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>The small retirement towns between them are now over-fucking-run by mommy vans.

I don't understand this. Are you upset that communities of retirees are being displaced by...moms? Not criticizing at all, just no idea what this sentence means or why "mommy-vans" are bad.
The real problem here is the culture that the current crop of entrepreneurs grew up in. No one one wan't to take time to build and grow a company anymore as it is unglamorous. Most of them are just looking to generate hype and sell to any Big Tech corp that throws cash at them as soon as possible.

As long as this culture remains in place, breaking big tech companies won't work. New ones will crop up and everything will continue.
By "spent more money on congress people" @psadauskas is not simply just referring to "who spent more money last year", he's implying that the foothole that a Comcast or a Verizon has in the capitol goes much further than say a Google. And that makes since right? Especially from a government's perspective. If you can be chummy with an ISP, you hardly need the help of a downstream application builder (e.g., Google).

His statement still holds
I've encountered an idea similar to this:

> The transcension hypothesis proposes that a universal process of evolutionary development guides all sufficiently advanced civilizations into what may be called "inner space," a computationally optimal domain of increasingly dense, productive, miniaturized, and efficient scales of space, time, energy, and matter, and eventually, to a black-hole-like destination.

https://accelerating.org/articles/transcensionhypothesis.htm...
Previous discussion from r/gamedev: https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/assnri/there_is_a_...
So many tasks can only take advantage of a single machine (and too often, only a single thread!). While that doesn't change the cost of the CPU time it uses, it does mean that you have to wait much longer to get those N hours of CPU time to save that hour of programmer time. That wait time could completely undo the productivity gains.
Yeah, even in 2019 here on Planet Earth, some of our limitations on space exploration are self-imposed. If we were more willing to use nuclear power in our rockets, we would probably be much further along with having stuff in space.

Presumably all those aliens that aren't getting to space because of their nuclear wars are that much more likely to be willing to use nuclear power for space travel, too, in which you'd think at least one of them would have threaded the needle between nuking their home planet, but getting to self-sustaining in space, first.
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And now they stop doing so openly, but very likely continue the same practice.
They have monopolies on the political leverage that comes with all of the above.

Verizon and Comcast could play the same game, but they're still more about money than influence - which is why they've chosen to make their stand on killing net neutrality, not on influencing referendums and elections.

FB particularly is incredibly toxic to genuine democracy - not necessarily more toxic than some of the other monsters in the mainstream media shark tank, but certainly not a company that should be allowed to run riot without oversight.
I still play, the mod scene for SC4 is great. There are bike lanes now and all the parking lots you could want. You can easily build American suburban shopping centers with acres of beautiful cement.

When I was in high school I went to city counsel meetings, was active in youth in gov't, and even met the city manager. All because I loved playing SimCity for much. We never had a computer powerful enough to play SC2k so I saved and bought a Sega Saturn and the AT keyboard adapter and spent hours playing on that.
It's not useless: a reduction in 4-5% of emissions in urban stop and go traffic would be huge for air quality and health. It likely won't do much if anything for total CO2 output but offloading the emissions to manufacturing of parts needed for extra maintenance (aka a far more efficient power plant in a less densely populated area) instead of driving can still be a net win.

Regardless, fuel efficiency standards have driven a significant amount of innovation even if this specific rule seems absurd from the outside.
Author of the paper here! I am very glad to see someone posting a link to my paper; feel free to ask questions about it. Regards.
The soviets are just craftsmen, people skilled at doing the mechanical work of a camera. They are precursors to the modern soap opera or shock website or GoFundMe scam. It's easy to elicit a strong emotional response by playing on the well understood heartstrings.

This game is silly. Denigrating a work of art for being different from another work of art is not critique, it is bitterness. Life is short. Speak up for the beautiful things you understand, not against the things you don't understand.
Only about 50% of the time. Much of the summer is over 50% humidity.
The math doesn't check out. Emirates offers first on their whole fleet. They have ~240 daily departures (best I can work out).We can assume they have 4+ pax per departure (their planes have 8-14 first seats and are have decent load factors, so my estimates is likely way lower than reality to be safe). This adds up to 1,000+ first class departures daily, and that's without counting people who have access based on status.
I agree with this and, previously, rsync.net has always paid for me to fly in business class when I need to work in our international locations.

But lately, I have gotten very picky about which legs I will pay the premium for business class.

I follow the (very effective) jetlag avoidance rule of staying awake all the way through to the next local nighttime, and then going to bed tired after being awake 24-36 hours (even if my body clock thinks it's 10am or whatever).

In order to do this, however, I sometimes need to stay awake for the entire flight - and that is hard to do in a nice big comfortable seat. I also need to spend a few hours standing and reading in order to stay awake.

All of this makes the business class premium not worth paying. I don't want to be comfortable. I don't want the lie-flat bed.

So if my flight leaves Zurich at 15:00 and I am scheduled to land at SFO at 21:00, it would be silly for me to sleep on the flight for ~3 hours and then be wide awake at night when I land. In this example I fly coach and stay awake (and save $3k).

But if my flight leaves SFO at 22:00 and lands in Hong Kong at 12:00, I will pay for business class and actually sleep (and wake up about 3 hours pre-landing at 09:00 local time).
>what is going on exactly? Like what this Wikileaks case is even about?

There's a grand jury looking at indicting Julian Assange. Likely for stuff he did leading up to the release of the 2010 war logs (according to David House, who already testified to the GJ). I'd put money on it being specifically related to NTLM hash cracking or other help Assange gave to Manning in order to get the documents.
It might be useful. For example my IDE uses all cores for build but then those cores idle. If there's local data center nearby (so latency is something like 10ms and speed is gigabit), theoretically my IDE could upload its compiler in advance to cache it there and then just upload those files and get back object files. It'll allow for extremely fast compilation times while I could use very lightweight computer (for example energy-efficient laptop). But I don't think that it's possible to implement that transparently. Software must support this behaviour and developers should carefully decide, because network latency could kill all performance gains.
I'm talking about career related stuff. You can't go up the hill without interacting with various persons.
"Stop hitting yourself," in other words.
Thanks! The new .messages error message mechanism is great, though we'll see if it supports the full brunt of user needs soon enough.
>While my marriage works, from my perspective, as a financial and management arrangement. However, it has failed in a variety of other areas that something like this would solve.

Sounds like you have a loveless marriage?
> My understanding is that it's unclear exactly what crimes the journalist is being investigated for.

That's supposed to be secret in grand jury proceedings; the only thing that is supposed to become clear is what (if any) charges they are indicted for as a result.

> it's reasonable to wonder why the prosecutors have worked so hard at avoiding any exposure to the best disinfectant.

Because they are required (both by the law around grand jury process and long-standing administrative policy to protect all of the reputations of people who aren't charged, the fairness of process for those who are charged, and the integrity of law enforcement and any other related investigations that might overlap with the present one but be in different statuses) to not make public most information pertaining to an investigation where an indictment has not been returned yet, and also specifically to preserve the secrecy of the proceedings before the grand jury.

> Which, it's worth pointing out, Manning has also said that she's willing to testify, but only by light of day, not behind closed doors.

Which is simple PR; federal grand juries considering criminal indictments cannot operate other than secretly.
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Why cant the public know about who we are paying taxes to assassinate?
I've seen code where bad/counterproductive doc comments are the majority examples, not the minority, as a lazy way of meeting some "100% doc comment coverage" mandate. While it still doesn't and shouldn't cast the whole idea into disrepute, they're useful cautionary tales, and a way to help distill down "what makes for a useful comment?" by showing what isn't useful.
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I agree, but this is not a helpful point form which to start a conversation. It's lazy and below the standards many expect from HN.

A better way to start this conversation (imo) would be to make reference to the many mistakes Equifax has made over the years and ask what is preventing Equifax from facing real consequences, such as being shutdown?

It's the effort that people place into having genuine conversations that keeps me coming back here and not just hanging around Twitter and Reddit. If someone wants to be lazy and still get online validation, there are communities for that and if you want to have a real conversation here, but don't have the time/energy to start it properly then all you have to do is wait a few minutes and someone who does, will.
Googling for "art elicits empathy" produces, for me:

* Pictures of pain: their contribution to the neuroscience of empathy: G. D. Schott (https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/138/3/812/336766)

* Art Education and the Encouragement of Affectiveand Cognitive Empathy in Early Childhood (https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=...)

* Empathy-Related Responses to Depicted People in Art Works (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5323429/)

* Using the Arts to Build Empathy, the Ultimate 21st Century Skill (https://charterforcompassion.org/using-the-arts-to-build-emp...)

The idea that "art" (literature as well as other "fine arts") increase "empathy" (for some definition) in general is a well-developed and reasonably common notion.
Yeah, happy Women's Day >:(
They still accept US dollars, just not in physical form. Most money created by the government is virtual.
"society has a point that is wants to be truth, so it selectively filters people to portray it as truth"
Good unit tests work too. :)
- But are not a replacement.

Saying why a constant's value is 4 gives business context, or why you pass null as the last param of this function, or why we don't wait for this function's promise, etc.
Only if you're writing words in the dictionary, and you're using the English alphabet.

Handwriting recognition is way more impactful for users in, say, Chinese.
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> someone who refuses to testify in a criminal case,

This statement is false.

Manning IS willing to testify though. Publicly.

I am not sure why you are strawmaning here.

I think there very much is a moral stand to make here. Society should not be run on secret courts. If the US government wants to accuse wikileaks of something, then let them do so publicly.

Secret courts are a huge infringement on justice.
Not just builds but running tests as well. Actually I think I've heard that Google does exactly that (and caches compilation results, so they could just return them if they are ready).
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I wish - a few years ago I was trying to pay for rent with a cheque and it bounced. I ended up sending another cheque, having that one get rejected, go into the bank and give them a new signature sample, and then have the next cheque be rejected as well due to the signature.

Apparently my bank checks cheques.
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It would be interesting to see how age factors into this spread. During this study's timeframe at least, older people have had more opportunity to accrue wealth and have children (who have also had more time to go to college). In my anecdotal experience, most of the urban influx has been from younger people.
No. I get that people think that, but it's a mistaken belief. Word processors are at least as arcane, but they disguise and hide their arcane bits. That is, word processors give an illusion of being easier, but really they end up much more complicated.

Graphical UI? There are dozens of text editors that work with TeX and most of them provide graphical UIs, with menus and buttons similar to a word processor. In fact, as soon you want to do anything evenly mildly 'advanced', word processors end up being visibly more complicated.

In a word processor, I can click the 'bold' button, or press Ctrl-b to switch into 'bold mode', or highlight some text, and use the button/keyboard shortcut to bold that text.

In a TeX editor, I can also click the 'bold' button or press a shortcut to auto-create a LaTeX bold environment `\textbf{}` with my cursor placed in-between the {}s. Alternatively, I can highlight text, e.g 'my text', and click the bold button or press the shortcut and the editor will wrap `\textbf{}' arount the text, producing '\textbf{my text]'.

Up to this point the two approaches are equivalent. But now say that I want to make all instances of 'important phrase' bold. With the TeX/editor approach, it's just like any other search and replace, I tell the editor to replace all instances of 'important phrase' with '\textbf{important phrase}'. In the word processor, I have to figure out how to click into an advanced search-and-replace and choose something about replace/add styles etc.

In LaTeX, for something complicated, I can figure it out and write my function(s) for it, which are easily re-usable. In a word processor, what one 'knows' in the case of doing something complicated is a series of mouse clicks through menus - which is not only more arcane than an explicit function, but is likely to be disrupted by version changes.
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Separating Google Search and Google's ad business would kill both. Advertising subsidizes search, search supports advertising.
Yeah, definitely. But questioning the closed-door hearing is also reasonable. This is really a case of dueling ideologies. I have a hard time seeing either party as being unreasonable, they just have differing values.
It's been discussed in multiple articles that Microsoft had considered moves it could make to kill Google, but didn't because of it's recent antitrust settlement.

> As the government sued, Microsoft executives became so anxious and gun-shy that they essentially undermined their own monopoly out of terror they might be pilloried again. It wasn’t the consent decrees or court decisions that made the difference, according to multiple current and former Microsoft employees. It was “the constant scrutiny and being in the newspaper all the time,” said Gene Burrus, a former Microsoft lawyer. “People started second-guessing themselves. No one wanted to test the regulators anymore.”

> There had been informal conjectures about reprogramming Microsoft’s web browser, the popular Internet Explorer, so that anytime people typed in “Google,” they would be redirected to MSN Search, according to company insiders.

> Microsoft was so powerful, and Google so new, that the young search engine could have been killed off, some insiders at both companies believe. “But there was a new culture of compliance, and we didn’t want to get in trouble again, so nothing happened,” Burrus said. The myth that Google humbled Microsoft on its own is wrong. The government’s antitrust lawsuit is one reason that Google was eventually able to break Microsoft’s monopoly.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/20/magazine/the-case-against...

http://archive.is/abGMG
Chelsea Manning: Wikileaks source jailed for refusing to testify
also see:

https://justiceforstrumia.org/

https://www.particlesforjustice.org/
We 100% agree and base level stablization is what we spend most of our engineering time on - both software and mech. We are learning a heck of a lot from our 1/3rd scale model
Point well made.

Nit: meeting the requirements of law isn't barely collapsing; that requirement has so many safety factors built-in because the building code has to approximate so much. The approach isn't that dissimilar from how that "anybody" you mention would build their bridge that doesn't fall down: by guessing safely.
That doesn't mean that the coercion couldn't be: pay a fine for each day you fail to comply, as is commonly used to coerce corporate persons.

Putting someone in a cell for something when they're not a danger or flight risk is barbarism.
My point is the only solution to that criticism is to elaborate on it more.

It reminds me of one of my favorite observations by Scott Adams (from long before he turned into a political commentator), which is that all characters start out as shallow caricatures. The only solution to that is giving the author time to elaborate; if you instantly and irrevocably label the character as a caricature and don't give that time, you'll never have find any characters that aren't caricatures. Similarly, yes, this quote may be shallow, but unlike a freshman essay where this is the conclusion, Stephen Pinker does elaborate, expand, and defend at some length. If you judged all arguments this way, you'd look around you and find that the world has nothing but shallow freshman arguments.
It's my understanding (from hearsay) that they use software to look at signatures, and use that data as a fraud signal, among other data.
More than that actually. You can nominate someone to be gold once a year, so they get access + a guest to the business lounge. And you yourself can invite on adult and two children as guests to the first lounge ... it's quite generous
I would guess it's because it comes off as a bit snarky, and the same point could have been conveyed in a less patronizing way, but that's all completely subjective, so who really knows (besides, of course, The Shadow).
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I'm guessing you are a recent transplant. Not sure why you're so angry about non-tech folk living in Austin.
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For the avoidance of doubt, moreutils' parallel is not a fork of GNU parallel. They are independent implementations.
Flat out, you can't leave it to parents. For example, drivers have total responsibility for their vehicles, yet cars still have all sorts of safety measures that wouldn't be necessary if drivers simply drove perfectly and never crashed. It's an acknowledgement of human failure.

Parenting is the same. Not everyone is good at it, and it's in the best interests of society to raise kids to be as productive as possible even if (and especially when) their parents don't do a good job.

Public education has been a huge net positive for society over the last few hundred years. It used to be that most people couldn't even read; such people in the modern information economy would just be total drags on public resources. Better to have the state educate everyone as much as possible to ensure a talented, capable, intelligent workforce and society.
The concern with pay-to-skip-grind revenue models isn't so much with any notion of "fairness" or "integrity" as much as the fact that it greatly incentivizes asshole progression design which typically manifests itself in the form of intentionally-way-more-grindy-than-necessary midgame/lategame progression pathways.

Designing the ideal rate of progression to keep a given game engaging is difficult enough as-is. Too little content gating and you risk burning through all the content too quickly and players getting bored. Too much content gating and the grind begins to feel punitive.

In this context, muddling the mixture further by throwing in this kind of incentive just feels like a recipe for shit-tastic UX/CX.
> Those machines were completely different than the "big iron" of the day -- they were single-user, single-tasking systems with no meaningful memory protection

The PDP-7 and PDP-11 were also like that. (And yes, they were used for multi-user scenarios, but even an early micro could be so used, if you e.g. ran a BBS on it.) Memory protection and the like are important features to be sure, but they don't define a segment class. And the micros quickly gained these features anyway, with machines like the Motorola 68020 and the Intel i386. The early OS's like MS-DOS/Win 9x and Classic Mac OS didn't make use of them, but this was entirely due to performance concerns, combined with running a CPU-intensive GUI. The transition to a memory-protected, secure-by-default OS was entirely foreseeable, even aside from the sensible concerns about an "internetworked world".
A fish rots from the head down -- in this case the article rots from the intro. It put me off it, like a turd on the top of a cake that might otherwise be nice.

I don't doubt it might have some nice insights further down (or not, both cases are possible). But I refuse to applaud cheap manipulations like that.
We'll probably see this before we see mass adoption of remote work.
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Well they are not. Yet. It is a deprecation notice and at some point they will break userspace. You're quote is a matter of context.

When Linus say never break userspace, I understand it as : never break userspace without warning and consensus over an alternative. Don't break the userspace to force it to evolve or fix things. Fix it there first and then deprecate.

It is not the same thing.
Lookup spherical CNNs and tensor field networks, both are rotation invariant using spherical harmonics. They are not really used in practice however.
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I wouldnt really mind either way. Why do you need the doctor to be there? How would that change anything? You’re still going to die, why waste the doctors time by forcing them to drive over and deliver the news personally?
ITT: people who think they know better than the company that has been working on this stuff day in and day out for years lol.
We could be mining asteroids today for materials that are scarce on earth, yet we don't. There isn't enough incentive to drive anyone to do that yet. What makes us so sure advanced civilizations recognize a worthwhile incentive to colonize other worlds around other stars?