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The big takeaway for me is that fundamentally tax policy needs to be redistributive. That idea has been under assault in America for decades, along with the idea of government itself, and it's been very successful. Both parties are effectively on board with that. But that is what real change would be.

It's not something small like a basic income, which has become popular for certain VCs and people in Silicon Valley to promote, but real massive and transformational programs that would actually cost those people something. Frankly I think UBI is a cynical ploy to give people some nominal amount to avert something more substantial like Medicare For All (or some other universal healthcare system).

My own politics was pretty neoliberal until a few years ago (markets, globalization, free trade!) but now I'd say I'm firmly in the Elizabeth Warren/Bernie Sanders camp. I will vote for anyone that wants universal healthcare, puts a price on carbon emissions, strengthens labor, and takes on monopoly (in the tech industry but other sectors as well).
I don’t think such a conversation would do any good. If you had had a good relationship you would probably already know what’s going on. I don’t like exit interviews where you get asked why you are leaving. These questions should have been asked much earlier.

Personally I don’t think seeking such a conversation when somebody is leaving won’t do good for anybody.
> I'm not following the jump from some commercial product turning out to be vaporware to it being an OSS problem.

They're all open source projects. Sure, I can grab the Gerber files and try my hand at surface mount soldering. But like any open source project where the build system is too archaic it's massively beneficial to start from an already assembled version.
But how would they know it's from Lyft?
I think we are seeing the weaponization of climate hysteria being used for regime change of the Jair Bolsonaro government.
Not a fan of Jair Bolsonaro or burning forests, just making that point.
I am pretty sure the meaning of that saying is that the structure of your life will not be fundamentally different after enlightenment, not that there is some virtue in performing routine chores
Deploying 5G mm-wave "everywhere" seem like a huge expense.

How will telecomm's justify that ? what do you see as the big use cases ?
Microwaves operate using standing waves (that's what does the cooking). Wi-Fi doesn't.

People who say "WiFi is like a microwave" aren't trying to educate other people about the EM spectrum. They're trying to fearmonger by saying "WiFi is cooking you like a microwave".
> Netflix, youtube, and facebook can stream fine on lower bandwidth links.

They really cannot, at least with quality levels that make people actually want to watch them.

> The economic value of high resolution mobile streaming seems rather low, at best.

Many multi-billion dollar companies and streaming services would disagree. As would many investors.

> Most likely negative, because most content is just time-wasting, and because content that actually matters tends to not depend so much on resolution beyond SD or basic HD (720p)

This is entirely your opinion about what content you prefer. Once again, there's literally hundreds of billions of dollars that says otherwise.

> 5G might be better than 4G for mobile side energy use, but unless it's close to 802.11ax levels and mobile providers offer cheap bandwidth-limited service plans, I don't see why anyone would use it for IoT applications.

This is not the problem 5G solves. It solves latency, availability and throughput.

> I'm sure new businesses will capitalize on increased bandwidth from 5G, but I'm doubtful that it will benefit society.

You are doubtful that the creation of numerous companies, highly paid jobs and adding hundreds of billions of dollars to the US economy won't benefit society?
Not everything is a grand conspiracy. In fact, most things are not. This is most likely getting attention now, because it's related to the Amazon fires which successfully got our attention.
>In fact, no identifiable, readable text has been recovered from inside a closed Herculaneum scroll.

But why? Doesn't that seem like a minimal requirement to prove the technique worked? Did you find any text or not?
> And on the materialist side we have similar quackery with phrenology, bogus medicines...

Yes, but the key distinction here is that phrenology or bogus medicine are testable. If you claim phrenology predicts something but then statistics show that this isn't the case, phrenology is proven wrong. It's more difficult with medicine, but it's at least possible.

Furthermore, we know that many of our "materialist" theories in physics are wrong. We know it because they disagree with experiment. However, they still have enough predictive power to be very useful.

> ...Darwinian evolution, and the like.

I'm not sure what you mean here. The principles behind Darwinian evolution are easily reproduced. Re-creating billions of years of evolution in a lab would be difficult, of course.

> The important question is whether one paradigm allows us to explain reality better than the other, and dualism does this very well.

I don't think it does it well at all. An explanation that you can not test isn't useful. In fact, a wrong explanation that you can test is more useful.

There's an infinite number of "dualist" explanations, all of which we cannot test. So which one to choose? Why stop at dualism, why not make it trialism? Why not infinitism?

Why not just say that there's an infinite number of intangible interactions, that every mind in the universe is connected with every other mind through a mesh spanning an infinite-dimensional hyperplane? You can't prove that this isn't the case, why not believe that one instead?

> There is no materialistic explanation for consciousness, free will, abstract thought or mathematics.

Well, so what? All of the "dualist" explanations are equally useless, so I might as well do without any explanation whatsoever.

> Instead, those who follow materialism strictly end up denying such things, and we end up with incoherent and inaccurate theories about the world.

Inaccurate and incoherent theories that are testable can nevertheless be very useful. Coherent theories that are untestable are useless, unless maybe you can turn them into a religious cult.
That's a lot of downvotes :X

Agreed with the other comments that npm install will become a CLI version of annoying popups and banners that are EVERYWHERE on sites now.

Plus - who controls it? The core package author? Can the dependencies log their own messages to?
It's a real shame internet is controlled by telecoms
%s/a permanent revolution/evolution/g
Almost all plastic in the ocean comes from just 10 rivers
Sad that we need these in our CLI now too :(
Streaming is downloading, but without the timeshifting properties you get from storing the media to flash. With properly downloadable media, you can download in the evening, on your wired residential connection, and watch during the day when you only have a cellular connection.
A 360° video is one which has been recorded with a 360° field of view. Add in software + a head mounted display, and you can turn your head to view the video in different directions.

It's a fun novelty, but it should not be conflated with VR. If you move your head forwards or backwards (as opposed to rotating your head), the environment does not adjust itself to match your new position, because it's just a prerecorded video. Without this ability, you can't trick your brain into believing it's in a real place.

I only brought up 360° video because the GP mentioned "livestreaming videos to VR headsets [at] 2x8k@120hz", and there's no other type of video you can stream to a VR headset†. Real VR, with positional tracking, needs a 3D modeled environment, like a video game. We may be on the cusp of being able to stream traditional video games, but VR needs much lower latency than that—around 30ms for absolutely everything in the chain.

I don't think AR is any different in this regard. If the processing is being done on-device the assets are small and you don't need 5G. If the processing is being done remotely, you've got that same latency problem.

How does 5G benefit AR?

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† Well, okay, there have been some weird experiments, but they preclude standard resolution measurements. They also require an order of magnitude more data—5G won't cut it.
I’d love to see this! Imagine if we could see the childhood pictures from famous artists. Not suggesting your code is famous, maybe it is, but still I’m sure you’ve grown a lot since then.
JavaScript library is now adding paid advertisements to users' terminals
There's a quote from Niels Bohr that's helpful here, "The opposite of a trivial truth is trivially false; the opposite of a great truth is also true."

Where people go astray is mistaking the one for the other. If someone is wrong about a point of fact, it's easy (and potentially valuable) to correct them. If you find yourself wanting to correct someone on their ideology or value system (liberal vs. conservative, religious vs. atheist, tabs vs. spaces), you've set yourself an impossible task. All you can do is 1) agree on common facts, 2) make your opinion as clear as possible (in that order).
Brasil's recently-elected fascistic president Bolsonaro has been fanning the flames, so to speak, as regards Amazon burning. That's attracted a sharp global response, including trade and financial actions.

The political granstanding and sensationalising starts there.
Because I'm a structural engineer, I like to think about the future of structures, not bicycles. Many good ideas came about by taking something from one obvious application and transferring it to another. I also don't think we will be using reinforced concrete in the year 2070 the same way or as extensively as we are now - the carbon footprint is too large. Maybe these new materials can spawn completely new types of structural systems that were never possible with conventional strengths and stiffness. Low weight is ultimately a goal of structural engineering as well, but not to the same extreme as sporting goods. Obviously cost comes into play, but many things that were once prohibitively expensive are now used on structures, including carbon fiber.

Elasticity (or in the case of conventional materials, ductility) is a trait that has applications in seismic design, so I disagree with your last claim. The trick is combining the good parts of that material with the good traits of other materials into a composite that achieves stability under gravity and predictable deformability under seismic loads.
> How do you manage errors?

It becomes unwieldy like every other language.

> What happens if Questionnaire.xlsx or Sheet1 doesn't exist ?

Runtime exception.

I've seen too much Clojure code (and this goes for every language where error handling is optional - Hi Javascript!) just skip error handling and focus on "happy path".

And as demonised as Java's checked exceptions are, they at least forced error handling to be thought of.
Probably not much. Trees grow back, clouds reflect light, and the actual heat release is not so large. Krakatoa cooled the climate for comparison. The impact on ecosystems is more severe.
I start to be A Dick when faced with silly behaviour. If I'm wrong, let me know with evidence and I will appreciate it or outright say I'm wrong. If I'm right then accept it or at the very least acknowledge the evidence against.

Right, wrong, who cares, just so longs as one of us learns then the world's a better place and that's what I want.

If someone keeps pushing a losing position or asserts X without justification, or can't be bothered to read what I wrote, or a post with evidence I spent time collating gets downvoted sans reason, I get pissed off and The Dick races out of the blue corner, fists swinging[0] (and DanG often ends up wielding the big stick to calm things down).

How do I cope with it? - I am thinking of leaving HN. It's avoiding the problem not solving it, but it's a solution of sorts.

[0] Well I hope those are his fists swinging.
This is true for us too. The behavior of ours is due to how airline fare rules are filed which creates all sorts of silly things.
I came across a comment on HN not too long ago that really resonated with me. The commenter mentioned that they do not comment to have a conversation with the OP. Instead, they treat commenting as writing notes about the topic at hand. Because of this, they don't expect responses or anticipate an argument (or even conversation). They mark down their thoughts and move on. It's been a really effective mindset for me thus far ad has shaped my responses for the better.
I'm definitely guilty of using and promoting anemic models. I find that teams have a hard time deciding whether logic is service or domain or whatever and gravitate towards putting everything in one place if domain objects are allowed to be at all smart. On the other hand, people do well with the rule that logic belongs in procedural layers with clear names and some sort of maximum size/complexity.

I also find that these discussions matter less in microservices because the size of each service is so small that you usually don't need more than two layers: one for business logic and one for persistence.

I very much agree that microservices create their own challenges at service interfaces, but since these boundaries are usually expressed as http operations instead of object oriented function calls, I look for different solutions, especially various forms of system-wide introspection and testing.
There was rampant government censorship, it was at the state level all because the Supreme Court said motion pictures weren't protected by the 1st amendment in 1910, reversing itself in 1950s after the damage was done and culture wide censorship was expected by American families. Circumstances like this are why industries don't lay off on lobbying.

To add to your second point, a lot of European and Middle Eastern people changed their names to blend into the white majority power as their subgroup was not seen favorably for most of the 20th century and were many times not considered to be part of an amorphous “white” group which meant worse treatment in jobs housing credit and court rulings, this issue and distinction has mostly evaporated with "white" being expanded and reduced to skin tones in the later 20th century in the US with there very little interest or cognizance of pre-US heritage. This just being another example how invisible minorities and ability to "pass" to attain privileges, where people with different skin tones and visible phenotypes simply could not change those things and discovered that people with other similar phenotypes experienced surprisingly similar outcomes.
It's probably a mix. I don't use them a lot but, when I do, it's mostly because taxi dispatch tends to suck, payment can be a pain when the card reader is "broken" (and in any case is usually a less straightforward process). The main time I'll often still use cabs is from the airport because they're right there; I use pre-booked private cars to and from my own airport. So price isn't really a factor.

But, to the degree that some people are using them to replace other forms of transportation, including car ownership at the margins, price does matter. A lot of rides people take today would probably not be taken at 2x pricing.
Letters To A Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke
At the time and place that quote was written, wisdom referred to leadership, or reliable old people. And leaders would use their physical, mental or monetary abilities instead of talking people down in public display.

This "who can talk better to convince the crowd" business appeared more than once throughout history and was at it's peak effectiveness among the scientific community during the enlightenment phase of europe where your peers are actually as intelligent or more intelligent than you are, and your tools are empirical evidence rather than your charisma.

The idea later reverted to it's hellenistic form of democratic political dialogue which is only effective as the critics of it's listeners, or the demos.
While not exact physics we have plenty of real world constraints that we skillfully (or not) work our way around or use for our advantage, here are two :

- Amdalhls law

- Moores law
It doesn't matter much if your insulation is mold-resistant. Presumably it's resting against wooden beams or other things that would be friendly to mold, or the water can drip down once it condenses to something that's friendlier to mold.

You wouldn't get water from a leak, you'd get it from thin air via condensation. Ever had fog on your car window? That's water on the inside of your window, and not because the roof of your car has a hole in it that's letting water through. Water condenses out of the air.

Making sure condensation happens in the right places is one of the main jobs of well designed insulation. What you saw as shoddy work from a contractor may have been a standard insulation design that's intentionally skimpy on the internal insulation, because the condensation should happen in an outside layer.

By piling on insulation you may have moved that dew point to the inside of the house or past a layer of insulation meant to deal with it.

The rule of thumb is that you can't just add more to one layer of your overall insulation (which is everything from your outside weather layer to the paint on your inside wall) without considering the system as a whole.

Search for "hygrothermal analysis" or "dew point" in relation to outer wall insulation. You'll find resources like [1] and [2]. The former has an example where more interior without corresponding changes to the exterior makes things worse.

I'm no expert on insulation, just a fellow home DIY-er. I've had enough experience with it to be very paranoid if I were in your shoes. It's worth bringing in a professional to evaluate this home improvement job of yours,

You may have created conditions for mold to thrive in your attic, or for water to seep into structural layers of your roof. By the time you notice those sorts of problems without having to open up a wall it's often too late.

1. https://www.jlconline.com/how-to/insulation/avoiding-wet-wal...

2. http://www.superhomes.org.uk/resources/interstitial-condensa...
"Engineer" Origin:
Middle English (denoting a designer and constructor of fortifications and weapons; formerly also as ingineer ): in early use from Old French engigneor.

Also shares same root as Engine I assume. Engineers are experts in system building or some kind, the earliest being weapons, then transportation, etc.

Software Engineer is 100% an engineering role IF you are making what could be called a kind of engine. Prime example is working on a game engine's source code, and design (i.e. Unreal, Unity...), or working on a custom operating system. I've seen many people try to downplay how much software has these "engine-like" properties, where you have to pay attention at the "moving parts" (runtime), and those people simply don't see the invisible machine that's doing the work.
As I recall, Feross' standard was the first of the JavaScript style linters for Node.js via npm to propose an immutable code style without configuration options. It became the de facto standard among many early Node.js developers, and saved tons of bikeshedding time and balkanization at a really critical, early point in JavaScript's rise.

I changed my personal coding style to adopt standard. At the time, everyone I was talking and collaborating with thought the name was hilarious.

Most of us either knew Feross personally, or knew him through open source collaboration. "Entitled" doesn't fit him. Especially compared to some of the folks posting issues on many of his popular packages.
Extreme risk taking is characteristic of young men. It's not so much a rational decision as it is a mind clouded by testosterone. Sometimes it's entertaining good fun. I enjoyed Jackass as much as anybody. The problem is when such men do it without consideration for the wellbeing of those around them. Slotin didn't, he regularly performed his "tickling experiment" with other people in the room.
Profiles – blogger.co.ke – Express your mind
That's a neat idea. It would mostly help for gathering data from beginners, which would be very skewed, but I'm sure it could still be useful, especially for developing tools to help beginners.
I suppose this is just one person's opinion, but I had the opposite experience. My first time in Austin, I landed at the airport, brought up Uber, and got the message that it was not allowed. But almost immediately upon exiting the plane, I saw someone had left behind cards for RideAustin and Fasten with promo codes for each. Downloaded the app from the QR codes, opened the app, and the rest of the UX felt familiar to me. Switching was seamless.
>"I don't feel like I'm a fit for <xyz> company"

This is a really good general cop-out answer because it avoids creating hard-feelings or burning bridges if there was actually a more specific complaint (I hate working with that guy, my manager sucks, the work is super boring, product is stupid, pay sucks etc.)

First thing to check is, where the person is next going, are they going to be making more money? If so that is likely a reason. Another reason could be that they thought their potential for advancement at your company was low, at least in comparison to somewhere else. If the employee is an engineer, it could also be that they thought their learning had slowed or they were not working on the right kind of tech they wanted to for their career. For me, these career related reasons are the most likely reasons I would jump ship.

It's important to note that you shouldn't take a career-motivated jump personally. The only thing you can do is try to reorganize your company to make this less likely, by paying more, giving more opportunity for advancement, or working on/with sexier tech.

If it's not about career, it's probably either interpersonal or cultural. Maybe they feel socially excluded? Maybe their manager is too distant, an asshole, or a creep? Maybe they don't want to work as long / the same hours as everyone else?

Regardless, there is a very good chance you will never get a straight answer, or will get some fake, nice excuses. This type of thing requires introspection, not an exit interview.
Yeah, I'm really waiting for some of the physics experts on HN to give their take on this. I have a limited understanding of the basic idea behind entanglement, but I can't extend it to this case.

I gather this experiment somehow entangles photons from the sun with photons produced by the experimenters, but they're already here when that happens right? So how does the distance come into play. I think I'm probably looking at it too "classically".
Always liked the garden metaphor https://blog.codinghorror.com/tending-your-software-garden/
Wow only $7.5k a month in rent, what a steal! /s
Here's the changes between the last 13.x tag and the latest (at the moment) 14.x tag (14.0.2): https://github.com/standard/standard/compare/v13.1.0...v14.0...

Analyzing the changes I leave as an exercise to the reader.

Regardless of the effort etc. and whether or not these changes were primarily functional or related to marketing, I personally support FOS maintainers doing whatever they want with the software they offer for free. It would be trivial to make a fork of Standard without the adware if you wanted, and the MIT license explicitly allows it. So more power to feross for his free offerings! And complainers: put your fork where your mouth is.
Your comment got me thinking: If anything, most terminals have functioned as dilute advertisements for the Free Software Foundation for decades now. Especially via license-mandated attribution notices.
While the article was addressing more than just elite philanthropy, it was one of the issues touched upon here and this post is highly relevant reading every time criticism of billionaire philanthropy comes up:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/07/29/against-against-billio...
The Dalai Lama's Response to a Question about Refugees (2018) [video]