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I just re-watched breaking bad and I really don't think the show justify at any point Walter actions.

From the beginning Walter has solutions, people offer him several ways. But he decline all of them because of his ego and turn more and more to criminality to satisfy his hunger for power.

Their is a harsh criticism of the US medical insurance system since every time someone need care in the show, either insurance decline coverage or provide a subpar one. But thats about it, Walter slow descent into a evil power junky is mostly describe as a result of his own character and decision. A simple chemical-teacher that missed his big break and live a fairly bland suburban life and finally get to break this and feed the frustration he had all along.
The granularity of choosing what to work on also has to be the granularity of ownership.

If individuals choose what to work on, then individuals have to be responsible for owning the things they've built. Doing support, doing maintenance, being accountable for problems. If you let people cherry-pick the fun bits and then leave the crap to someone else, then you're doomed, as you say.

I work on a team like this. It's pretty weird, having come from classical XP teams where the team as a whole makes decisions and owns the code collectively. I don't think it's better. But it does work.
No. It is wrong to take from those who want to work to give to those that don't want to. I already pay almost good portion of my earnings to the government to see it squandered on nonsense (e.g. look up the HS2 project in the UK). I am just about to buy property (I've been working now for 20 years and 15 as a software engineer), If I hadn't been paying as much tax I could have bought a property years ago.

Having a form of UBI will increase the tax burden on medium to high earners such as myself. I simply don't believe it is ethical to offer UBI i.e. you are taking my earnings to fund those that unwilling to work, even if it is a tiny percentage it is still wrong on principle.

I don't mind my taxes providing a support mechanism for those that are unable to work due to a disability, illness or simply becoming too old to work or have become unemployed for no fault of their own (e.g. business foreclosed).
That concept reminds me of "Peep - the network auralizer."

- https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedin...

- http://peep.sourceforge.net/intro.html
There's a modest tendency to post same-site links, thanks to the interaction of how procrastination, HN and some other sites work.

Step 1: Procrastinate on HN.
Step 2: Open link to <site>.
Step 3: Because you're procrastinating, you notice a sitebar titled "you may also want to read".
Step 4: Follow one of those links.
Step 5: Submit to HN because you've just seen something interesting.
I'm not sure I understand the issue your are pointing out?

Julia calls itself homoiconic, it uses Expr to model its AST and the parser returns it. There's even a show_expr method that prints it as an S-expression.

It just goes through great lengths to somehow have a textual representation that isn't s-expression based and then parse/print back and forth between the two.

Julia also has plenty of prescribed preferred data-structure, it has a standard Array with a Vector literal [1,2,3] which is heterogeneous and it has a standard Dict type as well.

So I'm seeing nothing that would be problematic if it had just gone with a Lisp syntax.
Atlasobscura does tend to have rather interesting content. Anything that gets to the front page of HN already got upvoted by a bunch of people first. The title is also relevant to the actual contents of the article, rather than being some sort of bait-and-switch.
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https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented
Previous discussions:

959 points: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14011793

272 points: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18952193
> Habits are easy to change

The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
The criticism in the Cory Foy’s post takes two forms: 1. We were prepared, and 2. Preparedness can not overcome the systemic oppression and exploitation built into western capitalist society.

I have little patience for the second point which is core to social justice activism. I have little patience for MAGA protectionism either so I’ll address the first point on preparedness.

We, across the globe, had varying degrees of strategic preparedness but utterly failed with respect to the tactics and execution required to make those strategies a reality. A good example is the CPIP: Canadian Pandemic Influenza Preparedness guide:

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/flu-influenz...

This strategy is almost perfect with a few tweaks but Canada dropped the ball on three fronts: 1. Data Sharing, 2. Process Scaling, and 3. Communication. The failures started with an inability to integrate Border Services data into the plan and the system failed to anticipate the scale of isolating the peak number of Snow Birds and March Break travellers returning back to Canada.

Strategy is a starting point but it is not the full story with respect to COVID-19 preparedness.
> If all you wanted to do was prove your intelligence, an IQ test is much cheaper and quicker.

Also illegal to consider when hiring, hence why companies use educational attainment as a proxy and outsource IQ tests (SATs) to universities.
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Yeah and it’s a pretty common podcast pattern. Find a book about an interesting/obscure topic of some sort and build a podcast around it.
There is definitely a trade-off between the two, though. There is a freedom in poverty (no assets to look after, no job to go to, no-one telling you what to do or who to be). I was definitely more miserable earning a good salary in a 9-5 job that I hated than when I was homeless and penniless.
A shout out for including Marx, I had to actually read his work and it's mostly not about Marxism etc. He was very detail orientated but could also step back to see the big picture and try to understand the human side of Economics. Don't let his expectations about the rise of the proletariat put you off!
All of those places are much smaller and/or densely populated than the US.
I've never been in an elevator that announced the floors with anything better than a ping. This is despite elevators being controlled by single board computers since around 1980.

The buttons have had braille on them for a long time.
The point is, this is a problem. When the task forces all end up dominated with rich, white, old men, then the problems that specific groups of the society face end up ignored/overlooked.

We have a similar issue in Germany at the moment - while we do have Ms. Merkel as chancellor, the advisor group (Leopoldina) only has two women in it and no representatives of e.g. disabled people - leading to the problem that issues of childcare or care for disabled persons, or poor people, or people locked down in totally inadequate cramped conditions completely lacked representation in their latest recommendations.

In France, it's similar but worse - there have been violent explosions last night as people literally cannot endure the enormous stress that a really strict lockdown in cramped housing causes.

A lack of diversity in advisory groups and task forces has real, quantifiable and sometimes deadly consequences.
I think it shows the problems of trying to boil down things such as "what makes life worthy?" to a very simplified rule. I think if we look at other disciplines other than philosophy, like psychology to look at the things that give people a sense of well being, we get more nuanced answers that while influence the kinds of political systems we should have, don't dictate what exactly it should be.
I think the proverb goes "The hardest part of running a mile is putting your shoes on".

Surely holds true for me.
> There are negative side effects from consuming the mushrooms which you don't get from purified psilocybin.

> referring to ["mistakes from the past"] without naming any

You just did the same, didn't you?

> Dosage is important. There isn't a way to test for potency which would ensure a reliable dose.

Of course there is. You just have to mix the mushrooms well and then measure potency of a sample.

That's equivalent to how drugs are produced by the way. They produce the drug and then mix it with something inert fx.

> your anecdotal positive experiences

He transparently identifies his a.p.ex. as such. Then it's not a fallacy ... It's an experience. And I like to read about those and do not appreciate condescending replies like yours OTOH.
If Orca is the only GUI screen reader you have tried, I can understand you being put off. Try NVDA on Windows with Firefox and you'll never look back. NVDA is open source btw.
No, they were even more advanced: Fire, Wind, Water, Earth
> then goes and says that he wants to re-open the country by Easter

From what I noticed (it's been a while) the reporting on that was a bit weird. The statement was more like "I hope it'll be fine by Easter". That's still a weird thing to say, but less strange than what was reported.

The way statements were made to the public seems to be different per country. E.g. in NL the prime minister said something like "we need to take this very seriously and it will take a long time". They showed a similar presentation from France, were the statement included stuff about "fighting a war". So despite needing to say similar things, the messaging can differ quite a bit per country. In US the statements seem quite strange; dismissing the importance as authority figure seems dangerous and irresponsible.
Working 40h weeks for an extra $500 isn't a good deal. As long as I can sustain life without working, not working at all will always beat getting some scraps. If there aren't repercussions for not working, than why bother?
> "Causation goes the other way. If your healthcare is cheap, you might as well socialize it, and it will mostly be OKish; if it's too expensive (as in the U.S.) you have no chance of running a satisfactory socialized system."

I see no reason why it would work that way.

I mean, switching the US to a completely socialised system is certainly going to be a hell of a task, and even Medicare is way more expensive than it should be, but that's also because it's required by law to be expensive; Medicare is not allowed to negotiate lower prices, which throws away the primary advantage of a socialised system. But from what I understand, Medicare is still generally cheaper than privatised healthcare for the same treatment (though more expensive per patient because it insures only older people).

"Switzerland has largely private healthcare and mandatory ("universal") health insurance, but its costs are not too high despite it being a comparatively small country with inherently higher costs of providing such services."

The only graph I could find showed Swiss healthcare being even more expensive per capita than Dutch healthcare. This seems to confirm my suspicion that a privatised is generally more expensive.
Ask HN: How Shopify Dropshipping tutorials are serious?
Hi,

I'm looking for a new profitable activity.
Then I found many videos on people making 1k$ a day !
How real are they ? Are there some good/serious resources (courses or books) ?

Regards
Just tried the same, worked fine for me.
You'd accept money from friends? Where does that stop?

At some point he wields real power. It corrupts him, I wonder how many people would not be corrupted and just pay their cancer bills and move on (like any normal person would think they would do.)
> The only issue is that even "common sense" socialism doesn't work in the long run. All generous welfare systems run on unfunded liabilities. That amounts to a Ponzi scheme, which will collapse along with the birthrate.

I am not sure I understand your point. "common sense" socialism has been more or less in use in Europe for decades. It does evolve from time to time and depending on the political climate and economy, it can face some financial issue, but it has been in used for at least as long as the end of WWII.
"Several studies support the therapeutic benefit of St. John's wort in treating mild to moderate depression. In fact, some research has shown the supplement to be as effective as several prescription antidepressants."

(https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements-st-johns-wort/a...)

Synthetic antidepressants are by no means completely benign drugs, so having something that can be as effective for mild to moderate depression with a different side effect profile is really useful.

Since you could easily have found this and many more sources, including all of the original studies, with a few Google searches, I'm taking your comment as further evidence of an irrational bias against phytopharmaceuticals.
Maybe it's all subjective but I am willing to pay a premium for Kerrygold (Irish) because I read once that the cows are grass fed and am imagining the butter tastes a lot better.

It's very interesting how much the price can fluctuate in the same store (50%) so the margins are decent I suppose.
Reminded me of a case of mass food poisoning related to bread making people delirious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1951_Pont-Saint-Esprit_mass_po...
It sounds like base64 was unnecessary there since a JSON string can contain serialized JSON.

Personally I'll just concatenate the values in a defined order and sign/hash that.
> I'm not sure if the way that you're using yield within the if and while statements works correctly.

You're right...

Perhaps I'm not so surprised that `if yield == val:` is a SyntaxError, but that `yield` can't be used as an rvalue to a walrus operator (that the `while` example essentially boils down to) surprises me:

>>> char = yield
File "<stdin>", line 1
SyntaxError: 'yield' outside function
>>>
>>> # i.e. OK, that's the error we want if it works
>>>
>>> got_b = (char := yield) == 'b'
File "<stdin>", line 1
got_b = (char := yield) == 'b'
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> the more complex the task in front of me was, the more my brain resisted to getting started and the more i procrasitnated.

This is because our usual ways of procrastinating give us instant gratification with very little effort, so they raise the bar for real work that gets us there with much more effort, often for less tangible gratification.

Video games are particular bad in this regard (and I've played many 1000s of hours).
Guitarists like to control their things with their feet so their hands and mouth stay free. There is a wide array of midi controllers available in pedal form. Tap with your foot, double tap, hold, scroll with multiple taps etc. Many artists use them to do the control plane of their effects routing, so they are rugged and battle tested. Here are some:
https://customboards.fi/collections/midi-switching
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If the argument is a powerful one and immensely significant if it's valid, then presumably it'll get wider coverage than in a publication for which one has to sign up (no complaint about that but I prefer not to). Any suggestions as to where it can found in another context?
The odd thing is that even the media is starting to talk about the lab theory. Even if it was true, I would never expect to see it get air time. But it is.
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Try the audio version :) the reviewer here does take the slow burn approach on this, but it's worth it.

I'm reading the book currently and am really enjoying it so was excited to see it get such a comprehensive and ultimately glowing review. But tbh I was a bit annoyed at how long this review takes to get going :)
I wonder how many CEOs have said something like this just before a "bunch of hackers" has eaten their lunch and decimated their stock price?
High salaries often come with high expectations and low time to develop employees because of your high salary.

The strangest thing I've noticed about my experience in the tech industry is the utter and complete disconnect between salary and expectations. I've worked for a wide gamut of firms, from startups with single-digit numbers of engineers to FAANG companies with thousands of engineers. I have never noticed a clear correlation between salary and expectations.

The job where I was under the most pressure and where I had the most asked of me was actually my lowest paid position. I graduated in 2009, on the tail end of the financial crisis, and I counted myself fortunate to find a job at a local firm that was hiring. This was in the Midwest, so I counted myself fortunate to have a job offer at all, regardless of the salary. I very quickly found out why that firm was perpetually hiring. The work environment was so high pressure (and the wages so far below market rate, even during the recession) that people would leave as soon as they could find an opportunity (any opportunity) elsewhere. I held out for about 8 months before finding another role that paid significantly more and had significantly less expectations around how fast I would ship.
(Mu)Shrooms contain more more psychoactive substances and prodrugs to such than psilocybin. There is a reason why psychonauts debate differences between trips induced by Shrooms vs 4-Aco-DMT. But of course it would make sense to simplify the approach by starting with synthetic prodrugs.
Wow, I'll take this bait.

>They manipulate the stock market extremely maliciously to take out competitors before they can become disruptive.

>Even if I was just a normal worker, how would my retirement funds be able to grow in that kind of a stock market, even if my employer matched contributions?

You really think Samsung manipulates the market to gain something? And you think you'll lose something from it?

>They don't give other companies even a chance to disrupt them.

>Never mind the idea of starting a company and being able to have a great exit.

You know that startups in the United States also don't compete with the sectors where big companies' grip are strong, right?

>I'd be dependent on only my bank account savings for retirement, no chance for reinvestment.

There are loads of reinvestment options like real estate, foreign stocks and others if you think ((they)) are controlling the national stock market.

>Or my retirement funds are all tied into the prospects of my employer's stock? Also scary, zero risk diversification.

Then perhaps don't get a stock option?

>I think Korea's long-term growth prospects will be severely limited as long as the chaebols have a stranglehold on the economy.

And yet, when Samsung tries to close their Gwangju plant everyone starts their uprising. Not in my country but please in my back yard?

>I am hopeful by the fact that they let Hanjin go bankrupt.

Oh, I'm so politically correct that I am happy with thousands losing their jobs! My views are more important than their lives.

I live in the US after living in Seoul and Newfoundland. I will choose Korea over Canada at any times. Canadian medical system is a shitter, slower and bureaucratic version of Korea. I feared for my life because I was not able to get an emergency surgery because they have shortage of doctors. I had to wait a week where in Korea I've had my surgery in 3:00 in the morning after waiting 20 minutes. Old people in Canada fear for their life and move to Mexico or US. It's a total mess.

Services at restaurants are shitty and more expensive. Groceries are shitty and expensive. Winter too long that people can't live without Xanax. Drug addicts on the street. Gun control. Housing prices. Trump ruining the economy. Unemployment rise and fall with raw material prices.... Yeah, I'd love to live in Canada to feel these.
> Force big companies to have offices outside the big cities

Do we really want this? Personally, I love it that last time I changed jobs, I didn't need to move (the new office was literally 3 blocks away from the old one), and that I'm free to change jobs again without having to plan relocation.
I also feel that being disgusted by editors and terminals at the end of the day is a really strong sign of something off. I can say that in some jobs I would study / do personal stuff at night, in some others I just wanted to drink after leaving the office.
That is the philosophy i live by. I am from india and When i was a child i was always made to feel guilty of not studying hard as my parents are sacrificing for me. I never wanted to marry but was forced again guilty trapping.Even compared to other asian countries, in india this mentality is very strong. This is mostly due to the religious conditioning enforcing the belief everybody in a society has a role to fulfill.
>>> Presuming that SF is representative for the US, then IMO: tap water, milk, butter, bread and cheese in the US isn't that great.

For one, SF is NOT representative of the US. In fact, one of the best places food-wise.

However, of the five items you've listed, I'd agree with you on about 4.5. The SF's sourdough can compete with any sourdough, but an average village bakery in Europe beats it hands down on other varieties.
The 3rd book [0] is primarily about implementing an MC ray tracer and then adding the techniques in the second paper you linked. That's what I've used in my code as well. I just skimmed through the paper and I think the book covers most of the material from the paper with the exception of spatial subdivision. I will have a more careful read later to see exactly what my implementation is missing from this.

[0] https://raytracing.github.io/books/RayTracingTheRestOfYourLi...
"I'm good with it being a little difficult to get started distilling, from a safety standpoint."

If you screw up home canning, you can get botulism, which can very easily kill you and anyone else who consumes it. Same if you simply store some home-made garlic olive oil in your refrigerator.

Cook beans wrong and you could get very sick or even die. Cooking on a gas stove could result in your house catching on fire, or at least you could severely burn yourself or someone else.

Use power tools wrong and you could get maimed or killed, or maim or kill someone else.

Climb a ladder or walk in to a shower and you can fall and die.

Riding a bike wrong could result in yourself or others getting killed.

Yet few would argue that any of these things be made illegal to be done by amateurs at home because of the risks they pose and the fact that people have killed themselves or others doing them.

Why should making alcohol or any other drug be any different?
Sorry for mentioning this, because you will never be able to forget it. But regarding Mozart and filth, IMHO every adult should know that there is a piece of Mozart called "Leck mich im Arsch" (Lick my arse).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C78HBp-Youk

For connoisseurs, it's Köchelverzeichnis 382c