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Grew up in the U.S. mid-atlantic, and spent many weekends camping out during my teens with the boyscouts -- at various levels of difficulty. The culmination was the annual "winter survival" campout where we were dumped miles off in the woods in the middle of the winter for 3 days with food, a sleeping bag, a box of matches and our pocket knife and had to survive for three days.

As it was often at freezing and sometimes snowing, we had to build warm shelter (fast), start a fire, dig a latrine, find water, and get a meal prepped before dark on the first day and basically survive the cold with everything we knew. Our shelter had to be weather resistant, warm and sustainable enough to make it a couple of nights.

Boys below a certain age and rank weren't allowed to participate as it was simply too dangerous. Night temperatures often went far below freezing and I remember waking up with my camp mates to see who's shelter had fallen in under the snow, and who had the most leaves stuffed into their sleeping bag for warmth -- despite that we'd all not be able to feel our feet for a few hours until we got moving. It was an amazing lesson in how the body's survival mechanisms work.

We had two adult chaperones along who "glamped" in full gear and were available for emergencies. More than once boys had to leave early due to the cold, or a shelter falling in on them or simply giving up and throwing in the towel.

This was all way before cell phones were common. At the end we'd have to break camp, clean it up as if we had never been there (leave no trace), hike and landnav our way back out of the woods with a rough map and directional reckoning using nature (no compass!) where we'd be treated to a hot meal, a hot shower (in that order) and an immediate blow-by-blow of what went right, what went wrong and awards were given out for exceptionalism in various facets of the camping arts. Most boys also earned various scouting badges and things during the event just by way of making it the entire way.

I didn't care much for the Boyscouts, but I eagerly looked forward to that activity the years that I could do it.

I'm pretty sure we were all secretly being trained for a Red Dawn scenario. The in-joke in my troop was that the Scouts were America's premier youth paramilitary organization.
What you are missing is that the US is the EU's guard dog against Iran. We are literally paid for our military presence to guess against Iran. If you think we are the only ones concerned with Iran, you are a blind fool. Don't take my word for it, Google it.
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>we ate what the big cats left behind.

humans can hunt
Ford has over 250 billion in assets. Quoting enterprise value without context is highly misleading.

Ford's debt and assets are largely from its financing arm. It doesn't make the car making part of Ford worth more.
I mean if you redefine everything to fit your preconceived notions then you shouldnt be surprised that everything matches
Sure. But what's the murder clearance rate among general HN readers? I bet that it's substantially greater than 60%. As either victim or killer.
There's such an "ego load" associated with this investment too. I find that even when a developer comes to realise that the SPA mess is largely unjustified, they're rarely willing to admit or change anything.
>destroy any chance of developing countries to build up their energy networks and escape poverty.

You mean cross country networks? Long haul, high voltage networks? If power is ubiquitous because of local grids with solar-fed storage to buffer night time use that enables everyone but high power users, i.e. industrial users. So the implication is only power hungry industrial base will let Africa escape poverty? That seems like a very last century view.
All their jobs are still in Tel Aviv, and the subsidiary is likely still registered in Israel.
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No, it's not that I think it's not a "meaningful" category, anymore than I think any mythologized and imperfect categorization is.

It's that somehow people see Western Civilization as encapsulating certain beliefs, held in certain states, despite the state supposedly having nothing to do with and no power over those beliefs, and even though those people didn't even necessarily have those beliefs that are "western" at the time, and even though many of those beliefs (for instance the rule of law, which arose in the middle east) arose in places that weren't "western". It's that much like the Romans did with the Aeneid, modern true believers in the sanctity of the "west" and the detractors of the "barbarians" mythologize the origins of that conflict.
We had a tradition of sending new scouts over to other camps to ask for a "left-handed smoke shifter" to better control the smoke coming off of the camp fire. No such thing exists of course, but sending off new boys (and receiving similar new boys from other camps) was a hilarious tradition and a bit of light hazing that nobody ever broke.

One older scout even crafted a piece of equipment he instructed the newbie to take with him to ask for a replacement part.
I got to a point where "actually working" seemed worthless because everything that determined the ultimate value of my work was a management/communication issue. My boss would tell me not to worry about that stuff, but it was demoralizing because I couldn't stand any longer to think about spending year after year doing technical stuff that had no positive, cumulative effect on the real world.

I don't want to be a "boss" or have more power or prestige, but I've gotten to the point where the only problems I am really interested in are management problems because everything else is a waste of time if those aren't solved.
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If your internet connectivity breaks constantly, there is a good chance that a JS heavy client side app is going to irrecoverably break, require a hard refresh and take much longer to load because of your crap internet.

I should know, my internet connectivity sucks, and single page applications are almost without exception, a completely awful experience.
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SPAs are the worst, because companies deploy them to avoid separation of responsibilities and turn every employee into easily replaceable "full-stack developer".

Unfortunately, a lot of people write terrible applications regardless of chosen technology. When this happens to purely server-side applications, the company is forced to optimize them to keep the hosting bill low — a positive feedback loop in action. SPA applications cause the opposite — companies move everything to client-side in order to reduce Amazon bills, and don't care if those client-side scripts are poorly optimized and contribute to global warming by causing hundred thousands machines to spin up their CPU fans.

Clearly, there should be a heavy tax on single page apps. They are

1) addictive — by making more Javascript devs, who in turn write more Javascript websites

2) act as luxurious goods ("Look guys — we have created a new version of our website. It looks so cooool (but loads a bit slow)!")

3) have ugly externalities, completely ignored by most of their creators
> This is cool! I can buy a $30 Black & Decker toaster oven and turn it into a reflow oven

$20 at Bed Bath & Beyond [1].

[1] https://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/store/product/black-decker-...
The real interesting part is how modern Google would have simply just executed the product today.
“The company said it switched to phone-only cancellations from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekdays and suspended emails, like notifications about a customer’s first paid order following a free trial, that were “reminding” people to cancel their subscriptions.”

That’s some scummy behavior.
Yes, what's wrong with that?

Security is multi dimensional matter, you can't just rely on rules like "no ssh to root" or "password should be more than 20 characters".

In my case ssh is allowed from 2 IP addresses (much more useful rule then "no ssh to root "btw!) with key auth (passwd auth disabled). Don't see any problem with that.
There are full data sets out there of stack overflow and Wikipedia, etc. After reading this I’d love to get that in the hands of more Iranians and others. It’s most likely not illegal to deliver the actual data as long as its not via the web.
How exactly do you prove that you didn’t get an interview because your LinkedIn photo had some grey hairs or wrinkles?
Reagan apologized and also compensated descendants of Roosevelt’s internment policy[1]. I think people keep chiding Japan because they are reluctant to address the so called “comfort women”.

Obama signed an apology to First Nations Americans.

[1]https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/08/09/210138278...
If you're "reacting" to a lot of changes, I suspect memorizing might end up ballooning your memory usage.
Then you should read it again because it's in there.
i wonder if there will be a possibility in the future where the OS runs app telemetry, looks at things like how long a user spends on an app, parts of the app that the user clicks on, looks at, the text and non-text elements of the app, and then applies a statistical model to determine quality and hence rating of the app. that could obviate the need for "human rating" which is inherently gamable.
It certainly helps knowing enough to go outside if you have no signal, rather than just thinking your phone is broken.
Yes. And you can only count on making one phone call. But not on having an opportunity to google for lawyers. So that phone call goes to someone you can trust to find a criminal lawyer. And contrary to fantasy, having one on retainer is too expensive for most people who aren't seriously professional criminals.
This may get downvoted to oblivion due to the HN bias against js.

The correct answer is it all depends. Certain things are faster to do in JS. Certain things are faster as a page load. One has to profile and see what makes sense.

There is a reason Atlassian is dog slow and trello runs circles around in terms of UI performance. The immediate <100ms navigation between views is probably why Atlassian ended up buying Trello. It would have eaten their lunch.

Once you have a substantial amount of JS, and you’re an app site, which a lot of sites do, it’s usually faster to not make the browser parse and compile again. Just stay in js land as a single page application and communicate with server purely in REST.
... are you being serious? I ask this question pragmatically. Perhaps my nuance for sarcasm after spending my entire life in the UK & Australia is more finely tuned than most.

The author went as far as to describe Canada as "a socialist state in North America" and later followed on with:

"(T-Mobile told me I could buy an “all-access high-speed day pass” for $5 on the black market, but I didn’t want to get arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Secret Police.)"

I don't think it's possible to be more overtly tongue in cheek without having to retort to using Reddit's HTML sarcasm tags.

All in all, it seemed quite clear to me that is was in playful jest.

Also, dear author, thank you for the laugh.
> because we either lack the proper language to describe physical mechanics (what is actually happening when Steph shoots a 3; What is actually happening when Jimi Hendrix hits a guitar string) or someone hasn't taken the time to make that knowledge widely accessible.

In many cases the language is there, but you have to have developed some physical skill to understand what it means. We aren't born with high class intuition about our bodies in motion.

There's also a lot of technique out there which gets you some of the way...but not the rest. The difference between a swimmer at a regional club and a swimmer at national levels isn't primarily raw talent. They don't do the strokes the same way. Likewise, there are a lot of things taught in, say, Suzuki violin that I have found hold students back. On the other hand, Suzuki is amazing at producing students that actually play. I know how to teach a musician how to play violin, but I don't know how to teach a beginner to both music and violin how to do both in a way that wouldn't lead them to quit vastly more often than Suzuki does.
And war doesn't?
It's more focused on actual tech. It's also gotten more like those sites since people have invited more people from those sites that I can tell. It's definitely changed a bit over past few years.

One of its continued strengths is the number of useful or deep articles in tech combined with a high number of people in the community that write them. The audience is pretty passive. We have some people who steadily have good insights and submissions on specific topics. Then, there are some that show up out of nowhere with whopper comments you won't find in other places. They avoid high-traffic/noise sites like HN. So, you only see them on places like that. So, I read both the orange and red sites. :)
No, it's a single example of an extreme situation. There are also innocent people on death row, struck by lightning, eaten by bears, or a multitude of other unfortunate scenarios which are all exceedingly rare for the majority population.

In this case, not going to prison would've prevented this chain of events from ever occurring for this person.

It's important to assess the actual risk. I'm a naturalized citizen as well and feel perfectly safe.
We need also game binary code preservation and how to compile the sources..just the source code without build instructions is also pretty useless for the preservation
This is news to me too!
Japanese tanker incident and a close-call expanding our middle-east misadventures just a few weeks ago, and free ice cream cones are still more relevant...
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Deliberately manipulating his stock price to damage short sellers is profoundly unprofessional behavior though. And apparently just a little bit illegal.
Technologists think the internet is broken. So they're building another
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I wonder, does Outlook 2019 have the "system" font glitch from Win 3.xx? I think I'll be sending out all my HTML emails in either System or Courier from now on; just to pull peoples' legs.
There was a reply here, now dead, that I wanted to discuss:

"Hey man, I'm just trying to feed my family. I have kids so that means I can behave however I want so long as it benefits my kids. And rather than trust some reviews on a platform anyone can sign up for, how about you do some reading on the app developer and their ToS and Privacy Policy."

I'm adamantly opposed to spam, and back in the early days of the web (say, 1996 or so) I'd call up spammers and politely ask them to stop. Quite a number of people were just confused or oblivious; they would often take my suggestions to heart. But a lot of them were in some sort of scarcity panic like this guy is. They had bills to pay, mouths to feed! If what they did harmed other people, well, they weren't going to think too hard about that.

One of the real tragedies of this is how circular it is, how self-sustaining. Why is this person so desperate? Often it's because a) other desperate people are doing shitty things to them, or b) entirely non-desperate people have rigged things so that there are enough desperate people harnessed to make sure those on top get and stay rich.

We can divide all economic activity into value creation and wealth extraction. Things like click farming do extract wealth, but they increase systemic waste, meaning less value can be produced. That in turn increases the amount of desperation, making people more likely to join them in doing something exploitative just to survive.

It all seems so pathological. I wish we were better at breaking these cycles.
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That's mostly what my reaction was too :)

I did think there would be a lot more interest. I would have thought Trek fans were common here.
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> Hubble offers customers contact lens subscriptions at low monthly prices.

True fact.

> Critics say it bypasses eye care professionals,

That's where the savings comes in.

> doesn’t properly vet prescriptions

As they are compliant with laws and regulations this statement is untrue.

> takes advantage of federal regulations

aka is compliant with all laws.

> to the detriment of consumers.

Opinion.
> be cognizant of candidate policies about technology if you want to help enact change

We don't get to mix and match attributes of various policies

We get to choose 1 candidate, from 2 candidates

Their technology policy will never be a deciding factor
Intel is dominated by how many cores/threads are accessing simultaneously. So with many scientific libraries you can get about 80% of the throughput. And the V100 will not give you 900GBps. That's the theoretical, but nominally it's about 750GBps.
I really would not call HN deep. It is just another public discussion site focused on programming. There are much more niche and focused places with higher quality, but they are, well, niche.
It’s not if the stock is overvalued. Time will tell. I’m actually a Tesla shareholder. I bought it when I believed in their vision. Musk’s antics have caused me to rethink the wisdom of my position though. I wouldn’t be surprised by a crash in share price. Then again I’m not betting on it either.
Yes; see second paragraph. It's probably highly unstable if there are any other gravity sources involved, but I don't have a good physics simulator on hand to check.
Am I the only one to see this as a positive side effect of sanctions?

Now Iranians have a legitimate reason to use TOR: bypassing sanctions. Turns out it allows them to bypass censorship as well and brings more people into the Tor network.
So if i switch to tofu and beef, i won't get fat?
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That's somewhat nitpicking. Cutlass is 90-95% of cublas in many cases, and there are things Cutlass can do that cublas can't. Cublas will always be marginally faster, but it won't matter in most cases, especially if that means saving a kernel call.
you can be legally correct but morally wrong.
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The CEOs of those companies aren’t committing securities fraud or insulting random people on Twitter, for starters.
This model is how early shareware/demos for the likes of Doom or Wolfenstein worked. All the final code is there, but you only include the asserts for the first level or so.

That said, it's still up to the copyright holder on what to disclose, and pretty sure distributing a binary based upon stolen copyrighted source would still be a violation, but I'm not a lawyer. I certainly wouldn't do it...
AP never override's the driver's steering wheel input and it never stops the driver from pushing the brake pedal. AP never takes control away.
It's been ~25 years since I was initiated and went through the "Ordeal".

Your father's story sounds about right. We were led through the woods (in the middle of the night, after the "tap out" ceremony, with no flashlights) all the way around to the other side of the lake at our summer camp and that's where we spent the night. I think we were given a light blanket to sleep on/with but I might be wrong. The next morning we were "picked up" and began the physical work part. The entire "Ordeal" lasted ~24 hours -- during which you were not allowed to speak.

Honestly, it's a lot scarier than it sounds. I grew up out in the country and spent a lot of free time as a kid out in the woods so that was no big deal to me (later, I participated -- as "Kichkinet" -- in other initiation ceremonies). Many of the "city kids", though, did not sleep a wink that night.

I've still got my "Brotherhood" sash somewhere around here. Around the time I received that, I "discovered girls" and my time in the Boy Scouts quickly came to an end.
I would recommend talking with a lawyer before taking any actions to circumvent international sanctions. There are very severe civil and criminal penalties.
> People are dying due to absence of medicines. People are starving. The economy system is falling apart and the politicians and their children are all abroad!

Sounds like the sanctions are working exactly as intended. No one in their right mind could possibly think that the sanctions would affect government officials or their families. Then again, most people in the US government are not in their right minds.
Human rights are for humans, which means everyone.

The people who have trouble judging others over terminology are the same as the people who have think changing the terminology is important in anyway. It's the same group on different sides worried over frivolous matters that nobody in the subject group (illegal immigrants seeking asylum) even cares about. All this effort usually just cancels out into a big wasteful political battle that gets nothing done.

It would be much better to talk accurately and come up with a real solution, such as proper detainment procedures, making sure funds and aid are available, communicating with those that are seeking asylum about what can and will happen, and then investigating and solving the root causes (conflict and leadership) in the country they're coming from.
The very situation you are describing explains why many of us have avoided working in the web ecosystem entirely for the last 20+ years or so, and don't miss it at all.

Many people thrive in these kind of frenetic, fast changing environments. Others (myself included) don't.
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Show HN: Give/get referrals to tech companies (repher.me)
Made using React, Firebase, a lot of material UI.

A simple website to give or get referrals to tech companies. Completely free to use.

I was able to get some neat data from over 500 referral requests, take a look: https://imgur.com/a/kat47BG.

The right-hand side is the top requested companies, and the left-hand side is the companies from which those requests are coming from. Basically shows who's trying to go where.

I work at Google and personally referred 2 candidates who looked very good, 1 got hired (and yes there's a referral bonus).
This sounded interesting and so i read-up a little on "Phage Therapy". From what i could gather, it didn't take off in the West because of its narrow applicability and hence consequent economics weren't profitable. What is its current status today?

Do you have some detailed article, study, research etc. that you could point us to? Love to hear more about it.
Yep, Bill Browder is basically the most effective person to ever lobby multiple world powers into creating legislation to blacklist people by name (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnitsky_Act#Individuals_affe...) from Russia or any country for that matter. TLDR; is that Browder was making some sweet money in Russia after the USSR collapsed and eventually enough powerful people in Russia didn't want him there, so he had to leave, but one of his lawyers was arrested and mysteriously died in prison.

There is a great podcast floating out there from NPR where they talk about the seemingly real possibility that Russia had a vested interest in getting a president in office just to repeal the Magnitsky Act because it hurt that much.
You can also be legally correct and morally right. Or morally ambiguous. Or morally "it's complicated".
NYT title, but Epstein is not the important part of the story.

> The articles in praise of Mr. Epstein came about partly because of an online publishing model adopted by some news organizations that relied on outside contributors who often wrote for little or no pay, with little or no input from editors.

So, formerly trustworthy news sites are serving as
pass-through conduits for whatever content PR firms
can pump in through a “contributor”.
Oh tempora, oh mores.
Interesting read, I have a hunch we'll get similar results if these models were applied to contemporary music as well.