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I have been teaching languages for years and the bottom line is the vast majority of adults don't put in the hours.

1 hour a day is seen as a really dedicated adult language learner. If you only did activities that involve languages for 1 hour a day as a kid you would almost certainly flunk school and be way behind your peers.

Adults can simply run away into their native language when things get too frustrating. Kids have no where to run to, there is no choice to not learn and no choice to give up.
I work at msft and wonder where this drama is too...
I think many traders are likely neurological outliers. Even as an entrepreneur, I can’t take investment until I know I’m on a really sure wicket and investors are as appraised as I am of all the risks involved. I know I could not handle the pressure associated with daily trading others’ money.
Didn't we capture most of it from nuclear reactors decades ago?
Totally unrelated.
That's true as long as the people are not being bullied. In my case, I estimated something I barely worked on in an area of code I barely knew to take 2 weeks. When the boss left, the remaining 3 people kept telling me to estimate it to 5 days "because you know what boss thinks about 2 weeks". Then told me that 5 days is just an initial estimate and it can be later extended. I responded that likewise, 2 weeks can be scaled down and I'll be happy to be proven wrong. No response from them. I kept repeating the question.
They are called shade balls, they are used to reduce evaporation by up to 90%.
>But science is the only method that eventually will rut out the biases. It’s self correcting, but you need to look at it from the long view.

This is just dogmatic nonsense. Absent a mechanism, how does this vaunted self-correction operate? If the individuals that make up the scientific community can't be trusted to be free of bias, and that bias can persist for generations, what, in point of fact, is the mechanism for rejecting it?

The fact is that insight does not emerge from any particular method, and science really has no foolproof way to advance inexorably towards the truth. This is why scientific advancement is frequently stalled - because it isn't fucking foolproof. You can claim otherwise, but you're at odds with both any kind of theoretical basis and with the observed history of science.
https://www.litcharts.com/lit/freakonomics/chapter-3-why-do-...
Of course not, not when helium is relatively cheap and plentiful. But when we're nearly out of helium, you'd better bet we'll figure it out.
Amazon kindle used to do this back in the day. Then people started tethering them and then all the kindle 3's and before got limited to 50 mb/month. (Later ones just had no internet outside amazon/wikipedia iirc)
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Could not agree more. This is the real “fix” once the plane is rendered safe ... if the regulators or Boeing can ever be trusted about thus airframe again.
The engine mounting certainly does not make the plane unsafe.

The engine position exacerbates a problem already plaguing the 737 since the Classic. I think you're understating the problem quite a bit here.
Can you talk more about this? What was the example? What is actually achievable and worth recycling?
Thank you. And I recognize it as true that many criminals had a hard childhood in particular. But some don’t - and I wonder what the motivation is.
I didn't even hate my job and I quit to take 2 months to travel. Giving myself some time off to experience new places, meet new people, and work on projects I wanted to was the best thing I've ever done. I'm much like you where I worry about always being better for tomorrow, but that means you don't live today. Or if you are, it's not to your full potential.

Even when I was abroad, I would still put in a 4 hour day, dedicated to whatever project I felt like working on. What you don't realize is how much work occupies not only your physical time, but your mental time. I had 8 full hours that I never had to think about things I wanted to do. In the end, it re-ignited my passion for code and gave me a new perspective on how I want to work the rest of my life.
> Newtonian gravity was a useful theory despite not matching experiment

"Useful" in this context means useful for a future theory or experimentation, not utility. Newtonian theory certainly predicted many results, and all of them were useful in the above sense. A prediction doesn't have to exactly match observations to be useful, but that the theory produces a prediction which _could_ be tested against.

Even flat-earth theory makes useful predictions - albeit already proven false as time and time again, it predicts the wrong results.

What isn't useful is an unfalsifiable theory, which means the predictions it makes is not able to be tested, or the results of such a test could be construed to match if you squint a bit. A theory like creationism, for example.
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Humans are wasting MUCH more than just Helium.
If AWS Lambda is described as "serverless", I guess this could be called "networkless"?

using AWS services in a way that might horrify some AWS engineering teams

..and probably greatly pleases the finance department.
3D Touch is like if pressing the right mouse button a little harder than usual opened a second, completely different context menu. But only sometimes; in some programs, it would just open the regular context menu, leaving you to wonder if you pressed hard enough.
I wonder if there are additional restrictions based on being in financial services. It may require different licenses, registrations, insurance and employer regulations (e.g. different collective bargaining agreement) compared to traditional industries.
No, it did not “have a bad propensity to stall”.

Okay, how's: you can use thrust to pitch up a 737 beyond the authority of the elevator.

Airbus aircraft are “safe” despite the fact that dual conflicting pilot input is averaged without stick feedback (see the Airfrance flight from Brazil).

There is an aural warning (DUAL INPUT) on Airbuses with conflicting input.
Pretty sure they've fixed that in recent releases (within 18 months, I believe) of Windows 10. You should only need to recompile to gain hi-DPI awareness, if I recall properly.
And that is because there is always more to care about, just as true love has no end.
> “The paradox of the Azores is that you are always wanting to leave when you’re here, and always wanting return when you’re not,” Tiago Melo Bento, a local film-maker, told me.

I felt that while spending time in the Azores but I can feel it anywhere. Now I think it's quite lucky if a person never wants to leave and feels content.
...your investment may go up as well as down...
I can tell you didn't watch the video
And Bombardier and Embraer.
Thanks, but we do have sprints and bi-weekly progress meetings and are ostensibly working using agile. I have my opinion on my boss and the whole situation, but I'm under a heavy reality distortion field and wanted an outsider perspective.
The boss basically treats any estimate as a commit. And yes I did point out (not in front of boss) that this smells like Waterfall. Agile for requirements, waterfall for costs and deadlines.
how hard is it to work at FAANG and do you make $300k/yr* total comp?
I really think that just spreading more awareness of this goes a long way. I worked crazy hours my first few years too but it wasn’t company pressure, it was me wanting to prove myself.

I didn’t change til I literally worked myself into a hospital. I do wonder if knowing more about how often this stuff happens would have made me more aware of the pattern I was falling into.
>and if landfill space isn’t an issue why are we shipping it off to foreign countries

Because China was paying us for it.
But is that a falsifiable claim about a proposition, or the identity itself (in those cases where the claim is not false)? The Platonist in me suspects that these are different things, though I could probably be induced to change my mind by a persuasive counter-argument.
Large-scale smuggling is highly professionalised and hugely lucrative. We're not talking about some guy with a boat, we're talking about an organisation that rivals a multinational corporation by almost any metric.

One of the biggest exporters of cocaine in recent years was FARC, a Columbian rebel group that acted as the de-facto government of large areas of Columbia. Their operation was sufficiently sophisticated that they built their own submarines. If you're part of an armed rebel group engaged in a brutal civil war, being arrested for drug trafficking isn't anywhere near your biggest worry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco-submarine

At this scale, individual psychology isn't particularly relevant. It's a self-reinforcing culture of drugs, violence and obscene amounts of money that subsumes individuals. You might as well ask about the individual psychology of an infantry sergeant in the second world war - his mindset is a product of the war, not vice-versa.
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I agree with this. Removing cars and trucks would solve so many problems with our living areas. Removing burner cars and trucks would do 90% of it even if we didn't evict them from our living areas.
or even read the description below the video.
The video explains that the evaporation reduction was a side effect. The real reason is to reduce the level of cancerous Bromide down to safe levels, which could only reasonably be achieved by blocking sunlight from the water.

They tried a bunch of ideas for blocking the sun and settled on the balls as the best compromise between cost, effectiveness, and safety.

There are a couple of other benefits. They need far less chlorine to manage algae growth and it discourages waterfowl from taking up residence in the pool, also increasing water quality. They expect the balls to pay for about half of their cost over an expected 10 year lifetime from the savings in chlorine and evaporation.
> Jake Paul and others covertly pushing loot boxes

Least covert thing I've ever seen in my life.
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Thanks for sticking up for me there! I was on once a "Mac fanatic", so to speak... my perspective is not uninformed!
1. Reduce

2. Reuse

3. Recycle

In that order
I think this is a very important point. He doesn't fit in and humans love to ask one another about their lives. If you give non-standard answers, then you're seen as weird or a failure in life.
> but that cost pails to the money lost from these grounded fleets

They did not think - it'd ever happen. The shortcuts were taken for bringing 737 max quick to market.
True we gotta look on the bright side
I wasn't really familiar with these mystery boxes before commenting, apologies. That seems like pretty explicit gambling. So maybe gambling legislation could cover this? Which helpfully narrows the problem down for legislators to a specific thing targeting kids.

My only concern was harmless false positives getting flagged from over-eager "think of the children" type reactions to new things that are ill defined. So the narrower and more specific the better.
This would be nice, but both airlines and Boeing are too big to fail so it won’t happen.

Airlines need their airplanes, and if boeing would recompense them for the lost planes they’d be instantly out of business.

Conversely, the carriers cannot just write off a significant part of their fleet and buy new ones, which wouldn’t show up for years anyway.
> One of the first things I noticed is that almost everyone working for Microsoft had this perfect life???a spouse, kids, nice houses, good cars.

I'm continually surprised how often this kind of life is considered 'perfect'. Every item in this list adds more liability and commitment to your life which is something very few 20-somethings (including myself) have enough experience with to handle it let alone know it's what they enjoy.

Beyond financial security, investing time in what you actually want to do with your life and your own hobbies is going to be much more rewarding and important than nice cars and houses. Even kids can become just another status symbol intended to virtue signal to your class appropriate 'friends' that years latter downgrade to just peers and colleagues.

> Huge campus, nice cafeterias, woods, a pond, overwhelming space. Everything seemed great....

Ugh, this trend to make work environments indistinguishable from a university campus is just the latest trend to warm up new employees until their fully committed to the boiling sewage that is a life that is all work and ass kissing. You only have to remember that FAAMNGS are committed to their shareholders to know that for every dollar invested in their campus, they need two back from you.
Many previous HN discussions too: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Recycling%20points%3E50&sort=b...
I think to some extent the drama people find each other and only see other drama people so it seems like "everyone is doing it".

I was told by someone once about how much drama there was in our office... I was pretty sure we worked in the most boring office ever, but I finally figured out that a small group of people happened to find each other, conflict, immature decisions followed. It wasn't the office that was full of drama ...
Restated, is it possible to develop (eventually automated) ways to “drive people crazy”. Is it possible to use data and algorithms to manipulate someone into losing contact with reality, for instance, or trick them into manifesting schizophrenic symptoms
Anyone read it?

William Gibson: "No one except possibly the late John Brunner, in his brilliant novel "The Sheep Look Up," has ever described anything in science fiction that is remotely like the reality of 2007 as we know it. " (2007 interview)

https://web.archive.org/web/20110730132259/http://www.salon....
I'm sure this looks great on the designers 27" iMac but its another site that says absolutely nothing until I start scrolling.

https://i.imgur.com/ArcOx57.jpg

If I adjust my viewport to an even lower resolution (to match an iPad) it does manage to fit in the section headings.
It’s very expensive, but not nearly as expensive as losing all their 737 Max orders.
Is tech that’s deemed “obsolete” by outsiders “broken”?
I think it depends on the recycling system.. In the US and Canada I've found that you often mix all recyclables. The article mentions blue boxes collected from each household.

In Denmark I dump paper and glass into a separate containers, these are typically present around apartment buildings, or spread throughout residential areas. The containers are large and rarely emptied.

Collecting from each household sounds very expensive. As does sorting the recyclables (in particularly any manual sorting).
Probably the same psychology as any extreme sports star. A mix of loving the rush, thinking that it will never happen to you and balls.
I actually saw some of this first-hand at a previous consulting job. One of our contracts in Phoenix was rowdy with drinking and strip clubs, and one of my coworkers got busted for DUI and had to live in Sheriff Arpaio's tent city jail for many weeks of nights and weekends (he was on work release during the day!). He was probably our cheapest consultant at that point, since he wasn't billing hotels or dinners.

I'm at a FAANG now and it's very boring. Someone died at my office recently and some random uninformed online comment was trying to blame it on widespread Adderall abuse, which is so disconnected from how things actually are at the office.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19367916

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19511525
Almost certainly not. There is no way YouTube’s TOS do not protect them from that kind of claim. Even if the TOS had a hole in them, YouTube is not acting maliciously and is abiding by DMCA.
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If you don't mind me asking, what is the company ? I really need some expert advice/consultation.
I can't blame them.

It is the first big real world thing many of them do, their first real career job, and possibility the most important thing to them they've done to date... it's so easy to get wrapped up in that when a company steps in to fill in all the possible gaps in life.

If you don't know what else you'd fill your life with, it's easy to fill it completely with the first big deal that comes along.
frosted flakes mentioned pink noise; i recommend brown and/or grey noise. it really depends on the type of noise you're trying to counter, but these really helped me a lot with various types of road noise and lawnmower-style noise. pink, to my ears, is a bit thin/tinny, and doesn't assist much with my trigger points.
There's also a lot more understanding of the corporate and political culture against whistleblowers, so even engineers or managers with good morals would not risk the backlash of endless lawsuits or corporate shaming. We should add this to the list of contributing factors given that a few whistleblowers have only come forward after-the-fact.
My neighbors put up a 20 foot plus wide American flag. It’s absurdly loud. When it storms and gets wet, it’s all I can hear inside my house.

While I don’t think it’s the next public health crisis, it’s certainly a crisis for me. And no, there’s nothing I can do about it. Good luck getting a city official to take up that battle. I’ve been told that maybe I’m just more sensitive to noise than others, and that their sensors can’t pick up noises over wind.
What? You can't guarantee employment. You can guarantee death and taxes. Do the efficient thing: eliminate the vast welfare bureaucracy and simply pay basic income. While you're at it, eliminate a great deal of tax bureacracy and change to a flat tax on consumption.
Yeah, they say that, but when they get their non-refundable ticket and see it is in an 737 MAX. How many do you think will sue their airline claiming a refund?
I swear the quietest place to live is a pretty narrow street in a medium density urban neighborhood. All the buildings and trees really deaden the sound. When I lived in the boonies there was always a wood chipper going somewhere or barking dogs and nothing to break up the sound.
I'm not sure this is disagreeing with me. If a single central server/service is serializing and rebasing the edits, that is what I took the assertion to be.

Decentralized world be the clients communicating their edits to each other.

It can be confusing, as github is a centralized service for git, a decentralized protocol. So, much of the terminologies get blurred.
I believe if you burn garbage (including plastics) at high enough temperatures, most harmful gasses are also incinerated?

Tokyo burns a lot of rubbish in super high temperature furnaces and uses the waste heat for other purposes, from what I understand these incineration plans don’t release any significant harmful pollution (excerpt Co2 of course)
Or you could just buy oatmeal in 25kg bags :)

The hygiene and manpower implications of bring-your-container easily makes that complicated.

Maybe standardized containers could work. It would certainly be practical if all boxes had the same size :)
AC installed between houses that are close to each other are another menace that makes it hard to sleep if your bedroom is on the wrong side of house. It’s not even the noise level, as it is the vibration and low frequency hum that often has an annoying phase that makes it difficult to ignore. White noise helps a bit, but that only works for people who are okay with blasting white noise in their bedrooms. Same goes for swimming pool pumps. Most places don’t have good laws regarding constant noise levels (as opposed to laws that govern things like loud music at night).
Noise pollution is a real problem that affects your health. And most of it could be solved by engineering if the required laws were more strict.
This is the most well-informed comment about AMP I've ever read.

Disclosure: I work on AMP.
This business of single use stuff is seen as a symbol of progress in many 3rd world countries. Many restaurants offer bottled water and sachets of condiments rather than taking them out of a container. Many shops offer paper bags that are very flimsy but "biodegradable". I imagine that given the production costs of the paper, it's an overall loss.

Heavy consumerism does help the economy grow doesn't it? Which probably means that the incentives are misaligned and this whole mess is just going to increase.
I really don't know why I read what I just read.

There's a lot of red flags - going to clubs, going to burning man, having an affair, renting a penthouse apartment in freaking Seattle.

I'm not passing judgement on those who wanna live life to the fullest, but the failure of achieving the white picketed fence type of life she originally wanted to live is totally on her and not on Microsoft at all.
I am seriously excited for this to become available to chefs. There is a rampant issue in sushi with fish fraud and this would be a clean and ethical solution.
> The ‘crisis’ is kinda fabricated and a whole bunch of people make money off the fabricated crisis.

That’s exactly what many conservative voters suspect about climate change. They know they’ve been burned at least once over environmental issues.

Edit: I’m not promoting climate change denial. Just pointing out that it’s possible to hold that view in good faith.
The problem is when you profile for negative behavior based on characteristics that attract bigotry and prejudice. Whatever your motivation is, you're reinforcing the negative dynamic.

If there was an outbreak of aircraft hijacking among men with pierced noses it would probably not be too problematic to profile for it at least initially.
This is so true. The only recipe for learning language is the amount of time required. The rest is almost irrelevant. And knowing at least two languages, finding a time to learn new one close to impossible.

There is one thing in the article I disagree with: they suggest that there are no hard and easy languages. It is certainly false, for example, the huge difference between languages with an alphabet and without. In the first case, you just learn the alphabet and rules on how to read, and you can read the literature quite early. Latter wouldn't allow you to do that unless you learn almost all of the commonly used words. So learning Mandarin, Japanese, other similar languages is way harder than learning Korean or Vietnamese, while they are very similar by nature (there are even similar words in them).
Noise pollution is more immediate problem. Once your neighbor installs loud AC or swimming pool pump right next to you bedroom window and you cannot fall asleep at night, you won’t even last a week of sleep deprivation. I would say solving noise pollution is actually higher priority than all the other issues you listed.
I'm not totally embedded in the motorcycle lifestyle enough to give you a well written detail into the reasoning but I have been exposed to a lot of riders.

I'll say this. In numerous cases, loud motorcyclists do it for their SAFETY. Most motorists don't pay attention to a small vehicle, especially if it were quiet. Most motorists are listening to music or something else, so the road doesn't have their utmost attention. The LOUDness of their motorcycle jolts the unattended motorists that a tiny vehicle is nearby.

As for the excessively loud, etc, that's above my understanding.

Finally, your biggest defense against loud motorists (in your home) is double drywalled and good insulation in your home. It will become a lot quieter and you'll have energy efficiencies by doing so.
The sky at night. Is quite big and appears fairly regularly, you can't miss it.
Only the mylar ones, and the string.

Normal latex balloons are biodegradable.