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I’d love it if we could just have more gradual transitions throughout the year—maybe clocks could shift every day so that sunrise was always at 6 am. We woke up this morning and didn’t even realize we’d left DST until we saw an old oven clock that didn’t update itself; perhaps technology can offer us a better alternative than what has historically been possible?
One problem is that, at least for certain actions, you can measure that motor neurons fire (somewhere in the order of 100ms) before the part of your brain that thinks it makes executive decisions.

At least for certain actions and situations, the "direct experience" of free will is measurably incorrect.

Doesn't mean free will doesn't exist (or myabe it does), but it's been established that that feeling of "I'm willing these actions to happen" often times happens well after the action has been set into motion already.
>, and this article isn't really advice in the sense you seem to be implying. Using a holier-than-thou tone probably doesn't help your case,

I know D Sivers visits HN and we can be civil and polite about analyzing his text separately from his intentions. If you read some of the other HN replies in this thread, DS's wording has clearly rubbed some (not all) the wrong way. Imo, here are some example sentences that some readers may not like:

>Other families come to the playground for twenty or thirty minutes, but we stay there for hours.

>Nobody else can play with us like this. Everyone else gets so bored.

Regardless of DS's charities and wholesome intentions, that type of text above will always be percieved by some as humblebrag and condescension toward other parents. Some will roll their eyes and think of the Willy Wonka meme: https://www.google.com/search?q=condescending+wonka&source=l...

For a subset of irritated readers, it's DS written text that seems to have the "holier-than-thou" vibe.

That said, most of DS blog posts have that similar tone so some readers will always smile and nod along while others will find it a turnoff. One can't please everyone.
>but Musk’s companies are likely to be the biggest human decentralizing force in history.

Are you completely unaware that Musk and his family are being sued for self-dealing and fraud? Are you not paying attention to what's happening to cash bleeding companies?

>the solar roofs

The solar roofs that the CFO at the time they were demonstrated publicly didn't think were real, or that the global sales manager for Tesla energy didn't know if they sold a single one during his tenure? Those are changing the world?

SpaceX can't go to Mars. Teslas don't drive themselves. The Solar Roof doesn't exist. Starlink has yet to prove viable. Neuralink and The Boring Company are jokes. These are money-burning "ideas" to get to the next funding round.
Your generation is lucky enough to have deflationary cryptocurrencies.

Do you expect cryptocurrencies to be relevant 50 years (5 times their current age) later?
My daughter was mainly a bus rider, as the places she usually goes aren’t served by the subway. I used to ride the subway to work, but I haven’t in years since I’ve turned to working from home.

My theory is that traveling in a vehicle that is “on rails” (train or tram or bus - they’re all alike in that their routes are predetermined) removes every bit of agency from the passenger, and leaves them completely disconnected from details of the route. Passengers engage in conversation or bring entertainment with them that further weakens the spatial link.

Those traveling in private cars have at least some opportunity left to influence their trajectory or destination. “Perhaps you should make a right turn here” or “let’s stop for ice cream at that place we like” are both things that get said along the way. There’s also the constant stream of teachable moments supplied by other drivers in the form of poor vehicle control.
If most people carried the world on their shoulders we might stand a chance but since most don't do that yeah. Just don't bother. (not sure if sarcastic)
What if you say "I will call sometime tomorrow". What does that mean if you're telling that to someone in Hawaii?

A business has hours of operations. In Hawaii, those hours of operations will span multiple days on the UTC clock. What does "today" mean in UTC everywhere? What about "tomorrow"? What does "Sunday" mean? Does every place experience "Sunday" at the same time?

Let's say "Sunday" is the same datetime everywhere - e.g. on 2019-11-03 it starts at 00:00 UTC and ends at 23:59 UTC. Currently, every business I go to has something like this:

Mon-Thurs: 8am-8pm
Fri-Sat: 8am-9pm
Sun: 8am-7pm

This no longer makes sense. You now have to talk about business hours for Saturday/Sunday, Sunday/Monday, etc. Saying you will meet up "Saturday" doesn't make sense. When you tell your friend you're free "Sunday the 3rd" it could mean you're free 2 different solar days.

There is no useful sense of "today", "tomorrow", or even "monday" anymore. And as you stated, you still need to know offsets. Offsets that we will call what... timezones? What exactly are we getting with UTC everywhere?
That looks amazing. A comeback of terminals.
Well I'll give a counter example. After the dot com crash and the offshoring hype, I was discouraged from getting a job in programming and so I didn't until much, much later. And if you look at the number of CS grads by year you'll note there was a significant dip in number of grads after the dot com crash and it took more than a decade for the numbers to recover.
Seriously. Also an only child. I have three kids five and under. I feel like all I do is parent but never particularly get any one on one time. They’ll be fine though.
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> having the GIL makes it easier to write parallel code.

It does not. What it does is create a bigger trap, because the code looks to be working in more testing situations, and will be more difficult to debug when it starts failing.
This is the exact kind of thinking that got you Trump. Keep in mind that by the time 'some' amounts to a substantial part of the voting public that the disenfranchised can turn around and throw a spanner in the works. It would be socially much more productive to study how to re-balance society in such a way that the gains are not realized locally.

Think of it this way (very much simplified):

If cities A and B create are producing 10 units of value each and small towns C, D, E and F are producing 3 each and you relocate all the 'important' (again, simplifying) people to A and B so they produce 20 units of value each while the small towns drop to 1 each you've according to the paper optimized and reduced the waste. After all 43 > 29. But from society's view this is a net loss. It would be much better to see how the small towns go from 3 to 5 each in order to reduce the gap.

Of course this is super simplified and in the end wealth distribution is a complex subject but this paper strikes out for me.
Author here, made a vscode extension to convert your CSV/PSV/TSV files into a formatted ASCII table.

I’ve found this useful when needing to export data from temporary sources (sql, APIs) and present them in an email.
The way I remember is that they couldn't get a PPC of the current (at the time) generation suitable for laptops - too power hungry, too hot. IBM weren't interested in supplying such a part so Apple were really left with no choice. It was a similar story of moving from 68k to PPC - the 68060 wasn't what they needed.
This is antithetical to the core concept of American government: it literally is up to everyone what happens. Vote, campaign for others, lobby, run for local office, or bigger offices if you find yourself successful.

Look at AOC. People will be vile, they will mock you and attack you, but you can inch the world in the direction you think it should go.

In any given situation, it may not be clear how an individual can start to effect change. But we certainly, absolutely can.
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Sure, because the kind of invasion of privacy and corrupt practices our intelligence agencies engage in today makes Watergate look like child's play.
I think that representative democracy works, while direct democracy has very mixed track record. Generally the public should not be weighing in on issues.

The problem is that the public doesn't have the attention, interest or background to address more than a small number of issues. The issues that they do address are not necessarily important ones, but ones that the editorial boards of mass media think will attract eyeballs and sell ad space. The discussion is then led by special interest groups that are funded by interested parties. The result is a lot of heat among some narrow segment of the population but not much useful work.
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Godot is one of the most awe inspiring open source projects out there. It's vast, but yet so well documented, user friendly, and incredibly well maintained. If you're thinking about using Unity for something, but was weary of the business model, Godot will surprise you.
Look at Druid or Imply
Uniqiti has several product ranges; the EdgeMax line is the advanced one; Unifi is the simple one.

Yes, you can set up simple things with Unifi in a simple way, but the more advanced ones are a tragedy, that you must also google around, dig wikies and forums for arcane incantations of the right json keys, so you can deploy your config in json, there are even no arcane settings to click.
Full ATmega32U4 board is 2.50 and doesn't need any hacks to work.
To be fair, that’s the only prediction I’ve ever seen that consistently proves to be true.
There's a comment further down the page from ubuqiti that says they've fixed that.
Although a good sentiment, the information age coupled with more advanced climate models makes us much better at predicting.

Additionally, it's only been within the last century where we've been technologically capable of causing a mass-extinction level event via nuclear weapons. Here's a fun list of close-calls [0]

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_close_calls
Transit expansion is expensive compared to intensifying frequency and land use in the core.
Shields, duh...
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> Devil's advocate: did you ask them to solve graph traversals or complex string algorithms rather than fizzbuzz ?

Getting someone to regurgitate something they've been explicitly taught and memorized instead of trying to solve a problem they haven't been (does any CS course explicitly teach fizzbuzz) does not seem like good job selection criteria.

> I recently had a technical test, which I failed because I was depressed how boring it was so I missed many easy answers (say asking about private/public fields in OO).

If you're not willing to engage with a test because you think it's beneath you, you're going to have a bad time.
This was the reason for me to still buy AMD shares when they were deep underwater. I considered them basically immortal, because if the company ever was in existential danger, Intel would have a huge incentive to stage some kind of indirect rescue operation (not outright buying, that would kill the goose, but something else that surely would prop up AMD share value), because the monetary value of AMD as an antitrust insurance was easily much higher than AMDs market cap.

Sold those shares way too early in hindsight, but still got a good return out of that thinking, and if AMD ever gets into trouble again, I won't hesitate to apply the same logic.
> Spleeter is the Deezer source separation library with pretrained models

Curious, what is Deezer using this for?
New cognitive technique can reduce bedtime procrastination
How is it irresponsible? Because it gives away the exploits? That only happens if it gets reverse engineered. The main objective of stopping the nuclear arms enrichment was a more important goal and the security bulletins could be published anytime after the payload was delivered.
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What is the best way to build a list before I launch my crowdfunding campaign? TY
8 years? Try 20 years. I started driving in the 90s. It’s very much different in that time span. And I drove through rural areas all the time (have family in those areas).
I really like KDE.
The philosophy that an DE can have extra functionality rather than the standard "if it doesn't run on a 10 year old ThinkPad, it's trash."

Of course I'm being a bit unreasonable since the majority of desktop users likely are running vms and accessing it it over VNC/xRDP/Guacamole. And so require something snappy.

I'm running KDE Neon on a Lenovo T450 and an XPS 13. And the experience is great.

However high dpi is hell to configure, still not happy with it.
The concept seems good, but the picture seems odd. For this to work, you'd either want to:

* Use fancy fluid dynamics, the way bagless vacuum cleaners do, where you separate clean and dirty air

* Have some kind of filter

Otherwise, you'll bring in more dust than you take out. I see neither of those in the patent picture, but the patent is in Japanese. Perhaps it's in the patent text. Or perhaps there's a third way I haven't thought of.

Thoughts? What's Canon doing here?

A self-cleaning camera would be neat!
Another anecdata-point: I am seeing waaaay more mosquitos than 20 years ago, but a lot fewer of every other kind of insect.
But instead you get a terrible confusion what day it is precisely because for somewhat more than half of the world the calendar date suddenly changes somewhere in the middle of the solar day instead of conveniently somewhere in the middle of the night when most people would be asleep (or at least not caring about the date) anyway.
Dreams are maintenance. They are overnight batch processing after the realtime system is largely shut down. Your realtime conscious system then reboots from the now consolidated memory when you wake up.

You are a new and different person each morning.
> Frank Kermode, in his famous book The Sense of an Ending, elaborated on Cohn’s masterwork by suggesting that actually it’s very common for all of us – especially artists – to feel that we live at the end of times, and that our own demise means all the more to us because we’re not simply dying in the middle of the plot, in medias res. Our lives take on significance because as we decline we notice our society is declining all around us. It’s part of a yearning for narrative significance. As Kermode said, no one can hear a clock saying, as it does, tick tick. What we hear is tick tock. A beginning and an end. We impose this order.

- Ian McEwan
I think the issue here is not whether a CS degree is important, but whether the people doing the hiring consider having a degree relevant.

In many accounting related areas, having a degree is not important. The accountants, finance and management related executives who need the programmers didn't need CS degrees to create their Excel spreadsheets and macro, so why should they think a CS degree is important?

Try getting a programming job in an engineering domain without a CS degree. They would rather have a physics or maths major and teach them programming rather than a person with programming experience without a degree in that field.

It all depends on that programming tasks are required. You certainly don't need a degree to code for AWS or Kubernetes, but you will need it in hard STEM areas.
> I've never had a JVM dependency break because I upgraded Maven. I have had that exact issue with Python - we're using Apache Airflow, and anyone who installed the latest version of Pip hit an issue - Pip had changed an API that Python dependencies depended on, so Airflow could no longer be installed by that version of Pip, because it was written for the old API. Have fun googling "TypeError: 'module' object is not callable" to enjoy that rabbit hole.

Pip explicitly has no API (except for its command line interface), even the Pip namespace implicates this (pip._internal). So if some dependency is using a Pip "API" they're wrong.

Now, I am developing an application that needs to interface with Pip, in this case it may be appropriate to use the internal Pip API if you pin your Pip version in requirements.txt. However a library shouldn't do this ever.
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Cherry-picks can still lead to conflicts though, no? It's essentially just a particular kind of merge.
When working on GUIs that used callbacks like this, I’d have a method for setting the value of the second component which didn’t raise a ’changed’ event, or I’d turn off raising events for the second component before telling it to change then tell it to continue.

They weren’t beautiful, but both methods worked fine for the rare cases they proved necessary.
Matt Cutts of the US Digital Service strikes me as an obvious rebuttal of this. He's accomplished, a respected ex-googler and speaks well.
We have a couple of natural experiments.

England changed from coal gas to natural gas. That prevented one very common method, and it led to a drop in total suicide rates.

It took a while for method substitution to happen.

We also saw similar drops when catalytic convertors were added to cars in the UK.

One of the important parts of reducing access to means an methods is to cause people to switch to less lethal methods. Removing access to coproxamol (in the UK) saved lives because people switched to other meds. Any overdose is dangerous, but some overdoses are less likely to be lethal if medical attention is sought quickly.

England changed the quantities of paracetamol that people could buy. This link only talks about self-poisoning (so it doesn't address the method substitution) but it does talk about characteristics of some people who chose this method: did they go to buy the meds or did they use what was in the home? Were they able to buy large quantities or did the legislation work? What was the length of time between having the initial thought of wanting to overdose and then carrying out the act? http://cebmh.warne.ox.ac.uk/csr/resparacet.html

At the moment one of the strongest recommendations we can make for suicide prevention is to reduce access to means and methods, because that has clear evidence to support it.

You can hear Professor Nav Kapur talk about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWPEVhrWZS0&t=415s

The NCISH will probably have more information or links to research about method substitution: https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/ncish/

It's important that removing access to means and methods is not the only thing we do! It's important, but it's only a part of a package of suicide prevention measures.

> How do you measure the efficacy of a fence on a bridge? By the number of suicides by jumping off a bridge or by looking at the suicide numbers in aggregate?

You don't look at "suicides", you look at self inflicted deaths. You look at self inflicted deaths from people jumping from high places, and you look at the total number of self inflicted death in the area. So far we strongly think that fencing off places like multi-story car-parks saves life and reduces total numbers of self-inflicted deaths.
One of the hopes of Vulkan on Godot is a higher performance API on mobile. Apple is a sticky company to develop for and it isn't practical to have direct support for metal, but moltenVK might allow for vulkan based games to run on it. If this abstraction really is possible then vulkan seems to be an excellent choice for supporting multiple platforms. I'm nervous about it happening until I actually see it happen. There is also not very much discussion on this front, even though it must affect many people trying to make games for mobile.
Only in the US! Somehow, Paris is able to build them for a tiny fraction of the cost. And since we’re talking about France here, it’s certainly not due to a dearth of workers rights.
Hey if I were observing humans, all my ships would look and scan like comets.
Someone owns the land on which that rail must run and the stations built. They may not want to sell. Eminent domain taking is time-consuming and expensive (probably should be more expensive).

In a most of these cases, this land is in neighborhoods that already have a housing shortage. If you’re going to take the land of groups of people to build transit, you’ll displace many households at once and into a market with reduced supply and increased demand. Anyone want to wager whether those property owners will be truly properly compensated? Anyone want to wager whether tenants displaced will be compensated at all, let alone enough to find a comparable place?
I would guess Garageband tracks would be more representative of 'real' instruments than chiptunes.
Elizabeth Warren’s ‘Medicare for All’ Math
Given that they've commented on the fact that all traffic is end-to-end encrypted you'd not notice them sending things you don't want to be send.

Maybe they're sending a list of all sites you visits? How about them sending any login information that you add on sites that for whatever reason isn't doing tls?

One important point here is that they "claim" to be GDPR compliant but are already somewhat breaking GDPR. All data is encrypted on the APs so we can't really know what is sent. This is a complete buy in in trust from us, the customers. We're supposed to trust them that they're not sending anything they shouldn't, even tho they selected not to tell us at all about them implementing this.

It's horribly sketchy at best, if ont illegal.
Mostly off-topic: anyone know how to set the github.com cookie to never expire? All I want, usually, is to star a project. But all that gets me, usually, is a sign-in screen. And I never seem to have my U2F key handy.