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those quotes you mention, while generally hinting towards Amazon's broken system, directly address the reporting individual -- unless i'm to believe that someone internal to Amazon reported it.

YOU made life difficult on Christmas Eve.

Don't blame YOURSELF

...wasn't YOUR intent.

So, unless I fall into the fantasy that the author is addressing an internal Amazon employee, it sounds as if those statements are being made towards the 'you' who reported the author.

It's all being snarky towards Amazon's broken system, no doubt, but the author doesn't seem to mind sharing the blame with the perpetrator of the report itself..
> And you need to convince roughly half of the voting population

Not with gerrymandering, you'll effectively need much more. And then there's the fact that people are consistently voted in on a set of plans/promises that either are never followed through with or they do they opposite because they were just saying the things that get votes rather than what they actually intend to do. The system is broken, plain and simple, and it's not going to change because it benefits those with the ability to change it.
Maybe because it is what they themselves were successful in pwning in the West?

It is a long running rumor in Russian internet that Russian spies managed to tap UK politician phones with fake roaming requests in 2016.
I think blaming the reader is Ok, having easy access to the tools to do something doesn't automatically exclude you of all responsibility after using it, if that reader had asked a friend "Hey do you think this is a typo?" they would have been more likely to know it was not.
My dad got one of those for us both to use...what was truly "whopping" about it was its price...

If I remember right it was almost $3k...but that included that blazing fast 300bps Hayes modem for wide-area networking.

And my mind was truly blown when we replaced the 2nd floppy with a more-memory-then-we-will-EVER-need 20MB hard drive...what could we do with all those bits??
Weight loss drugs. Not just like all those historical diets that don’t actually work, but real proven weight loss drugs that stays after you stop taking them. Current products show around 7% weight loss, but once they hit around 20%, that’s enough to unleash a snowball effect that keeps people going all the way to their target weight. Those might actually wipe out obesity completely.
The Oulipo movement stands to me as a fascinating study of creative processes with differing goals and results. It can be great short circuit around a creative blocks that stem from expectations and unlimited possibility.

I am a fan of utilizing ‘soft Oulipo’ where the rules are more of an influential and motivational underpinning vs absolute rules to be strictly adhered to. As alluded to in the article, this was/is a controversial position.

I’ve tried and failed to get into Perec, who apparently has numerous and inscrutable rules in his works.

On the other hand, I love Italo Calvino and the assembly that resulted in Invisible Cities.

I’ve never heard it described as an example of Oulipo before this article, but Alice Oswald’s Memorial is amazing and sparse and heartbreaking, especially if you managed to make it through a more traditional translation of the Iliad.
The email idea would be great. I've had trouble responding to comments on articles I've written until I learned I could just subscribe to Disqus comments. Ideally the author would publish the email response to the article if appropriate.

And for articles where the author doesn't provide an email address they can be reached at maybe those don't have comment sections as it does now.
Russia is a kleptocracy and all these 'tests' are just another way to steal money. Kleptocratic billionaires can not keep being billionaires without such 'projects'.
Not a felony if it transmits over a cell network that the usb interface was activated.
The problem was there was no way to correct the mistake. Any system dealing with human input needs to accept that to err is human.
Just based on looking at the sites, Rawtherapee appears to focus on RAW "developing", while Darktable appears to also do photo management and Lightroom-style non-destructive editing.
Left unsaid: whether you should trust journalists you consider your political allies.
Flagging for classic whataboutism and whining that the NYT does not serve as a mouthpiece of the LDS.

> Will the New York Times ever tell this story—the story of a people, of a faith, of a life that has changed millions through decisions small and large made over the last sixty years? They will not.
Well, forgive me for taking the word of people who actually witnessed things first hand, rather than 'scholars' who rely on the words written by the winners 5 decades later.

I assume you have read the exploits of US guards torturing Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib? I've also read reports that one much vaunted US air ace in the European theatre during WWII was renowned for machine gunning German pilots while they were hanging from their parachutes or running from the burning wrecks of their aircraft on the ground. Funny how those sorts of stories are not widely circulated these days?

Then again, with a president who recently pardoned a war criminal who shot a young civilian girl in the M/E just for kicks, and indeed, is now celebrating him as a hero - I won't hold my breath.
‘Star Wars’ Fans Are Angry and Polarized. Like All Americans
nope. Complaining while you are working at a company is generally bad form (though it was something I did a lot) - I'm working deep in the bowels of a faang company and it is so cushy and so remunerative in comparison. I don't even carry a pager anymore! I get vacations! I kinda miss the physical servers, but I own some as a hobbyist.

One of the worst parts, though, was that I felt like getting my first job after working on my own company for a while was... much harder than it has ever been for me to get a job. Like getting a job after being unemployed for a long time, which felt like a huge insult after how hard I worked.

I personally think it's actually a much bigger risk to do this when you are young (I mean, if you otherwise have the opportunity, like I did, to work a corporate job that let you max a 401K) than when you are older, once you have maxed that 401K as a younger person.
Free will is the fundamental (IMHO incorrect) pillar of basically all religion and society.

But life would be pretty hard to live if you didn't believe in it just a little bit.
Haha very good point! I would barely feel comfortable about a regular business card.
Is there a way to get a disposable number that cannot be tied to your identity somehow (in the US, at least)?
Scientists Store Data in Synthetic DNA Embedded in a Plastic Bunny
A carbon tax is a pigovian tax which works by disincentivising the undesired behaviour. It makes burning fossil fuels more expensive, thereby making everything else cheaper; in that sense you could also call it a "green subsidy".

What you do with that money is irrelevant. Turn it into a big paper boat and float it down the Hudson. The effect is in the levying of the tax, not in what is done with it.

See for example Canada, who directly deposits the revenue back to its residents.

The "augmenting cars" bit comes from people who don't want to pay the (now high) price of fossil fuels anymore, and instead want to avoid that tax by going green. That's how pigovian taxes work. See the UK who introduced a carbon tax, and promptly saw a huge shift in energy production to green energy and lower CO₂ emitting fuels.
Not sure why you're being downvoted. The US has a president that actively acts against such interests. He drops out of the Paris Agreement and has done tons of environmental protection rollbacks.

One example:
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/24/5-major-trump-climate-rollba...

Just one example from there:

> The new rules make it easier to take out protections for threatened animals and plants and allow federal agencies to conduct economic assessments when deciding whether to protect a species from things like construction projects in a critical habitat. The rules also remove tools used by scientists to predict future harm to species from climate change.

As you can see, as with previous actions, he makes changes to benefit business because it's too difficult for businesses to thrive when they need to worry about the environment (paraphrasing of what he's actually said in the past).
If a professional author doesn't think it might be important to keep copies of their work readily available, then I don't know what to tell them other than good luck.
Isn't this conflating a belief with imagination though?

Creating and inventing anything (societies, art, science, technology, relationships, whatever) obviously do require belief that they will work or are possible before they can be created.

But believing the earth was created in 7 days by a magical being will not make it so no matter how many people believe it.
I tend to use a mix of IDEs and vi, I've never converted over to using vim as I don't always have it on every platform. I've read good things you can do with vim+tmux but I haven't really felt my gap between vi and IDEs really warranted picking it up.

The few times that I do find myself using vim, I have to override a number of things to make it sane (e.g. :syntax off) for me--color especially bad terminal palettes make my eyes try to focus text on different depth planes which is very hard to read.
‘Worthless. Gutless. Loser.’ Online Attacks Escalate When the Mayor Is a Woman
If anyone is interested in the 6502 and its history, this YouTuber does a fantastic job covering the history. Some of his videos include past employees of MOS & Commodore employees.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP9y_7it3ZM
Cryptoindex Mission
Are there any other points about redis creator you raised?
> The page we're linking to gains partial access to the linking page via the window.opener object. The newly opened tab can then change the window.opener.location

Dear browsers, please just remove this feature.
Ask HN: Move to California for Work?
Currently I work in Salt Lake City for a financial company on contract, but my background check has taken 3 months and quite honestly has pissed me off. I have applied to a business analyst position but not counting on it. I currently have a BA in Business with a Minor in Marketing and currently am in my mid 20s. As a plan B I was thinking of taking the jump and moving to Sacramento if I could land a job there or in the Bay Area. I do have a small github , have been working on a side commercial project I plan to commercialize, and also my mentor I grew up with in the Midwest lives there. I don't want to go Willy nilly into this, but if I can get a job that is concrete I am wondering if moving there from SLC might be a good idea or I am blowing hot air? I have been trying to make some new projects and learn some new things, such as Java, but not trying to rush. I mostly have dabbled with scrapping and packages like beautiful soup. Also I was thinking of sprucing up my resume and placing my LinkedIn location in SF Bay Area. Am I stupid for thinking this and also I do have a fiance who is currently not in college so would it be feasible for us to make this work? Thanks.
In my field, contractors make more than employees, even after accounting for benefits, because the employers prefer the flexibility and are willing to pay a premium for it.
Watched that guy's lectures and conference talks. While it's quite interesting and educative - I still don't get the "for programmers" part of it. I don't quite get how I would jump from understanding categories, morphisms, monoids etc. to building actually better systems. There are zero practical examples in his talks. Is it because i'm not using functional languages or what am I missing here?
Okay that's a good one and something I can do while I'm working on other things just like passive absorption.
The PIF file format in various Windows versions
According to tweets they get at least 5 days. I wouldnt be surprised if Amazon is prescreening user generated reports wits some basic NLP checker to filter out trolls/missclicks.
> If you’re over 2TB, Flickr Pro.

Despite being a formerly avid paying user of Flickr since 2005, I can’t disagree with this more.
The C++ proto implementation is just already tuned to an absurd degree and it is hard to beat. Any place where copying was an important problem has already been eradicated with aliasing (ctype declarations) so flatbuffers' supposed advantage isn't there to begin with. It's much more important to eliminate branches, stores, and other costs in generated code.
Matrix Holiday Special
window.opener = undefined; takes care of the problem
Does “readily available” equate to “on your person at all times?” I’m sure the greats all did so before flash drives of sufficient capacity were available, right?

Should a professional accountant keep copies of all the tax returns they prepared, on a flash drive that’s with them at all times, in case a client gets audited? Should I keep a copy of every line of code I ever wrote? Where does this professional responsibility end for you?
Rotate your phone
same here, packard bell but iirc it was 20/40Mhz with 40MHz being the turbo, but before that I did have a zenith 8088 dual 5.25" floppy system that had to boot dos with one disk and run programs off the other (mostly written in gwbasic).
Especially since I do have a background in AI and machine learning.
It's not that fine a line. There's tons of space in the middle and I find a steady supply of coworkers who love to write code and hate to use libraries who never bother to understand half of what the libraries they do use are capable of. I may be slightly unusual in my habit of trying to find new uses for the tools we already have, but I'm not abnormal. This is something mature people should be doing as a matter of course.

This "everything sucks (from my myopic viewpont)" thing is like a bizarre form of learned helplessness. And I say that as someone who complains a lot about the quality of tools and libraries. Only about 10% of the time do I think that means we should write our own. 40% we should pick a different tool, and half the time we should try to convince the author to fix the worst aspects (when the problem is deeper than a PR can address).

Code you wrote is easier to understand for you. Of course you're going to be more productive with your code but what about everybody else? Are you making any compromises for the comprehension of others? Do you remember nothing about middle- and high-school coaches complaining about 'ball hogs'?

The optimists think all of their code is amazing and bug free and hence cheap. But it costs everyone else time, respect (either for you, or themselves), but perhaps most importantly, resume material and independent support options. You are hijacking the project to fluff your own ego.

For me, the worst quartile of my jobs have been NIH that turned into codependent bullshit drama, and it causes a pretty intense histamine reaction (as is evidenced in my phrasing in this comment) for me with people who are not self-aware enough to allow at least the possibility that maybe 50 people who have been thinking hard about a problem for five years are better equipped to solve it than you can in a week of bravado, followed by months or years of dodging responsibility for the problems you created by substituting your judgement for the rest of the team and the entire Internet. Just get over yourself and be a team player for once in your miserable narcissistic life.
How headphones are changing the sound of music
What are the right metrics to look at for growth?
Nice! However your last two paras are a little too succinct; can you elaborate a little bit more?
I was actually thinking the bay area was the least likely because of the separation of housing and employment centers.
Proposed musical accompaniment: Public Service Broadcasting’s “Night Mail” https://youtu.be/WFJPYi3JXw4
>...but isn't this the problem?

so what's the proposed solution? 100% accurate user submissions, lest we get rid of the entire system?

these kind of systems are supposed to work through different tiers of people. The user reported submission is to be considered the least trustworthy, useful only for attracting the attention of someone who can make a responsible decision or correction.

the problem is that Amazon acts without the middle-man supervising whether or not the user has made a valid discovery -- they rely on non-expert users, some of which may have a vendetta.
It's like the embodiment of "nice guys" but for startups.
Saying astrology is placebo effect is giving it a lot of credit. Placebo effect is fairly strong and positive. It's hard to develop drugs where its effects aren't masked by placebo.
And his brother the Easter Bunny, little known fact, both born on Christmas Day.
It doesn't exactly matter how we count, but it's important we are consistent. If planting a tree is a carbon offset, then a tree burning down must be an emission. Otherwise bad actors will plant and burn and replant and reburn for infinite carbon credits.

In fact I wouldn't be surprised something like it is already happening.
Ah, thanks! That is not the case for MetaPost though, right?
Funny that: just yesterday I was trying to 3D print a stamp whose design I made in Inkscape, and ran into the problem of OpenSCAD only understanding polylines and not Bezier curves in the DXF export.

So, the problem was to flatten the Beziers. I thought this would be a trivial thing. After all, just sampling the t parameter densely gets you somewhere, and with numerical integration, you can sample at uniform arc length intervals, which is just about what I needed anyway.

Thankfully, Inkscape has this feature as a plug-in: Extensions -> Modify Path -> Add Nodes.. -> By Max Seg. Length (1.0), if anyone is looking (after which you can apply "Straighten Segments" and live happily ever after).

But then I realized that flattening a Bezier by specifying the bound on how much the flattened polyline can deviate from the curve is nontrivial, as is doing the subdivision in an efficient manner. I didn't need this, but wondered about it. And now this article pops up as a manifestation of the Baader-Meinhof effect.

That aside, writing your own Bezier editor is a fun little project that I can highly recommend. If you don't care about it being perfect, rendering a Bezier is as simple as taking weighted averages, repeatedly. And if your curvature doesn't get crazy, it will look as good as anything else.
The Atlantic’s McKay Coppins humorously imagined the same treatment being given to other members of America’s recently deceased: “Hugh Hefner, the Playboy founder who rebuffed demands that he stop publishing a misogynistic pornographic magazine and exploiting young women, died at 91."

That would be an equally legitimate take.
Why yes I do. There is a very long list of actual crimes committed by US troops during various conflicts and I would never seek to hide them, but having done some basic research I am also going to call out misinformation and unverified BS when I see it.
Liquid Crystal Polymer Learns to Move and Grab Objects
FYI, I think that $25 6502 chip they refer to was released in 1975, and according to this site[1], $25 then would be ~$120 today.

[1] https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
This was changed recently, you can remove your phone number and continue to get 2FA support. The developer dashboard however won't function without a phone number for whatever reason.
I took the bus in LA for a few years. Mostly as parking was insanely expensive. So costs do affect behavior. Also, it was a wash in terms of time. But taking the bus was hell. I'm a larger than average human and was fairly fit at the time, but I still would not board a lot of those busses. There were a lot of not-so-savory people on LA busses. Also, it was never on time in the evenings and I had to do all my weekly out-of-house chores on the weekends, as busses would not cut it. But if I were an average-sized woman, there is no way in hell I would have taken those busses, they were just plain unsafe.
Nope. They generally want physical assets, as collateral. Even then, you may have to sign personally, because your business has no credit history, etc.
I agree. I read that he harvested 17M numbers for 2 months and have a hard time believing he’s a security researcher...
> "Increasingly, authoritarian countries which want to control what citizens see are looking at what Iran and China have already done.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_Uni...
I somewhat agree. I'm a native English speaker, but I use Japanese daily and learning Korean, now. Sometimes it is a bit of a jumble, but I attribute it more to laziness than anything else. My brain just reaches for the easiest word, and I have to struggle to find the correct one.

As a bit of an aside, because of the sentence order and cognates, when speaking Korean, I often first go from English to Japanese and finally can stumble out some broken sentence.

Japanese to Korean is almost a one to one mapping when speaking simple sentences, based on both languages being agglutinative and having SOV ordering.
Yeah what percent of that 24 percent is actually commuters? I have no idea but I'd wager single digits. I honestly stopped right at the start of the article because reading this told me this was an agenda piece likely the outcome of a risk management firm's press stash.
Start a few Electron apps and it'll warm right up
This is the equivalent of putting on armor before going to war.
Merry Christmas and Eh Happy New Year the Steele Family and Bobebuzz Steele
This is actually a market where there are many real business models that work. Advertising is the most dominant one via job ads, and that could be a way to go.

Alternatively, I think people would pay for accurately telling them what they should do with their life that would provide them with the most fulfillment; and more if you're directly able to place them in that job/industry (similar to how a dating service could find you the person to marry).
That’s a rather poor attitude you have toward your colleagues if any of them dare suggest they need a little training.
I think the past two decades have made it clear that that's a unacceptably brittle system.
And $25 was an order of magnitude cheaper than the available alternatives.
Personally I would say HN never had the anti-authoritarian/punk/anarchist ethos of 1990s cypherpunks, rather than having had it once and lost it.

HN culture has always seen multinational companies like Amazon as something to aspire to become, billionaire investors as heroic risk-taker allies, and lauded small companies that get brought out and shut down for achieving an exit.

There's nothing wrong with that, HN's culture is still perfectly valid. But HN hasn't lost an anti-authority ethos, it never had one, from the moment the URL ended with ycombinator.com