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It's not so much "authority" but "trust" that has gone down.

There used to be institutions that were regarded as the gold standard for truth: the FDA, top science journals, the CDC, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and so on.

These weren't necessarily regarded as infallible. But it was widely recognized that they undertook a best effort to get at the truth, and would tend to err on the side of caution.

That trust is falling apart. Many people, including in the HN community, cheer this decline. They see it, not entirely unreasonable, as the downfall of despised "elites" and opening the discourse to other voices, making it more democratic.

But while the tearing down of institutions is well ahead, there is little indication that the envisioned surge of bottom-up publishing is anywhere as successful: almost no structures have appeared, for example, that provide the nitty-gritty coverage of local politics.

Nor can I think of any actual corruption by these organisations exposed by amateur sleuths. Even Snowden relied on traditional media to get his message out. Just today, the Seattle Times (old media) revealed their investigation of the broken process of Boeing's certification of the 737 Max.

"Critical thinking" is what's usually recommended in these times of information overload and bad actors. But the term just seems to give license to everyone to make up their own facts as needed. The result is a discourse devoid of agreed-upon facts. If you cite inflation data in economic discussions, the most likely reply is a conspiracy theory about the data being corruptly influenced. "Think critically", they say, "who profits from <X>, I bet they get a big fat payoff from <Y> for telling this lie".
How is Resy worse? I've only used them once, as far as I remember; they seem to have been courting higher-end restaurants that presumably didn't want to put up with OpenTable.
I think OP meant that while it may not be ideal for the CEO to have used VCs, it most certainly helped the product itself in terms of resources allocated to build and perfect it.

I understand that more cash isn't always the best way to build software, but if the CEO is good (and in this instance, he is) then more cash mostly helped building the current product.
I don't agree with the idea that rats size is exaggerated in NYC. I have seen some at a building under construction at night that left me perplexed. A rat on steroids I'd say, walking like a pitbull..
That all seems right in line with your typical sci-fi dystopian worldview, though
Wow, reading both, this one comes across really deceptive. It absolutely gives the impression that he built this all by himself, nothing about the millions in VC funds that fueled a team of 20 or so employees working for years to flesh out features and grow the platform.
As other people have already commented, Gumroad raised venture capital (https://medium.com/s/story/reflecting-on-my-failure-to-build...) before. Sahil had to revert Gumroad to a solo lifestyle business after it didn't grow fast enough to raise another round.

My question is, without having been venture funded for a period of time, would Gumroad still be able to $350k/mo now?

During the time Gumroad had a team of engineers, designers, etc., they shipped a lot of features, made improvements and presumably had a decent advertising / marketing budget. Gumroad likely wouldn't have reached the point where it is today product and awareness wise if it had just been one 'indie hacker' grinding away.
43 out of how many cars?
I'm with you. At my current job there is no possible way to start any kind of "paying" side project.
I'm betting probably not...but it's a "feel good" write up and who can't use a little motivational fantasy once in a while?
I believe they have restaurants that don’t require upfront payments, or “ticket” resales?

I get it for some of the destination restaurants. If a three star Michelin restaurant is in the countryside of Spain, they have to protect against last minute cancellations, and even no show fees would probably be less revenue than the full meal price. We could argue on the merits of whether that type of restaurant should be seen as a similar experience as theatre, but since people seem to, the model makes logical sense to me at the high end.
You mean "unprovable". It's falsified when someone finds a way to exploit the vulnerability.
> XMPP is basing on XML where parsing is order of magniture more complex than JSON

The last time I heard, there weren’t two JSON parsers that actually accepted the same language, so I’m not sure there’s an existence proof to back this statement up. :-)

XML is more complicated, but if we want to compare apples to apples, it’s only due to the white space sensitivity. (dtd, schema, etc don’t have analogous technologies in the json world, and at least xpath is a standard, unlike jq).
Speak to Larry Wall about this.
This is incredibly cool... I've thought about playing with some of the software emulators, but wouldn't have even thought to tinker with replicating or creating with real hardware.
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> Given that climate change is increasing the frequency of major floods

Climate change doesn't exist according to the government, remember?
Not sure about that whole link but I find the idea very interesting. I often wonder how much of these things are self fulfilling prophecy since these large corps don't exactly have a large imagination and take from where they can.
The US Government convened Hollywood action film writers and producers to speculate on terrorist attacks they hadn't foreseen:

https://www.foxnews.com/story/army-looks-to-hollywood-for-sc...

https://www.wired.com/2007/03/foiled-by-foia-/
One thing I like about them is the offline mode which is great when traveling abroad. However their app is less that enjoyable to use.
I don't think that that's really the blocker there, afterall, mrustc exists. That said, maybe it will give someone enough confidence to step up and do the work, I dunno. We'll see!
Nice, if XMPP works for you, but I hope do not use Pidgin or Adium nowadays. They still work, but AFAIK, they do not support newer XMPP features, such as encryption using OMEMO, HTTP upload, message archive management, etc.

There are nice, modern XMPP clients like Conversations on Android, Gajim on Linux and Windows, etc. that do support the latest XMPP features and are much more pleasant to use today.
Also, though limited and sometimes not great, "Pinned Repositories" is an easy tool to manage (easier than bouncing things between orgs and pseudo-orgs like `$username-forks`) and typically a strong signal for "I contribute to this".
> People who don't speak english for example but who read python can often read code you wrote and understand it. Math is a similar thing and sometimes called a universal language.

I doubt that's true. It would be like reading re-prettified minified Javascript: they wouldn't understand the meaning of the identifiers or comments. That doesn't strictly make it impossible to understand the code, but it's much, much harder.

It's the same for math, frankly: without explanations of what the things in equations are, or why the author is doing what they are doing, it's somewhere between very hard to understand (for the most formal stuff, like the Principia), and hopeless for most papers.
“Great tablets running Windows”. Those four words don’t belong in the same sentence. Windows is a horrible mess as a touch screen UI, the tablets are either large and heavy or slow and underpowered. Intel doesn’t exactly make a great low power/high performance processor.
There is a big difference between the glutamic acid in tomatoes and the refined devilry that is put in Campbell's soup, KFC chicken, and cheap asian food. I do have to watch protein powders and bars that have glutemic acid ... some of these will give me a headache (I am looking at you muscle milk).
I wish American “scientists” stop misleading people. The amount of “scientific” nonsense I heard is stunning. Growing up in the culture, I do not recall a single story where Rusalka was threatening to humans. Rusalkas are beautiful young women with fishtails living in seas, lakes, etc. Vodyanoi, -not Vodnik -, a male creature living in swamps, may be. Though in a famous animated cartoon, Vodyanoi was a very kind creature dreaming about flying https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f3VxRhYbqiM. Baba Yaga, an old cranky woman, who lived in a forest in a house which stood on chicken feet, certainly. But in the same cartoon Baba Yaga was quite attractive too. In Russian mythology/ fairytales there have been a plenty of creatures to scary kids.
His prototype might have taken a weekend, but a team of 20 VC-funded employees built out the platform's features and infrastructure.
No, it is an alien language.
Are you saying that the effects of climate change are negligible compared to those of overfishing, or just that the article should talk about both causes?
Will activitypub let me do:

<body> markdown text </body>

And ship some js to convert to html?
Do consumers generally color sort? What about the eight percent of men who are color blind?
Vocational education is the better option for many if not most students
time spent around the wife counts dude
This article seems to be second-hand reporting some of the information originally broken here [1].

There's a lot of damning information, not only for Boeing, but also a lot of negligence at the FAA for pushing engineers to 'delegate' reviews of certain components back to Boeing themselves.

[1] https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/faile...
Both Niven and Pournelle are part of the SIGMA Forum, which is a real-life consortium of science fiction writers who consult with the government. While the Pentagon and the White House have flirted with the concept over the years, they generally haven’t had any significant policy impact, SDI aside.
> it's been tried and failed miserably

That's news to me. Restaurants that I eat at do this all the time. Reference?

(I have a very hard time believing that now-show fees fail while pay-up-front succeeds. It makes no sense that consumers would accept the latter but not the former.)
The big difference is that they are swimming in money, but even that doesn't last forever.
Are you suggesting that regulation in this instance would not help with safety?

Not at all. Often regulations help with safety in the short and medium term. The problem is that they aren't written by oracles, so they can become outdated and fail to account for changes in technology. (How does "stymie progress" translate to not helping with safety?)
Mine from the late 90s work fine, for now.
Could we get 6 new reactors in the US?

I'm actually serious... I don't get why we still have coal power plants at all. I know there are various risks involved, and disposal is another, but a lot of lessons have been learned and there's a lot of room here for this. It's just incredible that a couple of movies could set back nuclear power in the US for as many decades as has happened.
Is someone here selling music/tracks on Gumroad?

I know a lot of people selling gfx stuff (mostly 3d stuff like shaders and models) through it but no one selling musical assets, and I'd like to know if it is a good platform for this kind of content.

Or if you know somewhere else that might be a better fit for this kind of content, please share.

(Just for the sake of it: I make techno/house/psytrance with lots of inspiration from chiptunes/vgm music)

Anyone here can share an experience?
Isn’t this standard practice in some industries ?
I recently realized again that information is not a pure benefit. It’s a lesson I’ve learned several times in my life, and this article echoes it again.
Notability is really nice for PDF annotation but not great for reading since it occasionally forgets your position in a book (although there is a bookmark feature). It’s very well optimized: I have over 500 notes in it, some over 1000 pages.
We talk about what she's watching and what I'm working on. It's not like I put headphones on and ignore my surroundings. And it's definitely not the same as being in two completely different rooms with little to no interactions.
The Japanese will come here and also have to deal with the hugely inflated prices of land and material acquisition. Everyone in the path of this project or a potential vendor all up and down the line is eager to profiteer and jack up the cost no matter who is engineering it. We need to keep large government projects far away from contractors because like every large government project involved with the private sector in history, costs will rise and rise and rise until people have had enough and the project is scaled back and/or killed. Otherwise, costs will rise until they hit that point, because as a contractor for the government, you have zero incentive not to profiteer.
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My understanding is that the younger you are the easier it is to pick up a foreign language. Whereas that doesn't appear to be the case for computer languages. Learning either creates opportunities for life changing opportunities for the better, but I think it would be a mistake for people to forego learning a foreign language at that age. If they want to learn programming languages as well they will, but I know lots of people that regret not learning a 2nd language earlier in life.
Yes, but attached much more solidly than a traditional one. They slide onto the pegs and stay put perfectly without any sort of adhesive and are actually tricky to remove due to the precision with which they snap in.
Leaked porn tapes were filmed with consent. If they were not filmed with consent they are illegal to possess.
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>FAA for pushing engineers to 'delegate' reviews of certain components back to Boeing themselves.

How much more proof do we need as a society that self regulation is a fool's errand?
> ...what crosses the line about monitoring driving behavior?

First and foremost, it's only ever going to be used against me if it is used. I would basically have to bet I was never in an accident, which, given I've been hit three times while legally stopped in the last 5 years, I'm not willing to do. I suspect for the vast majority of drivers, the monitor is a net cost, not a net savings.

But also, there is not a one-to-one relationship between liability and safety. Insurance companies care about liability first, and if they care about safety, they care about it second. I'd like to see some studies on how these monitors influence driver behavior before even considering getting one installed.

For another, the monitors lack context. It is safer to travel at 75mph in a 65mph zone if traffic is going 75mph and the road (and your vehicle) otherwise supports that speed. (Put lazily without citation: At that speed there is almost no difference to increased speed in terms of serious injury or fatality, but at that speed variance, the likelihood of a crash occuring is higher. Net result: more serious injuries and fatalities driving at the slower speed.) But the monitor will only see you going 10mph over the speed limit.

And then, as a sibling poster mentions, there are the privacy issues. If it monitors your location, it is monitoring far, far more than your driving habits.
I would guarantee that someone who sees it necessary to state his or her attitude in this way about science has an attitude that is very colored by politics, and is likely not to know much about science in the first place.

The trend of virtue signaling through yard signs is the most ridiculous thing I've seen in an era where ridiculousness has become the norm.
Would this be caught or suggested in the postgres tuner script? [1]

[1] - https://github.com/jfcoz/postgresqltuner
> But that's a very uneven trust. You can bail with no consequence to you, while the restaurant gets screwed.

Yes, that's true.

> I see no problem in leveling the playing field.

Neither do I. That's why I wrote:

"I get that restaurants have to protect themselves against no-shows, and I have no problem handing over a credit card number so that they can charge a no-show fee."

You are the second person I've had to point this out to. Good grief, doesn't anyone actually read the comments they are responding to (or downvoting)?
How would you design presentation preparation with that in mind? Or anything for that matter?
Well, there's also a "planetary protection officer", Lisa Pratt (and deputy planetary protection officer Elaine Seasly) :-)
Related to this base, if you want to see the F22 fly up close, go the day before an airshow there to the east end of the runway and you will only be hundreds of feet away. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Offutt+AFB,+NE/@41.1108278...
actually I would like that for my running shoes, I live in fear that changing shoe model would re-trigger knee issues, and I almost would like to always buy the same shoes.
We're trying to limit gift giving from any one source to both a dollar and item limit. It's been a struggle and some family members complain about staying within the limits we've requested (ironically, gift giving seems to be more about them than the recipient.) One thing we're trying now is suggesting that gifts to kids be replaced with donations to a 529, and so far this seems to be working OK. There's still some concern that kids won't care about this kind of gift at this age, but we do make an effort to explain who gave what and what it means, and I think that's worth more than yet another toy they might touch once in a few months.
There's cameras on each corner of the building covering the entire parking lot and parameter. Cameras at both front and back doors and entrance way. Cameras covering the entire reception area/lobby from like every angle, cameras in all the hallways, cameras in the server room. There might be more I never noticed.

Typical 21st century office building, really.
Depends on if you are China or the population being annexed.
The differences are the price. You choose how much you can spend and the features you want.

A total noob is going to spend the least possible
Your statment is built upon the pernicious idea that all good developers should write code in their spare time.
Really? Never experienced that
I once worked on a project at Qualcomm and wondered if the head had any idea what he was doing. I went to him and asked what is the complexity of a change you are willing to put up with for a 1% increase in cellular sector throughput. He had no idea. I should have quit the next day. The project was a commercial failure (802.20). Too big and late to market. Same problem that killed CISC machines. Most Linux developers never think in these terms and hence, long term, Linux is dead.
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> My understanding is that the younger you are the easier it is to pick up a foreign language.

IIRC, while that's long been a popular belief, it's not all that clear that it's true; a major effect, if not the whole effect, comes from it being easier to spend more time on it when younger. This portion of the effect is equally true of computer languages.
I'm curious if you've noticed that many restaurants no longer answer their phones?
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Just look at a map with satellite view of any sprawling area. You will notice a ton of wasted space, mostly due to parking lots, and empty space between the businesses and and the houses. It gets worse you farther you go out from the city center.
People do use Slack because it looks better and is easier to use.... the features you're talking about are possible with IRC, it just requires work that the average consumer isn't willing to do. The other half of the equation is that IRC is better in ways that consumers don't care about, yourself included.
well, yes, exactly, MCAS was supposed to compensate for these differences, to make sure that the flight characteristics are close enough to not require additional training. But tragically, what was supposed to be part of the solution turned out to be part of the problem...
Hopefully it will also fall in part on the FAA, which greenlit the thing for use without checks that might have caught this.
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Just politics to keep diverting from the reality. Scientists and Military agree: https://dod.defense.gov/News/Article/Article/612710/
Perhaps not, but I definitely see a lot of things analogous that in politics.
Those safes are prone to mold. Not a good place to store backup mechanical equipment unless you compensate by opening it often and re/placing dessicant packets.
My 12.9 is perfect for reading and annotating music sheets. Bought an used one mainly for that. The large screen size is close to a regular paper.
It basically means those schools who bought the 30 iPad case don't have to replace the cables and I would guess the chargers.
And it was a “messy transition” device. That was my point. The 4th generation iPad was what the third gen should have been. It came out six months later.
I think this is about making sure only you can create chat transcripts, not Slack. This would greatly increase enterprise adoption if they knew a company easn’t Reading it’s mail. Am I reading this wrong?
Yeah, wearing a mask won't really protect you from catchin something, but it will reduce the odds of you transmitting the disease to others around you.
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As a listener / purchaser, I'm a fan of Bandcamp.
I've seen several doctors who have confirmed that it's not a serious issue... All the treatments I've heard of have a higher likelihood of side effects than I'm willing to risk to fix something that's just an annoyance.
Have you ever seriously thought about why people might reject a climate change consensus? It's easy to dismiss people as being dumb or misled, but the forcefulness of this rejection suggests otherwise.

There have been a few incidents of fraud committed in support of that consensus, undermining credibility, but the biggest problem is that the consensus comes with a plan of action that is completely unacceptable to many people. If accepting the consensus would lead to that plan of action, then the consensus can not be accepted.

Climate change consensus wouldn't be worth rejecting if it didn't lead to a plan of action.

You might think this violates the purity of science or something (which was already violated by that fraud) but science is not the issue here. At this point, nobody is doing science. The issue is a struggle for/against imposing heavy-handed economic control that severely changes the world's balance of economic power. Most likely the enforcement would require war. The control itself can be objectionable, even without the issue of international competition, because many people insist on a high level of personal economic freedom.
> Unfortunately, I've never seen enough momentum behind one proof language to give a wiki a chance of becoming something substantial.

It's probably not far from hoping for the "Wikipedia of programming" where a single programming is used for all programs. There's religious wars on the best approach to everything and even the proof for "1 + 1 = 2" is fundamentally different in different proof assistants.