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Saying that many PhDs you worked with are idiots says more about you, than it does about the PhDs.

PhD process is only one path, but it has a number of useful attributes, such as being very close to the active state of the art research, feedback from experts in the field, handholding through the paper and grant process, and introduction to a large social network. Those are all very hard to do with home labs and biohacking. Things like journal clubs with other grad students often help people learn how to evaluate the literature with the appropriate context. Independent work is important, but teamwork and learning from others is far more important.

I've worked with some very smart people (famous software engineers with long track records of innovation) that wanted to help with bioinformatics, and they did do some cool things, but their lack of deep context (the sort of thing you can get from a PhD program or working in the field for many years) ultimately led to problems such as premature optimization for the wrong distribution of data.

Nonetheless, I have see independents who came to the field with no background, absorbed the ground knowledge, and made major contributions, but that's absurdly rare compared to PhDs.
I would imagine the advantages of manager roles are highly context depedent.

Being a manager when everything works well is great.
> You philosophize on basis of the assumption that central authorities ('government') by definition cannot be trusted, and we should therefore be wary of anything that reeks of centralized decision making. That is a supremely American way of looking at the world.

Literally every government and civilization in the history of the world has eventually failed or been corrupted.

Given this inevitability, how is it not better that citizens have protections against a failing government abusing that power? Avoiding centralization of power is one such protection. This is not an "American perspective", it's a simple conclusion reached after looking at history.
I would imagine the advantages of manager roles are highly context dependent.

Being a manager when everything works well is great. When everythings falling apart, awful.
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Well I think people who put in more effort get more influence on average.

Effort can take the form of standing on the street holding a sign, and it takes money to make a sign, and time to stand there.

It can take the form of going door to door and talking to people and giving them printed materials. You need the money for the printed materials, and the time to canvass the neighborhood.

Same for running for local political office.

Same for making a documentary, or a podcast, or a YouTube channel.

Same for running a Facebook ad.

Communication takes time and money. Getting money also takes time, to earn it, to inherit it, to ask donors or investors for it...

There’s no way to have any communication at all without these elements.
Only because computers don't have emotions though :)
Lost? Permanently?

In that case, maybe we should give up on this whole civilization idea and go back to being pre-literate hunter-gatherers.

Oh, wait, that would really suck.
>I don't think an Airbnb with only verified legal listings would be very profitable.

I think it absolutely could be. As I said in a post above, I've used it once, to stay at a private home (with the family living there) when I traveled to Europe last year and the hotel rates in one particular city were absurd. It was a great experience for me, though of course staying at a private home is very different from staying in a hotel, and very limiting in some ways. For people wanting to do this, "legal" hotels just don't offer that same experience, and I think such a service can certainly be profitable.

However, it's not going to be mega-profitable like Uber or any other well-known tech companies with giant IPOs and huge valuations. And this I think is the problem: greed. Why can't the owners just be happy with something that makes a tidy profit and provides a nice service to people who want a different travel experience than what you get staying in a bland hotel room?
There's also the hiding-in-plain sight explanation that C was just easier than Lisp for English-speaking people to learn and use because, like English, it's SVO instead of VSO. Then object-oriented languages overtook C for the same reason.
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Except in China. Which shows that in reality they are pro-money and any bias toward or against groups like LGBT is only when it helps their bottom line.
Uh you literally think the post should be flagged because of marketing preferences???? Call t-mobile instead perhaps? Is there rules against this ludicrous post flagging behavior?
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Hey, congrats on publishing!

1. Could you briefly summarize your algorithm (novelty, how it’s better, why it’s better, etc)?

2. Since the original paper there have been dozens of published attempts to improve upon it. Do you compare your results to the latest in capsules research?

3. I personally would like to see Imagenet results. Norb a toy dataset. If you beat EfficientNet in terms of both accuracy and number of params/flops, many people will be impressed (including Hinton). Or match the performance of a good convnet using 1/10 training data.

Don’t take this the wrong way, but two years after the original paper Norb results, no matter how good, are underwhelming.
this formality was done for optics and will have no effect whatsoever on gop members who are arguing process because the plain facts of the matter are so damning for the president
Aah, my browser addons blocked the lower list, so I only saw the 2 Executive Branch and the 4 Congressional Leadership.

Off the two democrats congressional Leaderships, Nancy Pelosi has 14% and Charles Schumer has 11% in the True category. This in contrast with the republicans that has 12%, 0%, 10% and 5% (trump).
The server would need to provide the binary, or at least a large precompiled core library. Even then, with all of it open source it seems like one could hack it.
It doesn't seem like you have any genuine complaints about the language, but are merely interested in causing flamewars.
Oh man. It's not as bad now with shaders, but I remember how horrible learning fixed pipeline OpenGL was. You'd try to write some simple code, the result would be a black screen, and you'd just keep adding glEnable/glDisable calls to your code over and over until you figure what invisible piece of global state was ruining your day.
I have no idea. Wealth transfer? Training programs? Basic income?
I lead projects with software and bioinformaticians in one of the worlds top bioinfo/genetics company.
If you want my opinion:
Salary sucks in such companies as there are way too many phds out there. Big egos and never built a company... And bios have no clue about good engineering, TDD or CI. It is all copy paste scripts.

So don’t compete with bio phds, the money is not worth it. I have studied molec bio and comp science separately and can work in both industries. We talk about 150k vs 100k salary differences. Find an area that interests you like data analytics software in healthcare or something like this and go to a tech company you will thank me.
I'd say Go's success is almost nothing to do with its design, and everything to do with social factors.

Rob Pike was famous before its creation (within the relevant community). The language was designed within Google, and gained much hype from that. The effort to foster a community paid dividends.

Writing Go code for a living, I find it a very mediocre language. It's largely redeemed by its library ecosystem, which reflects not on the language, but the enormous size of its community and commercial backing.

If anything is noteworthy about its design, it's that it's simple (crucially, to those already familiar with C-like languages), and easy to bring people on board. What is lost for want of features and abstractions, is gained in human resource.
For many people, AirBnB and hotels don't necessarily provide the same thing, so switching from one to the other is not as easy as you'd think.

When I travel, I often approach it like imagining I lived in that city. So often I'll get food and cook it and have some days where I just lounge around. This doesn't really work with most hotels which are absolutely tiny in major cities and don't have working kitchens or living rooms. Even if they do the furniture is so generic, cheap and awful that it kind of breaks me out of the experience.

There's no real alternative for the apartment-like living experience AirBnB provides, unfortunately.
You cannot just read a book and be up to speed on biomedical research and CRISPR.

FWIW, the OP didn't specifically say ze wanted to do "biomedical". Biotech is bigger than just medical applications. Biotech could skew more towards materials science, or environmental engineering, or any number of areas besides "treatment for diseases in humans" or whatever.
It’s like doing software releases: if it hurts, do it more often.

So accept every opportunity you get to practice.
Are you asserting Brexit isn't a massive failure of the British Government? They punted a critical and complex problem to the citizenry, and then advertised outright lies as benefits, and even many British people now recognize they were in no position to make a meaningful judgement of that issue and vote on it.

I don't know what the yellow vest protest is.

Catalonian independence is something I agree with. They've been exploited extremely hard by Spain more or less since they lost their autonomy.
Do you want to explain how one avoids being the oldest at their place of employment? Or how to accomplish early retirement at 40 for the average person?
Yeah that's why you need to be able to distinguish between the morality of supporting a democratic movement and shitting on a vulnerable minority. This is not hard.
Well, actually they did try a few times. Itanic and the Intel iAPX 432 come to mind...
Their live chat is fairly responsive. With regard to low quality or knockoff goods it's pretty trivial to get return shipping waived or $5-20 store credit, as long as you don't abuse the system.
Blizzard are the Apple of the gaming industry. They can pretty much get away with anything because the people that like them REALLY like them and those that don't are just not very interested. And due to this they can get away with some really, really shitty things, and have done.

But this particular event may be their reckoning.
> HK protestors are for democracy, which is good. The PRC is opposed to democracy, which is bad.

Come on, you should know that the ability to distill complicated issues into slogans is orthogonal to truth.

"Abortion clinic bombers are for life, which is good. Abortion doctors are opposed to life, which is bad."
While I don't agree with the "climate change isn't real" crowd I can sympathize with them when they point out that there's a constant inflow of contrary evidence. It's easy, and fair, to respond with "well last week you said emissions were made up of this, and now here's something completely and substantially different". Not sure how to fix it but it does seem to be a problem.
fyi i think you forgot to submit a link
The people who would pay it are the exact same people who are worth the most to advertise to.

This is why you can’t pay to get a version of The NY Times that has no ads.
You believe that all political advertising of all kinds should be simply banned?
Probably why I used the words risk and injured.
This sounds like great guidelines and "filters". Any bad experiences so far?
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1) A modified binary can send in the hash of an unmodified binary. The server has no way to know.

2) Linux distributions compile BZFlag themselves, they don't just distribute upstream's binaries.
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What kind tech stack/development processes do you think are needed for something like this?

At a very naive level, for example: typed language vs dynamic; formal verification of the code or not (or to what extent); what kind of QA? (can't even imagine how to test this "in production" given the amount of edge cases like the ones you describe; hw and sw redundancy; to name a few.

I have zero experience with airplane software but I find it fascinating considering how safe flying is.
I read the DDD book by Evans some time ago. There's a bit where he was essentially saying "Even when you're really good at it, Domain modelling is still very hard to get right". So that left me thinking: Well, why bother then? Why subscribe to this methodology is its so hard to properly realise the benefits?
I would say that YC has a relatively large cultural impact, given its investment size. People outside of SV barely even know who Sequoia is, let alone care about who they fund. But a lot of people know about YC and what they are doing. While financially, YC pulling funding wouldn't have a big impact, culturally it'd be a huge bomb.
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Ask HN: Parents of HN – have you ever had to outwit your tech-savvy kid?
As a generation of programmers and IT professionals begin and progress through family life, I am sure that a generation of technically-proficient children are being raised, and potentially giving their parents a run for their money. I'm curious if this has led to any games of chess between parent and child, kids trying to outwit their sysadmin or coder parents
This is a pet peeve of mine, but I really hate when products like this don't affix a prefix to their tool description.

As in this isn't a "design" tool. It's a "front end" design tool or "UI/UX" design tool.

I may be flamed for this opinion, but seriously, stop referring to GUI/front-end design as just "design." There are a lot of people that are designing different things and it sucks when we search for new tooling and only get the next GUI tool.

Like when I read your title, my first instinct was that it was a CAD/EDA tool.

edit: <\gripe> this is a really cool product idea and clean implementation from the looks of it. imho quality/easy docs are the difference between loving a job and burnout!
Good point, I forgot that too. Here in my state, yearly inspection is a bit of a PITA but pretty cheap, but there's a "car tax" ("personal property tax") that's usually hundreds or even into the thousands per year for newer cars. Other states have something similar but they call it a "registration fee".
If you haven't found him already, you might like Wintergatan. Martin Molin of Wintergatan is currently in the process of designing and building a successor to a marble machine instrument he built a few years ago and is extensively documenting the process through YouTube. He doesn't shy away from showing mistakes either and all of his videos are beautifully shot and scored (often with music by him). If you are interested in engineering of any kind, I would highly recommend watching the Marble Machine X series from the start. He learns (and thus teaches) a lot of valuable lessons in the process and it is really satisfying to see it all finally coming together.
don't "traditional" media outlets already decide what ads to run, and reject ads that do not meet their standards (along with any applicable regulatory constraints)? i was under the impression that even the Penny Saver circulars reserve the right to deny ad placements based on their own, internal standards.

obviously i don't know much about this area...if anyone has canonical references they could point to i'd love to learn more.
> Do you prefer discord or slack closed discussion channels

My only experience with either of those is Slack, and that was only in relation to a job. So I have no idea if I'd prefer them or not, really.
https://speaking.io/ has an extensive set of useful advice.
To get a even more generic, but to what extent is all of our social morals based on the information society provides us? In 200 years, what will modern society then look back on us and condemn us for buying into the propaganda on issues that, if they were mentioned right now, would be seen as clearly having a right/wrong choice that is not influenced by propaganda?
It's not that they fail to understand it, they just don't care. The C-suite in all these VC-funded companies just want to get to the exit so they get paid.
Ah, this makes sense. It makes sense in the way that in some interviews the conversations were quite candid and they said the exact same things. Except that it was spread over weeks or a long conversation as opposed to 2 simple bullet points in a HN comment ;-)
> I'm not trying to be snarky, but in all honesty, how do you feel this is working out for the US at this very moment?

Great. We still have many of the rights others have been stripped of. We haven't faced any invasions or domestic warfare in over a century, we have the worlds strongest economy, etc etc. Best of all, we can say pretty much whatever we want and not go to jail for it.
>Man who spent $10 billion to bring a company to an $8 billion valuation ignored at financial conference
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> Wish the UK had something like this.

I believe it does. Three offer unlimited data for £22/month, with 5G in a few areas. I would not be surprised if other providers have similar offers.
I really used to like Airbnb, but for the same usage - family vacations. But after couple of bad experiences, where host canceled while we were on the way, I prefer holiday homes which are professionally managed and have better contracts.
Once I listed around 10 technical criticism points here a year ago without insulting and I got banned. I am just not going to waste a day trying to convince anybody with anything while most of the criticism has been stated a million times by a million people all over the internet.
One screw up isn't going to keep me away, as I've had mostly good experiences with Airbnb.

Is it worth a one time screw up of $200 for my years of positive experiences? For me, yes.

If the ratio of positive to negative experiences starts going down, I'll be finding other ways to vacation.

Likewise, if a grocer messes up once, but I've been going to them for years without issue, I'm going to let it go. If it starts happening more often? I'll look for other ways to get my groceries.

(Side note: I've been booking more hotels recently. But that has to do with cost and convenience mostly, not false listings or false cleaning fees or anything else like that).
> Why would anyone poor study it assuming that person is not a grnius in the area? It seems like a fantastic way to continue the income hardships your parents endured, even if college (and dorm) is free.

I know a few that are studying art or music and are definitly not wealthy. A former roommate studies music and her parents are old-school lower working-class. They know they're not going to make much money. They are doing it anyway. It's their life. Also, nobody knows whether they're a genius or not, it's harder to quantify than mathmatical abilities, at least in some areas. A lot of the art-students I know are fully aware of their prospects. I am currently taking some philosophy-seminars and the philosophy-majors are also not ignorant of the situation they're in.

An art-student I know recently married and it's going to be hard to raise kids because she's the only one that is going to make some money, at least consistenly. And she's a teacher, so it's also not much. We talked about it, it's not that he doesn't know.

Most of my friends are not doing something technical, or business-realted (art, music, literature) and I always feel lucky (or undeserving?) because I just don't have those existential problems while still doing something that I chose because I really wanted to. I have always chosen stuff because I had the inner drive to do it.

> but not because of the argument 'poor people wouldn't study art', that's a weak argument.

I think that's still a perfectly valid arguments, especially with art.

To finish my argument, I don't know how most of the would finance themselfs if they would have to heavily borrow money to study their subject. And I think society benefits heavily from them. They tour around giving concerts, organizing art-installations etc.
> There is some notion that he may have been operating a honeypot (kompromat factory) for Western intelligence services (particularly CIA or Mossad).

Mossad seems to be the most likely player here[1][2]:

> Given the chance to refute Ward’s report, specifically that the Epstein case involved intelligence matters, Acosta did nothing of the sort. Indeed, he functionally admitted that it’s true.

> What then can we conclude at this point? It appears that Jeffrey Epstein was involved in intelligence work, of some kind, for someone—and it probably wasn’t American intelligence either. The U.S. Intelligence Community is lenient about the private habits of high-value agents or informants, but they won’t countenance running sex trafficking rings for minors on American soil, for years. While it’s plausible that Epstein was sharing some information with the FBI—many criminals do so to buy themselves some insurance—it’s implausible that he was mainly working for the Americans.

> Who are the suspects then? It seems awfully coincidental that Epstein’s best pal and business partner for decades has been Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite and daughter of the late Robert Maxwell, the media mogul who died under mysterious circumstances in 1991.

> Six serving and former heads of Israeli intelligence services attended Maxwell's funeral in Israel, while Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir eulogized him and stated: “He has done more for Israel than can today be said."

[1] https://observer.com/2019/07/jeffrey-epstein-spy-intelligenc...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maxwell#Israeli_connect...
Article suggest they are unpopular compared to Nazis rising back to power (AfD). https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/10/27/germanys-new-hit...
This makes me feel so much better about just paying to make it go away (I was charged for "17 carpet spots"), thinking it wasn't worth the time or aggravation.

These places (airbnb, vrbo, its all the same stupid schtick) are emphasizing the rights of idiots to rent over the rights of renters to have a safe, enjoyable time while paying lots of money. They got the product they built.
And the bot also can parse the entire screen in .03 seconds and then jump to a new area of the map. No human can monitor the entire map like the bot can.
> Also Dart is a counterexample.

I think OP might have meant that big backing is a necessary condition, not necessarily a sufficient one.
I always keep a legitimate binary of BZFlag around and make sure my hacked version hashes that one instead of itself.