping out my hand.

I think the most curved device I have it on is my kindle. These are pliable enough that they should fit some pretty serious curves.
You sweet summer child. It's not even illegal for management to mislead its workers about what they'll do with the products of their labor. More pragmatically, there are a very limited supply of talented, highly-controlled, cleared engineers and architects. Those people meet with the customer, work out the architecture and staging plans, chop the tasks into tiny, innocuous components (like identifying moving targets!) - components that are intrinsically dual-use and valuable assets - and farm out the tasks.

My own code runs on DoD machines and I've certainly never anticipated it. It's all generic enough though, that I don't feel like I've done anything evil, even if it's used for evil... that's exactly the point.
We're going to replace it with a new API that just gives a JSON version of any HN URL. Will that work?
I disagree with the millions of years of disadvantages. Imagine if you wiped the world of all fish/mammals/birds. Then populated the planet with a large number of "average" size rats.

Environmental niches filled by squirrels, mice, small dogs, foxes, coyotes, raccoons, hawks, eagles, and numerous others would be left wide open. Those rats would start evolving into any empty niches, that were close enough. Over time/generations the further niches would become available. Smaller rats would take advantage of food sources that the mice used to eat. Better climbers would evolve to take advantages of what squirrels used to eat. Rats that specialize in eating insects would start to specialize.

Some rats would even start to specialize in eating other rats. Other rats would specialize in not getting eaten and fill the niche left by rabbits.

The rats that evolved into squirrel like mammals might specialize in jumping ever further to avoid the ground where the rat-dogs roam looking for rat-squirrels to eat. Said jumping might even evolve into flying squirrel like rats. Given enough time active flight would evolve. Rats would even start to populate the oceans.. much like whales did.

Evolving into a bird requires efficient lungs, light weight (things like hollow bones), and not wasting weight on things like powerful legs, thick skin, etc. But every step of the way would be better for some niches.
> can you give a concrete example? this requires a smart contract does it not? what is an example contract (specifically) where this is useful?

Suppose you make a loan to someone in an untrustworthy jurisdiction. The contract says you provide X amount in Bitcoin today and get paid back with interest in five years.

The borrower is a real estate developer who has a separate contract with a local buyer to purchase the property in five years, so they can use the smart contract for the real estate purchase to commit the portion of the purchase price to you equal to the loan principal plus interest.

If the borrower breaches by not building the property then you still get paid and the dispute is between the developer and the buyer over the separate contract, but they're both local which means the local courts would be fair to them (and if they're not it's still not your problem).

Using an escrow service doesn't work because the chronology of the loan requires you to release the money to them to build the property five years before they receive the money to pay you back with.
I used to work at an aerospace company that did a lot of spook projects. Many of the company's senior management were on LinkedIn but all they had in their profiles were first name, last initial and title at the company. Didn't seem a very rich source of information. Maybe that was just a company policy thing and not common with other spook contractors?
It keeps the normies away.

Just kidding (mostly).
Intel’s chips don’t run on fairy dust. Seems to me the electric company is the invisible backbone behind this crackdown.
>their salaries end up inappropriate scaled into the stratosphere because the company's performance justifies increasing compensation to employees to retain them and sustain that performance.

You're looking at the compensation for CEOs at top firms. If a CEO does poorly then the company stops being a top firm and falls out of this consideration. Meanwhile every large company has good and bad average employees. Them doing poorly doesn't sink the company.

>Take an arbitrary dude off the street and give them the experience of a CEO and I bet you that substituting him in would at most lose the company 40% of growth/whatever.

And then you replace the rest of upper management in the same way and you won't have a company left. Also, 40% for these companies is a hell of a lot more than what these CEOs are paid.
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I hear you, but proper timezone support is one of those things we've shied away from over the years. It's hard to get right and our dev resources are too limited. So mostly we just work with UTC. I'm sorry—I know it can create a bit of an outsider feeling, which is definitely not intended.
Surely that's some of the motivation for aggressive spam filtering, but I am seeing this on very legitimate and anticipated emails. In fact, in some cases I get replies sent to spam despite the fact that I've sent outgoing mail in the same thread! Something is broken...
Maybe they could get some tax incentives.
Yes dang, thank you!
The HoloLens case seems pretty boots-on-the-ground to me, and many of the other tech sector contracts you read about have to do with drones/machine learning/image recognition, i.e. taking humans even further out of the equation when it comes to patrolling third-world countries. I won't be a part of that.
Yes, you are both quite correct (I was thinking along the lines mentioned by Twisol).

I was looking at the basic approach as a walk in 1D. In the students representation, this means that each tuple is ordered, implying a move forward (you start with a "(" and eventually end at a ")". As a walk, this means that you return to the origin without ever becoming negative.

In my rush, I generalized too quickly for the case of the two brackets as just a similar random walk in 2D. This of course doesn't work in the example you mentioned. If () corresponds to the xx dimension and {} to the yy axis:

- With "({)}" you do return to the origin [[1, 0], [1,1], [0, 1], [0, 0]] but not in a valid path.

- You basically need one extra rule. At each step, you can move forward in any direction (open a new type of bracket), but you can only move back in the direction you just came from (close the previous one).

This of course is just a weird way of representing a stack, because you still need to keep track of the entire history anyway (which you could just store as the brackets themselves.

To paraphrase one of my idols, "More (dimensions) is different"...
> Take an arbitrary dude off the street and give them the experience of a CEO and I bet you that substituting him in would at most lose the company 40% of growth/whatever.

Most arbitrary people will crumble under pressure if they are given the experience of a CEO.
Then you would get small companies and lose a lot of economies of scale. Would you rather be a CEO of a retailer of 100 employees or 1000000 employees? Your pay is going to be the same because cashiers in both companies will be paid roughly the same, meaning that maximum CEO pay will be the same.

I guess it would be neat to see an immense amount of small companies though.
In general there are lots of ideal customers for all sorts of non-existent products.
> * ENIAC was a project at the University of Pennsylvania.

This was completely military driven:

> Although ENIAC was designed and primarily used to calculate artillery firing tables for the United States Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory, its first program was a study of the feasibility of the thermonuclear weapon.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC
You can't just say things and have it be true.
And 50% of people living in SF want to leave https://sf.curbed.com/2019/2/20/18233498/poll-2019-leaving-s...
How long ago? 15 years - and it was at least a decade-old code base. But I had to take some new code that was something like Windows-and-Sun-only, and port it to run on all of the other architectures.
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Ideally a state without zoning laws or noncompetes. I can’t think of one.