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If you don't qualify to be an accredited investor, 'swinging for the fences' by angel investing is simply foolish... you can't hope to make a return unless you can make lots of bets, and making a lot of bets requires a lot of money.

Investing in an angel phase company as a normal wealth individual would be like if someone asked you if you wanted to be the house at a roulette wheel where someone is going to bet $100,000 on red. Sure, the bet is in your favor, but there is a good chance you are going to lose it all. Most of us can't afford that.
Nobody knows. HN has downvotes for a secret group of users. HN weights votes using a secret algorithm, so some users may have the ability to grey out posts with a single click.
Maybe not when used as a complete system -- the advantage is that you can piece in a BRT in specific areas where it would be advantageous, while the majority of the system consists of buses on regular streets.
The whole point of improving environment is to make it better for people. If there is no people, then any state of environment, naturally speaking, is perfectly fine.

Having less children is, in effect, refusing to solve the problem.
> In C, you have to use atomic (or possibly volatile, I'm not sure), or this just undefined behavior.

Oh, if you think that's good, look at the compiler license:

> WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, ..., INCLUDING, ... FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE

I guess that means we have to seriously consider the possibility that the compiler just ignores our code and outputs fork bombs instead. It would be completely irrational to ever depend on a thing that an official-sounding source declined to make promises about!

/s
Usually around October, as the temperature falls and the sun sets earlier, I delve more into the esoteric. RAW has always been a go-to and his lessons are eye opening. When I finally manifest my quarter I was ecstatic :)

The Master Key system is an interesting read too https://www.amazon.com/Master-Key-System-Charles-Haanel-eboo...
Racism isn't always obvious and can definitely be subtle. But actively discriminating against a whole group of people based on ethnicity is cut and dry racism.

The grand parent said he was getting into "murky waters" but in fact he is fully submerged in the deep end of racism.
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Why would that not make sense? They don't want to share control with elites from other countries. If they developed towards a global system then everybody would have to follow the same rules, whereas right now there are different rules, which leads to more opportunities for them to retain their power.
I used to work at IBM and a new black engineer joined around the time I joined the team. We both got stuck with the grunt work and bonded over late night conference room video game projector sessions, while running regression tests. I’ve gone on to a relatively successful career outside of IBM, but he was hit in a layoff, with his job sent overseas. Instead of continuing in tech, he moved home, and joined his fathers company as an accountant. I keep in touch and continue encouraging him to get back in tech, trying to hire him each time I have a position open on my team, but I’m finding that he hasn’t kept his skills up to date. I’d bend every rule to hire him, not because he’s black, but because he’s my friend. I just can’t get him past the loop.

Later in my career, I used to travel to St Louis to meet with large customers. In a city with demographics of 47% black, I’d expect to be working with a sizable number of African Americans. Out of the 100 engineers I worked with, half were white and the other half were Asian. The only black employees I met were the security guards.

Similar scenario in Atlanta. Although I did work with a number of Black engineers, their accent indicated a birth place of the Caribbean or Africa.

It feels like the H1B system has become a barrier to entry for African Americans born in the US. Something should be done to make US students more attractive to employers than H1B. I don’t want a quota system, just a tax on H1Bs which make companies take a hard look at why they’re not hiring US citizens. The article indicates there’s not a pipeline problem. Something else is amiss.
What about cohesion in the album? I guess that prog-rock/indie/hiphop themed albums thing isn't very common in general these days, I'd be surprised to see one today from any new artist.

The intros and skits would never fit into streaming properly, especially with the ranking algorithms. Nothing worse than getting some random intro skit come up on a recommended playlist!

Spotify should run some detection algorithms on songs to not recommend the intros/skits, or the uploader can explicitly mark them for exclusion, which would help boost their singles and not push unhelpful songs

I'm a big fan of artists releasing each song as it's made, with each having cover art and maybe a backup song. They . can still package them up in a full album for charting and full album sales.
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Immigrants move to a country to take advantage of the opportunities there and improve their standard of living. I have never met an immigrant that moved to a foreign country because they "liked the language/culture and want to be part of it".
> without recognizing that NYC is one of the most hyper-gentrified expensive places in the entire nation

The lines basically all existed before gentrification. As others have said, it seems like the argument here is that if you build transit that is too good, rich people will come, so keep to buses. In reality, if more cities had good rapid transit, gentrification wouldn't be focused on just a few cities in the US and instead high skilled workers would have more choices. Right now as someone who loves good public transit, my city options in the US are severely limited.

Really it comes down to this IMO: If you build it, they will come. If you build it in one place, they will all come to one place. If you build it in many places, they will disperse.

I do think the point on the positive feedback cycle is true, but it's not going away so to me that just says that from a market perspective there is a severe supply shortage of good public transit based cities, and the solution to that is not to forget about light rail. Building more transit everywhere is the only thing that will solve the problem.
This looks like poop. It didn’t even do a good job of faking brushstrokes, much less guessing at what the colors might have been. It’s a half-assed job that’s not doing much more than a style transfer phone app could do.

Doing this right, imho, would entail taking x-rays of every Blue Period Picasso possible, and training a network to output the visible image when given an x-ray. I don’t know offhand how many paintings were in that period, so there may not be enough work to usefully do this.
Being able to use a computer is like being able to drive a car. After a little practice and learning a few rules most cars are pretty easy to just get in and drive. It takes a little more effort to learn to drive stick, and formula one cars are only driven by professionals.

Computer programming is like building, modding, or repairing your car — you can learn but it’s an activity done basically only by hobbyists and professionals.

Troubleshooting computer issues is like car maintenance. Everyone can fill the tank with gas, most people can change a tire, fewer can change their oil, and fewer still can jump a battery.
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Citation needed on the claim that Asians experience systemic racism in America.
Has any city ever argued against this? The thing is you need both, not just one.
The difference seems to be that if it's just 'simulating itself' as the top level comment described, then it is a really bad demo of the universality that would be so exciting.
I was running a startup quite successfully for 5 years as a single founder, single executive from an environment without a startup ecosystem. I recruited and trained employees personally; productivity became a necessity and a habit.

Had to close the startup due to physical health problems, now that I'm rebuilding my life I guess productivity has become more important.
That's sort of what I meant by the barrier-to-entry comment. Maybe a decade ago one might say: an init script is simple, "anyone" (read: anyone using linux 10 years ago) should be able to throw one together to get something to start. That "anyone" has likely already put in a certain amount of effort to learn some of the grittier parts of the system they're using. Ain't nobody got time for details like that anymore :)
I have been using yad based on gtk (https://sourceforge.net/projects/yad-dialog/) for some shell scripts and wrappers to external tools.
In such a system, bitcoin would be the equivalent of gold coins in the gold standard (ie a pure asset, no debt). But you could issue transferable denominated in bitcoin or gold.

That's what private banknotes used to be in eg Canada or Scotland before they were outlawed.

Add a transfer feature to some bitcoin-exchange balances, and you are getting close. Have different bitcoin exchanges agree to accept each others balances, and you are getting even further.

(It's in a bitcoin-exchanges profitable interest to accept a transfer from another bitcoin exchange: they can demand real bitcoin from the competing exchange, and just have to give their receiving customer an entry on their own balance sheet for the time being.)
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Honest question from a fellow Asian: what would you say about the level of racism against African Americans among Asians?

For my part, I’ve had several unpleasant “oh, now that it’s just us Asians here let me tell you what I think” moments over the years.
But, it cuts off the story at the word "Always.", just before the image of the planet on the original page.
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B-52 collides with KC-135 during in-flight refuelling.

Four H-bombs rain down on sleepy Spanish fishing village ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_Palomares_B-52_crash
Snapchat is very opaque, but greatly encourages experimentation. It’s got a learning curve, but fits a tremendous amount into a very sparse interface. In some ways it is like vim.

I’m not sure if that is praise or criticism.
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What you are saying is true, which is why a single national language is important. People will naturally gravitate towards communities where their language is spoken, so we unify ourselves by ensuring that English is the common national language.
Brake pads are not “the very basics”; they require owning a set of tools.
Another good one to illustrate the fragility of the world we live in: One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War by Michael Dobbs.

To me it was eye-opening to read about all the close shaves which could easily have ended in catastrophic misinterpretation by one side, and to wonder what might be going on along similar lines today.

The events described in this book were also dramatized in the movie "Thirteen Days".
What quantum tasks are relevant to AGI?

I'm not aware of any concrete evidence that the human brain uses quantum superpositions, so why would a quantum computer be necessary for artificial general intelligence.
suggests low confidence in individual missiles

Or the high consequence of an individual miss. Not that I disagree that Patriot took a long time to evolve to effectiveness, but it's probably more complicated. Take for example the Phalanx CIWS, which fires hundreds of rounds at each target, even though theoretically a single round should be enough, because missing a single incoming target would be very, very bad.
No CLI app is being robbed of anything, this is a layer over the top.

GUIs are very valuable because they can do things CLIs cannot, like show you at a glance what operations are available, promote the standard usecase of the CLI etc. Stuff that takes a bit of reading and clever typing with a CLI.

This tool allows you to quickly write a highly specific GUI that is using CLI app in the background.
I think the confusion here might be a lack of clear distinction in the discussion between "ssh password auth" and "ssh pub key auth".

My impression is that the result of some of the design decisions might make "ssh pub key auth" work less often. IOW: one would need to login via password auth before pub key auth would work.

The alternate ("somehow have pubkey auth work and then ask for a crypto password") sounds like it would need some work and it isn't clear how useful it would be: if I'm already needing to enter a password anyhow, why bother with the previous pubkey auth?

As discussed elsewhere, it's plausible that some mechanism could be developed to use the ssh key material (or some other stored key material) to have the unlocking happen without manual password entry, but that would require some additional development.

Really, all this boils down to is that "login mechanisms aren't quite flexible enough", and the presentation touches on this to some extent as well.
I'd like to see you construct an actual reasonable argument that it's a mess, that isn't based on hearsay or just "I liked it better the old way".
Let's also not forget they are avidly against buses too. Not sure what bringing their name up in this piece does for the point of the article. If anything it makes me cast doubt in the points if the ad campaigns they have run (shown to be quite ridiculous by Hassan Minaj and others) influenced them without more of a critical eye to the arguments.
> Long story short: 2 weeks later my account is unfrozen for no reason. I was never given a reason.

it is illegal for the bank to inform you of any AML investigation undertaken whether internally or the FBI or fincen or any of the other federal bodies. if you don't like the way this is done, i suggest you take it up to your congressmen.
He passed them on to promising(!) applicants. That means he was substituting his judgement of applicants' skills for those applicants' interviewers.

Assuming (somewhat fairly) that racism was a factor in IBM's hiring decisions at the time, it's reasonable to believe his judgement to be better.

Since he would never have a chance to influence more than a small fraction of IBM's many hires, any "reverse racism" he might exhibit in his judgement would still fall short of tipping the balance.

And, of course, several factors would moderate any pro-black bias: he has a clear interest to only promote competent candidates able to change people's minds. The candidates would still need to be able to convince their interviewers, etc.
I think poster was referring to the historical baggage of Asian immigrants. They do come with a lot of historical baggage, especially Brahmin Indians and their reverence to the caste system that allots them special privileges. They openly discriminate against other castes here in the US so not exactly a surprise that they also extend that courtesy to blacks.

edit: op edited post so this response looks a little off.
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Of course, trying to work around regulation like that, is probably against some other regulation.
And the one percent of the five percent that understand that open source is not a business model.
Am I the only one that would love to have an eInk globe that I can project arbitrary stuff on?
10 page report, double spaced, size 12 font, Times New Roman?

Hacker News is specifically _not_ a pure tech forum. Graciously, please don't force people to conform to what you wish it to be.
Why on earth were you keeping $30,000 in the account you use to pay for groceries?
I think the correct way to view this is to try to find the points of maximum leverage. The root cause is always the Big Bang. We already know that, so it's kind of pointless to look for it. What you're interested in is what can be changed.

These will be different depending on your perspective/level of power. For a SWE, it will be something like, "If we had monitoring of this variable, we would have gotten notified faster." Or, "If we had this type of testing, we'd prevent this class of errors." For a VP, it will look more like, "If our incentive structure were changed this way, or if our dev infra team built this kind of tooling, my SWEs would be better enabled to prevent this outage." Often there will be more than one point of leverage, but you only have so much time in your life, so the question is which one is most important or likely to be effective.

Examples of points of non-leverage are, "Joe submitted this busted CL." That is in the past and is not changeable. If Joe is in a habit of submitting busted CLs, he might need counseling, a PIP, or failing all else, to be fired. However, typically the submission of broken CLs is a systemic problem, not a case of a single sub-par engineer. You have to find the leverage that will allow you to change the system.
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No example photos of the completed globes?

Edit: found some examples on their blog: https://mapscaping.com/blogs/geo-candy/diy-folding-paper-glo...
I share some of the concerns but in many cases it's just the best you can do. Unfortunately we can't use eminent domain as much now to get better right of ways. Always some angry person or interest in the way.
> Promoting globalization while not also requiring counties we trade with have equivalent labor laws is just insane, [...]

The American economy already suffers enough from having lots of complications like banning of low paying jobs.

No need to make their lives even harder and stop trading with them. Trade is good for everyone involved.
Mobile app discoverability could be great, but we're currently going through this excruciatingly hostile minimalist design fad where every feature needs to be hidden away out of sight, with barely understandable affordances to get at them.

> [recommendations in the article]

> * Little or no navigation required to access the information or commands required to solve the problem

> * Few steps and a minimal number of operators

> * Problem resolution requiring the respondent to apply explicit criteria only (no implicit criteria)

I think this is telling us what to do. Stop hiding things away behind hamburger menus and replacing interactive, rich dialogs with a chain of single-choice dialogs. Don't hide context or make assumptions. I've heard designers say things like "you should have a maximum of one decision on the screen at once" and "you should provide a maximum of two choices for each decision." But why? It's just more steps, more hidden assumptions, longer dialog chains for the user to navigate and more complicated logic (e.g. handling "go back" in the middle of one of these chains). But hey, I don't have a fine art degree so my input about a good user experience is worthless.
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If the textual interface is hidden, you at least lose scriptability, aka the (near) sufficiency of performative skill in a task to automate that task.
is this like an implementation of Go in the C language?
Americans are hurt by abuse of the H1B system. Companies will always hire inexpensive labor that they have leverage over and H1B gives them just that. It's necessary to put strict quotas on H1B because otherwise it will be abused, which is bad for both American and foreign workers.

Luckily the Trump administration is cracking down on H1B abuse.
Oh, if you want to go that route, you shouldn't just rail against inflation. You should demand proper deflation. See https://mises.org/library/less-zero-case-falling-price-level...

You seem to hold a very curious combination of opinions? In favour of globally regulating labour markets (and threatening trade restrictions to enforce that), but also in favour of Austrian economics?
related: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/11/06/preschool-i-was-wrong/
I think the key part is this assertion: "The Website is hosted in the United States and is intended for and directed to users in the United States." As long as there aren't other indications that the business is actually doing business in the EU (e.g. has German or French localization, sells stuff to EU based customers, etc), this helps demonstrate that they don't need to comply with the GDPR.

While there are many companies that have chosen to try and block users in the EU, I don't think this is required, or intended by GDPR.
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But people usually are expecting mean in your two examples.
> I've always viewed the "fragmentation" (opinionated differences giving the end-user more choice) between distros as a feature, not a bug.

I see this opinion quite often and I think it's based far too much on "ancient wisdom" and not actually grounded in reality.

Because in practice, the fragmentation has meant that people creating/selling cross-platform desktop apps take one look at linux and think: "Yeah, this isn't worth it".

It means a poorer user experience for Linux novices (and even advanced users), because documentation doesn't always match what's on their desktop. They're missing binaries. Arguments are different. Things are implemented differently not even for the sake of being different, but simply because there was no opportunity to reuse the work, so none was reused (and now backwards-compatibility is in the way of changing that).

It also means that there's a ridiculous amount of duplicated work between all the distributions. That duplicated work takes a toll on all distributions, which run on limited, usually-volunteer manpower.

Those distributions with less manpower, the ones that will actually try new things rather than do something slightly-different, are the ones that are more likely to die. The fragmentation between things that are essentially-the-same creates a higher effort barrier to creating actual new things.

systemd is slowly fixing all of this, and thank fuck.
Nice one, demand that I provide irrefutable proof for my claims, while providing no evidence for your own. I should know better than to engage with climate trolls, but I have some time to kill, so here we go.

> 1. That's not my definition of science--it's the definition of science.

Definition of science: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/science

> That scenario would be a matter of Newtonian physics, which any astronomer could run the numbers for.

Please provide citations and evidence for these extraordinary claims. And no, academic references don't count because they are obviously biased due to them trying to advanced their own careers. I will only accept citations from 2-bit think tanks funded by mega-corporations that have obvious financial interests at stake.

> Should we do what you demand when you demand it because you personally are convinced that the planet is going to be destroyed?

Yes.

> i.e. decimating the economies and lives of billions of people in poor and developing nations.

Please use science to back up that claim. Until then, clean energy is the way forward. Its already cheaper[1], healthier[2], and creates more jobs[3] than fossil fuel.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-09-19/solar-and...
[2] https://www.ucsusa.org/clean-energy/coal-and-other-fossil-fu...
[3] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecopro.nr0.htm
> like show you at a glance what operations are available, promote the standard usecase of the CLI etc.

I definitely agree with this. I think getting people up to speed on how to use a CLI tool would be a great use case for this.

I would probably use more cli tools if there was a clear GUI introduction that shows how the options map to the commands.
I don't think having a jack stand and a 40x10x10cm toolbox squirreled away in a closet is that big of a hurdle. The tools required for all the examples I mentioned are extremely minimal, and the skills can be picked up by watching 10 minutes of YouTube.