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The problem when you say “just phase them out” is what to do with the trillions in outstanding obligations. For example, pension benefits are protected by the Illinois state constitution. You can imagine the process you’d need to construct and execute to fix pensions in Illinois, Cook County, and Chicago’s cases.

The unwinding is the terribly difficult part because the can keeps getting kicked down the road due to a combination of greed and incompetence. You need back pressure from financial markets to inhibit borrowing for what can never be paid back. Then the hard conversations are forced.
To say someone isn't cut out for remote work just because they can't make an annual work event is pretty crazy and allienating of people who could benefit from remote work the most. How could it possibly matter more than the hundereds of other days of the year where you have been actually working together and honing your processes and efficiency? You shouldn't be struggling to be a competent team before having a hugathon.

I love the idea of an annual face to face event, but none of the benefits I want from it are work related. They are opportunities to build friendships and have some fun with people I wouldn't mind knowing better.
They'd feed us sawdust if we'd pay for it. As a matter of fact, they used to try just that.
Little guys don't get to ride on the dmca fast track from what I understand.
These are largely not DMCA takedowns, they are ContentID claims. See https://www.eff.org/issues/intellectual-property/guide-to-yo... for details on the difference.
I can vouch that a personal crawler is useful - if a link goes away, I put it in an archive and update the link to The Wayback Machine. It's also nice to have a timestamp showing when the link was last available and the current "title" tag and meta description for the page (along with the original metadata on the date I linked the page.) It makes it easy to prune or correct broken links.
I always find these articles so weird. What’s next? Software to facilitate a 5 x 5 grid of people running Freiden calculators (a la Los Alamos)? I’m being snarky. In 1981 had access to a CPM system, and immediately bought a FORTRAN 4 compiler “Watfor” written at the Univ of Waterloo. A highly useful system. Wrote a program to design ring laser resonators. My first experience with “personal” computing.
Your point is completely valid. I wish I have that discipline to go over my bookmarks and read interesting items. Most times, I head over to HN and pick up more items for my reading-list than to go over my bookmarks.

This project should be helpful to people who aren't used to go over bookmarked links periodically unless encouraged to.
I like OpenAI and hope they succeed. But it's a bit ironic that the president of YC has become the CEO of a company that ignores YC's most hallowed slogan: "Make Something People Want". As far as I know, nobody's been clamoring for super-powerful language models or human-level DOTA bots.
Interesting?

Why would you say music is linked to language?

Chimps beat rhythmic tunes on logs. I reckon music predates language.

Birds have different songs for occasions. Mating etc.

Seems to me rhythm thus music comes before talking.

But I’m just like you, no expert in anthropology.
I understand both supporting a product long-term and selection bias. I also intend to be a long-term Googler, despite having been struck twice by leadership deciding my team no longer fits their picture, no matter the technical merit.

Also: you can get promoted for a cancelled project, unless you're at the level where keeping the VP from cancelling it is within your duties.
Not just jQuery... we had some crazy times with Dojo, MooTools, and so on. Closures and "this" being screwy (IMO) led to junior developers spending an insane amount of effort shoving things into DOM elements because it was a free global store that you could inspect and work with.

The VDOM is cool, but React (& co's) appeal is the streamlined development tooling, approaches, and ecosystem where there's a mostly agreed upon way to do things.

>I fondly remember the short period of time where we had post after post attempting to explain what a closure is, because for most of the authors back then the concept of a function pulling outside variables into its scope was utterly alien to us. Even now this practical meme persists[0].

My favorite was actually when we needed a groundswell movement to make people realize that $() wasn't a variable, but a function call, and for complex selectors (before querySelectorAll, when Sizzle was a far more complex beast) you really wanted to cache it. Or, getting people to stop attaching event handlers to every row in a 10k row table, and to just match the click to the row once.

It really does feel like people have forgotten just how rough the gap was back then.

For real though. I feel comfortable building something in VanillaJS... e.g, building up a fragment before shoving it into the DOM, architecting how updates are applied, etc. This is all stuff that was hard learned, and became easier the more I stepped outside JS later on. I would in no way want a junior trying to do this without learning the better practices found in React - _not_ because they need the crutch, but because I learned those some lifecycle methods and such from Cocoa/UIKit and you need a frame of reference to internalize it all.
I don't find any definition of free will as coherent, so I don't have any favorite one, but I don't see how the definition you proposed carries the common properties associated with free will, for an instance the list of properties mentioned at the beginning of the original article.
Yes. But there's a strong enough correlation for it to be beneficial. Most processed foods are processed to add sugars, fats, and sodium to make them more tasty, and to remove fiber to make them easier to eat.

You're right that a person shouldn't pre-judge a good based solely on its having been manufactured. But it's also true that someone who generally avoids processed foods will end up avoiding the most unhealthy foods available.
> Beef is pretty much as natural as it can come

It being natural doesn't have any bearing on how healthy it is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature
The question that popped into my head in a disturbing manner was whether beings on those planets could see ours.
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Should be a single time decision made at the end of employment
Surely the incentive of this supposedly big asprin industry would be to prove asprin is safe?
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I don't understand your point? Men perform better than women in climbing too.
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I know this is a negative comment, but this whole thing smacks of a weird form of entitlement. Here's this dude making money by putting videos on the internet, and when his videos go away, he's outraged. But if you look at it another way, his living is based on a platform which provides him no guarantee of service, no support, and is also free of charge. His whole job is to generate attention for a platform that mines that attention for ad dollars, of which he gets a few pennies for his trouble. Even if this is his dream job, the risk he's taking is high.

Rather than continue to feed this completely one-sided relationship, these creators could shift to a competitor that will provide an equitable relationship between platform, creator, and consumer. A company that will treat both creators and users as important customers. This could be a gateway to a producing other kinds of content, like professionally produced movies and series for first-time filmmakers. Sort of like Netflix, but for lower-budget content.
Beautifully written post.
A buddy of mine worked with a woman who always bullied people into doing her work. She worked there for quite a lot of years, and always pulled the racial card when confronted. She pulled every trick in the book to avoid reprimand of any kind.

Eventually everyone realized how counter-productive she was, so they moved her to a site where she had to work completely alone. Nobody to bully, and nobody to do her work for her.

She lasted 2 weeks before quitting.
but there's nothing wrong with pushing for that
Because Angular wasn't the first? Angular 1.0 also left an eternally bad taste in many peoples mouths.
I wonder if remote work is a good thing for a Deaf developer. Do people who work remote sometimes need to make important phone calls, for example?
I think AIs will be good at deciphering things like this. They can wear a text like this as a pair of glasses and wander a virtual Earth, read other texts, time travel, and wait millions of man-years for a single affordance.

The same work an amateur anthropologist does, but with more patience and better scrapbooking skills, basically.

Although by the time AIs exist that can do this, amateur anthropologists will have much better digital tools as well.
And, to add to this (I'm not being snarky), he could be the father/grandfather of many HNers. I recall one of his comments about how he was doing stuff on computers in 1965.

We need more old coders around!
I imagine similarly could be done on any old computer? (Amiga, etc?)
While the fundamental cultural thing you describe rings true, it applies at a level way too low to make this kind of decisions. Which, I presume, would also be the level of Googlers likely to frequent HN, like yours truly. Big product decisions are the scope of execs, who are governed by a completely separate set of rules.
Throwaway account: the "civil war" is from a bunch of self-aggrandizing assholes. Yes there have been some big stunts (e.g. the walk out), but on the whole this counts for nothing for the rank and file employees that I know and work with.

About as far as most people o work with go in terms of "civil war" is changing their profile picture to say "no to retaliation" which is so vapid and pathetic it's not even worth doing.
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Sure... but also while you're sitting there doing challenging problems, mix them up... rather than just doing trig problems, alternate a bit of trig with bit of square equations, etc. That way you'll tire less quickly and retain more. That's what this article is about, not that there's a better method than sitting and doing challenging exercises.
Open world games and resource gathering shouldn't feel like a grind. There are plenty of ways to make resource gathering more fun than just making tiers of resources. Minecraft is a good example where instead of making the grind slower, it gets faster and with more variety as you progress in the game. That in turns allows you to build and do more stuff than before.
I just tried it at White Castle for $1.99. I liked it! It was better than the $0.99 White Castle burger. This is coming from an unrepentant carnivore, but I’d have thought it was meat if I didn’t know better.

So if you’d like to “sample” the Impossible Burger, White Castle might be the way to go, provided you have one locally. If not, Burger King might be your next best bet.
As an 8 or 9 year old boy, I spent an afternoon calling out an interminable list of numbers for my Dad to enter into DATA statements in a BASIC program on our ZX Spectrum to turn it into a terminal emulator by means of a hex loader. Once we'd entered it (correctly - we ended up making a few inevitable errors along the way) and saved it(!) to tape, we hooked up our phone to an acoustic coupler* and Dad spent a few minutes connected to the university mainframe.

* This (exact) one: http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/37926/Moore-Reed-TC-3...
>Has the same issue as Pascal's.

I get the feeling that some people (maybe not this commenter) are missing the point I'm making.

Yes, Pascal's wager is flawed - which is why I'm modeling the Altman's wager after it.

I thought I had made the wording and respective payoff statements sufficiently tongue-in-cheek, but I guess this is Poe's law biting back.
That doesn't make sense for the unambiguous cases of copyright violation. The copyright holder never agreed for the content to be monetized by Google and under their terms. Google can't just make up some revenue sharing policy and act like that's the law.

The content owner should be able to negotiate a rate with Google or choose not to, not have to be forcibly entered into it.
A web browser has a full compiler/interperter available. JavaScript isn't the best language in the world, but in context, these simple BASICs derived from Dartmouth BASIC were so crappy that Dijkstra said

> It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

and wrote Go-to Considered Harmful talking about BASIC.

ie. it's not a high bar we're trying to reach here.
Basically me in AP Calc the whole year long.
Has nothing todo with a processor. It's all about what the cool stuff you _can_ do is. Minecraft, YouTube, Instagram, who needs BASIC?

It's not about programming, it's about doing cool stuff. In 8bit era that meant programming. Even if you wanted to do grafx or sound you ended up programming the box.

Nineteenseventies Unix or Plan9 are cool, you can program on them. The iPhone is cooler, you can do movies and stuff.

Here is another vector: compared to the software you could buy back then, the things you could do in your spare time programming were more oftne than not cooler or at least comparably cool. To make a better version of any on single app that comes preinstalled with your Mac is not something you just do.

So, why should anyone be interested in learning to program in the first place?
Even though the components of plumbing itself tend to be just dumb plastic, a lot of engineering effort goes into designing them and how to lay them out. I wouldn’t call it low-tech.
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> Tea is generally even hotter. Any good tea shop will serve a pot of freshly boiled water, at least twenty degrees hotter than hot coffee.

Depends on the tea. Most of the recommendations I see are below boiling:

> white and green teas are best at 70°c. For black and oolong teas use water around 85°c. For herbal infusions use 100°c water, and 90°c for Chamomile.

https://www.rareteacompany.com/perfect-cup/how-to-make-the-p...

> Once your kettle is boiled with fresh water you need to leave it for a few minutes to cool down.

https://www.twinings.co.uk/about-twinings/latest-news-and-ar...
I don't think so: neither of those tools sign the message with the same RSA keypair. sshenc.sh for example does not sign the message whatsoever. An attacker could just intercept a ciphertext, drop it, encrypt a different message and send that.

Those tools are not meant for sender authentication. If you want that you would have to first share the senders pubkey with the recipient, and sign your message with the corresponding privkey.
I meant, they are alternatives for Apple to consider, instead of reinventing the wheel on a cross architecture IR. Of course they won't help current Mac apps that don't have IR in those formats
Not the same way, but this is a thread I stumbled upon the other day:

https://www.reddit.com/r/fakehistoryporn/comments/bm2ek3/the...

Instead of "active censorship", history gets rewritten much like our own memories, after all: we tend to keep the ones (or the viewpoints) we are more comfortable with. I don't even think there is a need for a concerted effort.
More like "pathetic".
That can be a burden in itself though. The size of the OS and even the processors we use can't be shrunk down because of all of that backwards compatibility. It's some what if an anchor / technical debt in itself.
I am bound by a non-compete agreement, but until a few months ago, I didn’t remember that I had signed it. At that time, I received an offer for much more money and more responsibility from a competitor. However, a close friend and co-worker reminded me about the agreement when I told him I was mulling the offer.

Ultimately, I decided I didn’t want to risk asking my manager for a release, and I certainly didn’t want to violate an enforceable non-compete without the blessing of my employer. So I scuttled the move.

I was disappointed, but I hold nothing against my employer or against the laws of NY. They hid nothing from me when I accepted the offer, and the noncompete was very limited in scope (geography, industry, and duration). If I had left for the competitor, I would have brought a lot of knowledge that I gained as a result of my position in the company. Not legally protected IP, mind you, but still valuable technical know-how and information about our customers’ biggest problems and the trade offs of various solutions. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to allow organizations to protect that kind of information.

Edit to add that I don’t believe all non-compete agreements are reasonable. Just that I think it’s misguided to ban them wholesale.
In English, please?
I remember buying Computer Shopper specifically because it was a giant tome of ads. Whenever it was time to upgrade I poured through it looking for the best deal and ogling all the cool stuff I couldn't justify buying.

Now that I think of it, it's sorta weird that despite ads being such an omnipresent nuisance these days there's not a website equivalent of that today.
Currently we're experimenting with namespacing per "ownership" of that namespace.

For instance, if the interactor is in charge of onboarding a new account, we have it under something like this:

Account::SetupOnboarding

Note that we also have an Account model here and so anything namespaced under it will be assumed to take place in that context.
Why not have a DNA test to determine ethnicity for college admissions?
They are rating the chances of default. The bond purchasers will be paid, one way or another. Privatize the parking meters (like Chicago already did), the roads, the water utilities, etc. It's the people who live there that will pay for the deficit via increased taxes and fewer services.
It’s obviously going to depend on the person, and how deaf they are, but I’ve seen things like Google Meet’s new automatic subtitling making it easier to participate in meetings for someone who’s hard of hearing than it would be in person.
The "bubble" is called reality; I elaborated on my point with detailed reasoning and all you've done is throw around insults like a troll. No point in continuing this discussion any further. Have a nice day.
The 'content owner' can always choose to opt out and file DMCA requests instead of using ContentID, though. If they don't like Google's system... They don't have to use it.

But of course that just means that things get taken down - and no revenue goes to the claimant. Great for protecting your copyright, good for trolling, really shitty for extracting money from the works of others.
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Nothing. Personally, I am against trade with Saudi Arabia.

As for Israel, I am sympathetic to a small, democratic nation populated by the descendants of a western genocide, which is surrounded by hostile autocratic or theocratic neighbors.
However that’s my opinion. If Israel’s existence is somehow against your ethics, I won’t force you to trade with them. I would just criticize you more directly.
All the CL people I've worked with have been amiable. Though, I suppose you could say: what high-powered hacker wouldn't be in a good mood, if they were getting paid to hack Lisp.

I don't recall any curmudgeon behavior in-person, but a bit "critical" is often a useful role for an engineer to play, if they can back it up and discuss. A useful mode of engineering discussion involves people making assertions, thinking aloud, and being challenged, and together you improve the ideas and generate new ideas. Sometimes it's appropriate to suddenly look at each other and start jumping up and down and shouting, like you're in a movie, because you've just hit on a solution that has passed your preliminary tests of critical thinking. If you're jumping up and down all the time, I suppose that could turn into incestuous amplification.

The Scheme and Racket communities are also good. I've spent the most time in Racket, and have a few ideas about why the community is good:

* The original professor (Matthias Felleisen) and grad students were solid PL people who were interested in making CS education more accessible, which seems like a pursuit that would value nurturing and accessibility.[1] When some of the grad students also became professors working with Racket, they kept up accessibility, such as in the main forum (`racket-users` email list / Google Group). (`racket-users` seems to implicitly coordinate, with community members, including the professors, responding to most any question.)

* This will sound a bit cynical or funny, but I've seen it change other language communities before: one thing that helps the community be good is that there's no money in it. (Once there's money happening, you'll get more of less-desirable behavior from some individuals and groups: promotion of personal brands, posturing and jockeying for the opportunities, SEO games and huge amounts of Web search hit noise from that, marketing puffery rather than engineering straight-talk, non-sharing, sometimes commercial landgrab games with the platform itself, sunny-sociopath workplace cultures, etc. Not that a community can't be great even when there's money involved, but "really, there's no money in this -- it's only for the merits and community" seems to scare away a lot of behavior, and the people who are attracted anyway set a tone.)[2]

* Racket is one of those tools that many hackers really like to use, and people generally have good morale when using it.

[1] You also saw this with the SICP professors, who are some of the best-regarded.

[2] Not that I haven't tried to promote commercial use of Racket, despite fear of spoiling a good thing. One of my attempts, I tried to do it while shaking up some usual expectations/modes: https://www.neilvandyke.org/racket-money/
Unbelievable public-relations megacorporation bullshit full of clichés and topical weasel words. Really google, if this is you hearing people, I prefer talking to the European Parliament.

At least they do jot hide their politics.
As someone who currently eats meat but constantly wonders whether it is ethical (particularly for an animal like a pig, which is more intelligent than most house pets), this sort of food based research is fantastic.

I think once we have something that tastes as good as traditional meat, most of the population would have no hesitation switching over to substitutes (something like Iberian ham might be a bit difficult to duplicate though...)
Why not use a SHA256 (or SHA512) then?
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As a remote worker, I think some sort of in-person gathering is pretty crucial. We have plenty of video chats and whatnot, but nothing quite replaces the experience of meeting someone in person. Obviously doesn't need to be super frequent, but especially when you're a small company (which many fully-remote places tend to be), it really helps you feel more connected to your co-workers.