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I want to take a second to rep my absolute favorite podcast, Physics Frontiers.°

It's not a "pop-sci" podcast - they take a couple of interesting modern physics papers and discuss them; no more, no less. A lot of it is way over my head as a chemist, but that's part of what makes me love it. The topics are always understandable, even if it takes self-study to get the nuances.

One guy is a physicist and the other is a sculptor who, I assume, taught himself physics.

Just a thing that would likely appeal to one who cares about particle physics and is not well satisfied by the preponderance of 'physics' podcasts that endlessly re-explain what entropy is or what wave/particle duality means.

I wish more science podcasts dealt directly with modern research, and this one is a great example...even if they're skeptical about Copenhagen and prefer pilot-wave "realism".

° https://physicsfm-frontiers.blogspot.com
I recently watched the "Hulk Hogan / Gawker" Netflix documentary, "Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press." It was only about the Hulk Hogan / Gawker trial at the beginning, and then it turned into a full-on propaganda piece about how journalism is good and orange man bad. Maybe I am too dumb to have understood, but my takeaway was the morals of the story were basically: (1) it's bad that rich people can influence journalism and that needs to stop and (2) people need to start believing in journalists again because journalists are fundamental to democracy and actually they're very good etc.

I agree with #1 to some extent, but they came up with the dumbest possible example in pointing out that the lawsuit was funded by Peter Thiel. I'm pretty sure there's a concept on the "left" that says it's not your right to "out" a person's sexuality. Gawker violated that. Not that I (or even the law) care one way or another, and not that this was the focus of the trial (it wasn't), but I get why Thiel was livid with them. Thiel (secretly) funded a lawsuit against Gawker for posting a sex tape of Hulk Hogan. I'm not even sure what mental backflips you have to do to presume that this was newsworthy or okay. They tried to explain it to us, and the best they got was the meta-point that Thiel funded the lawsuit. Nothing worthy of note about why they had a right (via Freedom of the Press) to make a sex tape public against the wishes of one of the participants. Maybe if it was a sex tape surrounding the impeachment of a current president, I'd understand.

And somehow, I'm supposed to believe that this means there's a slippery slope now, where journalists can no longer freely state the news, for fear of being sued. As if this case weren't limited to the example of, maybe don't post a sex tape of some D-list celebrity as news.

All that said, and per the article here, I am unhappy with "journalists" as a group, specifically with their sanctimonious claims that they're protecting democracy. And the conclusion of this idea, when you take it to the end, is that people simply need to believe them on moral principle, non-believers are against democracy.

They're the victims here, the perpetrators are all the people who don't believe their stories any more--as if there was nothing they did to put themselves in this place.
Presuably you're not advocating that we abandon nouns. So what are you advocating? I get that you don't like labels, but if the alternative is your rambling style of discourse, you're not selling it.

Is your polemic against meritocracy, or against labels?
Brexit: What happens the next day if there is no deal?
If that was the deciding factor we'd still be using IE.
I'm fairly certain you'd need to be a US Citizen to work on anything at SpaceX anyways due to ITAR. At least, that's a requirement at Blue Origin.
Do we know why Google grew dissatisfied with sites serving their own content and developed AMP?
I haven't yet seen an explanation on whether there's any perceptible advantage to a particularly well-aged starter, or if it's just an emotional connection. Does yogurt made from a 25 year-old starter actually taste better? Does it taste any different from a month-old starter from the same region? Or is it just the idea of having an uninterrupted line of culture going back to one's homeland that makes it enjoyable?

I don't dismiss that there could be something to it--I've been making no-knead bread for about six months now, and I usually leave a little bit of the previous dough to mix in with the new batch, because it gives it a slightly fermented, sourdough-like quality. But I'm only testing no-fermentation versus slight fermentation, so it's not really an apples-to-apples comparison with month-old culture versus decade-old culture. Considering how many other things controlled by bacteria tend to get better with age, I could certainly see it happening: I'd just want to see some hard (or even anecdotal) evidence.
FedEx unveils autonomous delivery robot
The standards are unimplementably complex. Open but inaccessible is not useful for fostering competitors.
I agree it is mostly bad engineering, but they are correct in one point: to make wind work you need to store the energy somehow. Water is a lot better than batteries if the goal is to heat your house for a few weeks of no power input (batteries are expensive and a fire hazard).
You can also make yogurt with cashew, coconut, or soy “milk” as well. Try it sometime! I don’t eat dairy and have really come to love homemade soy yogurt or “yofu” :)
Woman spends £19,000 on surgery to look like Meghan Markle
She not he.

When my daughter had her babies I recommended my doctor who was pretty young when she delivered my babies. In fact - we were both pregnant together. She was a couple of months behind me. My doctor notified up front that she did not have malpractice insurance.

In fact the insurance situation is pretty hard on working mothers. I know 2 doctors who gave up medicine when they had their children. They wanted to work part time and the insurance structure does not support part time work.

A generation earlier - my father was a family practitioner who gave up delivering babies because the insurance was so high. He had to specialize in internal medicine. That is why we no longer have family practitioners in the US.
I mean, isn't that half of what AWS sells?
> There is no such thing as a labour shortage.

bullshit. we are looking for talent as hard as we can and we pay premium rates compared to market.

90% of the people that enters the door can't code a for loop. a lot of the candidates, especially those on the younger side, have terrible work ethics, like they find hard to work in a team or under direction and to follow instructions; they won't listen to anything and they'reso set into their own way of doing things they will dismantle working software even after being directed precisely to where and how to implement/fix stuff. and it doesn't stop in the work are either, we got one that tried watching cartoons off a pirate streaming site.

there's a huge shortage of people with brain, agency and will that can fill a 10x position, leaving company that don't do the umpteen iteration of the average vertical tiered enterprisey app short and longing for employees.
Pretty much.

I live near London and get calls from recruiters on a regular basis telling me my CV is literally amazing and they have these awesome opportunities paying half of what I'm currently on.

Went for a coffee with a couple of them and they're telling me they have positions open for a year because neither the clients nor the staff will budge.

This is the contract market, and this includes both companies looking for experts with experience and just bums on seats in a team although, this is usually working for non-experts team leads.

I'm not whining, like I said, I have work. It's just interesting that the client side market hardcore trying to halt at £800 per day.
This seems similar to the "hire from your network" that was mentioned in the OP. Or, to rephrase, how do you find/target these developers?
The socialization of the insurance market puts the citizens paying at the mercy of the healthcare industry.

Wouldn't it make more sense to socialize the healthcare industry itself? Our tax dollars pay for much of the education and hospitals. Are we entitled to ownership?
And if you build to the standards, it's possible that no actual browser implements them correctly.

And then what?
Ahh! Yeah, your sarcasm went whoosh. :)
Ask HN: How Linux Mint is better than distros?
If your business is essentially burning VC money for a decade to buy a ticket in the Unicorn lottery, then the easy answer is to spend a lot more money. You can do this by poaching expensive people, by offering more, or by hiring lots more people than you need and keeping the ones you actually want. The result will be more manpower faster, at significant expense.

You can also, as many companies default to, ration yourself by imposing very grueling hiring requirements (months of fly-in interviews and hours-long take-home assignments) and "competitive" (as determined by some non-market mechanism like an industry survey) pay. The result of the latter will be long hiring times for good-enough talent that is willing to work for whatever you've pre-determined to be fair.

It's really no different from looking for a car: you can have a known high-quality thing right now (buy new from a dealer/pay $$$ for top talent), or you can buy a lot of potential lemons for cheaper until one happens to last (grabbing random by-owner cars from Craigslist/hire-fast-fire-fast), or you can just wait things out until you find the perfect deal (trawl Craigslist a couple times a week until something jumps out as an incredible deal/pay "market" rates and have a long hiring process).

There are tradeoffs to be made, and you have to make them according to what you actually need and the resources you have. There's no physical law that says you're entitled to unlimited world-class talent at bargain rates to build your adtech startup.
You will definitely save money over the very thick (Fage) type yogurts. Those are typically upwards of $1/small cup here in California, which I heard is because Fage strains 4x more than most "Greek" yogurts. So it may cost them a lot more to make the product with the large amount of waste. However, you can also strain that much at home, and given the price of milk, you will certainly come out ahead.
Where Do I Put My Business Rules and Validation?
Plastic coke bottles are a distinctive shape these days.
Edge is the new IE
IMO, you shouldn't ask people to sort recyclable materials at home for a few reasons:

1. It's not impossible, but it's impractical. You need multiple containers all of a sudden, and these can't be fixed-size containers because not everyone consumes the same proportion of any given material.

2. People are going to sort things wrong, meaning you need to check/re-sort at the processing plant.

3. How difficult of a challenge is it to build sorting machines, anyway? Are you going to tell me self-driving cars are coming soon but we can't build machines to handle this? If it really is too hard, have regulations put in place so that some machine-readable material tag be put on all packaging.

4. I think this is a good domain for regulators to step in. Tax things that are hard to recycle, and encourage packaging that is easy to recycle or biodegradable. Keep in mind, glass containers are recyclable and also reusable, meaning you can just clean and refill them at the factory, which is more energy-efficient than melting everything. No new technology needed, just go back to selling milk, sodas, etc. in glass jugs.
So there's a lot I could say about this.

First is an example. As much as I, personally, liked (and continue to like) Obama as a person and as much as I agree with most of his policies, at the end of the day he was a pretty ineffective president. Why? Because he could get hardly any legislation passed (Obamacare aka the Affordable Care Act being the principle counterexample). He was a president who ruled by executive order.

The White House is the largest and loudest bully pulpit in the country, by far. You can point to Congress and call them obstructionist but the buck stops with you as president to move your policy agenda and change the national debate. And Obama just wasn't effective at that.

Again, with one exception. It used to be a fairly popular opinion in the US that health coverage was for those with jobs, basically. That still is the position of a significant portion of the population but it's not as popular as it used to be. Obama did change the national debate on this such that the question became how we should provide health coverage and not whether we should.

Go back a decade or more and the Bernie Sanders coverage-for-all policy platform would've relegated him to being a minor player in the primaries, not taken seriously. The fact that he was as prominent a figure as he was is in no small part due to Obama changing the debate on health care (IMHO).

The second thing I'll say is that nothing lasts forever. Demographics change. Opinions change. California voted for Reagan. Twice. It used to be a competitive state. Now it's safely Democratic. Florida used to be safely Republican but (largely due to migration from the Northeast) but now it's a battleground state.

Let's just say that at some point Conservatives get what they've been hoping for: Roe v. Wade overturned in the SCOTUS. It could happen. Largley though the "damage" has been done already. It won't be illegal. It'll just be a state issue. Many states will legallize it the next day. New York for example has already made moves to enshrine the legality of abortions in state law. Now this will suck for particularly poor people in Alabma but in a way Alabamans will get the state government they seem to want.

So let's say that happens. The problem then for Conservatives is they've lost a defining and unifying (for their base) issue. One can argue they're better off politically this way as they'll fracture in the aftermath.

I see the current Conservative bent as a desperate last gasp for what is a majority (in their respective states) that's in decline. A lot of damage can be done before this naturally remedies itself but we're not headed to a dystopian Handmaid's Tale future either.
I like the look of this and love that you have released a free version. I am a little dismayed, though, that the two options are $0 and $1000/m (paid annually) with nothing in between. The free version seems great to get started, but I'd really like a lot more of the attacks that the paid version has, but $12,000 is much, much too high a price for a startup or personal project. That's quite a jump in cost.
The U.S. actually has worse health outcomes overall than Japan and France who both have universal coverage (through different systems)
The act of unboxing a prototype PCB for the first time, soldering all the components up by hand at the hot air station and then switching it on for the first time (and cringing in anticipation of magic smoke or expensive bangs) is one of my favorite things, speaking as a software engineer who dabbles with hardware design in smaller projects for work.

It encourages really deep thought and full exploration of your design before "compilation" (spinning a PCB), something that I don't get as much with the quick turnaround run-error-fix-run cycle of the interpreted languages I develop in day to day.

It reminds me more of my really early days playing with Gentoo on a Pentium II with 128MB of RAM, where running make had a real cost on a large project. It really encouraged you to think changes through instead of just slapping some changes in and running it to see if they were correct or not.
As others have said here, I think the article mischaracterizes why stakeholders were enthusiastic about Chrome back in the day. It was a technically compelling browser which joined Firefox in pushing web standards in a way that Microsoft (and Apple) wouldn't.

I think the dominance of Webkit is concerning, but I don't think we can reuse the justifications of ten years ago to say why. Chrome continues to be technically strong (though perhaps not as much) and continues to push web standards (though perhaps too many supporting Google). The situation just isn't as bad today as it was. There is a lot less friction in the everyday experience of developers and users who want to use cutting-edge web standards.

Monoculture is bad, but it's hard to get people excited about challenging it when the monocultural product isn't awful.
I disagree somewhat. If the goal of a project is to teach a different skill and it may cause too much of a headache to add a real server this service might make sense. It’s like when you’re learning a new spoken language. It’s better to practice a breadth of situations and vocabularies and make mistakes (that get corrected over time) than to learn fewer things perfectly
In the US most of the recruiters I've been getting are more at least technically aware but still struggle because they are external. The only true people I have felt like I have had a useful conversation with are companies who have an in-house talent lead as they can generally describe what is going on and can fit you across teams. In my current role I was cross matched successfully and probably would not have pulled the trigger without the company based talent person involved in the process.

The outside recruiting firms I have tried to work with have just been misery by comparison. They either don't know enough about what's going on or clearly don't even understand the position they are offering and it takes like 3 or 4 back and forths to get the real job description and it doesn't even make sense. From the other side once my current role started resourcing from an outside firm the matches were worse and worse and I wonder if it just was because the rep on the other side couldn't talk about our actual company in any meaningful way.
I'd estimate (without bothering to sit down and crunch the numbers) I've had a 30% success rate interviewing for programming jobs. I usually get about 2 rejections before I get an acceptance (and, of course, when I get accepted, I stop interviewing). Based on that, I'd be led to conclude that I was a _dismal_ programmer, probably not fit for the industry at all. If there was as tight a tech shortage as they keep insisting there is, I'd expect it would be pretty near impossible to be rejected for a programming job. Yet I find it happens to me with alarming regularity and based on what I read here, I'm not alone. It's almost as if the "talent shortage" is imaginary...
Time formatting and storage bugs: GPS rollover
Only in America and New Zealand are pharmaceuticals permitted to be marketed directly to consumers. Does the rest of the world not innovate?

We’ve tried the free market way, let’s try it the “rest of the developed world way” next.
At a "couple of hundred microamps" penalty, this more or less kills a wide range of potential products, ie battery-operated products like smart sensors or remote controls and the like.

One of the most important factors for a long lifetime is to minimize the static power draw, and running at 0.1--10 uA is quite common.

A common CR2032 has about 225mAh. If you can get 80% out of it, you have about 225 * 1000 * 0,80 / 24 = 7500,0 uA-days.
At 10uA, you have roughly 2 years (depending on usage etc). At "a couple hundred uA", you'll have two months.
This probably does explain why a lot of people tried it, but it doesn't explain why they kept on using it. Often, ad campaigns cause churn as people try a product but bounce off of it.
Human vision has 120 degree FOV when looking forward. However you can also move your eyes, so it has to be >120 if you don't want to look at the edges of the headset.
Well put

I disagree. That was pretty badly put. You put it far, far better.
VMWare offers pure open-source Kubernetes, no chaser
It's laughable that the author suggests Apple as a viable alternative. Apple, the last company pushing license encumbered formats into web standards. Apple, the perennial laggard on standards support in general.
It's interesting the article doesn't even discuss the inherent assumption necessary for the implication, which is whether the individuality of migrants in the 19th and early 20th century is related to the individuality of their descendents in modern day.
I've listened to the audiobook a few weeks back.
Fascinating story no doubt!
Because sites serving their own content were generally slower, and slower load times means fewer ad clicks.

Google making the web faster is a mutually beneficial arrangement.
They discuss this: yes but small is key here. It doesn't scale to large towns much less a city. (though if you take each neighborhood separately...) Losses from transmission are high.
And it's full of false positives, false negatives, only works in some conditions, and it's not a service I want to pay for on every single transaction. That's basically a bandage on top of a shitty system.

I'm not so naive to say that one thing is the best, but I'm willing to speak up for trade-offs in these absolutist arguments.
Good point, V8 (that is, fast Javascript) was key as well.

(I suppose it makes sense I'd agree with someone else with a Perl-inspired handle :-)
I see that you are on the Rust production user page [0]. Can you talk a little bit about what Rust is used for and how the experience has been?

[0]: https://www.rust-lang.org/production/users
Firefox implements chrome's webextensions api, so it should be possible to run those extensions. Try chrome store foxified https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-store-...
As a product manager, I have gotten to the last round of multiple interviews (3 or more, meeting full teams and different departments).

Then been turned down as they are "going with other candidates", only to see the job reposted. This has happened on multiple occasions.

Maybe I wasn't the right person for the role. One specific role has now been up for 5 months. Which likely means the company is looking for an unrealistic set of requirements that no one can meet instead of training appropriately.

In my opinion, the person that will come in and solve all your problems without training does not exist. Make a decision and be okay with letting a new employee get familiar with your company and industry.
As you alluded to at the start of your post, Chromes speed improvements were more technical than it was due to a lack of bloat. In fact Chrome consumed more memory than FF did at that time and that was down to it being multi-processed (ie one heavy page wouldn’t slow down the rest of the application in other tabs) but that came at a cost in terms of RAM used.

Obviously the v8 stuff also made a massive difference too.