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"The word school derives from Greek σχολή (scholē), originally meaning "leisure" and also "that in which leisure is employed", but later "a group to whom lectures were given, school"."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School

I remember I had Philosophy professor tell me this, back in the day. I think part of his point was that up until very recently, getting an education was a privilege that only the elite got to enjoy. Also, I imagine he was trying to say that compared to the back breaking manual labor almost everyone was expected to participate in back then, learning must've actually been leisurely.

More specific to your comment, I feel like what you're describing is sort of the idea behind things like the pomodoro technique. Take a timed break, let your mind wander, and come back (sometimes) with a solution. To digress one final time, this idea also reminds me a of practicing a musical instrument. I can't tell you how many times I've struggled with a piece of music, only to stop for a few hours or maybe a day, just to come back and "magically" be able to play it.
He likely is protecting his children's children by denying them obscene wealth. The problem isn't with the first generation born into great wealth it is the 2nd or 3rd who are far removed from the origin and the ways of thinking that created it they tend to get all sorts of deluded worldviews that ultimately lead to their and their families ruin. I've seen stats that assert 70%-90% of wealthy families lose their fortune over 2 generations. Falling wealth levels is likely a much greater existential threat than being born into one and maintaining.
Not if they had reason to believe that your tires were worn out. The problem is that your tire is being marked when there is no evidence that you will overstay your parking. Everyone is marked indiscriminately. At least, thats how I understood the description.
> I love the lack of a model year, they are always refining and enhancing the base hardware.

If I have a list of a half-dozen refinements I want which weren't included in the car at launch, how can I tell if a given used car for sale has them? Is there any type of master list of features/changes/dates?
Popular ‘WiFi Finder’ App Leaks 2M+ Passwords
The author mentioned on Twitter that it was useful for quickly plotting data in Rust, with this example:

fn main() {
let data = vec![(4, 3), (2, 8), (3, 1), (4, 0)];
python! {
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.plot('data)
plt.show()
}
}

Source: https://twitter.com/m_ou_se/status/1118255841961025539
The sad answer is that the great majority of voters are ignorant and/or apathetic about privacy - at least in comparison to things like taxes and health care. The population that is willing to vote against party lines for privacy is trivial, whereas the government (at every scale) is heavily incentivized to invade privacy.

Before we can change the government, we need to make people care - and while recent debacles (see: Facebook) have helped, there's a long way to go yet.
I find it hard to fathom any issue where there would be enough consensus in the US currently or in the foreseeable future to pass a constitutional amendment.
There are no factual points that can be countered here, but it needs to be pointed out that recycling is very much a big part of "the answer". This is very much an area of research and there are lots of data to support this.

While we certainly should try to minimize unnecessary packaging, whatever we use should absolutely be recycled as raw material whenever possible. Recycling plastics is difficult because it is such a wide term, but if comparable countries recycle five times as much then surely improvement is possible. Hate on plastic bottles all you want but when 90% is recycled, at comparably low cost, it's not clear what the alternatives are.

The obvious alternative to single use (recyclable) packaging is re-filling containers. That's what everyone did half a century ago. But the food supply chain is rather wasteful as it is and sealed packaging was revolution when it came. Producing food for humans has huge energy costs by the use of fertilizers and diesel. It might seem counter intuitive but burning plastic containers is always better than burning wasted food.
That whole attempt to analyze Wu (and the others profiled) by talking to social media experts is stunningly unfair.

Honnold got his start free soloing because he didn't have a climbing partner, then continued later because it let him climber faster and more easily. Wu's past is less documented, but to all appearances she was seriously hiking and mountaineering long before her rise on social media, no different than any other mountaineer who hones their skills and then later lands a sponsorship. Bypassing those histories in favor of talking about "personal brands" and selfie-induced selective attention is incredibly unfair. The comparisons between professional and amateur photographers taking risks make some sense here, but there's no such narrative for these two. The risks they run aren't related to their photography, and there's no copycat epidemic of solo mountaineers and climbers.

Better to talk about Wu alongside other hikers lost in Yushan, or even alongside other serious 'celebrity' mountaineers like Scott Fischer. It's not a story that has any place in this piece.
Good point!!! I'm going to revamp the home page to improve upon this.. part of the issue I have is that some of the features aren't really obviously cool once you don't have the whole.

For example web page archival is kind of cool but it becomes a LOT more exciting when you add document management, highlighting, document sharing, etc.
It was probably the sex assualt analogy
The appeal of chalking the tires is you can do it pretty fast, and if the car moves, so does the chalk.

Chalking the ground doesn't work - "I just got here. That was chalk from before."

Chalking the license plate doesn't work, it takes way too much time to write out all the license plates .
Carnegie liked building libraries, but you will notice that a lot of those libraries got named after him.

He used his wealth to benefit society, but he also effectively set up a system that would stamp and preserve his name and legacy in history. His actions weren't exactly entirely selfless.

This seems to be a common goal for a lot of people once they become very rich. They ask themselves, "what do I do with all this money?", and then they discover that even rich people die... So they attempt to white wash any of their past wrong-doings, and paint themselves as heroes and leave behind a legacy where their name will live on even after they die.
That's definitely your opinion. I see trouble making employees who are causing a lot of issues for their coworkers. I'm with the parent post and would fire them.
Happy with my Senator Ron Wyden's take on this: paper ballots. He's also mentioned in the article.

Our system here in Oregon works pretty well: you vote by mail with paper ballots and there's automatic voter registration.
But that increases the cost of owning to the point where the difference in 'renting' might not be significant.
IIRC Graeber wrote quite a bit about how a kind of fuzzily-accounted, low-level, shifting, mutual debt can be a big part of close human relationships (relatives, friends) in his Debt: The First 5,000 Years. I recall in particular his using the example of a child "paying off" all perceived debt to a parent as a way of severing ties with them.
The various levels of governments are generally is not permitted “trivial, short-term intrusions”, regardless of the duration or triviality. Specific exceptions are permitted in certain circumstances, which is why (for example) firefighters can smash your windows and run a fire hose through them if you block a fire hydrant.
I toured Intel around this time and attended a press Q&A with Andy Grove. It was amazing. He was lively and fun and thoughtful. We received a printed copy of a booklet entitled WIRLII - What's It Really Like Inside Intel. It covered corporate culture, which was very Andy-centric, including the habit of starting meetings exactly on time (and not allowing late people in). Powerpoint was widespread, but our tour guides used low-tech "foils" (aka clear sheets on an overhead projector) for the presentations. Fascinating guy.
You mention putting purpose over profit, but I assume you still make a reasonable living doing this from the sounds of things. Is this your only job currently? What's the tech stack like?

Thanks for a great article :)
>Paul Allen decided that we were wasting everyone's time redoing basic science experiments, so he did a lot of them...

Link please. Couldn't find em
Not OP, but at my work, they definitely play a large role. A lot of the productivity boost comes from REPL driven development and Macros.

That said, Clojure has to be seen as the sum of its parts. It's the coming together of Lisp, FP and the JVM which truly gives it its strengths.
Even a 100% estate tax wouldn't do it, the disparities in opportunities (access to and expectation of education, social contacts, …) don't go away, nor do provisions set up during life (companies, trusts, …).
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they must be sad
Everything you said seems accurate.

But I just want to point out a grey area: Where a private company is allowed to act a certain way via a government.

I live in a snowy area. Which means regular plowing/snowblowing during the winter months. A local company started throwing "newspapers" (read: ads) onto everyone's driveway. These were rolled up paper in a plastic bag. They were distributed late in the evenings often getting buried by snow by the following morning, and then clog up or are thrown by snowblowers (and wind up in the streets causing littering, etc).

In theory this is a civil issue between this private company and the property owner ("littering"). But in reality the local government green lit this, they made a specific exception for these ad companies to essentially liter on every resident's property, and because it is legal a lawsuit would likely be unsuccessful (at least until they cause property damage).

So while constitutionality often only applies to government, we're slipping into a situation where private companies are allowed to do things by government and the constitution doesn't work either against the government (because the company did it) or the company (because the government allowed it).
There's no such thing as “the average millionaire”
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I believe we live in a meritocracy, but don't think we should do that. I see no moral reason to do this. Inheriting money doesn't make any one else poorer.

If I'm wrong, why?

All this aside, I think it's great that this gentleman made this choice. I think it will do a lot more good this way, and might even make his son more successful (by avoiding trust-fund syndrome).
Another vote for Vim key bindings. Think of it as future proofing. For all eternity :)
Maybe it is the important one. There's a culture of cheating among many lower-income self-employed workers, and they feel they're "entitled" to it.
Not stupid things developers do. Chip makers should accommodate the behaviour of most users of their chips, which does include running javascript.
Maybe it's just american... things are getting pretty dire over here...
Does the photograph show the system that is described?

The system has 'forward-facing cameras mounted on the side mirrors and front grille'.

But the second photograph seems to show what is underneath the car, which is not a view that's possible from those cameras at that moment in time. There's no shadow, either. Is it possible to achieve this just by delaying the image feed?

edited
What if they can't take care of themselves? There are many reasons to provide for your offspring.
So I take it you don't carry a life insurance policy?
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That's exactly why I said "(Of course the return for the IRS going after the small player may not be worth it.)"
Yes, that's good common sense. But you can check the source code on GitHub (it's deployed directly via GitHub Pages) or first download it and then execute without pipe from curl.
True.. I think part of this is that some of the more long term features I plan on implementing in Polar are pretty revolutionary and I don't really want to discuss then until we're ready to release.

I'm worried of larger and more funded companies like Facebook simply running off with the ideas and not contributing back the way I intend.

But fair criticism.
Quite sad honestly. I understand what the author is feeling. I too have thoughts about how to make money from X hobby I enjoy doing. I'm trying to fight those thoughts. What I am doing with my free time doesn't have to be worth anything!!
More States Are Pursuing Rent Control. That’s Bad News for Landlords
Meh. As far as I'm concerned, Wayland is strictly inferior to X, so long as it fails to support network transparency / remoting. Talk to me when they have a real solution for this, besides VNC or supporting RDP.
It’s a fucking terrible pattern that gets used by a whole heap of tools.

https://curlpipesh.tumblr.com/

The ridiculous ones are where it just sets up an apt repo - like someone can’t add a file with a line or two of text and run two very common commands (apt update/install).

Edit: these ones are just ridiculous.

“Here, download this stuff using curl... also you’ll need wget”.
people who work on things you'll never see.
Huh. I guess that makes sense, it's just quite unfamiliar to me.
This assumes that the purpose of a visit is retail shopping, which is in decline. Downtown use is shifting towards experiences (restaurants, coffee shops, etc) where lingering a while is an essential feature.
How does this interact with Rust memory safety? I am not familiar with the PyToObject trait, so I am guessing that this has some kind of safety wrapper?
Maybe "time-boxed leisure" is a better term for what I wanted to describe.
I used to think ML was missing the ability to formulate abstractions until I read about autoencoders and GAN. If you have not, I suggest looking into it.

In a well designed autoencoder, the network ends up discovering an abstract representation of inputs and a conceptual space to express it.
> People don't have privacy expectations concerning the appearance of tires of their cars.

My privacy expectation is that other people don't touch my car or put marks on any part of it without my permission.

> Any member of the general public can come by and chalk your car.

And they, too, would be doing something illegal.
Palo Alto’s system is very successful at keeping me out of Palo Alto, and I think that’s actually the point. There’s nothing I can think of that in Palo Alto that’s worth dealing with their parking situation.
The same use cases as always - decentralized applications with no central authority operating it, scarce digital assets, global money transfer, elimination of middlemen, and so on.

Of course, skeptics such as yourself will say, "all of that is worthless!" But I could not disagree more.
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sorry about a tangent, but that Indian Jones scene bothers me so much. i mean... there are so many safer ways to validate you can take that first step. i'll name a few

1. crouch down and reach out your leg gently tapping the "invisible ground"
2. throw a pebble.
3. throw a bunch of sand to see exact available surface area.

i mean.. he's a scientist.
Sure. You get to be the one who explains how the Blockchain works to a bunch of octogenarians in Florida who can't quite figure out how a double sided paper ballot works.

Voting is already complicated enough. There are way too few people who fully understand all of the security implications of the Blockchain and all of the implementation details you need to get correct to make this a workable solution on the national level.
Almost all of the functionality has been rolled into Google Lens[0], except for the built-in camera.

Unfortunately, that renders it a 2-step process for taking photographs of phone numbers and calling them, which loses most of the convenience behind the idea.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Lens
A little bit like having a lease on your business address, yeah, I could see this work. It may be a lot better for the person owning the domain than for the person developing the property, though.

You'd need good contracts - you'd need clauses around trademarks, etc.
I have read C02 can make a pretty decent refrigerant.
Great question. I'm working in improving our tablet support. It's a lot easier than the mobile support honestly.

If you try the polar webapp on your tablet and give me feedback I'll almost certainly implement any changes you need quickly.

The goal for us is that we're going to charge for crowd storage and maybe for the mobile apps but probably only for really aggressive users.

Still TBD
I'd have to agree. She has a plant-based diet, but "being" a vegetarian is an ethical stance against animal meat for food. She could also say, "my diet is primary vegetarian", which moves the position from her to her diet choices.
It seems like a "reasonable" search given that there is individualized suspicion of wrongdoing, and the search is non-intrusive.
But the whole genesis for this comment chain is that you can make exactly the same mistake with std::optional.
It’s nice indeed. Not special, but certainly smooth to use. Never used it outside of emacs though.
Bloomberg pulling the business insider hype articles ...
I don't believe the argument being used here is about expectations of privacy - its in regards to the trespassing of a police officer by interacting directly with your property.
I have thought that there would be no need to leave anything of significant monetary value to my kids. Either they are smart and they do not need that. Or they are dumb and they do not deserve that.

And if I could choose, I would highly prefer paying my taxes not from my income when I am alive, but from the estate I leave after I am dead. For some reason that is completely mindboggling to me, this preference seems to be quite rare...
It turns out money is a good way to measure a person’s value! Oh, hang on a second...
Given this ruling, the 2012 ruling about GPS trackers, and the ubiquity of number plate scanners, it’s possible someone could challenge the constitutionality of requiring license plates on vehicles — they’re not all black model Ts anymore, so there’s less need for the registration number to be visible a mile away.
I've thought about this a lot lately. I have (some) money, but not a whole lot of time. It's really hard to find reasonable direct investments for "down payment on an investment property" style money, with "rent from an investment property" expected returns. Seems all that's available at that level is more or less gambling on potential unicorn style stuff.

Or put other way - I'd love to find some great "regular" business ideas to both fund and assist in getting off the ground to the tune of $5-50k, and if successful make a few thousand a month down the road in a couple years - not millions on some future exit.

Basically I want to seed-fund/invest in/be involved in what HN calls "lifestyle business" - just a regular old sustainable business expected to grow 10% a year and comfortably employ a couple founders and employees.

Many good reasons this market doesn't exist and is "hard", but one can wish. It would feel fare more satisfying to invest money in actual hard working people with real but boring (read: low risk) business models than tossing it into the S&P500 or engaging it yet more rent-seeking by buying up small properties to turn into rentals.
Sour grapes
Like writing books...

I laughed when I read that example.
First mistake you're making is that people will trust FSD from the get go. It will take time for people to get used ot driving self-driving cars, so 2023 is unrealistic. Second is assuming that they really are close to solving Level 4/5 driving (imho they are not). 3. There is no way that the cars will be able to drive 24/7/365. You need to charge them, clean, and do maintenance. 4. Supply and demand - there will be competition, and some of it from companies with very deep pockets. 6. With all the issues Tesla is having right now, it's not likely that they will survive until 2023
They can also have a flat fee system $X/hr and afix that parking fee to your car then give you X days to pay, or they alternatively can require using an app to park at a spot. Or they can write city code to say in order to park on city property you volunteer this kind of “search” implicitly.
> Hiring should be thought of as a product (NOT a sales funnel)...

Are you hiring Engineers or Day Labor?

The interview process works both ways--

I'm also score-carding you and the organization.

Frankly, immediate job offers often signal desperation.
Bookmarking - this is laid out really well.
Great post! How do you decide which tasks to do yourself and which to outsource? Also, at what point do you consider incorporation?
honestly I did on my old old blog from like +10 years ago but the URL has bitrotted ;)
The son is still running the company. He received a great education and opportunities to work and challenge himself. He's gotten a lot and has appreciation for what he has.
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Well, its got a chicken and egg problem here.

The chickens, experienced Clojure devs, don't need a framework, and are easily able to do whatever they want and use Clojure to pay their bills. Thus they're not motivated to build frameworks.

On the other hand, the eggs, devs unfamiliar to Clojure, find it difficult to get anything done in Clojure, and are looking for frameworks that abstract away some of the expertise needed to manage a full Clojure web app. They're hoping they can start using it to pay their bills before they become an expert in it, through the use of a framework.

I'm not sure how the future will unfold here.
This problem was solved millenia ago, no focus group needed. The problem is power interests standing in the way of simple solutions. More money for more polls, hell yes. More money for "better machines" fuck no, that money goes to no good.
My pleasure. Wanted to keep it short, additional context:
The organizations founder quite likely believed the allegations but couldn't bear to see the child she adopted and raised from 6 y/o end up in a Kenyan prison. The Freedom from Fistula foundation opend clinics to provide free maturity care, and outpatient obstetric ﬁstula repair surgery. Women with the condition become incontinent and are often shunned from society, it's a result of inadequate medical care during childbirth and it can be repaired with a routine, single day outpatient procedure.
> can be used later

_Can_ be used later.

Of all people, RMS gave a great talk at Hope XII ("We must legislate to block collection of personal data") about how these legal/technical issues can potentially be navigated.

Now, I'm not saying that cameras are the answer, but it is possible to make the technology work for us and not against us. For example, the license plate readers could be programmed to capture images of the license plates which expire after a certain amount of time, are cycled out if the vehicle is not in its previous location upon the next scan, are only accessible via strict access controls, etc. Of course, in RMS' vision, the software controlling these systems is Free and there would be some way for the citizenry to validate that it's doing what it purports to, the system is running an unmodified version, etc. As a matter of practicality, this is probably a pipe dream but it _is_ possible and his talk has made me reconsider my knee jerk Luddite reaction to technological solutions and I'd highly recommend watching/listening/reading the transcript.
Better yet, try and rewrite it from the perspective of an 18th century white man and see how it deals with over 200 years of technological progress.