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Almost every company that I've worked for didn't actually value hard work or excellence. I think the only one I worked for that did was a model shop that built music boxes, since you can't build pieces of shit that don't work and expect your customer to come back to you.

Organizations don't tend to care about excellence because, when they have reached an appreciable size, hard work and innovation become threats to the cash cow that they've built. Making things more efficient can make other people's jobs obsolete, and by working hard, you might actually get too much work done and also threaten other people's jobs. If nobody is overtly threatened by you, hard work still probably won't benefit you because the pipeline of work will never end; if you get all your work done early, there's always more work to be done. Does this mean you'll get paid more for doing more work? A lot of the time, no. Some people get lucky, but don't count on getting a reasonable bonus or any kind of recognition.

I don't think there's anything wrong with this, by the way. It can make sense not to rock the boat when the cash keeps flowing. But typical company rhetoric and outdated advice from older generations are still convincing some people that being a "better worker" will advance them.

Hard work isn't everything, as lots of successful people were in the right place at the right time. I'm not just talking about multi-billionaires like Mark Cuban(who got lucky IMO), but I've known many executives in relatively small companies who got to where they were because they were either around since the beginning or knew someone else who recommended them for a position. Being executive is a difficult job and requires making difficult choices, but they don't necessarily ever work harder than people in other careers. More than likely, it's the quality of choices they made throughout their life that got them where they are. I'm not trying to say that working hard doesn't have a role, or that people should be lazy, but it's a smaller piece of the pie than many people think.

I really feel sorry for the people in my life whom I know work extremely hard and work more hours. They're not getting paid more, usually. If they worked less and spent the excess time coming up with other ways to make money, they might be in better positions in the long run; perhaps better than depending completely on employers and hoping that their 401k is going to allow them to retire comfortably.
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The problem is they pass them out like candy and seem to assure you it's totally okay, but we have no idea what it's actually doing to us.

I personally find sleep, exercise and sunlight does far more. However I also understand not everyone is like me. Still, it's kind of crazy.
Interesting! It's these little tidbits of information that are so valuable.

ETFs are the only thing I was interested in. And I didn't know that PFICs were a problem at all. I also wasn't aware of the restrictions that International Brokers place on some accounts.

This sort of information is really difficult to get.
I think common sales strategies are just as bad as unsolicited flirtatious behavior that annoys many women around the world. Perhaps we can make them illegal on similar grounds.

Whether you're going after my money or after my body does not seem like a fundamental difference, really.
Hey, we are a startup in Germany. When are you going to come to Germany/Europe?
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Alt mode is a term used by USB to describe a USB port than can carry non USB signals (i.e. the alternate operating modes beyond USB). It's been around a while and has nothing to do with this announcement.
Many expats do not have a US address and can't reasonably pretend that they "reside" in the US. (the whole concept of "residence" is from the stone ages, but I digress)
> GTK+3 gives you touch-sized controls anyway, even on mouse/keyboard-only systems

Which is my biggest (in both interpretations) issue with Gtk3: Gtk2 already had oversized controls compared to Windows that wasted a lot of screen space, but Gtk3 took it to another level.

> it works quite well

All UIs that use Gtk3 i've experienced suck to the point where i try to avoid anything that uses that toolkit. I saw that Geany -the editor i mostly use when on Linux - switched to Gtk3 and i fear for the moment it'll drop on Debian. I have a Debian VM with everything i need preinstalled, just in case, but this is a stopgap solution - i'll need to find some other editor. I'm not a fan of Qt but i think Qt5 applications can be made to not waste as much space as Gtk3.

Or i can go back to NEdit. The main things i'll miss is a sidebar to browse the files from and some sort of toolbar to launch stuff from.

> They were striving to be "touch-ready" from the very beginning, and managed it quite well.

Where "quite well" really means "made it worse for desktop only, keyboard and mouse only users".

Gtk3 is a disaster. Gtk2 was the last decent version and that was mainly because everyone had agreed to target it as a de-facto standard for Linux GUI applications, otherwise it had several issues itself. Of course the Gtk3 devs shat the bed (i'm not even sure if the Gtk3 devs are the same people as the Gtk2 devs, i cannot imagine the same people making such awful decisions) by breaking backwards compatibility, breaking theming, forcing smartphone interaction on everything in an attempt to mimic Apple's success with iPhone as if people with iPhones would suddenly switch to Gnome because of its oversized buttons, huge icons and boulevard-wide gaps between everything.

If you cannot tell, i don't like Gtk3 or Gnome3 or anything associated with freedesktop.org (mainly because most of it comes either from Gnome people or people who design things like Gnome). I'd be on the KDE bandwagon but their reliance on Qt means they rely on the whims of a corporation whose primary interest is not in maintaining a stable desktop environment API but on providing a toolkit for whoever pays them (which is fine for Qt, but breaking changes sucks for a platform like KDE). And it isn't like they're free from freedesktop.org infestation either.

Perhaps adding theme support to Motif will be what saves us all.
Here’s the headline and lede, which I thought were a pretty effective TLDR:

> VESA PUBLISHES DISPLAYPORT™ 2.0 VIDEO STANDARD ENABLING SUPPORT FOR BEYOND-8K RESOLUTIONS, HIGHER REFRESH RATES FOR 4K/HDR AND VIRTUAL REALITY APPLICATIONS
DisplayPort 2.0 enables up to 3X increase in video bandwidth performance (max payload of 77.37 Gbps); new built-in features enable improved user experience, greater flexibility and improved power efficiency
"This obsession with “hard work” is founded in a pessimistic view of natural state of humanity being lazy loafers. That unless we constantly reinforce the virtue of “hard work”, we’re all just going to slouch on the couch. Nonsense. The drive for creativity and creation is innate."

Of course, but results aren't entirely driven by creativity either -- sometimes you need to put in some work that isn't fulfilling in order to do things you are interested in.

Hard work is definitely overrated, but it does have its place. This just seems like an extreme position in a different direction.
Middle-class values are actively encouraged/exploited by the ownership-class.

"If you just work hard you'll be successful" is one of those middle-class values. The upper-class equivalent is "collect rent on something."
It appears if you use USB-C only for display data you get full resolutions. If you take some of the pairs to also run USB data over the same cable it only supports the lower resolutions (no 16k or 10k).
The article itself admits the unusualness of the term (unusual to the expected audience, anyways), by wrapping it in scare quotes.

The article fails to directly define the term, and the indirect definitions do not point to anything that might constitute a “vortex”:

>The article points several times to the increasing isolation of the populations and the threats that giving them protected status would require development to take isolation of population in care when developing.

Which only implies the vortex, or feedback loop, if you already know the term and meaning, but the article does not expect you to know it..!

Isolation alone hardly reads as an evolutionary feedback loop... unless you already know that isolation creates an evolutionary feedback loop
People are fully capable of making unnecessary purchases off store shelves, even at antique shops where the goods don't have box art. People like buying stuff they don't need. I think our corporate overlords are terrified of what would happen without the mind control, but I think it would just be a more subdued and happier version of what we have now.
You could use something like NixOS, which has interpreters, libc, etc. in non-canonical paths. And you still have the protections of Linux and speedy security updates.

Of course, this is security by obscurity, an attacker could adjust the malware for such cases.
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According to the article DP 2 will use the existing DisplayPort port in addition to USB-C.
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Good luck assuming that life needs a planet and an orbit. All you need is a way for particles to make explicit decisions and experience some sort of consciousness (but even that is debatable, since few life forms on earth seem to have that).

And I would even question that you need particles. Particles might just be what we can experience in 3 dimensions.

I always find it funny how humans are so eager to draw generalized conclusions based on their own meager 100 years of scientific existence. We should be more humble and realize that we know jack shit about anything.
It's probably that the nozzle can be rotated and point upwards at your hair.
Like three decades later, it's no longer considered a conspiracy theory to think marketing exists. We consumers really wised up.
It's worth reading The Goal as The Phoenix Project is somewhat based on it. The Goal introduces the idea of Theory of Constraints in a similar novelized form, and The Phoenix Project takes ToC and applies it to information systems/software work. There's overlap between ToC and the Toyota Way (Toyota Production System, Lean, etc.) as all are based on taking a systems view of things, and place a great deal of emphasis on identifying problems with the process, not the people (that is, no individual blame).
Anecdotally, I had to explain to a family member recently how they got Twitter ads for an event they dropped a friend off at, even though they didn't personally search for or attend the event. They were confused by how this happened, and they knew I was the weird privacy person in the family to ask.

They proposed the simple, obvious solution: "Twitter is listening to my microphone."

I countered with, "No, Twitter knows you're friends with this person, and because they have access to both of your location data, they know you were visiting this person at the same time that they searched for and went to this event."

My family member said that my explanation didn't make them feel any better, at all, and then deleted Twitter off of their phone.

I don't know if that person is typical or not, but I will say that when you see something yourself it can sometimes make you feel more vulnerable and disturbed than when you hear about it second hand. Tracking is so ubiquitous that there's kind of an abstract, "but really it's not so bad" quality to it. People joke about the super-advanced-magic-tracking, but they don't really believe it on an emotional level. Or they believe it's super competent and dehumanized and subtle.

I think projects like this have the potential to maybe make it feel more tangible. Hyper-advanced systems feel more theoretical and less dangerous than, "hey, I'm literally just watching you browse the web." In my (again anecdotal) experience, magical systems are dismissable, but people get worked up over, "somebody's looking in my window."
Can someone please link to the study? I take an anticholinergic and like to stay on top of the latest information. So far the actual study output has been fairly disappointing in quality, and the public rationale for not taking the drug is more subjective-intuitive, getting suppositional and reaching feels-right conclusions when one could reasonably expect hard measurement.

I'm not against quitting but I'll be damned if I'm going to take my finger off a button that consistently provides me 8+h sleep and obliterates depression symptoms without being really circumspect about it. Also, no family history of dementia here.
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This. Everyone's missing the point of a search engine.

We're talking about billions of pages and if not ranked (authority is a good hueristic), filtered (de-ranked), etc then good luck finding valuable information because everyone is gaming the systems to improve their ranking.

I think this is part of the reason you get a lot of fake news on social media. It's a constant stream of information (a new dimension of time has been added to the ranking, basically) that needs to be ranked and with humans in the loop, there's no way to do this very easily without filtering for noise and outright malicious content.
As a start, it will be nice to just show the relative intensity of the light ignoring clouds and stuffs ... for example, people should know early morning, mid day and evening from the map which helps which part of the globe is going to get active/inactive
The key is accessibility. If you have a good road then you get people who treat nature as bad as themselves.

The higher up without accessible road or further in towards tougher trails and you start to have people there who have the will and stamina to be there and take the necessary precautions.
This is intriguing. Assuming more research confirms this effect, I'd go so far as to say it should be taught in schools and should be a standard part of everyone's education.

Imagine a society where everyone has a stronger resistance to disinformation. It seems like it could only be a good thing.
Depends on how you define need. If you define it as "they will die without it", then sure. If you define it as "makes your life better in proportion to the money spent" I don't think your statement is necessarily true.
I thought the same since I read that right before!

glances at URL

eyes narrow

"Not this time..."
Yes. People don't have any real control with what happens in their life. Similar to a computer simulation with 3d objects.
Personally, I had no idea they even paywalled these articles at all. On the browser I run (Firefox, using uBlock and uMatrix with extremely restrictive settings, basically anything but plain HTML has to be whitelisted) everything works just fine.
I don't think Coinbase users are looking for security/privacy. To be specific, Coinbase is considered a novice cryptocurrency user platform since they have some relatively hefty fees in exchange for being simple to use AKA "It's for normies".
It is extremely likely that malicious advertisers would still exist today even if you had paid for content 20 years ago.
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That's what I keep my old Blackberry Z10 for.
If I get something weird or want to go to dangerous places on internet (for research obviously) I use that thing.
I'm pretty sure know one writes a 0-day for a 0.0% market share device.
I was in Japan recently and they didn't have the Dyson one but they had very similar models from Panasonic and Mitsubishi and they were much quieter and somehow worked better. We need those.
This is a complicated can of worms...

In the past, it was certainly possible to have high living standards economies and relatively low retirement age. I don't think, even if you take longer age into account, that people are such a big spenders that it would be impossible to replicate today.

There is a theory that lot of (especially service and high-pay) jobs are actually bullshit, and detract rather than add social value. So if people retire these jobs sooner, living standards might actually increase for everybody.
The thing about CRT pixel "bleed" is that it is a pure Gaussian blur, which is practically the best way of upscaling a raster image within a purely analog system. Strictly speaking, you can of course do much better with a digital-upscaling step, using e.g. Lanczos filtering (which is far better at preserving sharpness while smoothing out "blocky" appearances), or even with special "pixel-art scaling" algorithms that work strictly within the original palette. But still, even a CRT is much better than what can be shown on a fixed-resolution handheld screen!
Yes, but the standard recommends against actually using it.

>The noscript element is a blunt instrument. Sometimes, scripts might be enabled, but for some reason the page's script might fail. For this reason, it's generally better to avoid using noscript, and to instead design the script to change the page from being a scriptless page to a scripted page on the fly, as in the next example

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/scripting.html#the-no...
It's something that can be overcome with role-play training and consistent reinforcement. Examples are actually given in the book. One case study is a Korean airline that had a horrifying safety record in part because copilots and other staff didn't feel empowered to overrule the captain even if the captain was wrong. It was a cultural problem, but was overcome through training.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_110 A Turing Complete 1-dimensional cellular automaton.

Also Conway's Game of Life is a rabbit hole you could literally spend your whole life studying.
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The real whole point of touch-based devices was to redefine the meaning of a personal computer so that it can be locked down and under control from the device makers, forcing artificial limitations towards their users under the pretense of usability and security.

The keyboard and mouse stuff was just cherries on top and quite rotten cherries at that.
https://www.weather.gov/ is free (paid for via tax dollars) and has a lot of useful information. The map of the US with all the alerts and warnings on it is rather useful.
Here is another take at the same: http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Earth
> He has the feeling that merely by being alive he is blocking his own way. From this sense of hindrance, in turn, he deduces the proof that he is alive.

also Franz Kafka:

> Don't spend your time with the search for an obstruction. Perhaps there isn't one.
I think "hard work" for me correlates with two important things: desire and humility. Desire leads to hard work because you just want to do something so badly; Humility leads to hard work because you understand that it is just so challenging to do anything of worth, esp. given that there are plenty of other people in the world.

I would be curious to know: what great things were accomplished without hard work? Note that this is different than the mere notion of "success"; there are certainly plenty of "rich" people who have not worked hard.
Realistically I hope they work solidly through USB-C. I'm tired of piling up expensive high quality monitors I can't use because they keep changing the connections every 3 or so years.

And they really need to have larger displays 30"+ for anything 4K and beyond. There's not much point to a 27" 4K monitor if you have to double the scaling just to read anything. 8K at 27" would be a complete waste.
What are your experiences of acquiring information in Poland under GDPR, especially if you were either denied or came across any hurdles in exercising your rights; whether or not the subsequent disclosure was to your satisfaction?
Isn't there a more generic deep-learning approach (i.e. with less assumptions) for this problem?
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I think it's ok to break down the costs on the page for that purpose, but the primary/largest price shown should be all-inclusive of any obligatory charges and taxes.
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Apologies for the self-promotion but I think this will be interesting to HN. It's an analysis of a huge crawl of 150k small business websites, correlated with google search rankings. This first chapter is focused on SEO. I'm in the midst of writing more chapters to address things like hosting, site speed, wordpress, etc. I'll probably also add some stats like what % of sites use bootstrap, most popular CDN, etc. This thread is a good place to ask me for more data points!
This reminds me the progress bar in TurboTax to check whether you have every number correct. Any modern computer should not take more than 1 second to do the verification and the animation is pure fake.
The reverse is a problem too, Google filtering things out based on their political leanings in an attempt to shape public opinion.
Given all the efforts to cram Visual Studio Code onto the Pi (because kids learning the basics of programming need a "modern" development environment), an 8 GiB Pi would actually make that practical.
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30 years of deregulation is a vague, almost meaningless phrase. I'm in pharma and I haven't seen this "deregulation" so to speak. We're seeing more and more regulation surrounding safety of our products (and obviously I agree with that kind of regulation).

>Those things can be fixed as they come up.

I assume "as they come up" means decades later? The government is like a supertanker, changing course is a sloooow process.
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The problem is that real reporting costs money and the bottom fell out of the industry awhile back, so what we now have is lots of people repeating what they saw on Twitter or Facebook and making up the rest..which is passed off as 'news'.
Why is the skin cell not an organism though? The definitions for 'organism' vary, but a common theme seems to be an interdependant system comprised of 'organs' with different specific functions that together form a greater whole. But is a cell not comprised of organelles? Mitochondia have their own dna and it is theorized that they were originally a seperate lifeform in a symbiotic relationship. The same goes for other specialized structures like chloroplasts in plants. On the other end of the spectrum, would we classify groups or societies as organisms, with individuals carrying out specialized purposes? Is a society, nation or company alive? Perhaps not in the biological sense we commonly use the words, just like Alice. But that might just be our own carbon-based bias ;)
Hey, have you read Bucky Fuller's stuff?
Yea, the nature of jobs is always changing, but I think the low level CS is safer than the webdev branch of the field.