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> Per capital growth is also not sufficient. Such a metric could easily be achieved by slowly reducing the population to 1

Only if the 1 person can continue to increase their productivity with nobody else to trade with, which is absurd. Increasing productivity comes from specialization and trade.
> I am, however, suspicious that there have been so very many editorials about this when so many people in conservative circles love to talk about "far left academia" who are "stiffing free speech" and are taking the terrible actions of a small number of people as representative of all of academia.

I'm sure that's not what you meant, but this sounds like you're suggesting it shouldn't be reported on (in depth) because it gives critics ammunition.
How often do you encounter situations where your values start off below 2^53 and then later grow above 2^53? How often do you deal with integers greater than 53 bits where the app doesn't immediately fail when the exact value is not correct (i.e. unique IDs or crypto keys)? I feel like these are edge cases which would rarely come into play in most software.
Way overblown, none of the speech is identifiable back to the user, unlike google which need to use it to target ads. He can get triggered quite easily from reading his political posts
> It doesn't make any sense to sell part of your company to a random set of people, just to pay them back over time.

It's unfortunate that this doesn't make sense to you, because that it literally the original purpose of shares in a company.

Someone wants to finance a voyage to a far-off land to trade. To do so, they form a company and issue shares of the company. The profits off the voyage (if any) are then divided amongst the shareholders, in proportion to shares held. It was a pretty good idea.

(Debt is not the same as equity, not sure why you are talking about mortgages).
What do you use now? Seems to me like the only decent solution is UPnP.
All that may be true--but any F500 will (or already has) strike a heavily discounted deal with WeWork. And WeWork already has small gross margins. And WeWork is still shouldering the risk of matching heavy long terms obligations with short term revenues. And F500 companies have already been doing exactly that for decades with Regus.
In case of a (possible false) rape accusation, what kind of evidence is enough to separe a father from his children for 5 or 10 years and not enough to send him to prison?
Hey, at no point did I made a claim that there's no alpha in the market. I generated around 25% annually myself on a fairly large balance sheet and made reference to rentech's stellar performance several times. AND I'm working on a new commercial project which relies on finding alpha. but yes the rest of your comments are valid and fair.

Also, for the other comments I edited the post to add links because I was asked several times what I was up to now.
It appears that We has a functional product they're delivering to buying customers; but at severely-questionable future profitability. Theranos claimed they had a product that achieved results it couldn't, customers they didn't have. It seems the difference is between profit viability (We) and fraud (Theranos).
The most interesting part of this article is the term "Community Adjusted EBITDA". It's not a term invented by the Prof but something used by WeWork. I remember Warren Buffett/Charlie Munger calling EBIDTA as bulls* earnings [1]
but community adjusted EBITDA just smells like someone in Enron got hired by the We company recently. It almost feels like We IPO is the bellwether for an upcoming crash :-(

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/brentbeshore/2014/11/13/ebitda-...
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I'd argue for "actively bad".

The pretense of truth isn't just a a distraction; for a large enough group of people with a great number of articles, it's a fog. It prevents all but the eagle-eyed or the timely from penetrating it to discover truth.
I was sailing during one of the periods that they shifted the shipping lanes. It was terrifying being on a small craft without AIS and not knowing when I entered/exited the shipping lanes.

The existing shipping lanes are well charted, and have been on those charts for several decades. I hope that if they do choose to move the lanes, the do it permanently so that charts can be updated.
Early browsers did in fact support gopher. (some still do)
It was introduced into the software in 2012

That's not the "stable protocol that's been around for decades" situation that FTP is in.
Even relatively liberal Washington State, which is culturally similar to BC, is an open carry state. Many Canadians would be uncomfortable to find some random dude walking around the super market with a gun.
This is a great question, and the answer is "it's complicated". The core `tracing` libraries don't use either; instead, they provide an interface for `Subscriber`s (the pluggable component that collects & records trace data, kind of like a logger but fancier) to implement a way of tracking whatever contexts they care about. The typical approach is for the subscriber to track a current span per thread, but they could implement something else.

`tracing` instruments futures by wrapping them with a future combinator that enters a span each time the future is polled; the `#[tracing::instrument]` attribute will do the same thing under the hood when used on an `async fn`. This is kind of analogous to the Go-style context parameter, in that the contexts are stored in structures or on the stack, except that users don't have to manually pass the context around.

The core library provides an option to set the `Subscriber` that collects trace data in a scope; this does use thread-local storage. However, the default dispatcher can also be set globally (like the `log` crate), and the use of thread-locals is feature-flagged so it can be turned off by `no-std` users.

Finally, I have some thoughts on an abstraction for "context-local" storage that allows the user to customize the context that's used to shard the data. This could be used like a user-space version of OS thread-locals when threads are present, but it could also be used by bare metal code for (say) having a context for each CPU core. This would allow subscriber implementations to track a span per thread by default, but let embedded or kernel-mode users override this without having to reimplement the rest of the subscriber logic. This is still in the early stages though.

Hope that all makes sense; I'm happy to answer any further questions!
I sincerely hope the GP is a troll. No matter, the comment's dead now.
I’ve got no idea what he’s said to investors but it sounds like they’ve been repeatedly surprised by things like his real estate holdings and ownership of the trademark.
I feel like a lot of this perception comes from a tendency for people to equate Kanji characters with words. I always explain to others that a character is kind of like a root, e.g. Sub-optimus-al = suboptimal. It would be crazy to say one can learn English by memorizing just a few hundred Latin roots and suffixes, and in fact such a claim is so irrelevant nobody even keeps track of the statistics.
Twice this week I’ve heard of EBITDA, the last conversation while taking an outdoor break with a coworker bemoaning some head scratching strategy choices from management where I work.

Thanks for the explainer link.
> Writing is the bicycle of the mind

Are you thinking about Ted Chiang's "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_of_Fact,_the_Truth_o...
Why would they need to find ways to avoid a referendum. Less than half of the Scottish people want a referendum and they had one in 2014.

How often does a country need to have a referendum on independence of regions that are so inclined to be said to support self determination? Also the polls leading up to 2014 were close enough that the result wasn't certain, yet the government went ahead.

I never said the UK would be happy with Scottish Independence. But if Independence was the clear preference of the people, the UK would let them go. The same can be said for the US and Puerto Rico, but not for China.

>never

You said their position was "not to allow", which makes it sound like the Scottish people clearly want one but the UK won't allow it. That is not the case.
This strongly reminds me about this over on Stack Exchange: https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/141278/complai...
Here's some stuff where it would bite me in my work:

- I sometimes use random 64 bit integers in my data (usually as cheaper synthetic guid-like keys).

- I sometimes use CRC-64 hashes.

- I sometimes use 2^63 as a sentinel.
> some JSON parsers (include JS.eval) parse it to 9223372036854776000 and continue on their merry way

This is correct behavior though...? Every number in JSON is implicitly a double-precision float. JSON doesn’t distinguish other number types.

If you want that big a string of digits in JSON, put it in a string.

Edit: let me make a more precise statement since several people seem to have a problem with the one above:

Every number that you send to a typical JavaScript JSON parser is implicitly a double-precision float, and it is correct behavior for a JavaScript JSON parser to treat a long string of digits as a double-precision float, even if that results in lost precision.

The JSON specification itself punts on the precise semantic meaning of numbers, leaving it up to producers and consumers of the JSON to coordinate their number interpretation.
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Interesting idea. If you immersed them in a game where they could protest & fight injustices, would they be less prone to looking for things to protest irl? I mean, besides "not having time to protest because I'm playing this game".
While I think debating ways to implement UBI is a very valuable thing as it may eventually lead to a realistic solution, it doesn't take reading much into this "thought experiment" to realize it's a naive, New Age sort of happy happy joy joy utopia.
I mostly use Youtube with autoplay, recommendations and automatic mixes. I also use Pandora a lot to discover more of some style of music.

Sometimes there are gems on Mixcloud mixes, and occassionally I Shazam a song that is playing.

Quite often I just ask a DJ when a really interesting song is playing.

Soundcloud also has lots of interesting music and artists.

Discogs is a good service to check discographies.

I have lots of musical playlists on Youtube at https://youtube.com/peterhil/playlists
I think there is another post on HN right now about how computers are more like appliances today and no longer as readily programmable as they were before.

And looking at that problem, you realize that a shell is a huge part of the tinkerability of an OS and bash has dropped the ball in that regard. It's like it's frozen in 70s.

We should be moving towards something like a LISP machine where the whole system is exposed through your shell itself. Perhaps, we can start using Chrome dev tools console something like a shell, a good first step might be using typescript for the shell.
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By following Chrome every time Google wants to removes access to parts of the web not sufficiently encrypted (to thwart ISP competition for ads and data) or not serving ads (like FTP) Firefox is working to keep Chrome relevant.

It has been going on for years.
> I mean, imagine I'm an employee of BigBank in BigCity.

Companies like BigBank will have offices in dozens of cities around the world with frequently shifting office needs. A WeWork type company can definitely fill a role for them. But that niche is already filled and it's a tough business. At this point WeWork is renting out space for less than they paid for it. Obviously that's good for market share but not a good sign for long term viability.
I played the game on a CRT monitor back in the day, would like to emulate that look. You’re correct, there were no visible black bars on VGA PC monitors.

The screen was fuzzy so it actually looked a lot better than it does in an LCD monitor due to a natural “aliasing” effect from bleed/blur/glow.

I know video game emulatores like MAME have good ones but didn’t know there was a filter for DOSBox, will try that!
Probably most legitimate and transparent tactic to counter western bias TBH. Even western MSM has acknowledged the increasing violence and erosion of support in the last week, but social media is still an interminable filter bubble of bias.
Internet radio, especially college stations. They have the most eclectic playlists and will range from standards to songs released 10 minutes ago.

The NPR All Songs Considered podcasts can also have interesting music finds, especially when they do themed shows.
You mean using something like typescript as a shell language? That could work and it would leverage the javascript runtime and yet provide the rich type system and benefits.
In Japan they shut down each plant yearly for inspection. Everywhere else it's done on the refueling cycle. The plant I worked at was on a two year cycle so each year one of the two plants shut down for about an 8 week refuel/overhaul outage.
Very similar story here.

Every bank since WF that i've interacted with has been splendid; I think it's just that WF set such a low floor for expectations that ANY decent bank seems far ahead.
It seems that startinsert added to the .vimrc is also a possible start.
I've lived in Washington my entire life (except for a stint in Vancouver) and have never seen anyone walk around with open carry in public. Technically it's on the books but once again the average day to day experience isn't people walking around at Costco strapped up. This is what I'm talking about, everyone talks about how insane the US is, but our day to day life isn't that different.

I wonder how many have actually been?

edit:
this is not to take away from the serious challenges that the US has when it comes to many issues. I am by no means excusing our income inequality or absurd healthcare system. Just trying to convey a perspective from someone who lives there. There's a lot we need to improve but this isn't the wild west either.
That's only the case for an operator that is rarely used. Once it becomes a primitive of your language, a heavier name gets in the way. You've integrated its meaning now, so you no longer need it explained, but the cost of the extra length continues forever. This is why we don't write, say, "x multiply y". Given this tradeoff, I'd say xargs and cut are good names for those commands: rich enough to convey a large portion of what they do, but short enough to be wieldy and—critically for shells—not to take up too much of a line.
Bash doesn't even have a definite grammar. What are you going to provide intellisense on?
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Syntax aside, I think the original mistake is IDLs, schemas, and other attempts at formalism.

WSDL, SOAP, and all their precursors were attempted in spite of Postel's Law.

Repeating myself:

Back when I was doing electronic medical records, my two-person team ran circles around our (much larger) partners by abandoning the schema tool stack. We were able to detect, debug, correct interchange problems and deploy fixes in near realtime. Whereas our partners would take days.

Just "screen scrap" inbound messages, use templates to generate outbound messages.

I'd dummy up working payloads using tools like SoapUI. Convert those known good "reference" payloads into templates. (At the time, I preferred Velocity.) Version every thing. To troubleshoot, rerun the reference messages, diff the captured results. Massage until working.

Our partners, and everyone I've told since, just couldn't grok this approach. No, no, no, we need schemas, code generators, etc.

There's a separate HN post about Square using DSLs to implement OpenAPI endpoints. That's maybe 1/4th of the way to our own home made solution.
While it’s a valid point, there are many workarounds.

Also even in json, splitting documents in smaller chunks (ndjson for instance) is the standard practice to avoid having to parse it all in one go.
The difference is that IE in 1999 was made by a giant corporation that profited from selling software, and not from monetising/tracking/advertising.
You are probably using the wrong keyword. One trick is to select the article that is closer to the topic you want, and try to pick a few keyword from that article. And then iterate this. Sometimes it converges to the right location.

(What topic? Perhaps we can help.)
You can do advanced Google searches:

healthcare disparities among transgender patients "doi" after:2015:09-01

When you find an interesting article, use the doi number (e.g. 10.1371/journal.pone.0156210) here to get the full article:

http://sci-hub.tw/
Looking at the source for Descent would be rather fascinating - it was certainly one of the earliest examples of a 'true' 3D engine, with 3DoF, where DOOM was still locked to flat surfaces.

(ZDoom, and the beyond-incredible Sonic fan game SRB2, based on the DOOM II source, both support slopes in their engine, at this point).

I'm not gonna lie, Descent blew my mind when I was like 11 and fiddling with the DOOM II source.
There is little in this thread which even gets close to approaching incivil. And every time the systemd guys talk about online abuse, they always mention the worst of it, the death threats and other abuse from 4chan. Even if HN outright banned anything other than glowing praise of SystemD, that would not make a difference.

I'll reiterate: the notion of 'community' in this discussion is borderline meaningless and any attempt to govern it will fail for exactly that reason, and therefore any solution to the problem of SystemD developers feeling besieged that is predicated on governing the 'community' is, frankly, worthless.
Worth noting on the wireless side that this unit, if plugged to Ethernet, will create a dedicated SonosNet network your other Sonos speakers would then automatically join. So it’s not just a client, it’s also a base station.
Ask HN: Being a hacker, which books engaged your inquisitive mind the most?
This is a broad category but I hope that's fine. Looking for mostly non-fiction recommendations, but mandatory fiction reads are welcome too.

The keywords here are 'fascinating' and 'stimulating'. I hope that gives you an idea. Hackers by Steven Levy, Fermat's theorem, Digital Gold, American Kingpin, 1984 etc fits the bill perfectly for me. As for anime/manga, Liar game and Death note were the unbeatable.

'Godel, Escher, Bach' is on my list, but can't decide on Neal Stephenson's books due to the mixed reviews.

So which books fascinated you the most?
> FYI, in Sweden there's actually a museum dedicated to a ship that sank 1000 yards on its maiden voyage during a time when shipbuilders didn't use diagrams but were overseen by a master architect

In case anyone got curious, that's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa_(ship)
> The bank informed Mr. Einaudi that it was closing all 13 of the checking accounts it provided his roofing company, CRV Construction, for a reason it called “confidential.”

> Citibank did that to two of my accounts. Good thing they weren't with Wells Fargo, or I probably would have gotten the same treatment. But I still get messages from Citibank about the phantom accounts and how I'm not maximizing their potential. Amazingly, I can still log in to the accounts online and see that they are closed.

They probably have to retain login to allow export of your statements.
This.

High intelligence people often seek other goals, such as the relatively complete freedom of time while having their needs met.

You only get so many years... How many of them are you going to spend doing something that you care about rather than some "means to an end" task?

To many smart people, real agency is the only currency worth persuing... And you only need a trivially achievable amount of money well spent to achieve relative freedom.

So many zero marginal cost things can provide 10-100k a year, and if you are willing to travel, 10k is more than enough to free up 100 percent of your time.

Projects you may wish to work on might require additional funding, but for anything worth doing, it is usually easy to find people willing to throw money at it IME. There's more money looking for good ideas than ideas looking for money, especially as interest rates begin to go negative.
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Perl allows this. Perl allows easy string stream manipulations, file manipulation, and runs external programs easily with backticks or qx(). As soon as a shell script has more than a single loop and conditional, you can rewrite it in Perl instead, just as terse, more readable and way faster. Just use Perl, the Swiss Army Chainsaw.
Wells Fargo has been in the news for one fiasco or another for 20 years. How are they still in business? Their reputation is terrible. I guess people don’t talk about their banks that much.
The technology is too expensive is utter nonsense.
Nuclear is maybe the most cost effective energy source humanity has, France win tons of money by selling exceeding energy production to e.g germany.
Funny that every company I've worked at is ok with MIT and won't touch GPL with a 10 foot pole.
> > Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

FTA:

> During heavy blizzards, he ordered defendants to clear snow at a retirement home.

I didn't check them all. This one however, I find dubious. Because essentially he is putting these defendants in harmful, dangerous weather.
Imagine you are an employee of MidSizedBank in MidSizedCity but happen to live and work in BigCity because your company has enough business with BigCity companies that it makes sense to have a local presence for face to face meetings. MidSizedBank isn't quite sure how much business they will actually be doing out of BigCity over the next five years and do not want to commit to a space just yet but currently have six people in BigCity and have teams day-tripping in for 2-3 days every couple of weeks. WeWork provides the space and general office infrastructure and MidSizedBank has flexibility for this remote team.

The WeWork I am at in London is filled with companies like this. Docker's UK team, PagerDuty's EU branch, more small quant teams than you can shake a stick at, etc.

You may have better coffee and wifi at your house, but the rest of your team is not interested in crashing in your kitchen all day...
Just not in altcoins. Just don't.
Discogs, RateYourMusic, Wikipedia, occasionally online publications.

New music is not limited to contemporary releases; at this point we have a vast wealth of musical history available to us, with detailed primary and secondary information constantly being added to online indices.

It can be overwhelming. Streaming services provide a convenient solution to this problem, but lack context (and often content).

The growing archive demands we build a narrative. Think of your favourite artists; who were their influences, contemporaries, collaborators? All of this information is readily accessible. Look for side projects, collaborations, interviews, and retrospective articles. Context provides innumerable clues for where to go next. A few clicks and you can find yourself in new worlds, but also understand something of how you arrived there. A small selection of well-researched artists can blossom into a constellation given time, and new music will appear in multitudes.
That's well and good, but an inspection is only as good as the inspectors and workers are honest and feel empowered to shut the whole deal down.

It's one thing to implement and andon cord, but it's quite another to get workers to actually use it.
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Just like so many other comments in this thread, you're describing powershell. There's autocomplete for parameter names in the basic powershell.exe prompt, but VS Code, VS, and PowerShell ISE (integrated script environment) all show argument types and docs through intellisense.