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> And the merit here is producing great music; working hard is not a merit

The usual textboook definition of merit in the context of a meritocracy is "talent, effort, and achievement".

> A child is never wealthy;

That's just somewhat true in our particular flavor of society, and even there children may be wealthy independently of their caretakers.

In a meritocracy where merit is essentially equivalent to wealth or currency, a child may very well be considered wealthy just on its own.
I don't see anywhere any mention of spectral efficiency. Can't find any reference number, but it seems plants grow the same under sunlight (say, 1000W/m2) as under LED lights that use only 250W/m2 or even less.

When typical solar panel gets 160 W/m2 output then the comparison isn't so lopsided as you describe.
It could also be that Ito is actually a collective intelligence made up of squirrels concealed in a business suit. Both seem rather unlikely, though.
I'm guessing here, but I think this is referring to when a new hire cannot choose the team he or she is joining.

Google et al often do general hiring. This means that they hire you and then later decide where to assign you afterwards.

I had thought at Google hiring managers could bid on you and some kind of choice could be made. But maybe that's only in big enough offices with good enough resumes.

It's bad because you don't know which team you're joining and the quality of the manager. It's good because it lets the company assign you to the most important areas first.

Contrast this with a normal process where the hiring manager for the team you're joining is in the interview loop. You know ahead of time which team you're joining.
Perhaps you should spend a bit more time around music junkies before making such authoritative statements about the market for vinyl :). I am personally close to two communities who still consume vinyl for neither of the reasons you've listed:

1. Underground enthusiasts who enjoy digging for hidden gems that are difficult to find or don't exist on streaming/digital services

2. DJs who prefer vinyl as a medium for mixing
You should forward it. Also, being able to play an instrument is a priceless gift. I know a former classmate who worked at a top hedge fund and told me that the thing that gave him the most joy recently was playing in the band to support a friend’s labor of love self-produced musical. Just playing in the band.
Not it is not fine at all. If you have too many instructions but not enough, your whole CPU will run slower mostly on non AVX-512 instructions, and maybe even your whole package => the end result will just be slower. Not to say that those processors are bad, but AVX-512 on them is for niche workloads.
do these rules apply for RC planes in Canada as well? I'm wondering if all hobbyists have to pass similar exams in order to fly RC planes or helicopters
Wonder what happened to those that invested in Bitcoin as soon as it made front page here in Hacker news. At that time it was selling like 40 cents for 10,000 coins, if I remember correctly.
RateYourMusic can do exactly this; find some users with similar tastes (you can see who rates an album as what score), and add them as friends (privately, i.e they won't be notified when you add them). Then you can make lists of how your friends collectively rated music. You can also find site-wide charts for specific genres.
"you might be surprised what people can get away with in plain sight."

Like what? Other examples, apart from Epstein? Not sure if Epstein ever actually showed enslaved people in plain sight?
Nice hit piece
>achieve that by using nonsynthetic fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides in large quantities

Citation needed.

In fact, the organic program requires farmers to manage the weeds and insects using methods besides pesticides, and only allows non-routine pesticide use in the exceptional case.

>friend works in food safety testing labs, and most of products that exceed the allowed limits of various unhealthy substances or are near the limits come from certified organic farms.

This is likely due to contamination and fraud, since the letter and the spirit of the law in the United States do not permit routine use of pesticides of any type.
MS-ASP or CGI. 20 years ago PHP was like "amazing", compared to what else was around. Maybe ColdFusion
Just in case you didn’t see this (article or the accompanying video) a couple years ago:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/01/a-tech-pioneer...
I'm satisfied to know that there are people who need something like this.
One that ISO 9899 refers to as its abstract machine.
Wunderlist still runs on AWS. To-Do runs on a Microsoft back-end, including all security features needed for their enterprise (O365) customers..
There are 2 unofficial and open source Linux clients:

- http://todoistlinux.hakimouake.com/

- https://github.com/KryDos/todoist-linux

There are also various command line clients, e.g.: https://github.com/sachaos/todoist
Jonathan Franzen is a mediocre writer and uh not a scientist. There will be hardships in the future. The poor will feel them the hardest. The rich might eventually feel them too. Franzen has no qualms throwing you into despair because if he feels despair its a very far off despair because he will never feel the consequences of inaction. The guy just straight up said these are my feels so you should believe me.
For what it's worth, most mathematicians find the Riemann hypothesis frightening as well. There are much lower level aspects of math to be explored without climbing the proverbial Mt. Everest of math problems.
Not sanctioned for general use at google tho :D
Surely a lot of people got burned ingesting in crypto but I know quite a few who made out like bandits as well. 7 and 8 figure payouts in their 20s and 30s
“Beyond recuperation” is sloppy, imprecise, awkward. The kind of phrase you suspect the author himself would have strained out had a thorough edit been bothered with.

I appreciate your persistence. I too want lyricism and the fullness of what language can offer—and persist in fear of being s philistine.

But if the author going for style can’t be bothered with purposeful style, I can’t be bothered with reading much further.
Yes, listening to Sgt. Pepper's from the Beatles this works fine in streaming.
Graduate school is probably worse because it's not time boxed and what you're trying to do may not actually be possible. When you leave your medical residency for the day you don't have the option to continue working.
I dislike many of those statements, because optimality is neither simple nor complex. And that's why I totally agree that it is difficult for a tune to appear simple, but recognizable.

Corrolar: software should be just as complex as the problem that it is trying to solve, and if the problem is difficult, the code will be difficult. Finding an optimal code might be more difficult than the problem that is supposed to be solve.
I'm sure you can't have too many qualms when raising money, but MIT is no cash-strapped institution. It has a sixteen billion dollar endowment!
Interestingly, from a technological standpoint, container ships could switch to nuclear propulsion tomorrow if they wanted to. The 2 main reasons they haven't is the large up front cost, and the fact that very few nations like the idea of a ship with a nuclear reactor being highjacked by pirates.
This is actually pretty good, I especially like that it wasn't afraid to be self-deprecating with the more public failures of Microsoft (Vista, phone, etc.). Well done!
HN on Python: it doesn't have typing, it shouldn't even be used to scrape a log file!

HN on PHP: it does the job, leave it alone! Look, even Facebook uses it for their entire web-site!
They manager just blindly follows the policies, like a dumb decoupled code. He's as guilty as his superior and the entire system.
> Each year it hosted a sponsor week during which research groups were expected to dance for their big-money benefactors, corporations like ExxonMobil, Citigroup, PepsiCo, GlaxoSmithKline, and Verizon. Many of its scientists were also involved with private companies that had been founded to monetize their discoveries. A year after I turned in my masters’ thesis, the key members of the affective computing group I had studied founded a company that today partners with “1400+ brands,” builds “automotive AI,” and works with market research firms and other companies to “measure consumer emotion responses to digital content, such as ads and TV programming.” This was what the idea factory was incubating?

This article is rather ignorant and seems consistent with the author’s background as someone who has no background in technology or R&D.

MIT has always been this way. It has operated a billion dollar defense contractor, MIT Lincoln Labs, since the 1950s. The current MIT campus was built using a quarter-billion donation (in current dollars) of cash and Kodak stock by George Eastman in the 1910s. MIT, moreover, is the archetype of how America became a technological superpower. Collaborations between the military, universities, and large private corporations is how things like the Internet got built.

Trying to somehow tie Epstein together with all that, trying and taint MIT and American industry with some spurious connection to Epstein, is sophistry. It’s the easy prose of someone who has never tried to build a damn thing.
My partner and I have our favorite albums in vinyl with the covers framed on the wall. You can't do that with CDs. Or you shouldn't.
I think we should hold our judgements for a bit longer. It is yet to be seen how the looming recession affects the cryptocurrency demand.
I’ve been a huge Todoist fan and premium subscriber since 2013. At the time it was hard to find anything that got task management right and worked on every platform.

One question: are you still innovating/investing in the core to-do experience, or is all your effort being put into Twist? Todoist is fantastic (I continue to evangelize it and have converted a few friends already) but it is starting to feel like it could use some love. The last big update I’ve noticed is dark mode support, but there are improvements I could see. It’s still by far the best option, I just think I got used to a more regular update cadence and some of the novelty has worn off.

Sorry if this comes off as critical in any way, I sincerely encourage everyone who reads this to give Todoist a try! The ability to add labels, projects and dates with text saves a lot of clicks :)
There is literally a slide titled: `What was we thinking` where Rasmus goes through the most controversial decisions he made while doing PHP.
I recommend this talk for anyone, specially because most of us, if we are lucky, will have to deal with a 25 year system at some time during our career.
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> Even if you add inflation, the resurgence is still there. IE for LP/EP, 2019 will beat out 1989.

I'm having trouble viewing those graphs on mobile but it looks like in 1989 vinyl only had >4% market share and 34.6 million units, where as in 2018 it had >3% with 16.7 million units.

It's not nothing and it's not a large part of the overall market. It appears to be smaller than 30 years ago when it was considered a dead format.
> Organic farmers are required to manage competitor organisms with non-chemical methods as a matter of practice. They are only permitted to use approved organic pesticides when the other means are insufficient, and it has to be documented.

And if the non-chemical methods + modern pesticides works out to be safer and more sustainable than the non-chemical methods + organic approved pesticides? Then you can't call it organic. That's not a science based approach.

If people really care about the environment, they should be advocating the best farming approaches we can find, not one that's based around the naturalistic fallacy that plays into fear the public have about "non-natural" products.
The key being they 'got out'. Most of the idiots on Reddit have convinced each other to bag-hold to the grave, if they stepped outside their echo chamber they'd see crypto is clearly dead for some time now.
I'm not sure this is a good example of sunk cost fallacy... They've got what sounds like a good thing going and for all we know the name could be part of that. I would be careful in anything I changed at this point.
Records are much bigger though. In reality you probably aren't buying physical media to actually play the music so the asthetic becomes the most important thing part and records are better in that aspect
On a tangent, in case you missed this

https://medium.com/invironment/an-army-of-ocean-farmers-on-t...
We're a scala shop, we get a functional language with features such as parser combinators (packrat parsers) - super useful for building DSLs. Functional-Relational-Mapping (for comprehensions) for SQL. We're able to get good web services with play, with easy to write asynchronous code. Plus all of it runs on robust JVM. We love it, we'd not change it for us, hype or no hype.
What makes you think anyone with billionaire status thinks about anyone of lesser status as anything but cogs in their personal machine? So their existence depends on others, in reality... when did they last have any contact with reality in any meaningful way?

If you can be bought and sold, you are a pawn, not a player.
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Actually, I don't think that it is, as it does few of those things particularly well. In fact, this is a large part of why I've decided to stop using smartphones and to start carrying both a feature phone and a handheld computer instead.
This is an odd form of public shaming. Satya ought to respond to him on Twitter that it's a deal if he'd be willing to pay 50% of the price they paid him for it. A shame back if you will.
Not on specifics, but the scheme is the same: Sugardaddy brings girls to party, invites his "friends". Somebody takes pictures and suddenly you are not just "friends" but "best friends forever" with police, state attorney and judge.
You seem to be thinking of only one force when in fact there are at least two forces acting on the ballcock. If you were to empty the tank instantaneously by cutting out the bottom of the tank, what would happen to the ballcock? It would fall on its own.

The ballcock has an upward force (buoyancy) acting on it, causing it to float when the tank is not empty. It also has a downward force (gravity) acting on it, causing it to fall, when the tank is empty.

So the reason why the ballcock causes the valve to open and close is due to a pressure differential.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballcock
The memory sticks we're talking about here also come on a PCB, so we should not exclude that cost. What use would loose chips be if they are not soldered onto a PCB? You could argue that there could be a supplier that produces working memory sticks for a cheaper price. I'm not contending that. These products, however, are unfamiliar to most people and Arduino UNO is a brand name that many people recognize. There are many cheap knockoffs of that product that may or may not be compatible. I would prefer to stay with respected manufacturers in this case.

It is true that those micro controllers are bundled with the memory. In other words, the memory also has computing power installed. A capability that some modern memory chips also include. You may argue that we should compare with those memory chips, however, in the case of micro controllers we cannot separate the memory from the computing unit and we need the computing unit for communication. Is the comparison thus unfair? Maybe.
What are the major successes that came out of the lab? On top of my head I can think of: e-Ink, Lego mindstorms, Scratch. I bet there are hundreds more.
If it can't be stopped, then we must assume that what could happen will. Like when someone shoots a bullet, and we observe the action in slow motion while the bullet is going, there is no way for the target to move out, and we must assume that a murder has been commited, even if the target is not dead yet.

So, in this particular case, a mass murder has been commited, and what we should do to put on trial the ones that shoot the bullet, and the same to the ones that intentionally hid the evidence (maybe taking out our chances to avoid preventing it).

And then, without them around keep trying to deny that there is no climate change, we may focus on mitigating the effects and avoiding to get worse without more interference.
If they're in the US, I am paying for their education.
I loved Wunderlist, and after the announcement of the acquisition I went looking for alternatives. It turns out, I didn't _really_ need "sub-tasks" or collaborative comments on my TODOs. All I really needed was shared lists, dependable reminder push notifications, and perhaps some location-based/geofencing features.

This is all covered by the stock iOS Reminders app. I use Fantastical as the 'GUI' instead of Reminders, but basically use my e-mails CalDAV server (Fastmail) to manage my lists now, and have retained the reliability and subset of features that I needed. It's been great so far, and it's virtually free as part of your standard email/calendar service (Gmail/Calendar, Fastmail, etc.).
Netscape it is
I think most people feel something is wrong with the EU. But this is apart of it: Is it an economical union, or a step towards a fully integrates US-like country. For now it tries to be both,and succeeds in neither. But removing the UK shifts the power balance in this story, and that influences the vote.
To be fair, they could also be excommunicated, divorced, socially ostracized, and made unemployable everywhere, not just government jobs. So it's not quite as absurd as your presentation makes it seem. Anyone with a secret is potentially vulnerable to blackmail.
What's particularly interesting about the PostgreSQL news feed?
Gets lots of press. Google doctor interns lack of sleep for a litany of deeply-researched news articles.

Hospitals are being privatised and private universities dominate medical education. Where’s the political pressure point?
Closer to 13,000,000 at the time of acquisition.
Yeah, I can't even log into my MS account to do MSDN stuff. Microsoft support: "Use any non-microsoft browser". I ended up creating a "personal" and "work/school" account as part of the process, and I think I have to pretend it's the personal account when I log in. I get the feeling I was creating two accounts - a live account and one related to the MSDN side of things, and they are linked in some way. Why...just why? Why can't I just create one account, and don't come up with this specious personal/private distinction. I wonder if they're making decisions on products etc based on what sort of users they think they're dealing with. Personal MSDN customers?
Unfortunately that's a sophie's choice.

A locked but privacy respecting platform vs a no-privacy but open platform.
I recently had to uninstall it because passwords weren't syncing with Apple Keychain. Should Pass for iOS sync with Apple Keychain in the first place?
So can someone tell me why ever of my comment in this thread gets deleted.

Because I tell others how flawed Brave is? So HN is commercialized and doesn't care about its users I can assume ?
I'd be very interested! I agree, this would change the situation enormously.
Still, moving product to new servers and improving security sounds to me easier than rewriting it.
>... but I think former users would flock to it if they knew the original people were in charge of this product.

So maybe such tweet is how you let them know that something's cooking? Followed by "they won't sell it back, we'll build a new one!". We'll see.
Agreed!

I'm going to sound old and cranky for a bit but Apple has been doing this with OSX for a while now.

Random examples:

- Preview no longer allows you to pan around documents by holding the space bar. I guess not enough people used that feature because they view documents on their Macbooks, and nobody at Apple Uses non-magic mice. Ugh.

- Dashboard (I know I'm waay the minority here). It's going away in favor of Notification Center. Its replacement on the right side of the screen is so much worse because I have to choose between viewing my notifications or the widgets, when I currently do not. I currently still use dashboard to take super quick notes, and unit conversions and calculations. IMO Dashboard in it's soon-to-be-deprecated state was a great idea that was never refined and should have been integrated with the App Store.

Seemingly I'm the only person I know that uses Hot Corners with Mission Control, and if that goes away I don't know what I'll do.
> I don't know how to see that as anything but a straight up witchhunt where no one targeted could ever be found innocent.

Perhaps literally no one partying with the (confessed, convicted) pedophile and his suddenly definitely-consenting-and-of-legal-age entourage was innocent.
I'm not comfortable with them at all, so I don't use them.
It is possible (and likely) that there is no "list", rather that it falls under the general prohibition not to embarrass the organization.
People have been inhabiting the Arctic for millennia, and that's a pretty inhospitable place. Granted, it's technologically easier to heat than to cool (just eat lots of fat)
All I can see is uneducated investors taking highly leveraged positions and feeling the inevitable pain when they didn't cover the possible downside.

A lesson to us all, absolutely. Know damn well what you're doing (and prepare accordingly) before you start trading with someone else's money.
Well, "always been this way" also seems fitting to the Epstein story in the sense that the rich and powerful got their ways, whatever they wanted.
> What does a hobbyist know about these things? I certainly don't.

I don't know at all well. I made some progress with violin but not on any fixed schedule. I can't recall anything hurting, but if something did then no doubt I just slowed down. But I started violin late, in my 20s and had three problems -- no talent, too old, and too little practice. Still I made some progress, e.g., the Chaconne which is no joke.

I do have a little insight: For a while I was a math grad student at Indiana University with, of course, its excellent music school next door including violin from former Cleveland concert master Gingold. So, I met a lot of violin music students, e.g., guys who could sightread, e.g., the Vieuxtemps 5th violin concerto. Those students showed no pains, and all but one of them held their violin just fine.

Generally if something hurts, then something is wrong, and don't do that. And for the pressure of a competition, wait a while, take longer until are really ready. If are desperate for results for a scholarship or some such, then accept that music is mostly for pleasure, keep music as a hobby, and do something else for money. Sorry 'bout that. Or, maybe play country music on violin. I suspect those guys DO get paid, and from the audience it seems that maybe they have yet to learn about third position, much less fifth position, and much, much less being able to play all the scales in all the major and minor keys. So, play some Country or Bluegrass.
I think vinyl has a lot of understated advantages. Vinyl records are large physical artifacts that contain your music with nice, big covers that provide a great medium for artwork. And you have a cool physical ritual of placing it on the turntable. All of that gets lost with tapes and CD's.
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