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Reality TV’s Story Producers Face Decreasing Wages, Tougher Working Conditions
> trusted

I am left wondering if this has been sponsored by the (Chinese) government.
> regardless that both parties are seeking the same pleasure

I see this a lot in the tech community.

People want to be allies of inclusiveness [in the context of corporate professionalism, while trying to apply it everywhere], but the current iteration of this results in still infantilizing women that make different choices and vicariously assuming they're victims when that woman's current aspirations have nothing to do with an executive role in a corporate environment. My non-compliance with that idea is easy to villify, people can choose to assume that I'm perhaps perpetuating some unilateral toxic masculinity, or something, distinct from what I and the other people involved perceive to be a respectful consensual environment. A reality is that context is important, people can exist in different modes and states and feel very respected.

I've had overwhelmingly positive experiences from approaching people with this understanding
It certainly takes a special kind of mental gymnastics to figure that a problem that disproportionately affects men is another example of men excluding women from something...
The high level of snark was intentional. Although that tends not to be super popular around here, being scientifically precise does seem to be. I generally feel that my comment style straddles the line between snarky and civil.

Although it's probably true that my attitude here isn't the most constructive, it's also true that for some people (I'll yet withhold final judgement regarding OP), any attempt to educate or have dialog falls on deaf ears.

This gets really tiring when online forums are replete with people willing to espouse opinions based on incomplete or distorted understanding with little more than an offhand remark. So if I come across as frustrated, well, maybe you can try to forgive that. It's harder for me to forgive pseudoscientific evangelism.
These findings confirm our believes that any severe impact on the head poses a severe risk.
> The control group was asked not to participate in any retreat (even as short as a 1-day retreat) during the 1-month study period. Their usual daily meditation practice was maintained (40–50 min/session).
I was referring to the article's claim that because India is "emerging as a leader in renewable energy" we can expect it to contribute significantly less to climate change.
I think complicated is a better choice than advanced. Intentionally complicated without adding value in a lot of cases.
Meh. That’s what we do everyday as our body sheds old cells and grows new ones. It’s the ship of Theseus already anyway. The me of yesterday is dead. The me of today only believes I am the same.
Yes and even though they are similar but I would still argue that npm hellhole is quite different than a direct github library being used by a company in production.
WTF? flagged?
Tweet is gone, so I can’t check whether it matches, but I would think http://realtek.info/pdf/rtl8366_8369_datasheet_1-1.pdf is a data sheet for this part. It has a pinout.
First of all I have to say that i despise calling something scientific work that is clearly way more subjective than mesaurable like science. For example question: does this engine spend less fuel than one before is clear way to show was that invention good or not, do you have better wellbeing after some treatment is completely open for placebo effect and can't be in same category. IMO meditation 'science' if it ever wants to be true science should concentrate on mesaurable mental qualities like IQ and memory. So true science question should be: how large is your IQ score before and after meditation retreat or how much you can remember things in 2 min before and after. Everything other is not science and is higly debatable. Honestly I'm quite suprised that engineers spend so much time on so unproved technique to increase quality of their work and life.
They aren't building out anything, they lease existing office space.
Flagging climate stories? WTF?
Demystifying the MLPerf Benchmark Suite
Slide deck : https://developer.nvidia.com/gtc/2019/video/S9553
There have been some angry people on Twitter/HN/Reddit, but I would say “no” in general. Most feedback has been “you broke my stuff, but I don’t mind. thank you for standing up”.
Based on nothing more than user experience, conferencing software like Zoom tends to do something that sounds quite like what you're describing, complete with the fade to silence after about half a second.

So it makes sense for certain live situations, but it wouldn't be desirable in studio recordings.
It's too expensive to use as just a notepad, but it's not good enough to use for anything else.

But you've already paid for it? It's more expensive as a dust holder, right? So why not use it as a notepad?
Did you contact Chef asking them to cancel the contract before removing the github code ?
Megawatts of charging rate and 300+kWh storage capacity in small and weight efficient format, not to say cheap too for what it does.
The „trick“ I use is I‘m offline by default and have to „turn the internet on“ on most devices (except the phone). Been doing thst for 8 years now, works pretty well.
I keep meaning to read that one :-)
The problem is having so much wealth concentrated in the first place. If capital was more evenly spread, then those who control it would have no problems finding worthwhile investments (smaller investments would become worthwhile because collectively the controllers of the capital would have more time to oversee them)
Robot priests more acceptable to Protestants than Catholics, says professor
When you say something is "woo" you're implying that reality is physical, which is your implied metaphysics. The Truth is that reality is _not_ physical, but you have to do a lot of metaphysics to get there, look into the video I linked.
>With $700M extracted

The $700M figure is a combination of equity sold outright and loans taken out using the equity as collateral. I have not seen any breakdown of how much falls in each category. I would not be surprised to see those loans get called in soon given the current situation and the recent governance change requiring him to pay back any profits he makes on leasing those properties to We.
Derek Parfit argued that there is no defendable criterion to differentiate between the duplicate and the original.

That led him to the conclusion that the feeling of being a particular person is itself an illusion - just a side-effect of sequential brain events so to say. This is obviously quite a counter-intuitive proposition, but also quite hard to argue against without resorting to mere believes.

I guess Parfit would have considered this AI project an (albeit miniscule) achievement of immortality.
WTF... if I remember correctly, the legality of linking (as opposed to copying content) was already established by a few court cases long ago.

I could understand if your personal site gets "HN'd", but a Twitter user doesn't pay for bandwidth.
But not all instances of global warming caused mass extinction events. I think that there is a correlation here rather than a causation. In fact, looking at historical charts the earth's temperature undergoes a relatively significant change every few 100k years at least. So extinction events are only a tiny minority of those events, around 5/5000
I'm just going by what the NYU College of Dentistry says. I assume they've thought a lot more about access to dental care than I have.

>Dentists who are underrepresented minorities are more likely to serve communities in need and therefore address disparities in dental care.

https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2019/septem...
Why is high productivity important to you? This is an honest question.
Or we live in a reality where that just works, no cooking involved. That would also be amazing and hilarious.

"This one simple trick..."
Ironically, Popper's paradox also logically implies that the rest of us must not tolerate your equally intolerant beliefs either.
Wouldn’t get the same if not more of all the wavelengths by just sitting outside for 5 minutes? Is that maybe what you’ve been missing?
Talking about things in terms of GDP glosses over the human suffering that it represents.

> a 10% increase in per capita real income is associated with a 1.5% decrease in the crude death rate

It seems reasonable to assume that the inverse is also true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortality_rate#Economics

https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/dataset/world-development-...
well, just checked and i already see the majority of the web gathering around "C". so really, we can argue both ways about this score thing...
To be fair there's a few other more primary reasons you'll never get in the Star Trek transporter :)
Vedek Winn Adami always drove me coo-coo with her demeaning power-hungry mother superior attitude, always dismissively calling people "child", while lying and manipulating people in her unquenchable quest for power, that led to her ultimate fate.

Then I finally realized why she is such a contemptible character who drove me so totally mad that I wanted to strangle her: she's played by Louise Fletcher, aka Nurse Mildred Ratched in One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest! But I feel much better now that I have my lobotomy.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Winn_Adami

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Louise_Fletcher
The State of Broadband 2019 Report Released by ITU/UNESCO Broadband Commission
Excellent comment. Nitpick: it's "jockeying for position", as in, what the jockeys do during a horse race to get in a better position so they can win.
Quantum Supremacy Using a Programmable Superconducting Processor
I would suggest you ask about this on Reddit's FirefoxCSS subreddit: https://reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/
The U.S. China Trade War May Cause Multipolarity Instead of Deglobalisation
Interesting article. The dosage is controlled by J/cm^2 in most of the studies I'm looking at - so time and distance from the emitter are the other factors.

eg, This study used an array of 500mW LEDs and a 10 minute exposure to achieve 13 J/cm^2.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4043367/
> Ok, but a large buffer size means more latency.

Depending on the use-case, that may not be a problem. Not all things are latency-sensitive.
I think you have perfectly summed up the thoughts of all the school strikers.
Thanks for the kind and insightful words my friend - and yes, I think that your viewpoint is great. You've got to enjoy life - either way or whichever truth comes forward I think will always have an incredible element of beauty in it, so the only thing that really matters is enjoying the process and doing the things we love to do. Thanks again for the feedback and all the best to you :)
Thomas Jefferson Did More to Promote Domestic Slavery Than Any Other President
Are you gatekeeping drugs for fun only?

What kind of mind does it take to do something like that? And is it ok to repurpose drugs for productivity if you channel that energy into solving the worlds problems?
It's common with a lot of Chinese companies; they won't answer requests for datasheets, yet you can find them "leaked" elsewhere and they're not really bothered by it.

I suspect it's more of a "we're not interested in answering your questions, which you will certainly have if we give you a datasheet directly" than any real concern over IP.
> Don’t use Objective-C/Swift on the audio thread.

His argumentation is that Objective-C uses locks internally.

But isn't it possible that those locks (as opposed to application-level locks) cause just negligible pauses, because there's no contention on them?

I guess those internal locks exist to make ObjC's runtime dynamism feasible. One would expect the typical application to not leverage that dynamism (how many apps continously redefine methods under normal operation?).
One of the chief demands of the war was to force the Parliament and Britain to deal with the Continental Congress as a whole, instead of the several colonies individually. It was also understood throughout the war that the Continental Congress had the exclusive right to represent the Americans in foreign affairs.

It's hard to draw a firm line between polities that constitute a "country" and those that are supranational organizations. But the Articles of Confederation's version of Congress seems to clearly be classifiable as "country"--it's further on the country side of the spectrum than, say, the EU.
I agree that the interview doesn't seem very useful. The interviewer tried (the questions are quite good), but Bosworth clearly got media training and isn't going to say anything he doesn't want to say, so there's very little of use.

But, that's not at all unusual or specific to Facebook. Many interviews with politicians or business leaders go the same way.

It would be better if someone bought their new device, tried it out, and took it apart. You can't learn stuff like that by interviewing a top executive. They don't even remember the details about how it all works, if they ever knew.

In any case, being more rude about such things on Hacker News seems unlikely to have any effect on how these interviews go. But they do have an effect on whether our conversations are worth reading. Generally speaking, I think we should look for ways to encourage curiosity. If the topic is Facebook, how can we find out more about what Facebook is really doing? What are some reliable sources? I don't think I want to put time into that myself, but reading a bunch of rude comments about how people think Facebook is still terrible isn't going to encourage anyone else's curiosity either.

This reminds me of how occasionally someone obsessed with a topic can be good at collecting and organizing information about it, even if they're a bit crazy in other ways. At least they're looking for stuff, and you don't have to share all their opinions to find it useful. On a good day, Hacker News conversations are more like that.
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Both are possible.
This is peak n-gate.
I was talking more in terms of it being a memorial to your living self rather than talking about it’s capabilities. I fully expect we’ll eventually hit the technological singularity.
Thanks for the info...that seems pretty disappointing. No conflicts of interest? I would say the idea has little validity on its face.
The Romans had several trading posts along India's coast long before this.
Generally, I don't enjoy sending every keypress to a spellcheck API. Every extension increases the attack surface area. The browser should remain secure, use the native apps.
I’d guess just unlinked, but that’s a pretty uneducated guess. My concerns were regarding the data escaping the device to their cloud, not remaining on-device in case of physical attack.
The purpose of a contract isn’t to be efficient with paperwork or describe a high-level view of transactions. It’s a document that very granularly describes those transactions.

Any large organization has many people with the authority to spend money, and each one of those transactions will be supported by a contract.
Where can I find more information about the history of the region? I know so little.
> Scalp application of red and NIR light is a new application for LED technology. More than 30 years ago, however, it was observed in human cadaver studies that red (600 nm) and NIR (800–900nm) wavelengths could penetrate through the scalp and skull (∼ 1 cm). Two physiological changes associated with exposure of cells to red and NIR wavelengths of light are: 1) Increased production of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) by the mitochondria, and 2) Increased vasodilation/regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF), explained subsequently.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4043367/
> The exact way of accomplishing this is left as an exercise

Perhaps you should undertake this exercise and let us know how it sounds :)

EDIT: In my experience with audio, when I have a bug that introduces even the slightest discontinuity (or even just a cusp) in the audio, well short of a pop to silence, I can still hear a "weirdness". Ears are pretty attuned to things that sound unnatural. I'm not confident that essentially "forging" the audio is going to sound natural.
FT's climate campaign and urban rooftop farming
I’m very uncomfortable talking about anything in my personal life besides shallow platitudes with almost anyone. The two guys I can talk about personal issues with I’ve known for 27 and 10 years respectively.

For instance with these two, we talk about everything - our marriages, our careers and even what we make and what we have saved. I would never talk to most people about that type of stuff. Among other reasons there is a certain taboo about it and you have to worry about jealousy, but one is a software developer and we have worked together at three separate jobs and the other is a well compensated manager at one of the big tech companies.

My wife and I both have to be careful about sharing even the smallest things about our lives like our vacations, our hobbies, etc because we are better off financially than most of our friends and family - not bragging as a software engineer and part of a dual income couple , statistically we would be.

And the typical male loves talking about sports. I really don’t care about sports as far as having any type of team affiliation. I can watch sports for the athleticism.
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SpaceX Falcon Heavy Certified for National Security Launches
Perhaps a vested interest controls lots of accounts on here and wants to bury stories of this nature (pun not intended)?
The comments don't appear to have descended into a flame war so I suspect a bot net has manually flagged it to death.

I've seen it a lot on here and it makes me think it's not worth engaging with HN any more.
to be honest writing x86 assembly is Not That Bad™ (personally I can't speak for ARM though)

I wrote some simple silly applications for KolibriOS[0] a while back and it's relatively pleasant (I think a basic GUI window is less code than a Win32 application in C…)

[0] A MenuetOS fork (which has diverged a fair bit by now): https://kolibrios.org/en/
Yes, I did rent an office from Regus a few years ago... and it did look horrible!

But for the difference in valuation, that's an easy thing to do in a LBO: Hire a Chief Design Officer!

Thanks to WeWork maybe, their new offices are better:
https://www.regus.co.uk/offices/united-kingdom/county-edinbu...
Yes, good apps that provide value should cost money.

Edit: actually the app is free, there are some additional features that require paying, though.
A better example is going under anesthesia. I had a procedure done, and after I drifted to sleep, 30 minutes passed instantly and they were rolling me to the other room.

The point is that we can lose our continuity of consciousness, yet we don't consider this "dying" in normal life. If we duplicate our exact physical brain and processes and immediately destroy the original while this happens, there is no loss of continuity, but this feels like dying still.
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I haven't even wanted a new phone for several years, because so many of the new features are utter crap once you get past how pretty they are in ads and when they are fresh out of the box.

For example, I had one of the first Edges. It was stupidly expensive. But the screen looked amazing and it was vaguely faster than my Moto G.

For a while...

Within weeks, it developed a crack. Then 3. Then I noticed everyone on the bus/subway that had Edges were also dealing with cracks.

Embarrassing. You spend well over a thousand to end up looking like you can't afford a good phone.

So I trashed the Edge and went back to my Moto G, which I still use to this day, and which still has never cracked.

If the newest phones are to be seen status symbols, cracked screens (and whatever numerous problems present in these folding screens) are a serious antithesis to the grandiose expectations, and exposes a very sad reality about the whole cell phone business.
For the record, I think this is a terrible idea.

However, the way I'd do it if needed: keep two or the most recent good buffers. When you need to synthesize, start running a phase vocoder based on the hop between those two. You get frozen sinusoids and some random noise for the bins that don't have one, and almost no cpu use on the happy path of no underruns.

Still, don't do it :)
Don't be mean like that.

Duff's device to ProtoThreads is what a paintbrush is to a painting.

One is a construct for conditional loop unrolling, but it takes a stroke of genius to apply it in an absolutely orthogonal way to implement a functional cooperative multithreading with just a handful of macros. Duff's device was nowhere close to be meant for that, so your condescending pat on a back for "turning it into a working library" is completely inappropriate.
There are also chips that support two different feature sets via a mode pin, but instead of documenting the mode pin, the modes are sold as separate products with the mode pin simply labeled as Vcc/ground/NC.
Does that make the story false?
I'm not a lawyer, but I don't think US copyright covers functionality (that is what patents are for) if you haven't copied any code or creative output, and thus the DMCA wouldn't apply, so that wouldn't be a valid use of a DMCA takedown.
Haha - thank you for the kind words - I'm trying to follow your argument here, but I'm having a bit of a hard time grasping everything that you're saying. I love the fact that you're incredibly curious and kind as well - so thanks for the great feedback and it's always great hearing other viewpoints :)
Switching from a 2 stroke to a 4 stroke grass trimmer this summer was an unexpectedly great buy. The 2 stroke trimmer is way more loud, heavy and smelly. I cut the grass half hour faster and don't die from exhaustion in the process.
While it’s not a crime, at the very least they might be liable for damages.

To establish criminality or liability intent is often looked at, and this is a pretty clear-cut intent to injure the other party.
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The article is written in an ambiguous fashion.

If it was "This is the type of interview and type of questions you're likely to come across" - then I've no real issue. As you mention, educational opportunities were not equal, so maybe counteracts the implicit bias of not being provided with general information from tutor/peers/previous-experience - "this being your first IT interview, you should know.." or "how a bunch of white guys tend to do things"

Story is being re-told through the father, son, book and now newspaper article - so who knows.
It's good to remember that things end up on HN because random people post them here, not because their original authors want them here. HN is not, as a rule, good at keeping this in mind, and tends to treat anything that lands on HN as if it was part of a discussion they are (1) a part of and (2) welcome to participate directly in.

I think it's in fact super healthy for people to set clear boundaries about how they engage with this place, and "this Twitter thread was not posted as a solicitation for an HN thread, or for HN people to jump onto my TL" is a very sane boundary indeed.

That people read this kind of boundary drawing as "hatred" is itself a good illustration of the issue!