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I'm having trouble following.

>>> Power laws are inevitable and acknowledging this is the starting point to finding a solution.

>> It wasn't too long ago that there was a power law in owning people.

> if you look up ownership statistics for slaves they indeed followed a power law,

Your first statement is incomplete, at best. Thank you for explaining. As it stands, not sure how that explanation applies to the assertion.

> Applying descriptive social statistics as prescriptive policy is idiocy.

Not sure what that has to do with the topic either. The issue is with the articles' assertion that you can avoid the power law via political will, akin to "equality in outcome" or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2081_(film)

Social statistics have to be taken into consideration, or solutions are broken conceptually.
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I am starting to wonder whether we should split the web into "document mode" with only small subset of javascript APIs and "application mode". This could actually spark some innovation because the threshold to build a document-web-browser from scratch would be so much lower and it could have much better security.
> protecting the environment and mitigating the climate crisis are two different, and only partially aligned efforts

I wish more people understood this. Too many times conversation are hijacked by the CO2 discussion when really in the short term we should be focusing 99% of our efforts on bio-diversity preservation.
I didn't know about these projects yet. They look impressive as well, but are currently Windows only, which is a deal breaker for me.
And this from Slack: https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/958645632620748800?s=20
And Skype: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20818750
I have a different take on this: corporate research labs died because we aggressively clamped down on monopolies.

When you don't have a monopoly, the investor mindset is that the company should be laser-focused on "core competencies" (buzzword, but important) and return excess capital to shareholders - who then provide it to other companies that will innovate in the field. Keep in mind, the universe of alternative investments go beyond the stock market/PE/VC.

Capital is tied to shareholder value. When you can't point to something creating value, there isn't a reason for capital to stay. For a company to maintain a research lab, it needs to be perceived as something other than a cost center. In contrast, Bell was able to entertain its own full-fledged R&D labs because shareholders expected them to create new avenues of profit themselves because they were the monopoly.
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I actually work in a corporate research lab, with 1000+ researchers working on all kinds of things. One thing that proves to be tricky is the "mission" these kinds of labs have. There is always a tension between direct work for business units on next years product, and research for novel ideas and methods. The former is what what keeps the lab afloat, financially. The latter is what is hoped to keep the company as a whole afloat in the future. But this includes investing money in projects that will not pan out and just burn money. Finding this balance is hard.

Tensions like these might very well be the reason corporate research has declined.
Because visual programming won't ever be as efficient and particular.
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I could see wages theoretically increase, too.

Geographic control is a major form of staff retention, because employees are less likely to want to change companies to work somewhere with fewer opportunities (smaller towns) or somewhere far away that they’d need to move all their stuff to reach (far away towns).

Reducing employee friction to jump ship to higher paying firms or to companies which previously didn’t support remote but which now do may make it much harder for companies to maintain staff loyalty when defection is now trivial, you have no comfy benefits or free food/drinks they need to give up to leave, and you no longer have an “office culture” besides what your company pays, and who the highest bidder is.
Post WWII, Japan was able to differentiate itself from other developing nations in becoming a major economic center precisely because it was the first to adopt American ideas such as the free market and free enterprise. A free market and a lack of regulations is what enables America today to be center for innovation when it comes to technology. Likewise, an uptick in regulation explains why car manufacturing is a stagnant industry in the US. Just to drive the point, the downfall of Detroit coincides timeline-wise closely with the city becoming a union town.
probably something with my English - i described target state, not the procedure to reach it.
Do you not see line go up? [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population
A handy read indeed, thanks for sharing.
Etymonline: -ty (1): “English ... retains traces of a base-12 number system”
You misunderstand. The only reason the study has enough power to make statements about the relative risk of, say, obesity independently of age, sex, and ethnicity is because there are 17 million patients to use as "controls".
Yeah, I also built this machine last year. 1050TI, 64gb ram.
I don’t agree that the CCP represents the majority of the people. I think it actively handicaps a large subset too.

The world won’t forget the Uighurs. The world won’t forget Li Wenliang.

Some of the people are wising up. We’ll see.
I grew up delving through the Windows labyrinth. Now I am comfortable at a command line and can write a mean bash script, but initially I abhorred it :)
Everything looks like clipart and templates these days.
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>"English, like many other Germanic languages, retains traces of a base-12 number system. The most obvious instance is eleven and twelve which ought to be the first two numbers of the "teens" series. Their Old English forms, enleofan and twel(eo)f(an), are more transparent: "leave one" and "leave two."

Old English also had hund endleofantig for "110" and hund twelftig for "120." One hundred was hund teantig. The -tig formation ran through 12 cycles, and could have bequeathed us numbers eleventy ("110") and twelfty ("120") had it endured, but already during the Anglo-Saxon period it was being obscured.

Old Norse used hundrað for "120" and þusend for "1,200." Tvauhundrað was "240" and þriuhundrað was "360." Older Germanic legal texts distinguished a "common hundred" (100) from a "great hundred" (120). This duodecimal system is "perhaps due to contact with Babylonia" [Lass, "Old English"]."
The problem here really seems to be with nix. The /nix path shouldn't be hard coded. (Security concerns aside, I don't want a package manager to clutter up my root directory.)
I'm not shopping for an airplane and probably never will, but this category of gear is exactly what I look for whenever I buy other stuff. Uremarkable stuff with looong production runs, preferably several decades. Keywords I look for: "workhorse", "rugged", "most sold". It's almost never the best gear that falls into this category, but the $/utility is often fantastic.
> The inverters are designed for power and cost efficiency, so I'd say it is unlikely that are capable at outputting anything other than the high-voltage, high-frequency power intended for the electric motor.

You could use the motor inverters for this, if only they weren't already connected to the motors. You can't have your wheels spinning just because you want to hook up an AC device.

Instead you'd use the charging inverter. Large modern chargers are combinations of MOSFETs, capacitors, and inductors, which are all components where the power flow is reversible. There is also an isolation transformer which the motor drive inverters don't have, and is important for detecting potentially dangerous faults.

This isn't true with say your laptop charger, since it's input stage typically uses diodes rather than MOSFETs for the initial rectification, which means you couldn't run the whole thing in reverse to make AC off your laptop battery, even with new firmware.
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I have been working remote by choice for years. You don't have to stay at home, you just need internet access. This means you have the freedom to work from anywhere on the globe as long as you can access the web.

This is a pretty straightforward advantage of the internet. Some jobs have always been "remote". For example, writers still type their manuscripts from anywhere and mail them to editors. However, only some jobs work like this. When I did service or blue collar work I always had to be on the site to physically work the capital.

As for "career ambition", you can make plenty of money or a modest income from remote jobs. Beyond jobs, you can easily own an online business or some other digital capital through the same infrastructure. There is more to life and to work than a high salary. Greed is not a virtue.

You don't have to sell your soul and most of the waking hours of your life to commute to an office, deal with the attached bullshit, and integrate yourself into the corporate machine.

Instead, you have the freedom to actually live your life. Be with you family, friends, pursue your passions, even something as simple as being able access nature or travel freely. Whatever living means to you beyond working.

From the outside looking in, the mirage of SV corporate culture seems really fake and hollow. I do not want a hip fancy office full of zany perks and a weird cult. I understand the power balance as a worker. In any job, I want to put in my time and hard work, earn an honest living, and then be free to live as a real human being.
> GA, EAA

Could you try using words instead of those? It makes comment hard to read for people unfamiliar with the subject, which is a shame because it looks interesting
I'd love to see an editor for textual programming languages that can display the code visually. For example a tool which can show the code within a single JavaScript function as a flow chart. I don't see why that shouldn't be possible but I've never found one.

Note I'm not talking about class diagrams, I want to see a flow chart of the actual imperative code (for loops, if/then, etc...) of an existing popular text-based programming language.
Not yet, unfortunately (and again) I went for money so i'm under NDA etc. But there will be before the summer ends (deadline is end of august).
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You had to scan a QR code?? :)

When I was in China this year there were places where you paid just by scanning your face (this was for street food....)
A Docker base image with NixOS doesn't really make sense, since with Nix you wouldn't use Docker for building Docker images, but let Nix make images from scratch.

That's the approach my team is taking, anyways.

https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-pkgs-dockerTools

(and as others have noted, you don't need an OS in your Docker image)
I can probably type 3 lines of source code in the time that it takes me to drag a block from the sidebar onto my document and then connect the inputs and outputs to other nodes.

As such, I think Blender handled this very well. You can set up the material node graph both visually and through a scripting command line.
I've only got one speed; sorry. Compare this to interest rate policy.

This article mentions a lot of research labs shutting down in the 90s. The 90s was also when the current 30 year period of <8% nominal interest rates started. And other easy money policies.

Any company that invested heavily in the future would have been a loser vs. people who worked on credit. It isn't surprising that none of the big corporations are investing in research. The investment framework levers have been set to 'short term' for a very long time now - it makes more sense to buy up innovative compeititors. It isn't surprising that long term investment in research vanished from the corporate world.
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It comes down to which country people prefer to live in. I suspect a lot of of foreign money will be leaving China soon, if they can keep peace and prosper without depending on the west,they stand a solid chance against the US.

Make no mistake,the CCP has no intention of being self-contained, if you are not with them,you are against them. Their intention is hostile.

The dramatic slow collapse of the US is what enables their success. Americans and foreigners no longer think it is the land of opportunities. Fears,divisions,mistrust,avoidable tragedies all over. In China they'll just suppress anything negative.

They've already positioned themselves well for internal subversion of american government and society. I just hope things remain peaceful.
There were a lot of humor pictures on reddit about this. Things like "you can see X for the first time since Y".

I'm suspecting it could be an astroturfing effort by the fossil fuels lobby, to try to discredit the real pictures. I guess I'm paranoid, but at least it shows I have little faith in the internet.
I've worked with developers from all around the globe. While it's true that some cannot even write fizzbuzz, some others can be extremely brilliant individuals with an excellent work ethic.
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The Chinese general public don't value information privacy as much as the Western counterparts. Mass surveillance could become a huge problem if the tech keeps evolving while the public awareness lags behind. And that is assuming it's not already a problem. If you think about how much tracking data you hand out when all your social activities are facilitated by one app (wechat), and the fact that giant Chinese tech companies are known to corroborate government surveillance...
What are the benefits of focusing on biodiversity preservation? I can think of some things like food security but would global warming not also impact on those?
> you can get Hello World down to about 2MB

(sobs woefully)
IMO the main feature of the Cessna 182 is its very slow stalling speed. If you think about it, the stalling speed is the one thing that you can use to make a really tiny plane safer than a large plane that may have two or more engines.

There isn't really a risk of flying into a traffic light post, where the opposite is true: Heavy cars are safer, as your momentum will carry you in a crash and extend contact time.
Japanese automobiles are still much higher quality than Tesla's. But yes, Tesla is pushing boundaries.
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So a Corolla or an F-150?
If only we all lived in the world you seem to live in!
Melanin reduces the amount of vitamin D synthesized in the skin for the same reason it has protective effects against sunburns.

Historically this wasn't a problem since people with more melanin live in sunnier, more UV intense regions. In fact, pale skin may have been an adaptation as people moved north from the equator to combat the decrease in sun exposure/intensity. But people spend much less time outdoors today with AC and the internet, so vitamin D deficiency is especially prominent in dark skinned populations.
> The problem I see is that Shellac is dynamic

So OpenAutoComplete is purely static then?

That makes it much less useful.

Static completion is nice to have for tools you only use from time to time, or when fishing for that argument name, but if you don't know the name of an argument etc you will often have to use `man` anyway.

The real benefit of completions are the dynamic ones, at least for me.

If such a spec does not support dynamic completion, a lot of tools will need to do their own thing anyway.

I realize that this makes it much more complex though.
So you were genuinely and not merely rhetorically confused when you asked whether insulting Trump supporters would qualify as hate speech?

Sorry, it just seems like you are deliberately trying to introduce confusion about what hate speech is into this discussion.

There's nothing particularly 'subjective' about the definition of hate speech. At least, it's no more subjective than the definition of 'free speech' or 'censorship' or any of the other relevant concepts in this domain. There's a perfectly objective history of persecution targeting certain minority groups.
"We have and will use our authority to prevent the sale or re-sale of products that do not conform to the rule of law. Please be so kind to mention my name at your press conference, so that my citizens know their government stands up for their rights."
Basic Twitter might cost about as much to run as Craigslist. Do users really want all the add on junk? Or is it mostly there to benefit advertisers?
If I understand correctly, this might be of some use - Git LFS.

An open source Git extension for versioning large files
https://git-lfs.github.com/
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Comment driven development, nice.
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This was a difficult parse, for being so short.

> Postel’s law, also known as the robustness principle, states that we should all be friends and try to get along.

No.

> It’s also occasionally harmful.

No.

> Lain wants to add chat messages to activitypub in pleroma. I think this could be cool, so I wrote some code for honk. Two implementations of the same concept? We’re gonna need some serious robustness, on principle.

What or who is Lain, what is activitypub, what is pleroma, what is honk, where did 2 implementations come from, what does serious robustness mean and what principle does it apply to? (if Postel, is the a redundant "principle" statement?).

> I could relax the parsing requirements slightly and accept it.

Then you pass on an empty mediaType when you know that's incorrect for the protocol? That's your problem, not his or an issue with the principle.

In that grueling "hour" you could have told your friend to fix their implementation, because you're going to make an assumption and it may have a mismatch in special cases. That's the story that could have been told. Instead it's "Postel's Law can hurt because I move fast and break things".
But you can’t go very far without serialization libraries these days. Would CoreRT be able to deal with that?
If the program only runs correctly with a memory limit in place, perhaps it should (if this is possible?) check for a memory limit when it starts and abort if it's missing.
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I know that the above response might seem like a pipe-dream to some, but let me assure you that there are governments and government officials that do stand up for the rule of law, and that are not easily bought by the highest bidder.
I just tried the beta. Beautifully done @erica
But my coping mechanism for depression was hitting the gym

Gyms are subject to the strictest lockdown terms here in CA. Mine in SV closed 10 weeks ago.
Not only that, but, AWS Athena is basically serverless Presto. It's an extremely handy tool particularly if you've got structured or semi-structured data being dumped into S3 and you want a near zero maintenance (only have to create schemas) way to explore it.
There is also a Rust POC of a Shellac library/server implementation: https://gitlab.redox-os.org/AdminXVII/shellac-server
I browse the web with js off by default, and turn it on per domain in 2 clicks. That's basically what you are proposing accessible today, with Firefox, on desktop and on Android
What I don’t get is why they can’t go back to contextual ads. Should be obvious to figure out that users following people posting about topic X might actually be interested about commercial offerings in field X.
Top companies in the US still hire developers from abroad. I've personally interviewed and onboarded from China and India in the last 3 years. I'm not sure "doors shut" is the right metaphor.
I don't think it's about the manpower, but more about controlling a browser engine that powers an ever-increasing number of mainstream browsers.

Chrome's lumbering march to total dominance has been frightening to watch for many years now, and it only seems to be accelerating.
> it's revealing when the CEO of the org is not a technical person

Merck's CEO is a lawyer.

> they are kind of _forced_ to do research in one form or another

Modern pharma companies spend more on legal and marketing than they do on R&D [1]. Valeant and Michael Pearson are emblematic of that horrifying trend.

MBA types and McKinsey alums have very different priorities than most hackers/researchers/builders, and it is their priorities that are driving investment decisions these days. That really needs to change.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/business-28212223
Because size is rounding error for your high-end hardware, I don't have any space left to install your app.
Off topic but why would a corporate company use a website for their blog which puts articles behind a paywall? It seems completely at odds with the purpose of a corporate blog.
Now I get your intention, the original phrasing made me it parse it incorrectly.

Happy to know that we also agree then.
Hi Alex,

I think you’re confusing me with the original creators of PullReview. My other venture is packager.io, which you might remember as well. Congrats to you for the continued development of your on premise packaging solution!
Another field where it's very common is with systems lab tests and simulations, notably with Labview and Simulink respectively.
Anyone have a TLDR? Tried reading but the formatting on mobile didn’t work out for me.

Or maybe it’s my ADHD.
I think flexibility is the key.

All the things that are touted as pros and cons of both WFH and office working are highly dependent on the individual, the company, the type of work, people's housing situation, disability, and many small life choices.

Whenever this topic comes up I'm always rather disappointed to see how many people struggle with the idea that their situation is not everyone's situation, and make blanket statements about how WFH or offices are the better option, end of argument. Ultimately it's a personal preference, and highly dependent on situation.

What I'm hoping for with all this is that a lot of companies see that remote working can be ok, and it gets easier for those who want to WFH to do so, either full time or just when necessary. It's going to be much harder for many companies to have blanket "no WFH" rules, although I'm sure there will be many that will revert to the norm.
Right but the visual experience isn't as much a differentiator as the "does this answer my question" experience, which relies on fairly sota methods in NLP, clustering, etc.
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Interesting, I always thought VSCode was a fork of Atom.

After some research, it looks like electron was previously called Atom-shell, which is where the confusion comes from for a lot of people.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17221917
There's no need for a law that specifically allows or disallows implementations of things. There just needs to be a legal body that allows someone to refer a website to an adjudicator if they believe it's using a dark pattern, and a significant fine if the adjudicator finds that they are. Let each case be judged on its own merit.

Occasionally the adjudicator could publish a guide for "Things we're always going to say are dark patterns" to make it a bit easier to avoid getting fined.