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> You're being obtuse.

Please edit personal swipes out of your comments here. Your comment would be just fine and much better without that bit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If you made decisions based off of precision at some point in time, then you’re right. You’ve “baked” into the number some aspect about a precision decision you’ve previously made. That doesn’t invalidate the number, as it reflects precisely the number you asked for, it just means you’re expressing your computation in a dubious manner.

Sometimes it’s unavoidable though, such as when checking equality where you have to call it quits at some point at some precision.
FTA: Here’s how to do it:

Relax the muscles in your face, including tongue, jaw and the muscles around the eyes

Drop your shoulders as far down as they’ll go, followed by your upper and lower arm, one side at a time

Breathe out, relaxing your chest followed by your legs, starting from the thighs and working down

You should then spend 10 seconds trying to clear your mind before thinking about one of the three following images:

You’re lying in a canoe on a calm lake with nothing but a clear blue sky above you

You’re lying in a black velvet hammock in a pitch-black room

You say “don’t think, don’t think, don’t think” to yourself over and over for about 10 seconds.

The technique is said to work for 96 per cent of people after six weeks of practice.
"You are required to be totally compliant with what (leaders of) society demand, on pain of really bad stuff."

Or: a system where [people, as distinct from bureaucracy, hostile memeplexes, corporations, etc] have virtually no authority and [bureaucracy et/vel al] wields absolute control of every aspect of the country, socially, financially and politically.
This is probably silly, but I've been wondering if IE 11 tracks me the least while providing clickable internet text. It just needs uBlock Origin and a Linux port... maybe?
I remember this idea brought to the logical extreme (though I don't remember author's name).

A character gets born, lives, dies, repeatedly, in different circumstances. At one.moment he manages to remember something that a being from outside time tells him between incarnations, in "limbo" / "bardo" type of setting.

All the people in the world is that same character, only transpoted in time. All the worst villains he faces are himself, all the best saints he meets are his (future) selves. This world is entirely by him.
A hand full of aces... the Rule4 story
Amazon Game Studios lays off employees during E3
I find it highly applicable when you're approaching a new domain or skill you're not proficient or even familiar with, or when handling complex systems that you shouldn't mindlessly touch without forethought.

You don't deal with those by just winging it, there's a deliberate process you apply to get yourself into these things, and more often than not, these deliberate processes are not your state-of-flow stuff (e.g. heavy research on a subject matter, writing documentation before working on a large feature, etc.)
Please now explain why exploding nuclear bombs to mass murder civilians were really necessary and also why it was necessary as a demonstration of power instead of doing something like exploding Mount Fuji.
It’s fundamentally the long-tail problem coupled with the low bandwidth nature of message boards. In real life, pretty much everyone you meet is kidding, and the whackos usually send many additional red flags. On 4chan, you collect the more extreme humor, plus the nuts, minus the additional information that you would use to distinguish them in real life.

The internet has in some ways damaged my sense of humor: I’m so much more prone to taking people’s extreme comments at face value than I used to be, because at some point, the Internet has introduced me to a more extreme view genuinely espoused.
She’s the only kid on the island. And she’s graduating
> Going to keep saying it under every post that is relevant

Please don't. We're optimizing for intellectual curiosity here, and there's none of that left when a statement becomes so predictable.

If you think of the threads like conversations, this might make more sense. Nobody likes it when someone repeats the same thing over and over in every conversation. It doesn't matter how right you are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Doesn't every creative endeavor require some technical proficiency? This advice is about how to most efficiently acquire that proficiency. Until you do that your creativity will be constrained. As Clark Terry said: "Imitate, assimilate, and innovate."
The jokesterism is in response to a joke world. There are innumerable numbers of murders each year but somehow a spree killing is enough to slay irony? 9/11 wasn't enough to slay irony. The reaction to it excaberbated the ironic mode of moderm culture.
Agreed. I simply do not believe they practiced less.

I know a couple technical folks who are smoking good at their instruments, and basically said:

"Look, I spent time in <strong musical program> as an undergraduate. One group "has it"--they're the elite. I'm in the second group. I'm practicing my ass off, and I'm not deaf. I'm gaining some ground on the best in the second group, but it's REALLY slow as they're practicing their ass off, too. Maybe I can reach the bottom of the elite group after 4 years. Maybe."

"Or I can get a CS degree. And still play my instrument. And get amazing gigs simply because I am more than good enough and am always available when a cool gig comes up since I don't have to worry about money."
Your argument doesn't say anything about GPL not always working that way. It just says that MIT license may work that way too, if noone else will make any useful closed modifications. Which is actually an uninteresting case.
The article you link to is of someone who committed suicide and was considered to be a serial killer who executed his family. The article doesn't mention kidney sales, in fact a search of the text for the term "kidney" yields no hits.
Oddly, I think Trump is ready to throw the next election, and could take it or leave it. It seems likely that he's deeply motivated to eschew war, especially considering the perspective that he avoided military service via bone spurs or "feet" or whatever it was. I don't think he fancies the martial aspect of the oval office.

It's really weird when you think about it from that angle.

He probably doesn't want war, but branches of the pentagon, advisors and DoD/spook corporations are trying to crack open the gates.

He probably would happily lose the re-election, but his idiotic NASCAR-watching political base is going to rail against opposing candidates and shoe horn him back into a second term.

I don't sympathize, but I really do think Trump is probably over it, in a "been there, done that" sense.
Low unemployment rate is another great predictor of a recession, as it's a sign of misallocation of capital. It's a good thing and bad thing at the same time.
Fitbit is a good example of an app that requires permanent Bluetooth access, but a terrible example of a company likely to sell user data. Fitbit's users are its customers, and are the source of $1.5 billion per year in revenue. Any money gained from selling that data would be miniscule in comparison, and would put the main revenue stream at risk by alienating customers.

I work for but don't speak for Fitbit.
Something a bit like this is practiced by NYC subway conductors: https://youtu.be/i9jIsxQNz0M
This could be resumed as "ML and AI are just tools, know when/how to use and be fine".

The AI hype takes for granted that you don't need to organize your data, not even understand it, just add another layer and things will happen by themselves. Dealing with this kind of expectation is hard...
I'm probably a stronger believer in this than most, which is why it was easy for me to follow the evidence for our narrow case where it led. But you only need a weaker form of this to explain the experience I had recruiting at that company.

All it takes to be a good engineer at the lower levels is a sufficiently high IQ/creative problem-solving ability. Put someone like that under the mentorship of someone who's learned good engineering habits and (barring severe behavioral problems), you'll have a pretty great junior engineer in a few months.

Otoh,Experience and other habits and knowledge do become more relevant at higher levels, only because the responsibilities of the job shift and grow, such that you can do a lot more damage in the "learn by exploration" period of becoming good at something by just being really intelligent and learning on the job.

I currently work with a bunch of physics and math and CS PhDs, people who are likely as intelligent as I am or more, but I'm a lot more equipped for our job because I'm applying that intelligence in the context of understanding how engineering systems work, at both a technical and personal level. There are tons of engineering habits that are second nature to me that never occur to them; if they shadowed me closely and I dedicated time to explaining the reason I do every little thing I do, then they'd pick up those habits in the same way junior engineers do.

That is to say, as one would expect, the relative supremacy of IQ over other skills like conscientiousness (or yes, experience) diminishes at the higher levels. Everyone I work with would be considered "really smart" by any reasonable measure, but it's not purely the smartest who are the most effective anymore, the way it was when we were entry level.
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I'm surprised ____________ is on HN's front page.

Just don't be and read something else then.
I'll bet it was very mucous-like. very.

(and it is actually quite amazing when you think about it)
I think I see where you're hung up. If I change it to:

x = 1e20 + 1 - 1e20
y = 1e20 - 1e20 + 1
assert x == y

There is only 1 digit, and it's wrong. You don't even need 6-8. I probably should've used this as my example in the first place.
In practice, you get guarantees “up to precision”. This is totally reasonable. If you’re doubtful, you can either prove theorems, or bump up the precision.

In general this works well.
If you can learn one easy piece every day for the next three years, that's over 1000 pieces. If you start small with Bach and play his easiest compositions and play even 1 page per day, in not time flat you'll be playing the entire WTC or art of the Fugue. Obviously, this advice does not suit raw beginners but the "advanced" players I hear struggling with Beethoven and sounding bad, this is exactly the advice I'd give. I'd tell them to play all the easiest Beethoven pieces, pick lots of Haydn. Maybe bring a handfull of these pieces to performance quality but to absolutely be able to play them ALL at least acceptably. Struggling is a bad policy. It leads to stiff unnatural technique. Also, things like trills don't need to be fast. Play trills musically. leave ornaments out the first day when playing a new piece. Add a few in at a time. Make everything sing and dance at the piano. You should NOT be struggling too hard on anything. Also, I can play all 32 Beethoven sonatas but I haven't played op 106 or op 111 in front of an audience. It isn't necessary to do so. I play all the Chopin etudes... at home for myself, to build my chops. It isn't spectacular, but I play them pretty good. Save your best for audiences and only things that are very comfortable. Scarlatti composed 555 sonatas. There is more than enough there to keep me busy and you should you take up my "method".
Not sure about yelling but I did indeed direct the inquiry to the wrong party. My apologies for this mistake.
> So commercial software shops tend to build on MIT, BSD or Apache licensed stuff.

That's just not true in this generality. If you do custom commercial software for a customer's own use, using GPL code can work perfectly fine. The customer pays for the development work and gets the code under GPL. The customer in such cases often will get the source anyway, and it really doesn't matter whether it's GPL or proprietary.

> Consequently, I think that the elephant in the room is that, typically, when people complain that there's something akin to a moral obligation to use GPL, what it's really about is fears that someone might make more money than they think is seemly by shipping closed-source software that relies on open-source components.

As for myself, that is just not correct, and I don't really think it's a common sentiment. I care about my own and others' freedom to control their own computers and data. If you use my GPL code to make money, good for you.

> That statement tacitly denies the existence of freelance software developers, by implying that all programmers are working for another company for some sort of salary or wage, and don't ever individually own code themselves. Which isn't quite true, and subtly frames things in a way that strips developers of their moral agency.

Well, yeah, it's not quite true, but largely, it is, including for freelance developers. If you work on a customer's proprietary software project as a consultant or whatever, you normally don't get to keep the copyright either. You get paid whatever price was agreed upon and the customer gets to own the code.

Yes, if you do independent software development and you only licence your proprietary software to your customers, then the above does not apply to you.
> "What that [making yourself a quiz] forces you to do," Adam says, "is practice retrieving the information, which makes it stickier and easier to find yourself."

The same is true for flashcards where it is the process of creating them that helps remember the information. I have noticed when I don't create the flashcards I use, the information is not remembered as well.
There is no one-size fits all, you should use the license that best suits the product you have, as well as the ecosystem in which you're releasing it. See the EFF's documentation on this:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-recommendations.html
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html
Alt-right is a term devoid of meaning, it has been abused so badly and so often. No one can agree on what it means, so it cannot be parsed as anything more than "those people I don't like, who entertain bad thoughts."
Expect to see more of it.

With national elections looming in the US, perception of the economy is of strategic importance.

Sad to say, maintaining a strong economy does not transcend politics. Expect leading headlines from both directions.
That’s the US poverty line for a single person. It can be done. It’s not comfy, but it can be done.
Side note: I just launched a web app for offsetting the emissions you havent been able to reduce— I’d love to hear what you think of it projectwren.com

Email is in profile if you have feedback, the goal is to get more people involved with reversing climate change
If anybody catches the titular moment, drop the time index here, please.
Yes, but the case is wildly overstated. You don't get to be Bukowski or Palahniuk by reciting Shakespeare over and over.

EDIT: Or to put it in the article's own terms, is there any reason to believe the top piano student at the university is doing better creative work than those other students who were playing their songs start to finish? For all we know they were composition majors, and they'd already achieved the technical proficiency they needed to express themselves creatively. The kind of practice advocated in the post is very narrowly focused on very specific technical excellence that's way past the minimum you need for creative expression.
I didn't see anything in your message above indicating you were restricting yourself to integers.
> "In advanced industrial societies, Marcuse says that the unit of production is totalitarian in without it determines the activities, attitudes and skills involved in social life."

Interesting thread, and worthwhile commentary, mostly improved by your post -- but this one sentence is kind of a trainwreck. By "without" did you mean "that"?
I have been using https://getawair.com/ (2nd edition) for over 6 months and I can't recommend it enough.
>How do you know?

Two ways :

1) Staggeringly rare real-world events are reported frequently -- so a good number of them, by virtue of their rarity in real life, must be false. There are daily threats of wide-scale violence, but only a very small percentage of these threats turn into a real event.

2) The impossible is often reported. These comments can be thrown away at face value by most people -- besides maybe the most dedicated 'researchers' (Alien abduction, magic , general occultism woo).

Now, if you're asking 'How do you know which threats are false?', that's a much more difficult question, and i'd be surprised if there was a generalizable 'answer', aside from full-on mind-reading.
The memory palace technique is amazing and works wonders for me. However, I do mine a little differently where I imagine all the things I have to remember interacting with each other. I will have to try the landmark strategy though.
Taking pride in building solutions that are looking for a problems to solve.
So you thoroughly agree with the parent comment, but add the disclaimer that the line between joke and sincerity is blurry.

It is, therefore, unclear, what exactly, your point is.

Do you agree, or disagree? Is it a reasonable assessment to both agree and disagree?
> did actually happen...therefore...likely.

That's not how likelihood works.
> I can quickly scan down to around the low double-digits to see deeper stories of interest to fewer readers

That sounds cool. Can you give some examples of interesting stories that you found this way, which you wouldn't have found otherwise.
Yeah I spent a really long time in the Computer History Museum and would definitely recommend a few hours for it. Extremely interesting
Do the LGPL and similar weak copyleft licenses not satisfy this goal?

As long as the company publishes any modifications to the library itself, they are free to use it, whether or not they open source their project.
Post author here, let me know if you have any questions! I think the ESP8266 can also get other devices online, but haven't tried it.
Ah, I see that I misbound that pesky "all". Sorry! But the point is more or less the same. Actually, let me reply to all your points.

HN isn't less tech-oriented now than it used to be. The mix of topics fluctuates, but within a stable range which has been about the same since pg renamed Startup News to Hacker News 12 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html. That announcement is where this language originated: "That includes a lot more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." Anyone who's read the HN guidelines should recognize that.

We've put a ton of effort into countering wares-pushing. If you think you see a story that is only on HN's front page because "journalists, NGOs, PR, foreign actors, think tanks, etc" are sneaking it in, you should let us know right away at hn@ycombinator.com.

I don't know if we count as "techies" in your book but if there's one thing I'm sure we're not, it's "agenda driven media people".

If "most of the interesting stuff has no traction or discussion", you could help out a lot by upvoting it. That's at least an easier problem to solve than interesting things not getting submitted in the first place.
I think the whole thing is asinine. Just wondering what the rules are this week.
How would that solve the problem of dangerous bacteria in some people's donations?

The free market version of solving this problem is counting on some transplant places to do adequate testing of donations. The ones that don't will accidentally kill more people, and presumably they'll lose business over it, and eventually they'll be forced out of the market - maybe.
* * * Spoiler Alert * * *

The article is pointless. It starts out a fun read, but leads to nothing of value. Save your time!
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Ask HN: Rust – does it get better?
I've started learning Rust in my spare time. Like most people, it's been an uphill struggle getting used to thinking in terms of ownership and borrowing.

Obviously this will get better with time. What I'm wondering is, how much? Once you really master the borrow checker, are you able to move as fast in Rust as you can in other languages, or is there always overhead in the form of added concerns to think about and work through? Does borrowing become second-nature, or does it remain a tradeoff?
Another nonsense article by the leftist busybodies from the NYT.

1) YouTube has the right to incentivize whatever they want.
It's their property and they can do as they please. Get over it.

2) Parents, not YouTube, are responsible for what their underage children do. If I incentivize you to eat dirt, is it my fault if you eat dirt? Or your own, because you decided to do it?

This is the same idiotic line of reasoning that tries to blame YouTube for "radicalizing" terrorist-wannabies.

Stop minding other people's business, busybodies!
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> common sense.

Isn't as common as one might think.

> So do you think those people are truly encouraging a murder?

In the general sense, probably not. I'm willing to bet at least some of them are serious some of the time.

> It's just part of what 4chan does...

By that logic, walking in to a synagogue and unloading a clip is just part of what online forums do.

Is that an argument you're prepared to make?
There will be a concerted effort to tank the economy before the second half of 2020, I would be willing to take bets on it, particularly if the extended faffing about in the wake of the Mueller report's failure yields nothing and Democratic candidates continue to be this underwhelming.
Those merits, in the context of diverse perspective, are not debatable.

Sans that perspective?

It's just as bad as any singular perspective. People end up partially informed, and that has clear impact on society.

Now, I was not going to mention political parties. That was not germane to my argument.

Since you opened the door:

FT, specifically supports neoliberal economics, which has had a sustained, and negative impact on labor. And that is a clear bandwagon.

Thus, my comment on diverse perspective. Dry and boring, frankly, is ignoring the state of the nation, and world, and that's a general disservice to a majority who inhabit it.

NOBODY in media today is above the fray. Nobody.
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> It enriches everyone

Well, except the users.

Say EvilCompany takes the code, puts in in their buggy operating system, distributes it under a commercial license, and then you end up being prevented from fixing the code that you wrote.

Because that’s what happened to RMS, and that’s why we have the GPL.

It’s freedom; not for the author, and it’s not freedom for the developers or the vendors, it’s freedom for the users.
Why not? At least the ones that cheered the shooter on should be put on a watchlist, since there is good reason to believe that one of them might one day attempt something similar.
NYC lost it’s crown as the loneliest city!!
So many people saying they have degrees and cannot pay the debt used to acquire it.

Making degrees cheaper to get will not be the answer. That'll just lead to even more degree holders looking for the elusive job.

Perhaps paying skilled labor / trades better is the right direction.
Public in state
You think they care about patents?
Cllickbait witholds information to make you click. This headline is clickbait because it witholds information. "To fix a drowned phone, soak it in isopropyl" is better because it's a summary and conveys information.
Nice. I'm going to look for some ways to apply this tomorrow.

I hope we see more articles like this.