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> Ironically, what you fail to see is that this line of thought is only possible under two circumstances: rock bottom, or born to money. An unemployed 30 year old in between would give their right arm to have a job for 40 years.

I wasn't born into money and I never hit rock bottom. I worked a few part time non-technical jobs as a teenager before I really got into computers and quickly realized that there's a 0% chance I would be able to exist in a world where I was reporting to someone every day for 40+ years in hopes they keep me employed. That lifestyle just isn't for me.

I was lucky enough to find computers in my late teens and programming is something I very much love doing so I made a freelance career out of it for the last ~20 years and still do it today (because I like it).

That drive to work for yourself is not tied into having a safety net. It's a mindset and maybe genetic (I have no idea). Most of my related family works for someone else though, so it's not like I'm coming from 10 generations of entrepreneurs here.

I think it's more of a mindset because I don't do this for the money. If we lived in a world where you could somehow survive comfortably with no income I would still try to make my own business doing whatever I really enjoyed doing. The primary output of what I do to me isn't money, it's personal enjoyment and the satisfaction of helping others.

> An unemployed 30 year old in between would give their right arm to have a job for 40 years.

And this is where the problem lies. Unless you're super skilled working at a company that is massive and will never run out of funds then there's practically a 0% chance you'll have a guaranteed steady job for 40 years. You might get a few years or a decade even in some places but it's never guaranteed. The only thing that's mostly guaranteed is you will get paid your salary for a span of a single pay check duration or perhaps any duration you pre-define in a contract. After that, you're hoping that the business you work at stays in business and you are doing your job well enough not to get laid off.
> Over the long term I wonder if this will give Europe an edge in cybersecurity relative to the US?

It won't because the article is misleading wrt to the "European" approach, in that, there is no such agreed EU-wide approach. For example, this bit below:

> Bulgarian police last week released a 20-year-old security specialist accused of hacking the country’s National Revenue Agency, and accessing information about 5 million people, most of Bulgaria’s population

is actually just false. Bulgarian police released the guy on bail and then proceeded to charge him with cyber terrorism (15 years in prison). They also arrested his supervisor, issued a European Arrest Warrant for owner of the company he works for (who is apparently abroad on unrelated business) and raided the offices of the company, taking all computers and IT equipment and essentially destroying the business. It's currently unclear on what evidence they decided to nuke the company.
Al Zimmerman has a new programming contest: Reversing Nearness
What makes you think that genius exists and it is actually different from what your friend did/had?
Okay, but so what? Do we do something about it? Or is this just complaining.

I feel like this is analogous to something many people here are used to. We all know people that have been programing since they were a child. Those people had money for a computer (I'm under 30 and this was still a thing). Most of those people had a parent or two that were more highly educated and even more likely that one did STEM (and probably knew some programming or someone that did).

Is that privilege? Yes.

Do I wish I had those opportunities as a kid? Kinda

Am I going to do anything about it? No. Why would I?

If this article is only about the myth of the self made millionaire/billionaire then okay. But that doesn't come across. We all already knew that these people came from high places of privilege. But complaining about how they had opportunities that we don't is useless. The problem is lack of opportunities and resources for the less privileged. You don't even need to take away the opportunities from those already privileged. This isn't a zero sum game. If you want to present solutions I am happy to read more articles and do my part. But this just came off as complaining.
And people who do cross-fit.
To give an example: if the lines() method returned instances of a Line class, the string buffer and it's append() method would be aware and still create a collection of lines instead of one long string. Not necessarily nice and would probably create issues in many other interfaces, but problems like this _can_ be solved with careful language and API design. Note that his end goal was to 'read lines' and not use any particular string abstractions. Nothing to get worked up about here.
Oh you can't be serious. Maybe HN users are just more in tune with the negatives of FB.
Yes, that was my point. Humans are not required to build vast power generation infrastructure for biomass to sequester CO2 from the atmosphere, we get it for free.

The industrial chemistry for sequestering CO2 is not that expensive in terms of mass ingredients (nothing rare or exotic), considering the scale, but it is extremely energy intensive and that is where most of the cost of sequestration comes from. If almost all of the sequestration cost is the cost of putting energy into the system then biomass has a massive cost advantage, literally orders of magnitude.
Firstly someone has to create a mechanical calculating technology that is lost to history before being discovered in a shipwreck by a society that has globally networked its modern equivalent. After that it gets complicated.
I think that this is because MOBAs are (unintentionally?) more like a sport with positions, teamwork, etc. I think that leads to MOBAs being more exciting for a mainstream audience and we see huge hits[1], where RTS is more for the niche audience that you saw for PC games 20 years ago-people who are more excited with honing computer skills than communication skills. I fall firmly in the latter camp, but I see why the market favors the former.

I totally agree about the 'being able to play again at will' part. That's what drove me away from LoL when I tried it-it was my very first game, I wanted to walk away, and the interface told me I was hurting the community by leaving early. I took the hint and decided to quit playing entirely. I don't want that kind of responsibility-the whole point of a hobby is that there aren't consequences for failure (or at least I've seen it formulated as such.)

[1] Well, one huge hit
You can often enable it for the site, but block the doubleclick et al tracking scripts. It's not all or nothing.
> It's quite a weird effect; if I eat in the morning, I'll be hungry throughout the day, but if I skip breakfast (or even lunch), I'll only get hungry towards the evening.

I think that's actually a pretty normal effect, though perhaps not usually as pronounced as "only get hungry towards the evening". You don't normally get hungry while asleep, so I think one of breakfast's purposes is to kick-start the metabolism, with the side-effect of getting hungry afterwards. Especially if you're on a diet and are sticking to small breakfasts, making that meal counterproductive.
Your second paragraph gets at what I meant by ‘narrow view’. Entrepreneurship happens all over the country at just about all layers of the socioeconomic spectrum.
We disaggregate the self-employed into incorporated and unincorporated to distinguish between "entrepreneurs"
and other business owners. We show that the incorporated self-employed and their businesses engage
in activities that demand comparatively strong nonroutine cognitive abilities, while the unincorporated
and their firms perform tasks demanding relatively strong manual skills. The incorporated selfemployed
have distinct cognitive and noncognitive traits. Besides tending to be white, male, and come from
higher-income families, the incorporated—as teenagers—typically scored higher on learning aptitude
tests, had greater self-esteem, and engaged in more disruptive, illicit activities. The combination of
"smart" and "illicit" tendencies as youths accounts for both entry into entrepreneurship and the comparative
earnings of entrepreneurs. In contrast to past research, we find that entrepreneurs earn more per hour
and work more hours than their salaried and unincorporated counterparts.

So, basically, if you start a local landscaping business, you don't count for purposes of being "an entrepreneur" in their eyes.

That's exactly my point. It's not some kind of rebuttal of my point.
Thanks for taking the time to respond.

Every person who voted in the referendum felt the need not to read the official leaflet.

My comment was about what a person who voted understood by the time they got to the ballot box.

I didn't make that clear enough and the part of the previous comment I quoted probably helped in this misunderstanding, I apologise.

"What people understood" encompasses the messages that they have received from politicians on both sides of the debate.

The video I linked to shows many politicians from both remain and leave making the point explicit.

I would argue that many, many more people saw these prime time messages than read the official leaflet.
'Hack_Right', really? That's the best they could come up with?
> The whole ad-blocking debate would be moot if we could pay a few cents to read an article free of distracting ads.

It would not. You're worth more to the advertisers than a few cents, so even if you and everyone else chipped in, many ad-supported sites would see their revenue plummet, and close their doors. Consumers spend a lot of money buying things, from groceries to appliances, and a percentage of each of those sales goes to the ad budget to steer that buying. Unless everything in every store got a few percent cheaper, consumers literally don't have the money to distribute to the websites at anywhere near the level advertisers pay. Every single American would have to pay Facebook $15-20 per month to match the advertising revenue Facebook generates per user, not a few cents. The cost of using Google's services would be similar to a cable or cell phone bill, assuming every single person that uses them continues to and signs up for that bill.
What do opiate overdoses have to do with the state of drug discovery? Aren't opiate analgesics like an infinitesimal blip compared to the broader pharma market?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrolysis_oil

(another angle)

But is the oil good enough to be used for fuel? We can already burn wood but the hope is the oil could be made into diesel.

Then there is this old stand by:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer–Tropsch_process

It is actually possible to run otto cycle with wood directly

https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2017/01/22/from-gasoline-to-ga...

Syn gas or coal gas was a big deal before electric lighting. Turns out syn gas is still used today in chemical manufacturing.
I took the course in 2018 and can say it was my favourite CS course I've taken. It's considered "soul destroying", not because it's hard or not fun but because of the sheer amount of hours you have to spend in the lab. Unless you're experienced in the domain or really smart (neither for me), you're probably spending many many hours in the lab almost everyday if you're trying to do well in the course. For me personally, I wouldn't say it was soul destroying and I'd say the skills you learn from the course are invaluable.
The point would be that people could still come in and buy stuff with self checkout. It doesn't sound like this is what that Starbucks intends you to do.
Ah ok, looks like it has grown a lot the last 10 years.
I like to think of hunger as "the feeling of my body burning fat."
I think he understands its business, having worked there. :)
Is there a demo? I turned off UBlock and HTTPs everywhere. Still nothing. (FF67 on Linux)
I can't say i've got anything close to your experience, but for me programming isn't necessarily about the challenge of solving some programming problem, but using it to make things. I like being able to type words and numbers into a computer, give them meaning, and use them to create new things. I don't really care much about whatever's new or awesome. I just come up with things i want to make that are interesting to me and make them for the sake of it. It's using programming to make things that interests me, not so much the solving the challenges of programming itself.

For example, to use something you mentioned in another post, a* or djikstra's algorithms. They're used over and over again because they work well. But that can be anything from a massive AAA open worlder, to a simple 2d platformer, down to something like dwarf fortress. All of those are games, all of those are using those algorithms for similar purposes, but each of those games couldn't be more different than eachother.

It's similar to the way nearly all music is made from the same 8 notes and scales. But people don't usually learn to play music for the challenge of learning scales. People learn to play music so they can play songs they like or write their own songs.
>"You know how a workout 'hurts so good"

This is what I exactly tell people. It's the only way to sustain it.
If most of your jobs revolve around serving those with money, in person, then they're going to be centered around wealthy areas.

That's as far as I see it how the UK has evolved. Basically everyone with money lives in London or the Home Counties, so service employment is heavily biased towards there.

I don't see how you can fix that without forcibly moving people.
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Well I agree about the dates, but that's not really what I was getting at.

The number of working programmers using neural nets or OpenGL twenty-five years ago would have been vanishingly small. Today either one is completely common place.

Perhaps "revolutions" was laying it on a bit thick, but it does seem to me that software now faces different challenges than in 1994. Volume of data is different (even a moderately successful modern web app could easily receive more traffic than the entirety of the 1994 Internet). Hardware is more complex (accelerometers, multiple cameras, microphones, touch screens, compasses, widespread GPS). Security attack vectors are very different.

Again, maybe my opinion changes in 15 years, but it's hard for me to look at something like the 2019 linux kernel, and think "this is basically just more of the same."

Maybe we are all just making slightly different points about this topic...
> I'm pretty curious where the overwhelmingly negative FB sentiment on HN comes from

I imagine because Facebook is considered an unethical company.
Impact of Time-Restricted Feeding and Dawn-to-Sunset Fasting
It's probably not just the existence of a fall back plan, but the magnitude of it.

Wealthy families in the US provide a far greater safety net than the legal minimum one faces in European countries.
Is it necessary that ad blockers be totally all-or-nothing in their approach? Pop-up blockers didn't kill all ads. They just killed pop-ups. If it's really the privacy violations that are the problem, and not the user experience of seeing a bunch of ads, why not find a middle ground?

Make an ad blocker that just dishonors cookies, clears localStorage, etc for the ad domains, rather than blocking the requests altogether. Publishers won't make as much money since advertisers won't be able to track you. But at least you could give the publishers the ability to make some money from ads served to you.

If this approach gained adoption, you might see a growth in the market for non-tracking ads (analogous to the growth in the market for non-popup ads described in the article).

Why not?
All I'm saying is that this technology is still in its infancy. It sounded to me like you suggest we defund them and use the money for other things. I disagree with this on a number of points. 1) We need sequestration to solve climate change. 2) technologies need money to develop and get off the ground. To go from demonstration to something really useful.
I wished they would measure the noise of the fans as this sounds wonderful, yet without knowing now noisy the fan is, would kinda negate many use cases I'm looking at (audio recording).

I also would like to see this setup with the fan not active as that heatsink and the margins of cooling it has, it could be enough for many use cases.

OK found a video that does a more indepth review of this cooler and sound. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tie6r5ymUug
<sarcasm>“That I’m miserable and hate everyone”</sarcasm>

At my Y, the swimmers are not exactly people filled with joy.
The permission strings are moderated with far more scrutiny. If an App Store reviewer can't understand what the point of the permission is, they will reject your app.
Resp, a cool chatbot assistant and tracker for cinema and TV Shows
I think there's a cuteness of it being hidden in the console. Who knows what site might have secret chat!

I think it's also an attempt at early web nostalgia.
The same way you adhere to any other diet plan-you excercise conscious control over your behavior. If you can't cross that hurdle, no diet will work. If you can cross that hurdle, though, you probably don't need a diet plan-calories are printed on most food packages.
This won't go down well with the temporarily embarrassed Donald Trumps on this website.
I cut my soda intake from a few a day to nil a day and replaced them with water. Within a few months I had lost 30 lbs. Cutting soda intake makes a big difference. It's not the magic bullet since I've stalled at my current weight but 30 lbs is a big difference given the small change.
Microsoft was also hated for their business practices. I find what a company does to be a perfectly good reason to like or hate them, not that my opinion matters. But if you have enough people feeling a certain way it changes things.

For what it’s worth I don’t like FB because of Zuck and his FU attitude towards his user’s privacy (he was quoted early on calling his users “dumb fucks” if I’m remembering correctly).
Are you ingesting anything besides water during your 7 day fast? Coffee? Tea? Vitamins? I'm interested in doing something like this.
> You seem to be implying that comparing by volume is unfair to fusion

I am pointing out an obvious logical fallacy. If it really isn't obvious, try substituting "Tesla cars" for "fusion" and "bars of gold" for "fission reactors". Here's what you get:

"Tesla cars are MUCH more complex than bars of gold. So, just comparing volume is being very favorable to Tesla cars."

Which of course is utter nonsense. A Tesla Model 3 occupies roughly 10 m^3 (order of magnitude, mind you); that volume of gold would weigh about 19.3e4 kg, which at the current price of $45.6e3/kg would be worth about $8.8 billion.

Clearly, the MUCH more complex Tesla Model 3 costs quite a bit less than the same volume in gold.

> So, instead, let's compare by mass.

That would be equally pointless. Instead, how about taking a moment to look up a serious economic analysis? Here is a fairly recent one, open access and all:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S036054421...

It compares existing power plants with four tokamak conceptual designs which "span a range from relatively near-term concepts, based on limited technology and plasma physics extrapolations, to a more advanced conception". Upon reading it, you will be happy to learn that it finds Total Cost Of Electricity (TCOE) produced by those fusion reactors to be slightly higher than the lowest cost alternative, fission reactors.

All other options considered (combined-cycle gas turbines, open-cycle gas turbines, coal plants, solar large photovoltaic plants, onshore and offshore wind plants) turn out to be more expensive.
What's your stack? Any tips for people who want to create agents like this?

Also, I asked for anime suggestions and got Sherlock, The Wire, Peaky Blinders among others.
Presumably it means that Purescript compiles to Go which can then be built with "go build" instead of compiling to C++ and leaving it to the user to figure out how to compile it with their other C++ sources.
> the fully burdened cost of sequestering CO2 via industrial processes is never going to be viable due to industrial chemistry economics.

To this I fully agree. This problem isn't going to be solved by industry. I'm not sure why people are putting that on the table. There is no incentive for them (unless you put huge carbon taxes on as well). This is really a thing where we have to cut our losses and say "It is cheaper to build these now than the cost of the damage of what happens if we don't." There's no industry incentive for that. But there is huge public and governmental incentive.
No. My body produces virtually no insulin. A C-Peptide test was performed in the past 10 years, when I was receiving immunomodulatory treatment, and showed no traceable C-Peptide in my body. Hence, my body is either producing none to extremely low levels of insulin.

By the time you are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, around 90% or so of the islet cells (insulin producing cells) are eradicated, supposedly.
Aren't players of this size still just able to follow manipulate pricing to their benefit in "pump and dump" schemes? I'm not really familiar with any of this, but my understanding was that the major fluctuations in Bitcoin seemed to come from the biggest players indirectly manipulating valuation.
This story was more than gripping enough until I got to the bit where the cheetahs started running at Harringay Stadium. That's just down the hill from where I'm sitting right now!

Of course that's not the only exciting thing that ever happened there. We had greyhound racing, ice hockey, riots, gangsters, motorbike races, Billy Graham, boxing matches, and an enormous cold storage facility. Of course most of these things didn't happen at the same time!
Any purchase agreement would surely include a contract prohibiting any sort of redistribution of the binaries or reverse engineering of the machine? I wouldn’t even be surprised if that prohibition was protected by law.