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Why don't you just talk to them yourself instead of ranting on YCNews. It amazes me how many people don't follow the guidelines on this site and the mods just let it fly. Every single one of the members of Knowm you can directly email. I know because I have actually talked to them. One lady is not on Linked in so you will have to talk to her through her her academic email.

Also your "ha no industry experience" is pretty laughable considering the entire Quantum Computing Industry is blossoming out of universities and PHDs. Musk had no Rocket ship industry experience, Zuckerberg had no social media industry experience, Paulmer Luckey had no hardware or entertainment industry experience, etc. I can go on forever.

Maybe instead of mocking someone elses work and slandering their name with barely a whiff of an idea of who they are and what they are doing you should engage in some sort of meaningful criticism or debate.

I'll not be responding or reading your reply. So feel free to do whatever with that knowledge. Just thought I should mention that this site is apparently supposed to be about hackers conversing in useful conversations and enlightening themselves. So maybe try to stick to that.
Perhaps if it was possible to discuss these topics without being immediately downvoted to hell for expressing an "incorrect" opinion people would not feel they have to create these throwaway accounts.

This is a sign that people are not confident to express views and self-censor. This is a response to a type of bullying.

Perhaps HN could also have a policy on submissions such as this one, which only purpose is political battling.
Very safe, most dangerous thing here are the roads. High death count, 80%+ occurring on motorbikes. Not much crime, I feel safe walking down any random alley at 3am. So yes, you can walk anywhere without fear. Bad things happen, but it feels much safer here than anywhere in the US.

English is spoken almost everywhere, at least basics. 35m+ people travel to Bangkok every year and the tourist industry here is large.

I spend about $800/mo on rent but I have a very nice condo with gym + pool within 5 minutes walking to the sky train close to the center of downtown. I also do month to month with no contract, if you do a 6 month contract you can find a studio for $200/mo ~15 mins walking to the train - I just prefer convenience and luckily make enough income to cover the costs. Maybe spend another $500-700 a month on food and transportation.

Going out to eat is about the same cost and buying food/cooking and the food delivery services here are great (either free delivery or 50 cents for delivery). Most my meals average $5 usd but I usually eat at higher end place, you can do $1-2/meal if you want but it's lower quality food and ingredients typically. I like to go out, but don't drink often so alcohol isn't a big cost in my budget. Beer is usually $3-5 a bottle at most bars compared to somewhere like Vietnam where everywhere has beer for $1.

I initially went for 1 month (1 week in BKK -> 1 week in chiang mai -> 1 week in Koh Lanta -> back to BKK) and ended up staying for 5 months total the first year while traveling to Cambodia and Vietnam for visa runs. I definitely recommend 3-4 weeks your first time to see if it's for you with a similar route to me to get a feel of the different cities. I liked chiang mai more at first but grew to love Bangkok the most now.

Don't worry about booking much accommodation far in advance as there's much readily available. I just like to book a nice place for my first week to recover from jetlag before I head out and play the rest by ear.

Hope that helps!
As an older millennial, staring down the barrel of my late thirties, I can't think of a move that would appeal to me less.
Again, without ANY benefit to them.

There is a large benefit to the locals in terms of jobs both during construction and after. Yes, the researchers are not local, but the engineers, technicians, maintenance staff, and so on usually are. Astronomy is the second largest contributor to the economy on the Big Island (after tourism).
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I believe that.
Lawsuits, healthcare and guns are most likely the biggest reasons that make Europeans frown when hearing about the US ;)
Banks in Norway use Experian to check your risk. Anytime you apply for a loan you'll get a letter in the mail from Experian a few days later letting you know who made the request and what their response was.
Try not to focus in the exact terminology used (I agree that "amateur" and "professional" are used incorrectly here).

Instead, understand those terms to mean good workers and bad workers, and there's actually some good advice in here, even though it comes across as trite in this format.
Something I made the mistake of saying in interviews for a bit, but now save for beers, is that often the 'hardest part' of the project is cleaning up all of these constant factor bits. They're thankless. They're everywhere, and at some point your flame chart looks pretty damned flat. There are no big wins anymore. It's fighting for inches.

(really the 'hardest thing' about software is all of the things that are true but few believes are important. Dropping the Big O can be proven empirically)
But that's just a convenience issue. There are some many other plastic bags still around that may not be as flexible as the generic fruit and vegetable bag but can still be used for most types of waste. For example I have been using cereal bags for the same task and while they do not fit as nicely in the trash container and you have to be a little more careful when you throw something in, they absolutely work too. Although in the long term we should maybe get rid of the cereal bag too and just use a multi-use hard plastic container that you have to clean with water after use.
Skeuomorphism is the wrong word for what you are criticizing, I think.

You are talking about an simulated non-physical world that makes no semse at best and I'm certain that it is just a nausea and disorientation simulator for almost every single user if I understand your thoughts correctly. The thing with VR is that it messes with expectations about the physical world that people process subconsciously. Break them ever so so slightly and people react involuntarily to it. There is
no consciously controllable component to getting uncomfortable in VR.
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You mean the Greedy Ghost [1] has swallowed up everything in it's path? I agree. I've almost got my ass kicked on a few interviews for daring to say I do Lisp in my free time. "Lisp?! What the f* do you wanna do with thaaat?!" was more or less the answer that I've received. If it doesn't bring any more $$$ in your pockets you're just wasting your time.

[1] https://www.rt.com/op-ed/465466-europe-tourism-greed-profit/
>>I have a couple of bags in my laptop bag and always carry a reusable folding bag in my jacket. We have a few in the boot of the car. That accounts for 90% of time I might need one.

you must shop frequently.

I shop 1 to 2 times a month, and buy a large qty when I shop. I absolutely despise going to the store. It is not uncommon for me to need 20+ bags per shopping trip

When I go there are also often people that with 2+ carts, having had to wait in line behind such people using the reusable bags it increased the check out time by a factor of at minimum 2, and sometimes 5x what would be normal due to people attempting to shove as much as they can in a limited number of bags, and they often times have far fewer bags than are need which delay's everyone as they mess around with moving things to maximize space
Looks like peak Perl was about 2012-2014. :(
It's still a false equivalence. Comparing the comparatively higher energy costs of making reusable bags [1] does not compare to the systemic causes of the climate catastrophe. Arguably the behavioral pattern of using non-durable, non-reusable or non-repairable items that are "cheap" [2] is one of the systemic problems.

The climate catastrophe also is not only caused by rising greenhouse gases (although yes, that's causing the most disasterous results). Other results of unbridled human (ab)use of their natural environment is causing biodiversity collapses everywhere. Single use plastics are an important factor there, wreaking havoc to many different environments.

Sometimes priorities really are complicated but in this case they aren't.

[1]: I'd argue flimsy cotton bags are a non-solution to this problem, as they still do not really discourage single use. They don't fundamentally change people's behaviour, and as a result don't address the systemic cultural problem. Proper, well made, high quality, repairable shopping bags exist. It's a shame we need to be so inconvienced to go out shopping prepared, but that's a cultural mindset we have to get over.

[2]: They are only "cheap" because the real impact of these products are not accounted for in the price you pay for it. Again, it's a systemic cultural problem that this is acceptable and even desired.
A one off event because of scale. but part of a continuation of downsizing. So only one off in one sense not in others.

Cisco's one off downsizing has been threefold.
Used with flatMap, it's a terribly good way of doing something to everything over an arbitrary object and all it's deep values. I do something like this every month or so.

It's one of those tricks you use a lot once you've seen the problems it's applicable to.
The anecdote you describe happened under the illegal black market, where production is unconfirmed and harm reduction is not available as easy.

With decriminalization or even a legal market, that person maybe wouldn't have done it like that. With the black market, and criminality as it is, they probably didn't get the safety information they needed for harm reduction.

One thing is for sure, prohibition creates dangerous production pipelines and enriches cartels/mafias the level of nation states and that makes danger for everyone around.

The warnings on alcohol would be similar to other illegal drugs, alcohol is more toxic and dangerous than most of them. Cannabis, LSD and psilocybin (mushrooms) have the lowest toxicity of any drugs including aspirin, caffeine, nicotine and more. The information about safety and harm reduction would be clearer with a decriminalized or legal market and production would be much better with the latter, ultimately safer.
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>London has not seen fit to reinstall trams

That's not strictly true[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tramlink
Not necessarily, but there needs to be an intellectually interesting angle to the story—something that gratifies intellectual curiosity, as the guidelines say: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. What Jeffrey Epstein "hoped to seed" does not count.

Celebrity gossip gratifies curiosity too, but a different kind than what we're looking for here.
I always carry an eastpak backpack when I bike to work. Those things are pretty much indestructible; on my second one since highschool. Then I usually shop on my way back from work. Obviously I probably have to shop more often than most people because of the limited capacity. I usually keep a spare plastic bag(that i re-use) in there as well if I need to buy more than can fit in the eastpak.
Just adding my experience. We found ourselves in one of these places in Kanazawa. There was only us and another couple in there. Of course there was plenty of music that I'd never heard before but very much enjoyed, but Sting's "Englishman In New York" always instantly takes me back there.
Amateurs write trite blog posts about professionalism for free.

Professionals don't sum up being professional in a few sound bites.

And of course the main difference, missing from the article, is getting paid for what you do vs doing it purely for the love/fun of it.

If you have a market you can drop all or most of the points in the post, and still be "hugely successful and do so much". If you don't you can do all of the above and still "struggle to tread water". And of course you could do all of the above while being an amateur as well (amateur != low quality output).

The post is more "how to be a better person / colleague / more efficient worker" than pro vs amateur.
As an ex-IBMer with a few dozen patents, I can explain this. The company offer a big cash bonus for filing patents. But I do have to mention that it's not very easy to get an a patent idea through the internal review process. These patents are mostly for enabling horse trading with other big tech companies. For example, Google bought a big batch of patents from IBM when they got hit by the first wave of lawsuits about 9 years ago.
> The simple fact, that IBM stuff is never used by big sites (fb, spotify, google, etc..) despite their solutions being available for ages should lead anyone to the conclusion that they are salesware.

They are used by big sites, governments are the biggest sites you can get.
Although I don't know exactly what you mean by transhumanism, I'm sure that it's a topic that HN can discuss. But Jeffrey Epstein is surely one of the worst contexts to discuss it in. Is it likely that the discussion will focus on the fine points of transhumanism, or get sucked into the lurid details of the case? Surely the latter.
Leaning in is not ergonomic over longer periods of time and may be very undesirable in constrained spaces. I find myself actually doing that a lot when interacting with the desktop in VR and it becomes physically straining after a few minutes.
>>I don’t even need a bag or any other container, but that’s in part due to some lifestyle choices that put me in walking distance of a good grocery.

So you shop for groceries daily? I can not image doing that
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I don't agree with blanket bans. We should also consider patterns of usage and actual environmental impact. Trash bags are efficient in production, very convenient and allow to better organize other garbage , and most often end up in the landfill, as it's their main usage. It almost never will end up in the ocean or in the forest/on the streets/on the tree branches by the wind etc. Plastic bottles, plastic fishing net, etc that's where main source of problems is.
The way I ask the question is done to relax the candidate and make them start to think about the only person who matters in the room: themselves. I’m looking for intellectually curious people; a bit of modesty & self-reflection tend to go along with that.

Technical skill is a bit irrelevant, as essentially no one does the sort of low level SW our team does, anymore.
We have research lab at CTU in Prague where our focus is on imperfect-information games. We are working on scaling up algorithms that have worked well in Poker, and extend them to other domains as well. Poker has some nice properties - the hidden information (player's private cards) does not change through the course of the game so the value functions needed for neural networks can be computed "nicely", as they have fixed input/output sizes.

We definitely see Kriegspiel as one of the next challenges.

AMA if you're interested :)
Sorry my comment was unnecessarily harsh, the content itself is OK, I only feel it blurs two different phenomenon, globalization and "work from home".
Really more around 1994, just before Perl 5 came out. Perl was a great sh/sed/awk replacement for a while..
> Note that the original article does not complain about informative ads, but about manipulative ones.

It’s funny because the title would suggest that “all ads are one of the worst things that happened to humanity”. So it’s a click bait headline = manipulative ad. Maybe without a different title nobody would read the article.
We don't want religious flamewars on HN, so could you please not post like this here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
By my logic we can reduce the environmental impact of flying by enforcing a maximum efficiency on jet engines. One much lower than the current efficiency. Hmmm. Probably a carbon tax would be a better idea.
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Nobody ever paid for something like that. If there is anything on the internet people assume it should be free. Taking example of the HN crowd, every time there is a pay walled article people ask for web links, praise outline links and generally complain.
I've gotten second-hand information about the first study, and the guy who wrote it says he's being misinterpreted. His study only looks at a very narrow invironmental impact, namely the production costs and impacts. It is not a full cradle-to-grave study, it does not cover environmental impact from improper disposal, nor a host of other factors.

The most important missing factor is the fact that cotton bags can be repaired and repurposed. I have a handful of heavyweight cotton bags (the oldest my grandpa bought sometime before I was born), only one of which I've purchased myself. They're all holding up very well, some of them with decades of use, and if they ever start to fray in the stitching or wear out, I can patch them very easily. Alternative, worn-out bags can be used as patches for other items or cut into cleaning cloths and similar things.

We need to move away from our single-use-then-throw-away lifestyles and relearn how to repair and reuse our stuff.

As a bonus, cotton bags biodegrade nicely, if they do happen to be discarded by mistake.

As for other cotton, I don't just throw out t-shirts because they get a few holes in them. They get repaired or delegated to DIY work or concert duty (shirt with holes are very punk/metal), or if they're too far gone they get turned into DIY band patches or used as cleaning cloths. It's all about getting the most use out of what you buy.
It’s almost always 7. The actual question I ask is “rate yourself on a scale from one to Bjarne”. Bjarne Stroustrup was the principle in the group I did my PhD, and he rates himself a 7, so when interviewees give ‘7’ as the answer, it makes me laugh.
Yeah, but the problem is that a lot of plastics don't get dumped in landfill. They reach the water, and the micro-plastics enter the food chain and produce a toxic hormonal responses in animals.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/from-fish-to-huma...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6132564/
You are welcome to try, but I can tell you right now that a UI that places words in a text at different depths is a terrible idea. Depths is simulated by varying parallax and vergence. And forcing a permanent vergence adjustment is a strain on the eye muscles. Plus you get to enjoy the vergence-focus mismatch from the fixed headset focal distance to the fullest. This is a headache-inducing cue.
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I am so glad they own RedHat now... IBM will not destroy everything good about RedHat, no no /s
I would assume that most countries would have the ability to create cloth bags locally. Which raises the question: where does the clothing people wear come from and what is its environment impact? Also: where do all the plastic bags get created?

Personally, I would think that plastic makes for a great low-resource material, as long as we make sure it is recycled or burnt. But the plastic in the sea has become a far too serious problem. And yes, the biggest sources of plastic in the sea are places where plastics doesn't get caught in a proper disposal system. Helping there would also be a priority.

Yet, as with many other things, the rather rich countries - we tend to call ourselves "developed" - have a burdon to lead ahead with the reduction of the plastic waste. Either by developing alternatives or plastics, which decompose quickly enough to be no problem when escaping into nature.
Which is ironic, because even the most ardent Perlies among us were wringing our hands about its inevitable decline well before then.
I used this list as a starting point when I went to Japan last year, ended up visiting a few of the ones on the list and a couple of other "music bars" as well, including a hip-hop/funk/soul bar in Shinjuku ("Bar Box" I think it was called) one in Osaka dedicated to 80s rock and hair metal, "FREAK." If nothing else it's worth it to listen to one of these hi-fi soundsystems if you (like me) spend your time listening to compressed audio from a streaming service on a normal pair of headphones... the difference is night and day.
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I have an unlimited 50/50 fiber connection for around 25 USD a month. 3/4G is also fast and reliable but not unlimited.
Similar to the current charge in Denmark which is around 3.75 DKK(€0.5) per large plastic bag
My local Aldi normally has a box of boxes in most aisles. My local Tesco has it (unhelpfully, considering how many tills there are) near the exit.

I suspect that part of it is that many of the boxes are now trays designed for shelf display. The shelf-stacker just unwraps it and puts it on the shelf. This also makes the boxes slightly less useful for putting your shopping in, as the original contents were held in place by plastic wrap.
The submitted title was "IBM fired 100,000 employees to be more appealing to Millenials". Unless that was Bloomberg's original title and subsequently changed, this was a case of editorializing and making a title more baity, which breaks the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. We take away submission privileges from accounts who do that, so please don't do that.
Interesting problem. Of course I would still press the spam button upon receiving the second email and given that I use gmail, it would probably hurt your send rates.

Might want to fix that with a filter on the queues.
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I think the other user here had a great example with his sister’s escape room. If you want to visit one how would you find it if it’s not on your way to work?
I was fond of IBM (I still have their centennial book, which I find very interesting).

I was fond of IBM... Until I had the change of being interviewed by one of their HR people in the local branch (nothern Italy).

That was the worst interview experience ever.

This woman called me as soon as I emailed her some details about me, including my phone number, without any kind of prior agreement or scheduling, and puth me through an enormous amount of questions, all while being extremely rude, until we reached the compensation topic, to which she replied that they were looking for someone with double my experience but for less money.

Ugh.
We need more of this, and more spending and results in space research. Not only because we are destroying our own planet, but also because we as a species have been stagnating for quite some time.
The rate of increase must have been declining (i.e. rate of rate of increase negative) in order for it to have peaked. This was probably detectable.
> analog processing happens continuously and at an SNR that is equivalent to a very high bit depth

16 bits is roughly 100dB, and achieving more than that is usually a serious engineering challenge. I'd like to see crosstalk rejection numbers for this system.

There are people working in the other direction, trying to use analogue for implementing the calculations of neural nets, and they tend to target the equivalent of 8 bit depth.
"2.1km"

I hope theres more planned, thats barely worth going out of your way to catch.
You need to check very carefully before you can conclude they were bio-degradable. I have only seen degradable plastic carry bags in the UK which were not in fact bio-degradable. Traditional plastic bags manufactured to be falling into pieces don't mean that their pieces are good for the environment (rather the inverse). Real bio-degradable bags do exist but they are weaker and feel rubbery, and they are probably more expensive to make and people likely don't appreciate them, so you generally don't see them (the bags distributed by some London councils for collecting compost are of the real kind). See this older comment of mine:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10763281
sounds like you should be paying someone to do the shopping for you.