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> I keep trying to tell [my kids] that money is morally neutral. It does not, in and of itself, make you a bad person. It also does not, in and of itself, makes you a good person.

Being rich individually might not be morally bad, but inequality probably hurts society overall. "No drop is responsible for the flood" yada yada.

> Within a couple of years I was giving away more money than my parents, who had much more money that I had, which they told me was embarrassing to them... I really considered giving it all away at a certain point in my 20s, and I know people who did that. And I wish I could tell you that it was courage that kept me from doing that, but it was mortal fear. I didn’t think I would be able to survive. I was afraid I was a hothouse flower. I didn’t know if I could live on my own.

I think I have experienced this on a much smaller scale - the fear of committing to a career change (out of SWE) due to financial insecurities. Going backwards, financially, is incredibly difficult - it's so easy to get locked into a lifestyle that you simply can't relinquish it up voluntarily.

> I’ve spent a lot of time earning things like post graduate degrees that make me feel legitimate. And those feelings have started to go away. But that’s outsourcing your sense of self.

She's not the only one!
If they were gonna do it after the AirPods 2 release, they would have to do it ASAP, or else they'd either have to do extended refunds (and have extra return inventory of an unwanted product) or face a class-action suit from disgruntled AirPods 2 buyers who were promised compatibility with a now-cancelled product.
You don't need two OSes.

For applications there is lots of work to make it really nice. Putting mobile apps on "desktop" can be done, while user interface will be a bit strange. But that's a thing which needs time. Microsoft tried that by pushing mobile on desktop, but they didn't have the mobile story. Apple has notable Userbase on both.
Especially weird for Apple, who aren't known for vaporware. And even Google wouldn't come out and say "we can't make this work", they'd just stop talking about it until it was eventually solvable down the line, or let it evaporate altogether. It's very odd to see a tech giant just hit a technological wall.
See also: GNU IceCat https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/
It seems really perverse incentive wise that layoffs always seem to bump stock prices. Companies are going to need to transition at times and have cut backs and pivots but it doesn't seem like it should be a market signal that the company is doing something worth investing in so consistently. Many times what these cuts do, in many companies, is just offload the tech overhead to another department, or lower quality and quantity of work being done by another department. When I was in IT they wouldn't replace workers who had left. This caused IT hold times to go from less than a minute for an answer to over an hour. We estimated that it ended up costing the company over a million dollars in man hours over some non-trivial period because of wasted time on users who were no longer able to perform their duties. They outsourced the call center after I left. I heard it's only gotten worse as the call center frequently hangs up if the call is too hard or is taking too long since they are tracked on call times and numbers. Perverse incentives.
It's an idea I've had for a long time for my applications where (almost) all dynamically are global arrays. 64-bit application have a huge address space and I could simply place each array in a huge subsequence of this address apce. When an array needs to grow I simply mmap() more memory at the end, so I never have to move memory, and all pointers stay valid.

I try to avoid pointers to pointers because of the redirection. They are not really solving a problem but only delaying it, at the cost of performance.

But first and foremost the biggest problem with pointer is the identity thing. Using a pointer to access various kinds of information either requires that all this information is clumped together (loss of modularity) or at least that we maintain additional lookup structures that bind the disparate information together through indirection (loss of performance, more memory use, more code, and still some loss of modularity).
That swinging counterweight is a major hazard, and negates the idea of having a small foot print due to 2 wheels... But then I remembered this is probably designed to impress non-engineers, and has nothing to do with safety, or efficiency.
I’d like to see a regressive analysis of how many Bay Area instant millionaires have already been created, over the last 15 years or so. Wouldn’t these folks help support the floor of home prices?
In retrospect, I wonder if a motorized device that moves the coils to match the location of your device would have been a better approach.
Discussion from a couple of years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15238366.

And from 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10104648
In the nuclear power field, the usual multiplicator applied to project cost is Pi.
FYI, there is a neat trick for deep linking directly to timestamps on youtube, for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KVyFio8gw4&t=9m45s
Will they cancel the Macbook Pro?
>Earbuds aren't cell phones—there's not a lot you can add.

I can think of enough stuff. New Bluetooth standards, longer lasting charge, better audio drivers, health monitoring, embedded connection-free translation (babelfish-like), eSIM and calling/receiving directly from the AirPods (like you can do from the Apple Watch, but using Siri for the dialing). And those are just off the top of my head.

Heck, just the same model available in black too, would make tons of people replace their AirPods 3-4 years after they got them.
Apple said they were going to work with the Qi standards team to integrate what they invented into future versions of the standard.
My thoughts exactly. This can't be something that was discovered something last night after hours, by someone burning the midnight oil.

Me personally, I've built up a mental "queue" of things that need to line up before I invest in a 1) new phone (that supports wireless charging, 2) an Apple Watch, and 3) AirPods (the new ones). And all of those I planned on getting around the time of AirPower. Now that it's been nixed? I mean, I still dig the Watch but I'll probably keep my current phone and headphones for years, at least while they all still work just fine.

Pretty bummed for the people that got them expecting AirPower, though.
Apollo 11 Goodwill Messages [pdf]
Why Carlos Ghosn Fell: Plotters at Nissan Feared a French Takeover
Designer organelles bring new functionalities into cells
Yeah just 1 patriot missile battery (land or sea based) and all 30 of those mustangs would be spiraling in.
Hi, if you are interested in helping people with their ruby/rails issues, there is also reddit / ruby discord / rails slack / and stack overflow. I'm trying to be active on Reddit and the Discord but not very active on slack/stack overflow. There are already quite a few people helping but more people would help :).
Interestingly the reception to the credit card was the most positive of all the announcements on Monday.
That’s what you really want to get too. A big charging mat you just toss everything on.

TBH I don’t find wireless charging today a particularly big win. It’s a bit easier than plugging in a cable. Of course, in the watch, it eliminates a port which is a win for other reasons.
Was there previously a way to do these searches without a company page, or without a Facebook account at all? If not, I would consider this a big change!
I'm not even talking about knocking on the door here. Just something that can fly up to some open windows and see if it looks like a murder scene with people huddling around terrified/blood everywhere/guns out or if the house is full of people just chilling doing normal stuff.

SWAT tactics were seemingly designed around the assumption that the residence is a fortified gang base with lookouts and the like. This means the SWAT teams are going in blind because they don't want to alert the armed guards, but this leads to situations where flashbangs get tossed into cribs with infants because one of the cops transposed the street number of the house when calling in the report. It's exactly the opposite of what you would thing responsible policing should be.
> It can't avoid breaking the output into lines

It can whenever you don't ask for line numbers, can't it?

> It probably looks for newlines after a match is found

Probably, yeah. Counting number of newlines in a range, without caring just where they fall, can probably be pretty darned fast with vector instructions. Idk if that's worth the additional pass, though.
What about those devices that harvest radio (wifi a.o.?) waves? What do they generate?
I'll state up front that my experience with Qi is from about five years ago with a Samsung Note 3 with a Samsung induction charging case. But I found it to be fiddly enough (have to hit the sweet spot on between the charger and the coils on the case/phone) to be just barely more convenient than plugging in.

My impression of what AirPower was supposed to do was allow me to just throw my shit on the nightstand charging mat and the phone, watch, and earphones just magically charge without fiddling. Not being a hardware engineer, my impression was also that, in order to pull this off, involved big, hot coils and Apple couldn't get rid of the "hot" part.

So now the solution is to buy separate Qi pads for phone and earphone case, and I still need a proprietary charger for the Watch because it doesn't use Qi. Or just say "fuck it", and plug my phone and old AirPods case into the Lightning connectors I already have by the bed, and use the Apple Watch charging stand I already bought.

In summary, I'm one of those that would have spent the $200 on Apple kit if they could have pulled it off because I don't find Qi to be quite the solution I was looking for.
> The concrete used in the construction was sucking up carbon dioxide

This is the first time I hear about concrete sucking up CO2. Usually it's the other way around.
Give https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/microservices-demo a try, it inspired this project you linked to.
That's what always confused me about this. This was very much an announced thing, not some side research project.
The $200k mistake and what we learned
I guess this just seems like a massive amount of hoop jumping that, from the outside, looks like OCD levels of premature optimization for future demands that might well not occur.

Put differently: how much more time and energy would you have had to work on your MVP if you had just used Rails?
Blue Apron didn’t pop at all. It was listed at $10 and is now trading at $0.97 a year and a half later.
For .com.au you already need an Australian Business Number (ABN). You need to have a genuine business operating in Australia to get one. This will add a further barrier, which is needed.
Take the analysis a step further though, population density matters, not median income. Take the ownership cost, and the total supply of housing, now align that with the households (groups who would live in one housing unit) and align it to the right side of the income distribution.

You will find that all housing is consumable by households for which their income exceeds the ownership costs. That is how the market works, the people who can afford houses buy them. If there are more people who can afford houses than there are houses, the prices adjusts upwards to capture that value, if there are more houses than people who can afford them, the price adjusts down to capture that value. There are no houses (typically) that are otherwise market acceptable that are not owned.

What is more, it has been shown that if you add houses, that widens the overlap with incomes, starting from the "high" end and moving down. That is why Sunnyvale has authorized the building of thousands of new houses and apartments. Even trying to artificially hold units out for "low income" people results in fraud where low income people "rent" those houses and then sublet them out at market rate to recapture the value. We just convicted a woman of doing that and she isn't the only one.
Time is the fire in which we burn, understood. That's why we learn things. So we can predict things, and save time.
There's 75 + years in your lifetime. Even auto-didactically you should be able to sift through everything in

https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com

and use that as the starting point to build up some deep dives into authoritative literature.

When you can start to accurately predict outcomes, you're on the right track.

You'll know you're in the right neighborhood when you have an increasingly hard time tolerating poor models of reality, and start drifting off thinking about how easy it would be to make that thing if you only had the tools.

Happy adventures in the wonderful world of Math!

(Don't forget to read the Ethics handbook, and if you want to do it professionally, take the FE, PE, and never forget the iron ring!)
Totally agree. You have to heed your location.

Here in SF, if you look the driver in the eye, you have yielded the right of way to him. Even though state law gives the pedestrian the right of way when they are in a crosswalk.
PragerU is absolutely garbage. Their "production value" is full of fun charts like this: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DyNY9z-WwAAY5xL.jpg:large
There are plenty of ways to make a living and still be a net positive for society. I wasn't shaming him, but I'd love to raise my children in a culture where the focus is helping not just yourself and your possibly undeserving offspring (e.g, the university bribery scandal or countless other instances of corruption), but the rest of humanity as well. I think we'd all be a lot better off.

But at least this guy is honest about his goals.
>Still, do you dehumanize all the people who you think are assholes?

Yeah, it's fun.
She seems to be very thoughtful about this. Main takeaway is what I've read elsewhere: money amplifies your character.

If you were an asshole when you didn't have money, you'll be even worse with it - you can pay enough to not be around anyone who will call you on your B.S. Conversely, if you were charitable before, you'll be able to do a lot of good with a larger checking account.
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My theory is that we're seeing the "exploration" part of exploration vs. exploitation in action [1]. I use Youtube almost exclusively for music videos and tech lectures. One day I watched this music video created by somebody who has uploaded a lot of Jordan Peterson fan content:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK72U02TUsI

I was getting JP and right-leaning politics recommended to me for a month afterward, even though I never use Youtube to watch JP or political content of any kind. But maybe I was getting that content recommended because I had no prior indications of interest in that conceptual space. The recommender could be exploring previously untouched territory in hopes of finding something with high exploitation value.

A value-blind system trying to maximize engagement is going to find that some niche content performs well on some users, and will try to explore that space for other users to see if it has high exploitation value for them too. So start out watching videos about health and it's natural -- from a data perspective -- to surface some conceptually adjacent videos that include anti-vaccination conspiracies. If you watch one or two of those -- even without saving or liking -- then the exploration may expand into conceptually adjacent videos about other Things "They" Don't Want You To Know, and so on.

The Youtube recommender works pretty well for discovering new music, in my experience. The problem is that the process that gradually takes you from a Top 40 hit to a less popular musician to somebody who recorded their first song last month isn't always benign when "music" is replaced by "health" or "world news."

[1] https://towardsdatascience.com/reinforcement-learning-demyst...
> that no one wants

Be careful, just because you don't want this doesn't mean no one wants it. The HN crowd isn't Apple's target demographic with this stuff.
It's strange, this only calls out one specific class of exemptions [13(a)(1)], the one that deals with outside sales and executives, and not section 13(a)(17) which exempts "Computer Professionals"
If users don't pay for a service, the service provider doesn't make money...What's your point? Enough of Apple's user-base subscribe to their current service offerings, and will possibly subscribe to at least one of the new services as well.

Unless the entire user-base protests and unsubscribes to every service on offer, they're most likely going to continue to make a profit off of these services, hence the focus on them. (The HN crowd is definitely not the target audience for these services, I am well aware.)
Finding Bugs in Languages/Frameworks You Don't Know: Node.js
cool how about you pay off my adoption loan debts :D
Alternative Ways to Sidestep Anxiety
Can you share your ideas? My email is in my profile.
Well, obviously, all royalty are going to have similar vectors. The skipgram is just an implicit matrix vectorization of a shifted PMI matrix. And most royalty will have similar co-occurrences. My point is that the vector components do not mean anything in isolation. There is no dimension directly encoding such properties. The king vector means 'royalty' because queen, prince, princess, etc. are have similar directions.
What If a City Has to Rethink Its Past to Understand Its Future? (TEDx Talk)
Clang and Blender are not the norm for desktop software.
I would recommend Seveneves by Neal Stephenson on this topic.
Except for the Watch :(
Why fix what ain’t broke?
People don't care about device orientation, which is why the mat was supposed to work regardless of the orientation.
'Eco-anxiety': how to spot it and what to do about it
At the end, what is really important is that everyone in the company makes what they deserve. It would be interesting to have data of salary equity.
The SWAT-ing should be considered attempted murder in 2019. The shooting should be considered a police officer put into a tense situation, making a split second life or death decision. He made the wrong call. He made a mistake, and someone lost their life needlessly. I don't think he should be culpable for murder, however. Murder is premeditated, by definition.

We should be looking at different procedures around hostage situations, with the possibility of crank SWATing calls in mind. Putting people into these situations needlessly, on the basis of just one anonymous report, without checking and confirming the facts, isn't acting responsibly.
Induction doesn't require any contact what so ever. It works through cases, and will work even if you hold your device over the charger with air in between.

Now induction certainly has it's own set of compromises, orientation being a big one, not to mention many implementations don't have great ranges. But yes, induction itself is "contactless" and is OTA.
Vic Berger is a pretty disingenuous propagandist. He's funny, but I wouldn't take him too seriously.
But the situation is symmetric: your risk of losing secrets to your competitors is exactly balanced by your prospects of gaining secrets from your competitors. This tends to flatten the playing field and make secrets relatively less valuable, which promotes the spread of knowledge, and makes everyone better off in the long run.
14 day return policy.
It sounds like you have never been trained on the tool and/or have had a really crappy implementation of AEM.

We have had nothing by praise for AEM/Target.
GM Squeezed $118M from Its Ohio Workers, Then Shut the Plant
> If we assume comparative negligence

Criminal responsibility doesn't work that way.

Heck, IIRC, civil responsibility for negligence usually doesn't work that way, even in jurisdictions with a comparative negligence rule, except between the plaintiff and the set of all defendants.

> Then are you arguing that that the cop should get 20 years for responding to a shooter threat and killing someone that he thought was reaching for a firearm and the kid that perpetrated the prank gets 2 years?

No, the cop should get 100% of the punishment for a crime somewhere on the range between voluntary manslaughter and murder (of the depraved indifference sort, which is typically second degree.) And the SWATter should get 100% of the punishment for filing a false police report and a homicide crime which might be any of involuntary (misdemeanor) manslaughter (if the false report is a misdemeanor in the jurisdiction), depraved indifference murder, or felony murder (of the false report is a felony.)
AirPower

AirPods

White iPhone 4
> inequality probably hurts society overall

This suggests that if I find a gold nugget while hiking, somehow that hurts society?

Inequality benefits society overall. It provides a motivator for people to improve their lot, thereby indirectly improving the lot of many others. (For example, in the 90's the newspaper reported that Microsoft had created 10,000 millionaires in the Seattle area, exclusive of home ownership.)

Edit: I think it's ineffably sad that whenever I post that people can better themselves, that life isn't totally random, one has choices, I get a strong negative reaction.
Any free software email client?
> Attempting to deny the reality of societal responsibilities when a service hits societal scale is just silly.

Indeed, especially when the primary purpose of the service is to be a platform for speech.

Hotels don't get to violate peoples rights just because they are private businesses.
> I know that DARPA funds some robots

DARPA funding is not necessarily violent. One can argue that the current explosion in self-driving cars is due to the DARPA challenges in the 2000s.
I’m guessing patents.
Tech companies don't know how to fire people, and the market seems to know this.

It's generally assumed that the first round of layoffs, if small, is to cull underperformers. Further rounds seem to make everybody jumpy.
At least this was explicitly cancelled. IIRC Valve never came out and said development stopped; they just stopped talking about it.
What do you mean by "Apple will accept returns"? There's no Apple Store in my country and I'm not sure that ordinary shops would accept returns, especially after box was opened.
One of the best thing in working remotely is that I don't have to wear shoes.

I could work very productively without these routines; the problem was that I could not switch off.
> Cooperatively run companies are one way to do this. If the major companies of our world were cooperatives, a wide swath of the population would gain the wealth our world is increasingly producing.

How do you imagine we manufacture for example microprocessors in such scenario? I.e. how does a group of people start the next Intel as a co-op, without ever taking any external capital? BTW I've sent the same question to Chomsky some time ago, but no response yet.
Apple Cancels Plan for AirPower Wireless Charger
Anecdotally someone may have evidence of poor performance. Assigning a specific number to its statistical probability based on that anecdotal evidence is where the problem lies.
what privacy is for, if not freedom
Stupid question. I have an iPhone, the watch, and now the wireless AirPods. What will be the best charging pad out there?