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Great way to kill a city's economy. Instead of the bookstore I go to (which often requires me to come twice for a given book), I will now order online. I will not window-shop, and I will not find that cool-looking sweater in the store next to the bookstore. I will also not have a coffee at he cafe on the way to the garage.

My monies will no longer benefit these businesses, and if enough people stay away, they will eventually have to shut down. Storefronts will be boarded up, meanwhile, somewhere next to an interstate, another Amazon Warehouse grows.

This trend has already started, especially in small-to mid-sized European cities (large ones seem to hang on a bit longer, mostly because their public transit systems were heavily updated in the late 20th century). But even in Berlin, or Munich, or Paris I start noticing storefront rot - increasingly more shops, often specialized ones (which served as focal points for customers from afar who might then use that day to do secondary purchases) go out of business.

In the end, you will have very dense city centers filled with large-brand stores, next to major traffic hubs, and slums around it. Cities will lose their one major advantage: the desirability of living there.
One could say anything, but while it's unsurprising that women's achievements are highlighted because they are objectively a minority in a field that, like other fields, was shown to suffer from sexism in numerous studies, the response was different from when a man's achievement is highlighted, and that, too has been shown in studies. So I do think empirical observation is on my side as well.
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The author of these tweets is also the author of the report, and he claims that he did provide a methodology [0]. The report can be found here: https://sparktoro.com/blog/how-much-of-googles-search-traffi... .

[0] https://mobile.twitter.com/randfish/status/11591753859064381...
> The golden rule of exploration is "Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time."

... really? This feels like nothing but unrealistic idealism to me. Wherever we've gone exploring as a species throughout our history, we've left our mark (usually bad). You might dream of a reality where we change nothing at all, but it's just not how things work out in reality. And honestly, leaving a bunch of waste, which is most probably entirely sterilized and cleaner than your kitchen by now, on an uninhabited astral body with no ecosystem or atmosphere, seems a bit less egregious than wiping out local wildlife or cultures.
I disagree that customer/provider trust is equivalent to "job security".
Cargo ships are currently using diesel engines that weight up to 2,300 tons and carry more than 15,000 tons of fuel.

The ITER core currently weighs about 5100 tons. I'd expect refined fusion systems to be able to come down in weight. Even if all the supporting infrastructure weighed more than the combination of bunker oil and diesel engine, it'd have to be a lot more to negate the advantages.

As far as too complex, that really depends on the commercialization potential of fusion and how complex final designs are.
I'm part of one of those big companies that also maintains free tools and contributes back to the community because we have a vested interest in doing so.

I would value our contributions back to the community at around $500k annually, based on the comp we dump into the teams working on those tools.

Whether the shift of maintainership from unaffiliated individuals to corps is acceptable, beneficial, or harmful, is an open question.
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Well Livestock and their byproducts account for at least 32,000 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year, or 51% of all worldwide greenhouse gas emissions.

Changing your diet is easier than finding another form of transport anyway?

[1] - https://www.cowspiracy.com/facts/
As you ask more rating agencies the rating becomes more accurate. If you already know the correct rating and then intentionally pick a rating agency that would give a different score then yes it would provide zero signal.
The first line loads http://kparc.com/$/view.k, where the first lines are multiple variable definitions per line.

A non obfuscated version is at http://kparc.com/edit.k where some stuff are explained.
> The only way cash savings can be wiped out is rampant inflation, currency devaluation, or the currency being no longer accepted.

Also bail-ins. Any significant amount of cash in a bank account is a sitting target if real trouble starts. This is more likely in smaller countries like Greece.
This is where roles like VP of Engineering can be helpful[1]. However, I have to admit, I can't immediately list a ton of technical founders I've met who'd be happy to be called VP of Engineering rather than CTO.

And just because they have a job title that you can theoretically hire above doesn't mean they're going to like it. And if they don't like it they'll probably quit (might be a good thing) - I know I would.

There are other options though:

1. Put in place a development plan for your founding CTO, and other C-levels, so they can actually grow with their roles. Again, this isn't something that will work in all cases, but it can certainly help. My CEO has been through something similar, from a tiny 2 person startup, to now successfully running a 200+ person company.

2. Transition them into a new role. Tricky, and not going to work for a lot of people, but possibly an avenue worth considering.

[1] Not only can you bring in a CTO above this, but also SVP and EVP roles.
This article predates the removal of "Don't be evil" from Google's Code of Conduct by about half a year.

https://gizmodo.com/google-removes-nearly-all-mentions-of-do...
Honestly? Because I am not French and I just wrote very thoughtlessly. Sorry, no further reasoning behind it.
Sure, but then the distinction between science / not-science hasn't got that much value.

A not-science (math) is the most critical tool in the scientific toolbox, and hence contributed more to scientific progress than any isolated branch of science.
The only other option is failing mmap and malloc as well as disabling overcommit. And even that doesn't prevent death by swapping.
There's no real API to inform applications about low memory conditions.
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There's common consent that the lowest bar for some hosting to qualify for the "cloud" moniker is that it must abstract from the physical hardware. Most people would even add that it is necessary for some kind of management system to exist which allows for _automated_ provision of your resources.

Renting bare metal instead of owning does not meet this lowest bar. Getting some remote hands service on top with your rental does not change this classification.
> HN's prevailing attitude (e.g. cloudflare-shouldnt-ban-<x>).

Funny, I thought HN's prevailing attitude in the case of the recent ban of 8chan was, hell yeah, good riddance to those reprehensible twats. (Which, personally, annoyed me, because I believe that even the deplored should have a space for communication.)
Sorry, but since the book itself isn't open source, I'm not going to do your editing for free. There's plenty of paid editor sites out there. If you give me co-author credit and a slice of sales, though...
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No, they simply function in an amoral capitalist system which demands the maximum amount of profit.
Trying again. Hope you get this.
> It's about the value system, and about how arguments are evaluated.

Sure, that critique is all over the piece, and quite valid. So valid that calling attention to it again feels like beating a dead horse.

It was the 'performative erudition' part I wanted to share my experience with. HN has changed the way that I communicate and think, in ways that I couldn't put a finger on until I started reading the article. It's changed how I come across at work, how I interact with my friends and family.

> Hence, I've seen repeated suggestions that web fonts shouldn't exist because nobody needs more than one readable font or, more generally, that "design" is superfluous wastefulness at best and often akin to lying.

Why do people insist on things being pretty? Obviously they're overcompensating for deficiencies in some other area. I'll stop now before you start thinking I'm serious.
Here is a Twitter account to follow if you're interested in "good urbanism": https://twitter.com/wrathofgnon
Do you have showdead set to on? Because there's a bunch of trolls who post to HN.
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It was not removed, still part of Code of Conduct.
Without the moderation the trolls take over, and then it doesn't matter what most people here understand.
In terms of the open issue at the end, it seems like the 'obvious' solution is for (in the Zane #11 removal example) Zane #12 to then respond by promoting himself up one level in the tree and then generating new secrets for his own node and all ancestors. In this way you actively cull the blank nodes so you can't end up in the pathological situation.

Presumably this isn't done because the additional messages required to do this defeat the gains?
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Not reaching advertised boost clocks seem to be related to newer AGESA releases from AMD to motherboard vendors, so I wouldn't blame it on chip quality just yet. These contain bugfixes (RdRand for example) and other changes, but has impacted boost clocks. People running AGESA 1.0.0.2 report reaching boost clocks easily (sustained in single-core tests), while I and others running later releases have issues.

New architecture, new chipset, bound to have some release issues. Intel is on its second or third refresh of their Skylake architecture from 2015, all ironed out.
I appreciate the civil discourse you and I are having!

>You can't look at this as a local problem. It's a problem that's going to affect every country in the world, because eventually all of them are going to have a stagnating population.

Yes, it is a global issue. But, unfortunately, I am less confident we can solve for issues that affect the global population. Maybe we will learn from our climate change issue that preventative measures must be taken. Reactionary responses will be too late.

>Automation is actually the one thing that could solve this issue. If we can make things cheap enough then maybe government programs can cover it, but that's a big if in the long term. It's more likely that some generation is going to get the short end of the stick - they'll have to pay for the benefits of the older generation, but they themselves won't get those benefits.

And while I agree some level of automation will help. What you describe in your last sentence is already happening in the US, and we are making no attempt to accommodate our tax structure to these changes. The bleed

>Initially, payroll taxes for healthcare and pensions are there to cover the individual that's paying it. That is the fair share.

Interesting, I was not aware. But wouldn't this be true for other things the government provides? Such as public roads and the like? When we have Amazon paying $0 in federal tax, but shipping products using public roads...we subsidize them. Or when the richest folk do the same by storing trillions of dollars in tax havens...we subsidize them.

So maybe we should have this conversation again once we convince folks to pay their fair share. :)

Cheers!
Exactly, there should be a political push for this!
I didn't see it called out in the article but other articles have mentioned applying them and I assume that's standard practice at AnandTech.
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There's nothing wrong with the system. You're free to use any of the alternatives. You think you would have that freedom in a non-capitalist system?
It's not like the google services get much use.
As lactose intolerant I have come to find the EU policy of vast overproduction of dairy problematic. Milk powder is stocked like crude oil reserves and used to influence the market, not only in the EU but also abroad. Cattle farming in Africa can not find a foothold because European products are subsidized so heavily using money lifted from EU taxes. Instead, they compete with substandard yogurt made from milk powder and palm oil.

Milk powder gets added to all kinds of foods it does not belong in because it is too cheap, and I suffer for it when something slips onto my dinner plate. An inflamed gut leads to mental health issues, and as we now know contributes to premature aging.

To me it looks like systematic poisoning of the food supply and I think it is a catastrophe in the making that nobody talks about.
I think the distinction is between hard and soft sciences. Hard sciences like chemistry, physics, mathematics are very reliable. Barring some very special cases (where an explanation hasn't been found yet) identical conditions will produce identical results. So they're not only reproducible but you can use one to deduce the other.

Soft science like economics, psychology, sociology will have none of the 2: conditions vary, results vary, and even if you could ensure you start with absolutely identical conditions it's very implausible that the result won't be heavily influenced later on by random factors.
That 9% is just what is emitted by the soil and animals itself if does not account for the transportation and electricity costs of agriculture.
Xeon has been making 50–70% profit margin depending on the Xeon type. Intel's profit margins will take a hit when they are forced to cut prices. It's unlikely that AMD has enough manufacturing capacity to fill all demand, so Intel will still make profit.

History:

AMD had similar upper hand against Intel with their Athlon processor 20 years ago. Intel's transition to the 180 nm process was delayed and AMD's K7 Athlon was superior microarchitecture. Intel's response was to lower profit margins until AMD was in the ropes again.

This time AMD has better change, but don't count out Intel. AMD's success depends on their profit margins when competing against Intel. If Intel force AMD's profits close to zero, it can spoil AMD's technical win.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/INTC/intel/profit-...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMD/amd/profit-mar...
I think this is a side effect of self-moderation. By making everyone in the community (over a certain threshold of participation) a mini-mod you turn rules enforcement into a popularity contest. Valid, interesting, yet unpopular points get suppressed. Rules violations that are popular get ignored, and sometimes even lauded.

There is no reason, based on the HN guidelines, that the referenced post should have been downvoted, let alone flagged. Whoever did so abused their power to make such decisions.
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As the title suggested, I am a fresh grad joining a series b startup. I work in an enterprise sales team, which only consists of two people now, one senior one junior (me).

Is it possible if I have good performance, I can start a negotiation about asking for equity.
If companies are going to benefit from permissive licensed open source, they have obvious selection pressure towards that end for the code they create. I agree with you on the outcome; I'm not sure that I think it was startup culture that caused it, but rather any ecosystem where software was important and near ubiquitous would have evolved roughly the same way.

For my own hobby code, I don't see any practical benefit to GPL over MIT. I want my code to be reusable in as many cases as possible. I've seen the toxic treatment AGPL code gets (AFAICT, the main value of that license is to companies who offer dual licenses) and the wary treatment GPL v3 (or worse "v3 or later") code gets.
> I think what precludes the final victory of open source is that the world itself changed for the better.

Maybe we don't live in the same world???

> The mobile and web revolution brought easy to use software into the hands of billions.

Yes, but this software is not empowering the users, it is controlling them, isolating them, radicalizing them and making them feel more depressed.
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It’s weird how we still attach ideas of morality to a corporation.

You could say google does evil but it can’t be evil in the normal sense of the word. It’s not a person.

And you could say a Corporation is amoral. They just care about nothing except profit. The CEO and board have no duty higher than that.
Yeah, I am puzzled that MoviePass supposedly proved this model, when US cinema chains often have ownership of international subsidiaries that were doing it before MoviePass was conceived.
The problem with that is it sort of invalidates their whole "booster pack" model. Magic is also a "family" of games, so they'd either need to do some sort of tiering:

- pay fee for unlimited phantom drafts
- pay more fee for full sets (no drafting)
- pay most fee for unlimited drafts and full set

It does remove a bit of the gambling/addicting element, but it would get players like me to "support" them more.
There is possibility that you could write software at a high level and the compiler and tool chain could compute all the static allocation at build time. It could even save the plan as an output to be reused. You could run an optimiser yo optiate cache and memory usage.

If a human can do it, then an advance tool chain could do it.

Probably too expensive for most use cases.
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I haven't tried it, but have read uo a bit and seen some examples.

TBH, I'm not all that keen, possibly because it reminds me of the bad old days of webforms with code-behind files. Maybe I should try it in anger before I judge it though :)
Her colleagues disagree.

I tend to believe her colleagues over random misogynistic Internet fuckbags.
I have one too. I got it based off of the recommendation from the Wirecutter: https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-air-purifier/ .
Your examples are trendy vehicles that have hordes of fools lining up to pay multiple grand for examples that can't even move under their own power. Nobody in their right mind would say that classic VW vans or any Toyota pickup is indicative of market patterns in general. They are what the "cool kids" drive and pricing reflects that.

Diesel trucks used to be grossly overpriced too but now that most of the older stuff has aged out and the "new enough to still be kinda nice" market segment is full of emissions era diesels the crazy pricing has mostly gone away.
So it applies to employees but not to the company itself?
You definitely don’t need dairy. The jury‘s still out on whether consuming cow milk is even healthy. E.g. broccoli is a good enough calcium source.

Meat might be necessary (vegans will disagree), but previous generations have done fine with only a couple of meals per week containing meat. Research suggests that we do better on less meat. Definitely stick to poultry if you want a smaller carbon footprint.

Fruit is not necessary, as some northern populations clearly demonstrated (they didn’t have any).
Ultimately, if you're a country and you can "hide" debt, or make sure it's such a national security secret that nobody can ever know you're using tricks to hide it, you can effectively grow your country very quickly and effectively.

As long as you can cover your tracks, things are good.

And in the end, if your secret is out in the street, you don't really care because you already developed your economy, which is a huge benefit. I guess that's an advantage of what China is doing.
Google is surprisingly non-evil given it's size. Both the moral conviction of its founders as well as the lack of pressure that comes with taking in gobs of money probably contribute to it. Look no further than Facebook or Uber to see the contrast.

Unfortunately, there's no guarantee those favourable conditions persist. So despite not being evil, Google is suspect just due to it's size.

And even though Google has been actively good in many of the things it does (Summer of Code, their work with non-profits, Alphabet's various moonshot projects in the environmental or medical space), Apple has lately been giving them a run for their money in being actively and creatively a force for good in its core business, especially around privacy. It's not really something has the right to demand from them, but it does seem like they should have the potential to surprise us on occasion with technology aimed to solve the myriad problems societies are experiencing with the rising role of the web. A high-performant, hassle-free and verifiable alternative to TOR, say. Or a new paradigm that mends the growing conflict between advertisers and users, similarly to what Apple is doing with it's pseudonymous targeting scheme.
Why do you think this? Almost every top comment was critical of cloudflare's response for a variety of reasons.
Ask HN: What is the state-of-the-art environment for developing Erlang code?
I was big into Erlang in 2014, but haven't touched it since. I used to write code in Emacs and compile it there as well.

If I want to get started again (on either Windows or Ubuntu) what would be the base I'd need to get developing again?
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Companies can be more or less harmful than normal. We call humans evil not because they are the embodiment of a platonic ideal, but rather they do some list of horrid things. Similarly, some companies on net are just worse than others.

To use a strait forward example workplace safety issues are often both detrimental to a company and harmful to it’s workforce. Amazon for example will store heavy objects at their warehouses under low overhangs forcing people to carry stuff while bent over, which regularly causes back injuries. That’s actively causing the company to lose money and gets people hurt regularly.

In many ways companies are a set of policies than can and will change. But, nothing says those polices are neutral or optimal.
>Strict moderation

I don't consider the moderation on this site to be strict at all?

It's tone police more than it is content police. HN continually lets comments and statements go completely unquestioned, and in some cases actively supports view points, that are objectively wrong in the most vanilla fashion all because it was said in the correct manner.
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To do that, the mods need to keep an archive of all decisions, because the bias they'll be accused of is unknown until the accusation is posted. That archive probably looks something like https://hn.algolia.com/?query=by:dang%20please&sort=byDate&t...
Admittedly this is the truth :-) Maybe I should start watching American baseball again!
Some cultures eschew dairy almost entirely. Most of the world is lactose "intolerant" actually. Not sure why it would be considered an important part of ones diet.
I seem to remember other analyses show that the differences are consistent with the number of variable name lookups.

The while loop looks up i, n, z, x, y in every iteration.

The for loop looks up i, z, x and y in every iteration.

The list comprehension looks up i, x and y in every iteration.

The numpy one doesn't look up anything.

If you check the proportions you'll find this is compatible with this guy's data.
I'm sure there are plenty of reasonable discussion forums, mailing lists, etc. And the more gated and the more obscure they are, the more reasonable (and insular) they are.
In The Churn this week, a colleague wanted to improve a query for a widget on a dashboard. The query was perfectly fine but now I’m stuck getting the wrong results debugging everything I can find.