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It's good to see someone express this. I really hate working and you've enumerated my concerns about stopping.

The conclusion I came to is that I need about $3M to provide a life-long safety net, then I can try just making enough to cover the "basic needs" and not end up homeless if things go wrong.

Do you have any thoughts about taking a year off? I'm considering doing that once my current employment expires, but I'm concerned that if I taste freedom and begin enjoying life, I may not be able to go back to work.
I swore off PayPal for ~5 years for something similar. I was part of a group buy of something, and PayPal got overzealous in recognizing fraud. They locked the target account for months, preventing the buy from completing. But they also decided that they couldn’t refund the money either. In the end it took a heroic effort by the guy doing the buy. TBH, I think he had fronted the money for the buy, and so had to do the work to recover it.
you can rent a eletric scooter from the street with just your phone

For now, at least
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Yep, people sink literally thousands of hours in to a single game. Some popular games literally punish you for the time you spend not playing the game or give you daily rewards so that you log in frequently.
I would vouch for the last few decades seeing quality improvements: it's become very easy to purchase obscure goods online, to get frozen gluten-free dinners, find product reviews, learn about foreign countries, and other things where the process isn't always saving hours, but it is in some way putting more guarantees on the experience and hence adding a certain dimension of freedom.

At the same time it's become apparent that fewer hours of labor and more benefits with a pay cut is desirable for many, and we're in a "superstar" economy that discourages such. The oft-heard complaint is that we can't enjoy these technological wonders since we have no time.
The Hong Kong police are using legal acrobatics to search phones
I'm a "patient gamer" so I play games that likely wont be getting updates as much anymore. The newest games I have right now are basically because of Humble Choice. I probably wont play them yet either. I got too many games. I might freeze Humble Choice for a few months at this point.
Congratulations! There are also several meetups here in São Paulo, which are great to grow your network!
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User experience is definitely why we didn't go for an existing CRDT solution.

The model we've chosen is fairly agnostic to whether OT or CRDT is used to collaborate, as I'll expand on in the second post, so if we see an opportunity to switch to a CRDT-based solution we'll certainly jump on it!

You only need to normalise things like bold/italic/underline when using a browser DOM, every collaborative rich text model I've seen represents formatting as unordered attributes which is much easier to collaborate on.
This thread makes me miss the old Posterous service. I used to enjoy emailing shot blog posts, and only having a few friends of mine knowing what my blog address was. It was a form of journalling that I enjoyed until they inexplicably shut the service down.
They wouldn’t have trained on an MCAS failure so this is irrelevant as far as the actual crashes are concerned.

It’s just more evidence of Boeing being a corrupt organization.
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>I see things like this in healthcare constantly.

Cosign. I worked in healthcare for the better part of a decade and spent just over five years of that doing data interchange (mostly HL7).

It's always somewhat amusing when threads about it pop up on HN because it almost invariably winds up with smart programmers insisting that these have to be simple problems that would be easily solved if only we were using the right API, while having zero understanding of the business and regulatory requirements that, in reality, make many of the things attached to it very difficult to get right in a field where you literally have the potential of killing somebody with a severe enough mistake.
Rent control can still limit development even though it does not apply to new construction. 2004 is an arbitrary date that will likely be bumped up in the future. This is a looming risk for anyone looking to purchase rental properly and therefore developers.

You're right though that the review process and other regulations such as the requirement for some percentage of affordable housing units is also quite significant.
I read that he selected euthanization in the circumstance when he could no longer able to communicate, and that came about.

Hal was one of those off-the-charts smart people, and was kind and well-liked by everyone. He also liked to prank people, and the Satoshi prank is just the kind of thing he'd do.

He was interviewed a few months before his death where he was asked if he was Satoshi, and he just smiled.
Navy: UFO files could cause “grave damage” to national security if released
Foodom Is China’s First Fully Automated Robot Restaurant
It probably depends on the jurisdiction, but many places (such as Vancouver) adjust tax rates to meet the budget requirements. So if property values double across the board, tax rates will halve, such that you're paying the same number of dollars as last year. If only your property value doubles, then yes, you'll pay more in property tax than you did last year, and your neighbours less.

But anyway, the city certainly doesn't get the value increase back in taxes, and you could presumably sell your property and capture the increase before paying more than a fraction back in tax.
I am all for forcing people to vaccinate for the good of all, but if we are going to allow people to pick and choose in general then it’s reasonable to allow adults to choose for their children.
Congratulations!! Hope you keep making things and posting them here!
Not every branch is authorized to handle private banking customers.
>it was a matter of plugging in a cartridge/disc, turning on the system, and playing the game after a few boot screens.

It was also a matter of traveling to the store during opening hours, purchasing the game and traveling home. That is almost always less convenient than purchasing it in a UI and having it download.

What does annoy me is how steam and probably other platforms force you to install updates before you can start a game even if the game has no online features.
Hell, look at the insane, wholly unscientific public crucification of James Watson for commenting, totally reasonably, on this very subject. Stripped of a Nobel prize for suggesting that two and two may equal four. Find me one credible media outlet which even questioned such treatment!

Edit: sorry, I misread a headline about him losing the prize, it read stripped of "honors". Point still stands.
How would you write your code today if you knew it would of been your last commit and still in use in ... ?

Scribed in gold with a Rosetta code and complete instructions to recreate the computer it runs on. That ought to last a while.
is the U.S really declining or others are just catching up?
Ask HN: Possible AI Applications in Home Security in 2020 and beyond
It’s 2020 we have AI, ML, no flying cars but we have Alexa. What are some innovations in home security that society can benefit from in 2020?
yes, but we have accelerated the pace to a degree that risks being too rapid for us to adjust to without devastating suffering.
I also liked the simplicity of the std::async interface. But since the first few implementations just created a whole thread to execute them, I haven't ever used it. NPTL is pretty efficient at spawning and shutting down threads, but I still wouldn't spin up an entire thread unless the unit of work was several milliseconds at least.

Intel published a bunch of helpful papers to WG21 that taught me much of the trade space, or at least served as entry points to the research. I think that their conclusions about Cilk were spot-on, in that

- Its hard to model fork/join parallelism well without language changes.

- Fork/join may not be one-size-fits-all, but it does fit a lot of problems. A well-fleshed-out work-stealing system can solve a lot of problems from a relatively simple API.

At $BigCo, we had a threadpool library with custom futures that would steal some work from the pool when the result wasn't ready. It still suffered from the performance failure modes I mentioned, but at least it wouldn't deadlock on you.

IMO, the most important action item for your library is to clearly document the deadlock risk.
I mean, frequent rain harms some and benefits some. But you wouldn't get angry at the people who benefit from rain. You'd deal with it, get an umbrella, build a roof, change your plans, and so on.

Angry tweets won't dismantle capitalism any more than it would stop the rain. The people who benefit from capitalism didn't invent capitalism. Capitalism might have poverty as a side effect, but the system doesn't need to be dismantled, it needs to be patched.

If there's anything we learn from software engineering, it's that destroying something and rebuilding it completely causes more unexpected bugs. Patches can be messy and ugly, but are often the best solution.
vokoscrenNG (New Generation) is screencast utility for Linux and Windows rewritten from scratch using Qt and GStreamer.

vokoscreenNG 3.0.0 rolled out as first stable version on December 31, 2019.[0]

vokoscreen — Qt/FFmpeg-based app, predecessor of vokoscreenNG, development is deprecated now and archived without further updates.[1]

[0] https://github.com/vkohaupt/vokoscreenNG/releases/tag/3.0.0

[1] https://github.com/vkohaupt/vokoscreen
i am wishing i could go back 15 years and do this now. i was dumb enough to go to an ivy league for an unrelated degree, then change careers and go thru a bootcamp, and i'm now still 100's of thousands in debt. if i was growing up today i would absolutely drop everything to do this. kudos to shopify but it really feels a little bittersweet.
Yep, when I sent out a call for help for a bug on HN in 2012, I got ~190 votes. When I posted the followup I got 5.

It’s a little strange because for Reddit’s r/legaladvice it’s the opposite. Follow up posts can rank much more highly than the original.
IBM ACP (Airline Control Program) was originally a S/360 OS optimized for transaction processing that underlies things like the PARS airline reservation system and the card authorization systems at AmEx. It has been under continuous development and evolution since, I believe, 1969. Along the way it became ACP/TPF (Transaction Processing Facility) and then just TPF. It's now called z/TPF and runs on the latest zSeries mainframes.

I suspect, due to it's widespread use in embedded systems of all sorts, there will be things still running MS-DOS 50 years from now.
Ah I see. It wasn’t that they didn’t secure parts of the cert, it’s that they assumed they didn’t need to add some data. The generator was assumed standard... and surely no one would ever abuse that intention!
TiddlyWiki (https://tiddlywiki.com/) is a great place to start - It's a hypertext notebook contained in a single html/js file. It's really one of the best and most underappreciated/underutilized open source projects out there, and it's been out there for about 20 years now!

Depending what all you want, it may or may not do everything you need - but it can almost certainly be extended to do a great deal (there are custom versions for a variety of applicaitons, including blogging, academia, writing/researching, etc.)

Seriously, TW is one of my favorite little-known projects. (Back around 2003-4, at my first startup of my own, I used TW to prototype a lab notebook I jokingly called a "testacle" that encapsulated test setups, code, and other documentation (images, tables, text, etc.), as well as the actual collected data and metadata (units, etc.) collected from the world's first embedded web-enabled IoT sensors. Having everything for each test in a single file was intended to make it much easier to archive results and retrace steps and reproduce tests if needed in the future.)

Some of this isn't as easy as you (or I) would like, but the nice thing is that anything you can do in JS, you can conceivably do in TW. It's worth a look.
If we’re not going to find research because it’s useless that’s the humanities gone. All of the topics you mentioned have been done and are being done.

The point of IQ research is that it effects real life outcomes that we care about, like health, education, social status, criminal behavior, STI status, having children outside marriage, many others.

If two groups are assumed to be identical but they have different outcomes one possible reason is discrimination. If they are not actually identical the difference can be real and not due to discrimination. East Africans are crushingly dominant in marathon running. This is not due to discrimination against non East Africans. If similar differences exist between different ancestry groups in intelligence you’ll see dramatic differences in outcomes. If they’re due to discrimination we can fix that. If not pretending they’re due to discrimination will just lead to a great deal of wasted effort.
> What's the use about [a study]

It's academics. Whether or not there is a use isn't really an important factor. It is enough to be agglomerating facts.
Linux handles this with much more grace. The entire system from the kernel to the web browser can be updated in a single action without requiring downtime during the update. if steam would integrate itself with linux better, perhaps by using flatpak for itself and all games then things would just be kept up to date for you without 1000 updaters opening when you turn on your compuer.
>I (and many, many others) notice lag in games with v-sync turned on vs off, and we're talking about single digit milliseconds there.

Indeed, I found this recently out in a double-blind kind of way, when running at 165hz. I had to take out my GPU to fix the fan, so I wanted to try playing some demanding games on my integrated Intel GPU. I switched settings to the lowest (along with the game itself auto downgrading settings). After I put my GPU back, I put all the settings back, or so I thought. I was feeling some input lag and the mouse a little "floaty" but thought I just imagining it for a day or two. Afterwards I checked settings and lo behold, VSync was on.

I was surprised that I could tell the difference when running at 165hz and 165 fps.
Oh, I see. Personally I've never lived anywhere that didn't have essentially equal parental benefits for both men and women, so I failed to consider this angle.
Very good point! In fact, the public channels won't be encrypted. Only the private ones, but in a hybrid implementation of server-side fan out and end-to-end encryption. The reason to do this is scalability. With this hybrid approach, we can make encryption work even for channels with a lot of members. It wouldn't be possible to make it work with end-to-end only. What do you think about this? Thank you for the suggestions! We'll definitely look into it :)
It's perfect enterprise software. It meets the legal requirements and integrates with things like nesuite or peoplesoft. Whether it's easy to use or not is inconsequential.
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It also says it's the same length as the one everyone has seen. It may be higher resolution, but I doubt there's anything new here.
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Rent control increases prices by limiting supply.

It's a lottery ticket. Sure, it's good for people grandfathered in. It's terrible for new people to the city. It's also terrible for landlords who have a building put in rent control.

I know everyone thinks landlords are evil, but you can't have rentals without a landlord. And no one is going to invest in rentals if they don't think it's a good investment.

And if you want to incentivize people to put down roots and stay in one place for a while, home ownership is almost always a better option over a 3+ year horizon.

Rent control also incentivizes landlords to neglect their properties. Again, something that doesn't seem good for the community.

You can't get something from nothing. Landlords aren't going to subsidize housing for people. The government already does that, probably at too high of a degree already.
Well, the issue is with "when I was asked to send a check".

In some (if not all) European countries we don't have checks any more. Someone just gives you a bank account number, you wire a transfer, and it's at the recipient within a second to a day at most. The transfers cost between €0 to €0.5, regardless of the amount.

I was on a date a few days ago, a girl really wanted to pay for herself, but didn't have the cash, so she asked me for the bank account. I gave it to her via messenger, she wired me €30, it landed on my account instantly, to which I said that this is too much, and wired her €15 back. Yes, seriously :)
The op was specifically talking about minecraft - it has none of those dark patterns, it's just a good game.

It's literally virtual building blocks (+ hack and slash combat and crafting and exploration etc). Would you have the same level of derision for kids who sink thousands of hours into playing with lego? Kids have a lot of spare time to kill.
More jobs than people out of work, something the US economy never experienced
A list of victims of cancel culture would be handy. I'll start it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Donahue#MSNBC_program
That's exactly it. Lots of people on HN are good with math and systems, but don't realize they can use the same hammer on a lot of other things.
Can forth handle delay execution. Or a conditional where one later parameter never need is not reached. It seems all parameters at least needed to be in first, say a rough lisp like use case.

(Def ExecN func n infinite-series)

(ExecN + 10 integer)

... can it be done in forth.
They lost delta a few years ago as well.
Originally you said "Conservation of Energy is an ass. It does not care one bit. Which means we can't solve a problem with less energy than what went into creating it in the first place."

Enhanced silicate weathering is a way to draw down atmospheric CO2 with less energy than went into creating the problem. Still, perhaps it will never be deployed on a large scale if people find the proposal too scary.

That's one of the most depressing things about curbing climate change. There are a number of changes that we could have implemented to prevent the problem from getting as bad as it is now. But all of them scared enough people that they didn't go forward on a scale that was large enough, fast enough. That could be fear of physical safety (opposition to nuclear power), fear of unemployment (coal miners against cleaner power sources), fear of lost profits (businesses against carbon taxes)...

Since the scale of the problem is vast, the scope and scale of any actual solutions will be vast as well.
I'm all for getting rid silly regulations, like one mentioned in the article stating all houses must be faced in brick. But I hope attempts to rollback needless regulations don't additionally throw away things like building codes.

When I was slightly younger, I might have grumbled that things like the International Residential Code or the National Electric Code were a bunch of stupid rules getting in the way of the eminently reasonable thing I wanted to do, rules made by otherwise useless busybodies with nothing better to do with their time. That is not my attitude today.

As I've been pulled into various wiring or handyman projects by family & friends, had a chance to actually read some of the bits of the IRC or NEC, and even lost my home to an apartment fire, I understand now that a lot of what I might have previously decried as stupid rules actually make sense from an engineering or safety perspective. These rules are informed by experience. And while violating some of the rules or recommendations can result in only minor annoyances, other violations can be dangerous, costing lives in an emergency and even making emergencies more likely.

There's a saying that I've heard from pilots, "The FAR[1] is written in blood". More generally that is, the rules are the way they are because not doing it that way resulted in people dying. And I think the same holds true for a not-insignificant portion of building code today.

I'm not saying we shouldn't be willing to question and criticize building code to make sure it isn't being needlessly restrictive, and that it's living up to its goal of making for safe, effective home design. But I think we should also be willing to concede that some of the rules in building codes are a Good Thing, even if it means that some of the ways we've achieved housing density in the past can't be done as cheaply anymore, or at all.

1. Federal Aviation Regulations
The least-cost conspiracy theory here, is that 'project aurora' type developments sometimes lead to aircraft with unexpected flight patterns and low radar visibility, so the Navy is basically saying 'we don't want to reveal we couldn't detect this, and it was inside a risk window for our defence ring' along with 'this tech exists, but we don't want to say so or confirm'

The second least-cost conspiracy is that like 'Corona' with the NSA and donation to NASA, revealing original quality material informs hostile entities of the resolution of current detection and recording devices in ways the Navy do not wish to reveal, since it will alter the advantage in imaging and detection. This is almost the inverse of above: they did detect it, thats revealing in ways they don't want people to know.

The most expensive-cost conspiracy (i.e. what i feel is the least likely to survive occam's razor) is "Aliens"
Citi is notorious for having some of the worst tech in banking. It's bad by even banking standards.

Anecdotally, I opened up a consumer Citi checking account. The account has two distinct web UIs for transferring money via ACH. One looked modern but outright didn't work (as I recall, I couldn't get any of the dropdowns to populate with my account info so I couldn't use any of the web forms). The other was clearly ripped straight out of the late 90s/early 00s, but it did indeed work. The new version was the easily findable version, the older version could be hunted down with enough effort.

Additionally, it was actually impossible for me to find my routing number initially. I had to actually start a live chat with a customer service representative to get it.
While I definitely understand where you are coming from, I think Lex's style can grow on you.

My advice would be to ask shorter questions, sometimes Lex you try to explain what you mean. I would just drop the question and let the other person start talking instead of you trying to fill the silence.

Also I do really enjoy the questions about meaning of life (maybe more discussions on free will would be great too).

In any case, hats off to you Lex for interviewing some of the most interesting people in the field (and those who are not exactly in the field too).

Also I love how you show up with a suit.