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> A lot of the article seems to be based on liberal ideals

Not liberal ideals. Globalist neoliberal ideals.

> which include a less prominent America, the promotion of Veganism, and embracing the fall of the West.

These aren't liberal ideals. They are globalist neoliberal ideals. Anti-human, anti-american and pro-globalist financiers.

> or it becomes more closely unified and a world power in the likes of the US, Russia, or China.

Simply will never happen as neither the US nor Russia would support this. Only china currently seems to want closer EU integration purely for economic/market purposes. Power is a zero sum game. The biggest loser in the rise of EU would be the US. Having europe turn from a "vassal" to a competitor would represent a significant loss of power for the US.

> Furthermore, I think we could see the United States grow with the additions of Guam, Puerto Rico, and/or Greenland.

Guam and Puerto Rico are already part of the US. I think we should work with native greenlanders directly and have greenland become part of the US. Perhaps a large cash payment for each true native inuit greenlander ( not danish/european/etc settlers in greenland ) and a percentage of greenland's productive output for 100 or 200 years? Seems like something should have been worked out with the native greenlanders a long time.
Yet somehow, it seems to me that most software - including all the "innovative" hot companies - are mostly rewriting what came before, just in a different tech stack. So how come nobody wants to rewrite the prior art to be faster than it was before?
I completely agree that car failures are almost always less severe than aircraft. However, to play devil's advocate, pilots have much more stringent training requirements and that's a relevant point to the MAX situation. I hope I didn't come across that I was trying to equate the two in terms of criticality, just trying to point out a couple counter examples to statements about car software not being critical. The details of the Honda case seem even more critical than the GM one.

I was estimating at $100 per fix (since it's just the labor cost of software). At roughly $120 per labor hour multiplied by 1MM vehicles is where I came up with the nine figure mark. At $1k per fix, it would be in the 10 digits. Regardless, it was overshot and I corrected it with the details in a reply (since I couldn't edit the original). It only comes in at 0.5 hours per fix. Not chump change but the decision to fix it may also have been influenced by the Toyota accelerator and GM ignition recalls that got a lot of press.
The sound driver on my ZBook at work does need almost 500MB Ram. No idea what is in there .. maybe HP has these days not just keyloggers included in the drivers, maybe the have screengrabbers too.
Quantum mechanics. And lots of potential in physics, that's for sure.
Who is down voting this comment?
> When a politician 'advises' an entire class of people that way, it implies that they view the problem that affects that entire class as fundamentally not their responsibility to solve.

I think you've pretty much hit the nail on the head here, however it's not unacceptable to everyone, just a particular group of people (I don't know much about US politics but certainly in Europe that'd be a standard left/right split).

A lot of people just don't see that as being the role of government.

They might, in a reduced form, roughly subscribe to the idea of welfare as an insurance policy (against crime at a low level, and uprising at the more extreme end of the spectrum), but not as some sort of moral imperative.
dang, my intent wasn't to cause a 'nationalistic flamewar'. I've seen you many times shoot down attempts by many HN users over the years exposing the CCP. It almost seems you are taking orders from the CCP itself. I honestly see you as an enabler of the CCP, intentional or not.
That's how CMOS cameras got started in the first place.
A union is a group of people saying pay us more it give us better benefits, otherwise we will go elsewhere.
Most of the power is in the employer. A single individual didn't have much power. And it isn't quite the same as choosing to purchase a loaf of bread from a different store.
You keep claiming that a union extracts rents above those the market would ordinarily best. But I don't think you've given any evidence that that is the case.
This isn't the case where someone thinks that salaries are too low, so they'll open a new business and pay more.
It could be a correlation between socioeconomic demographics rather than race.

Regardless though, suspensions always seemed counter productive to me: "You were misbehaving so as a punishment we won't let you learn anything for a few days."

Instead, put the disruptive into self-study rooms where they have to do school work and the only talking allowed is with an instructor assigned to assist students with the work. Or any other even vaguely related learning activity. But "you're not allowed to learn" is just ridiculous.
AFAIK, the POWER architecture consumes a lot of energy so it's not suited for mobile and/or embedded gadgets so it's not as appealing to the masses.
I think the next decade will see a radical change in the materials used to make a significant percentage of common goods. From biodegradable materials that equal the performance of petro/plastics, to graphene replacing steel, aluminum, carbon-fiber, etc. for many applications. Also potentially changing the game with respect to microchip fabrication and performance.

RE: Graphene though, there are so many military applications, that it’s hard to say what the lag will be to civilian technology. If history is any indication, and I hope it isn’t, there could be a decade or (much) more between first production applications and public knowledge that those applications even exist, let alone having access to products incorporating them.
I respectfully disagree -- something that is 10 times more efficient costs 10 times less energy (theoretically). When the end user suffers a server outage due to load, when they run out of battery ten times quicker, all of these things matter. When you have to pay for ten servers to run your product instead of one, this cost gets passed on to the end user.

I was forced to use a monitor at 30 fps for a few days due to a bad display setup. It made me realize how important 60 fps is. Even worse, try using an OS running in a VM for an extended period of time...

There are plenty of things that are 'good enough', but once users get used to something better they will never go back (if they have the choice, at least).
Just move it about for a bit with frames sampled in sequence and you should be able to build up a pretty good map of the arrays of cells.
Ah, okay, I meant "reverse engineered the [JSON] encoding [of the gameplay logic] and ran [the video] on an emulator [to interpret the state]".
Users don't know about this performance gap, but there is a gap, and that gap is an economic opportunity.

Since the current practices are so inefficient, users are having to pay for this from pocket as hardware expenses. Buy a $1000 smartphone, to get the same experience as last-year's.

A different stack (don't need to reinvent the universe), can be branded as brutally efficient, uses slim hardware, and strict engineering practices to provide a much better experience at a fraction of the price (1/5 possible.)

I believe nobody is doing that yet since there are two main barriers:

1- Risk of no-market (I think this might be proven unfounded, given the current trend in price hikes)

2- Capital investment necessary to get started (But this also can be solved given the obvious appetite for the next-big-thing money being poured left and right, without anything catching on yet)
I'd wondered if there was a Color Computer variant and indeed there was/is: From Hot Coco, April 1984 http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Documents/Magazines...

Now to test it out.
I'd wager adults suddenly deviating from their normal routine because of something you did tends to induce a sense of severity for most kids. Perhaps not for the shittiest kids, but most kids understand when adults are no longer laughing at their 'shenanigans'.

There are, of course, other ways to accomplish this. I was "scared straight" as a young teen when my mother cancelled her plans for the evening so she could go talk with my teachers after school about my behavior, which wasn't severe enough to warrant suspension but was nevertheless bad enough to disturb my parents and teachers.

Ideally the kid is set back on a good path before their behavior becomes severe enough to warrant suspension, but sometimes (probably most often because of poor parenting) this doesn't happen.
There would likely be unintended consequences to raising the price of meat through a carbon tax. It creates a market for cheaper meat that there will be no shortage of producers or consumers for. How that meat is made cheaper is an open question. It could be through carbon offsets but it could just as well be through worse conditions for the animals or importing the meat from countries where production is cheaper.
Citation?
Maybe Americans are doing something wrong but educational reforms and less abuse of kids in other places have shown positive effects.
Not to mention, crimes rates are slowing down in those areas with more development.
In my experience work-life balance in the software industry, at least in the United States, is better than people seem to think. In particular, large companies have better work-life balance than startups and they pay more, too.

I've been in the industry for nearly a decade and pretty much work 40-hour weeks, including at a company that has a reputation for people working long hours, and I've never been on call.

It's really the team, not the company, that matters. People who join teams that work long hours generally know what they are getting themselves into.
Yeah, but I (and the people I know in my position) enjoy an immense amount of privilege / dumb luck. Generally it's about being unwilling to sacrifice life outside of work, and finding opportunities within those confines. Hard to do if you don't start out with a good network.
Not fast but quick.

Aside:
"Quick" can mean "alive" - I think that was its original meaning. We should also note that schnell is often translated as "quick" but I think "faster" is better in general. Using a simple dictionary approach to translate mordsschnell into English might come unstuck pretty quickly. With these clues we could arrive at living dead or zombie! I don't know but given how fast the above comment got downvoted that word has some history.
Thanks!

The intent has always been to enhance rather than replace AWCLI (which is an amazing tool!).

If you're ever wondering how a Bash-My-AWS command works, use `bma type` (it even supports tab completion for all the commands).

$ bma type instances
instances is a function
instances ()
{
local instance_ids=$(__bma_read_inputs);
local filters=$(__bma_read_filters $@);
aws ec2 describe-instances $([[ -n ${instance_ids} ]] && echo --instance-ids ${instance_ids}) --query "
Reservations[].Instances[][
InstanceId,
InstanceType,
State.Name,
[Tags[?Key=='Name'].Value][0][0],
LaunchTime,
Placement.AvailabilityZone,
VpcId
]" --output text | grep -E -- "$filters" | LC_ALL=C sort -b -k 6 | column -s' ' -t
}
I think flagging this as dupe is overkill. Lots of people would have missed it 3 months ago, and perhaps some new-year goals include becoming more privacy conscious.
As someone from the UK who has tended to eat meat a lot in the past - I do agree with your reading of culture in the UK historically.

But I also think it's remarkable how quickly public opinion in the UK has been shifting with regard to environmental concerns.

Traveling by train as opposed to air travel, reduction of single-use plastics and plastic packaging, and reduced-meat diets all feel like much more common discussion topics and lifestyle choices than they were even five years ago.

Shops and restaurants have also shifted to meet changing demands. There have been mistakes (incentives around long-life plastic shopping bags haven't worked out exactly as planned) but overall it feels like a wave of change.
There are arguably too many unknowns to do much more than speculate.

But let's say there's some other planet with comparable technology. At what distance could we detect its routine radio emissions?
I don't think they necessarily eat meat and drive big cars because of the need to signal their ideology. I agree that their ideology means they don't care about their impact on the environment, which means they don't have the incentive not to drive a big car or eat meat; since they don't have disincentive, the positive reasons to do those two things win out.
Well, I am working (mainly coding) for about 6 hours a day these days on my SaaS startup. Never work weekends. Travel a fair bit with my family. I guess in one respect, that is “success” to me, and a work/life balance...
Just googled Rhapsody in Blue and this interesting related story came up: Gershwin's Family Doesn't Want Rappers Sampling "Rhapsody in Blue" https://www.popdust.com/public-domain-2020-2643146445.html
The responses are not that small-scale, the guidelines call for vaccinating as many children aged 0-5 as can be done with good coverage, e.g. half a million children within 14 days and 1-2 million within 6 weeks.

http://polioeradication.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/sop-p...
A lot of people in this thread are talking about it in the context of technical debt, but I've always interpreted it as an allegory about time management: you find yourself shaving a yak when you've ‘gone down the rabbit hole’ and traversed several layers down the dependency chain of your to-do list. When you realize this is a good time to take a moment to reflect on the situation. Sometimes, the yak really does need shaving right now, but sometimes it's a result of performing a depth-first search, so to speak, and it's better to back up and take another tack, leaving the yak for later. And even if that yak really does need shaving, taking a moment to reflect on why you've found yourself shaving it can be useful to prevent frustration that the original task doesn't even seem to have been started yet.
Feels like using the DNS based challenges would be a much easier solution.
Some not by you!
If we are talking super-advanced, it wouldn't even need to be a physical zoo. Just mess with enough of our brains enough to make us not want to do certain things and we'll stay on this rock forever.
If websites and business software were as lean as they could be, most computers could have amazingly weak, low-powered processors.

I'm quite disenchanted with software myself. It takes way too long to open any program, for this JIRA ticket to properly display.

One thing that has improved was boot times, I seem to remember that Windows 7 was quite a bit faster than XP. Maybe someone in upper management wanted it to be as fast as MacOS? So speed IS possible, if it is prioritized.
> 95 years

This term is insane. It should be rolled back to something sensible.
Assuming all schools chase the metrics like that, a relative increase is still a positive thing. Like if all grades were inflated one full grade, improving from a C to a B is still good, even though the uninflated grade went from a D to a C.
> there's no excuse for not hiring an immigration lawyer

1) You're quite the zero-tolerance guy, aren't you?

Except it's not that simple. Form I-9 page 1 is to be filled out by the worker within one day of starting a new job, and page 2 afterward by the employer within 2-3 days.

So you don't have time to have your immigration lawyer actually look at it, unless you got some pre-filled form, which doesn't normally happen. In fact, you fill in page one and return it to the employer for the next step.

2) Having said that, I appreciate the original blog post bringing this to my attention, and plan to be more careful with this form than the last dozen times I've signed it.

I'm pretty sharp with US employment, tax and passport forms, yet that's the first time that I've heard somebody being banned for an I-9 mistake.
I look forward to laughing at this list a decade from now.
Any midi editor should be able to. You'd need to input it, if you use the paper sheet source.
It depends on how much effort you put into the midi transcription, but a trained musician could probably still tell the difference, especially during the transitions in between notes, and certain dynamics. Some sample libraries go as far as to record entire phrases played by a musician but then you're limited to what musical phrases those recordings include and how they were played (pitch shifting has gotten very good, but let's say you want a violin melody to sound softer, or plucked instead of bowed).

Instruments where notes/hits are isolated from other notes/hits like a piano or drumkit work wonderfully with sample libraries. But things like a guitar, violin, or trombone are still challenges. Even the orchestral libraries that are hundreds of gigs and thousands of dollars don't get it perfectly on their own. You definitely can make recordings that trick a trained musician, but not without tons of effort customizing your midi transcription to that specific sample library and you may have to compromise and avoid certain techniques that still don't translate to sampling well.

This is just talking about trained musicians though. Taking a midi transcription of something, spending 10 minutes adjusting velocity, and then loading up some EastWest samples would probably fool the average person.

Also quick edit but many people would consider something using samples of recorded instruments to still be a midi synthesizer because you're synthesizing a performance from samples, as opposed to recording entire phrases or even longer sections with a real musician and then arranging samples to create a recording. Not everyone would agree, but I'd guess the original commenter also had sample software in mind along with more traditional electronic synthesizers.
The main idea being that for a given input the output really is 100% predictable [..] I think it would be super fast once you got it working.

I imagine it would be fast, then you realise you've made a static content caching layer out of a neural network and replace it with Varnish cache and it would be hyper fast.
These tools often inject themself between syscalls (at least in Windows), they might not take many resources by themself but they slow down everything. I once worked in a bank where git status took 5s on 16 core machine with SSD.

If you can influence a decision I would look for something that allows you whitelist some directories and programs where impact for day to day job can be reduced.

For actual security, having updated systems and well-configured networks is probably more important[1].

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3503416/maersk-up-to-date-...

> Microsoft said most infections occurred on Windows 7 systems andclaimed that Windows 10's in-built defenses either blocked or mitigated each of the techniques.
It's not a 'virus' software, it a soft that somehow classify the comments using techniques somewhat like anti-virus software.

I would have used a version of an anti-spam software, but I guess anti-virus makes this more scary and get's more funding and press.
>At the same time, people describe living in former east germany as the most easy-going / carefree time of their life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_German_uprising_of_1953

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_attempts_and_victims_of...

People made the best of the situation they had. There is a reason the links above happened, though, and it wasn't because the system people lived in was easy-going and carefree. Keep in mind that the transitional years, after the governmental collapse, but before western institutions stepped in, were worse than regular life when the eastern systems were functional. Balance that against the thought that the eastern system was unsustainable, and had the west not been able to step in when it did, the results would have been far worse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine for an example of what happened in a centralized system that didn't have outside assistance when things collapsed.
A Carbon tax done right would have WAY more efficacy than EV subsidies, dollar for dollar.
being able to live in your country of choice is a privilege denied to a huge number of people who have never made a clerical error that looks identical to lying about their citizenship.

I understand this guy's problem, and i'm sad for him. but looking at it from the perspective of everybody else who's ever gone through the immigration process, or the people working on the immigration process, i can also understand why this situation couldn't really have any other end result.
Yes, but it's not just relative quantities that matter, absolute values matter too, just as the post you replied to was saying.

Optimizing for microseconds when bad UI steals seconds is being penny-wise and pound foolish. Business might not understand tech but they do generally understand how it ends up on the balance sheet.
"Don't"

If anyone who has been a google fan/early adopter can attest to, the more things you learn to turn off, unistall, or otherwise disable, Google will find a way to add in even more shit to track you. They are, without absolute certainty, an advertising company. They will always find a way to sell more ads, its the only reason they exist.
I agree that you can roll your own store. You'll miss lot of free functionality and the dev tools, but maybe it's not stuff you need.

I also agree that introducing a dependency at every opportunity comes with serious drawbacks.

Every situation is unique of course. In my case:
At work, I value code that is more standardised so that I get less bugs, documentation / best patterns and crucially easier on-boarding process.
For a personal project, I would definitely consider rolling out my own implementation, even just for the learning it comes with.
> Life arising only once could very well be the more plausible option

Indeed I feel like coming to this conclusion is something that the authors - and most of us rationalist types - do not _want_ to come to.

Because if you accept that hypothesis, then it follows as a consequence that an alternative view of the world makes a lot more sense: what if, rather than living in an emergent, random universe where life sprouts up everywhere, hundreds of billions of times, but somehow _always_ disappears before we can ever observe it outside Earth, we are instead living at the center of a universe where we are the sole intelligent species that ever existed? In that system of the world, the universe is being directed by beings existing outside its bounds - gods. A simulation created and managed by uncaring observers - as hypothesized by the likes of Elon Musk? Or a benevolent God in the Judeo/Christiano/Islamic tradition?

The truth is that this alternative is being rejected a priori, indeed not even acknowledged, by the authors of the article or most people in this thread, because it is an affront to their core beliefs, not through pure logical reasoning.
Ask HN: What Is com.americanexpress.amexservice?
I just checked my ”screen time” app on my iPhone, and I see that app identifier? I don’t recognize it at all.

It says that I’ve used that app for 3 hours+ this week already.

Any ideas?
I buy carbon offsets based on a questionnaire about lifestyle. It works out to about $180-220 USD per year, depending on whether I take a vacation by flying to Europe. If that were factored into prices as a tax I don't think it would count as an astronomical increase.

But perhaps the questionnaire and algorithm from terrapass is deficient in some way. What are you basing your calculations off of?
moddablexs and quickjs are probably better at this point, with current spec compatibility and whatnot. still a lot of respect for duktape though, it is not that bad to embed.