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I'm running a pool. How long before Google drops HCL? The winner gets my eternal respect. What's your guess?
We haven't said that in the past or in the present. Plenty of controversial stories appear on HN, as anyone who reads the site regularly would know. The issue is whether there is enough that is intellectually interesting and new in an article to support a substantive, unpredictable discussion. That's a simple consequence of intellectual curiosity being the core value of HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
is addictive design ux harmful tech or an attack on human psychology and behavior? im more asking why we are blaming "technology."
> It probably doesn't help that the usual transcription is zh which basically doesn't exist in native English words.

Depends what you mean by "the usual transcription". The usual spelling in English is "s" followed by i or u. (As in "usual" / "measure" / "vision" / etc. etc. etc. etc.) "Zh" is the standard transcription for Russian. The same sound in Chinese is today normally transcribed "r", because that is the letter assigned to it by China's official Romanized orthography, Hanyu pinyin[1]. In Wade-Giles, it was transcribed "j".

[1] The pinyin "r" (and the Wade-Giles "j") can represent a sound anywhere along the continuum between what an English speaker would perceive as the two distinct sounds /ʒ/ and /ɹ/. (The "s" and the "r" in "measure".)
pipenv works well enough for me, it creates a lock file so you get deterministic builds. Plus its supported by heroku if you ever decide to host with them.
https://github.com/pypa/pipenv
I don't know much about unions.

What are some downsides to joining a union? Are there onerous obligations?
> Also, most of the colleges that YC presumably recruits out of (Stanford etc.) are free to people whose parents make < $100K/year.

Maybe that's a bad thing?
And if you want to know what it was like to be one of the soldiers tasked with wearing a backpack bomb, Foreign Policy has an excellent feature article on that subject here: https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/01/30/the-littlest-boy/
Exactly. The whole “that could be my child/mother/father/sister/brother”.
that is some solid CNN clickbait...whats HN policy when the headline itself is editorialized?
Discussed extensively at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20990583
Well, I have a mortgage, so not being beholden to them isn't really an option.
Though I can accept that news industry may have had a role to play in the influencing the thoughts and opinions of inexperienced medical professionals, I cannot accept that they are 'complicit' in the opioid crisis.

Its hard to accept that the medical practice in the Americas is comprised of mostly "young doctors and students." In 2018, ~69% [1] of physicians in America were over 46 years old. I am more inclined to believe that bad actors, lobbying and general incompetence is to be blamed.

This topic reminded me of "The $100 billion per year back pain industry is mostly a hoax"[2] piece which highlighted drug companies who spent millions on marketing, borrowing a page from Big-Tobacco, doctors who over-prescribed and frustrated patients who too matters into their own hands.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/415961/share-of-age-amon...
[2] https://qz.com/1010259/the-100-billion-per-year-back-pain-in...
This is a successful sector of real estate leasing in NYC amongst well-paid, 20-somethings. It's definitely not absurd (as far as the market thinks).
You can get remarried.
The issue I have with the "learn to ___ on your own" industry that's popped up is that it doesn't take into account accountability for the student. Take getting into shape as an example. Excluding obvious disabilities there's really nothing holding anyone back. Even with horrible schedules you can absolutely go out and join a gym, lose weight, and get ripped. Heck, you don't even need to join a gym. Everything you need you probably already have. And many people out there do. But the majority doesn't. Getting a personal trainer or joining a class adds accountability. On days that you don't want to train, well you have an appointment so you kind of have to or call it off.

In the end it takes the person pushing themselves. And unless the person has a real love for the material, people just won't. And it's kind of lousy that this is treated as a horrible personal failing when it's pretty much how people operate. Even a poor teacher at the very least adds accountability.
"WeWork used [a sensor network that tracked everyone throughout the building combined with machine learning] to learn that people drink coffee in the morning so they should hire a barista."

Source: https://twitter.com/modestproposal1/status/10855834347880202...

Sounds like a reasonable use of tens of millions of dollars of VC money.
What do you use for (a) coding and (b) keyboard?
This is my thought. It's about real estate. If starbucks decided to go full throttle into this concept they would kill it. They've essentially been the unwritten king of co-workspace since they showed up.
Interesting, I somehow had missed the existence of this even though I've lived a couple of months in Switzerland. Thanks for the link!
It's not ok to post a copy of an article from a completely unrelated domain; it's important that the site name that shows up next to the title be the original source.

If you have a link to another source, it's ok to post that in the comments.
> The camera is not running the same algorithm as the renderer and so you're comparing different things.

[rewriting your words] The experiment used a classical computer to randomly generate a scene C, set that scene up in real life, and recorded the result. Then they repeated this but rendered the scene in the most optimal way a classical computer can. Finally they compared the results to verify that the scene in real life matched the correct classically computed results.

The scene + digital camera has the exact same role (and proof value) in my hypothetical experiment as the quantum computer + measurement device does in the Google experiment.

It's not the camera that "contains the circuit", it's the scene and the camera together that computes the same values (exactly, as it turns out) as the classically computed rendering algorithm of the same phenomena.

Call it "camera computing", write a paper in Nature, win Turing award. The hard part with camera computing is the same: How to map a computation onto the generated scene so that the measurement device (camera) gets a meaningful result faster than it can be simulated in the computer.

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Look, I've worked on things for a long time only to discover in the end that there's nothing there. It sucks, I get it. Move on, try something else. There's nothing here.
>Would those experts be... medical professionals?

Yes. The point is there is never uniformity of opinion. For every disastrous policy, in hindsight, there were multitude of voices raising concerns. A good journalist will be able to talk to with experts and get down to the meat of the matter and deliver the information to the public.
Then use it to rob a bank. Gotta spend money to make money. Seriously though, there's a giant CASE front end loader parked at a construction site right next to a jewelry store on the way home from work. So tempting, but so wrong...
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Great read. Another resources that helped me was George Orwell's essay [1].

I think the following rules will cover most cases:

1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

2. Never use a long word where a short one will do.

3. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.

4. Never use the passive where you can use the active.

5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

6. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

===

[1] https://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_poli...
Not yet. But it's closer than one might think. Spaces has an S3-compatible API, and we have plans to use something like min.io to make Quilt work "all the blobs": GCP, Azure, Digital Ocean, etc. OSS contributions welcome :)

What would you use Quilt for in Spaces?
I understand and support your frustration, but what exactly makes it unfair? The two have little in common. Computer engineers aren't taking your jobs.
It seems like you're still having a hard time imagining what "content" might mean aside from the network response.

In the context of a UI element or screen layout, "content" is the appearance of the UI elements on screen. The post, and my comment, isn't referring to web content or video content, it's referring to UI content.

Twisting my words to comment on YouTube's quality is funny, but irrelevant to interaction latency.
MA Bans Vaping Product for Four Months –Including for Medical Use
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You mean besides the dues?
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> What's the benefit to a large corporation doing this instead of lots of small companies?

From what I understand, WeWork is structured as many small companies, so they can negotiate favorable terms with long-term leases on office space and the smaller company can fail without leaving WeWork on the hook for the rest of the lease.
Not true. I only just saw this and have turned off the flags. The main problem from my perspective is that the thread has filled up with completely off topic comments about flagging and a lot of inaccurate meta stuff.
About ten years of lowering people's expectations for how mobile a 15-ton robot should be.
Shrug. Takes two to sign a lease. The commercial landlord knew what they were getting into.
Do people here really believe that mass hysteria in child abuse will magically solve any problems?
You can disable that; both at a network level, and in the browser itself. You can also choose a different DoH provider if you don't want to use cloudflare.

Yes, it should be disabled by default but it not the end of the world. I would hazard a guess that when Chrome implements something similar that it won't be so easy to disable.
In what year though? I feel like a lot of VC's have adopted this trend of forcing you to befriend random people they have funded before, to introduce you in. Not because it is actually a good method, but because they saw a few popular VCs were doing it and jumped onboard.
Hackernews is skeptical of many things though, sometimes hard to filter through the noise.
OPEC has generaly set country targets based on peak capacity and reserves. Everyone has assumed the numbers have been part bullshit for 50 years because there is a huge incentive to lie to have higher OPEC allowances. Frankly, they'd make more total revenue over the long term if they didn't lie.
> "Prices will rise up to 50% but that isn't much of a crisis "

If a 50% price increase isn't a crisis, then what is?
Now would be a good time to spin up a Stack Overflow alternative. By the time VCs are done with SO, there will only be a smoldering crater.
NYT journalists still wouldn't be responsible enough to not say something racist.
If you don't necessarily agree with a specific decision the union is taking, you're dragged into it. But that's just part of collectivism and it's not necessarily a bad thing.
Media organizations (I'm looking directly at you nytimes.com) should be standing up their own Mastodon instances for the benefit of their writers and staff.

ditto for anyone else in the public sphere currently publishing status updates via walled garden platforms (elected officials, agencies, educational institutions, et cetera)

edit: or, more generically, any implementation of ActivityPub will do. or write your own!

https://github.com/BasixKOR/awesome-activitypub
Maybe Stack Overflow Jobs would work better if they'd publicly state what their job ad pricing is and if they'd improve the user experience (e.g. there is no way to get a nice looking printable version of the developer story). From my perspective Stack Overflow Jobs is a fantastic product, but lacks some tweaks here and there to make it working.
Financing.

MegaBots was founded by a couple of controls engineers who had done the math and figured they could make a real bipedal walking mecha with current technology, if only someone else would fund it.

Not that much money materialized, also falling on your face hurts when your face started 15 feet in the air, so the current gen went with a tracked base instead. But the tech can be done, we just need to get the pilots out and the money raised.
Never, unfortunately this also means you won't pay out to me
I think the tweet is really pointing out that offices all over the world have managed and figured those things out without building out a complex sensor network and platform for 50 years.
Banning electronic nicotine devices right now, because of their link to contaminated THC vaping illnesses, is like banning vaccines delivered by hypodermic needles because needles are linked to Hepatitis infections by IV drug users.
Bitcoin price just dropped 15% in ~2 hours
> “Hopefully, the professor will be able to seriously take the work on which I am presently engaged, which is, I believe, rather unique.” The meaning of the sentence is clear enough, though it contains four mistakes.

I don't mean to brag, but I got 0 of 4 on both the first, initial reading and the second reading. :)
I've only heard nasty things about Nextdoor - probably because it's more sensational. What do you like about it?
> it's fairly common for a CS undergrad to have $100K+ in savings when they graduate.

I had 1 FANG internship, 1 near-FANG internship that paid the same, and 2 not-near FANG internships.

I didn't end up close to that, at all. Pretax for FANG internships is like ~$25k each on the upper end. Even if you do 4 of them you're still under $100k considering tax.

Now if you go to Waterloo and do 6 FANG internships, then maybe but only if you save everything.

I didn't pay for undergrad but I came out with a pretty mediocre positive net worth, unfortunately :/
> Focus not on the thing you do well

Except SO for businesses could probably work quite well. I work for BIGTECHCO and the natural language query interface into institutional knowledge is very ad-hoc, being distributed amongst Slack histories, internal mailing list archives, etc. It would definitely be improved if consolidated with a decent UI.
I think there is an aspect of this that is ugly but probably true. The wealth and power staying at Harvard isn't there because it deserves to be. It helps people that deserve to be there and they help it.
It’s also an investment. Perhaps recent grads who sail the first time will do YC again with their next company. If the company is successful, the $300k total invested will be more than worth it
At least it wasn't VC-funded.

Can't wait for the RFS for "giant robots"
I've been mapping out union types at Prisma.

Are you in our Slack? I'm @mattmueller at https://prisma.slack.com.

I'd love to chat with you to better understand your use cases, so we can make sure we're designing it for you.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Exactly, thank you for being the first comment to point this out instead of taking a swing at Google/unions
Now that is one good looking electric car... I can see a bit of the Volvo aesthetic there.
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Fair enough. There is indeed a chance that, counterintuitively, "burdening" the at-risk person with the consequences of their acts may work.

However, whose "burden of proof" is it? Should "OP" provide evidence to their claim or you to yours? If no claims are provided, what should the "default action" be?

I argue that, in face of the extreme consequences of the proposed action ("burdening" instead of "no burdening"), "no burdening" should be the default action, unless there's evidence that "burdening" works (which none of us in the conversation have so far provided).
Hopefully the tech spurs on competitors that can drive down the costs in the industry, so us peasants can afford these things. I'm surprised it has a programmable interface, I would have loved to try that out.
> In the medical field, almost all software for performing and analyzing EKGs, X-rays, MRIs etc. comes by default with some sort of dongle-based protection. Apparently, it's not enough that you need the biggest dongle in the world (i.e. the machine itself!) to use the software.

Actually, it's not.

Some idiot will get the idea that they can just "transfer the hard drive immediately" because they didn't pay enough money on their support contract to get 4 hour response rather than 48 hour response. The dongle prevents that.

Medical devices are certified for the entire device--that includes the specific PC and the specific version of operating system running on it.
This has so much potential

Read the announcement teaser too and have been super excited for it to drop
Yup, the bank is defrauded and yet is able to push the consequences to the consumer.

Since they aren't lifting a finger to remedy the issue, we can assume that either the consequences are insignificant to them or they're just bad at business.

It seems to defy logic unless you look at the system as a whole.
Only this is not a way to select a DBMS. PostgreSQL adds important features much faster than competitors, it is free and much leaner and more flexible.
> Where does USW come into the picture, if PATP is affiliate of the DPE, considering that USW is _also_ an affiliate of DPE?

The PATP is a new chapter of United Steelworker’s union. Why steelworkers? Because the union isn’t just a steelworker’s union, although it retains that name in common usage for historical reasons (and also because it’s short enough to say). The union’s full name is The United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union. Years of erosion of union strength and membership in the US has led to a lot of union mergers.

The PATP is not part of the DPE. The DPE is a branch of the AFL-CIO. The AFL-CIO is a federation of unions — a metaunion, if you will. The DPE helped the PATP organize, that’s the DPE’s job. But the DPE isn’t a union itself, it’s an umbrella organization for professional employees represented by the AFL-CIO’s member unions.
Got recruited to a job by the CEO…CEO was then pushed out by the board. Manager made it clear there was no ongoing role for me, but could I stay until end of quarter. Two days before the end of the quarter, he pulls me aside and tells me he's having difficulty finding a replacement for me, and could I stay on on a week–to–week basis until he does. By then I'd already lined up new work, and he'd poisoned my reputation across the company. So I resigned the next day, agreeing to work an additional couple of weeks. From hire to Schroedinger's termination was under six months.
I don't see those answers. Why the steelworkers - the article specifies the con: they know how to represent steel workers not programmers - this was never addressed.
SOP used to be to direct devs to Stack Overflow and keep GH Issues clear. I wonder if this switch was intentional or inevitable as devs reported "maybe a bug? Halp!" I agree though, far more searches lead to a helpful Issue thread than in the past - and more often than SO at least for my searches.
I would definitely pay a small, reasonable sum for a nicer PDF output from developer story.
Many unions (like the United Steelworkers) have expanded well beyond their original industry and exists as all-purpose unions. The name only exists for historical reasons.
If there's a matching SBC for react someday, I could see this taking off immensely.
By that same logic, it's unfair for attractive people to choose who they date, because they're in a position of power.
Please don't copy-paste comments on HN.
When I look back at my career, I've found I'm least proud of my work when I'm most comfortable with my job or role.

Comfort, at least for me, seems to be tightly coupled to how much I'm learning and growing. The more comfortable I am, the less likely I'm extending myself into new roles or learning new things.

I've yet to work in a company where this didn't happen in 3-5 years. The last time I left, though, it was specifically to build my next startup: https://blog.photostructure.com/introducing-photostructure/
This is the bull case for We that justifies a stratospheric valuation: it is the extranational life infra and connection market maker for the otherwise hyperalienated worker of tomorrow -- where corporations have surpassed "legacy" social and political units of organization and identity.

Where the valuation came down to earth was when public investors evaluated We as an incrementally better office rental company, and didn't buy the idea of We as creating and monetizing a religion.
>giant CASE front end loader

Fun fact, apparently most construction equipment use the same keys [1] and the keys can be bought with no proof of ownership.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07J37ZZRC
Ask HN: Is it possible to obtain a B.S in Computer Science for free or cheap?
I've been a self-taught programmer for over a decade now. I started out with variations of BASIC and game development. I moved onto many different languages/tools/goals and have settled in Web Development in the past few years. I've been considering going to back to school to earn a B.S in Computer Science. My biggest concern is that even with substantially larger revenue each year than I ever thought I'd achieve, I still am not at a point where I can afford to go to school and acquire more debt. I'm not really willing to gamble a stack of debt on the hopes that I'll be earning substantially more in the future.

I am really hoping that I can figure something out, however, because I would really like to pursue a formal education. So I'm coming here in hopes that someone might have some knowledge on the subject.

Is it possible to earn a B.S in Computer Science for free? If not free, is there a way to do it cheaper than normal?
> Simply put - Linux has never been focused on tablet UI UX or that kind of productivity

Used to be true but not any longer; recent versions of GNOME 3 are now quite usable on tablets (and touch-screen enabled laptops) as long as the bare hardware support is there. Sure, this is largely a side effect of Librem's work on smartphone UX support, but the effect is quite real nonetheless. And Linux on a tablet can achieve things that are quite hard or even impossible on other "mobile-ready" OS's.
Reference? Sesame Street is mostly apolitical, unless you consider encouraging tolerance to be political. My experience with PBS is that there's plenty of encouragement of independent thought. Yes, there's maybe too much armchair science and handwaving, but that's a wider cultural issue that every media outlet is participating in.
>Merit admissions give the legacies legitimacy. Legacy admissions give the superhumans opportunity

Taking you at face value your superhuman friend is going to White House parties, while you have the legacy admissions, such as G.W. Bush's of the world, running the White House.

I'd rather see this system and cycle broken than a few well deserved people get invited into the inner circle.
Peak oil isn't nonsense. Predictions about when are often wrong but the idea is sound.

And it never meant running out. It's exactly what it says on the tin: a peak and a probably very long tail of decline.