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I worked with a guy who used to live in the area and he also had an interesting perspective. He explained that there were many people who lived in remote homes that needed to have water, fuel, etc. trucked in from town. Sometimes they would encounter one of these people half dead. They'd had to waste some of their limited resources helping them get to safety. This led to a lot of anger.
I hear you, and I know it stings to get a moderation reply like that, so I hope you won't take it personally or feel discouraged.

I'm not really seeing other examples in the comment. In any case, the main problem is that its core point is a misunderstanding. As other users have pointed out, the term "Veblenian entrepreneurship" means a lot: it instantly communicates the idea of entrepreneurship as a status signal, rather than for an economically productive purpose. In fact, if there's a problem with the term, it might be exactly the opposite: it already communicates so much that the mind could start to assume that it's a thing, and then find rationalizations for believing it.

That's the reason I called the comment a shallow dismissal: it dismissed an entire field based on a misreading. Also, there was snark at the beginning.

By the way, the problem with such comments is not that they're so bad in themselves—it's that threads are sensitive to initial conditions and they tend to choke out better, more specific discussion. This has something to do with the reflexive/reflective distinction: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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I don’t follow the discussion between the plural you; the discussion that happened here on HN was that I provided sources, and you ignored them.
Objectively you are right, subjectively that statement is technically correct and that is worst kind of correct :)
This effect was so obvious from the outset that it frustrates the hell out of me how many people didn’t see how shortsighted these policies are.

People who genuinely care about the success of those who were given fewer opportunities were called racist for pointing this out, and the righteous virtue signalers ended up doing way more damage to the groups they were supposedly helping. Same thing is currently happening with women in tech.

Hiring quotas and racist/sexist hiring policies make more problems, not fewer problems. It doesn’t matter which group is on which side of these policies. They are inherently bad for everyone.

Yet, people can’t fathom how a black man like Thomas could lean conservative. They all think that he must be an self-hating fool who doesn’t get it, and as a result, he’s on the receiving end of some of the most racist language of any public figure, being called Uncle Tom and Coon probably more than anybody else. They don’t entertain the possibility that maybe he knows something that they don’t.
Two things:
1) The article is amazingly low on specifics besides "to uncover the Higgs Boson's secrets"
2) The only thing to agree with is what Sabine Hossenfelder says (as always): it costs way too much without any significant scientific potential. Meaning, there are not enough viable theories to prove on that thing.

Sure, people who will be getting paid from those $21B of public money are saying: "Another one! Even bigger and faster! That project will be definitely worthwhile!"
Ask HN: How do you feel about TL;DRs on Hacker News?
I've been on Hacker News a very long time. Recently I have noticed that many posts have a "TL;DR" comment giving a brief summary of the linked article.

These TL;DR comments bother me tremendously, but I can't quite articulate why. I feel like maybe it bugs me that someone takes the time to post an interesting article and a comment with nothing more than a summary implies that the article is not worth reading.

I even looked in the guidelines for comments to see if it's discouraged, but didn't find anything.

I realize that communities grow and change over time, so maybe my opinion is uncommon. What do you think?
Vienna RSS client for Mac does all what I need. Feeds with simple organising. Flagging interesting articles. Good enough search.

As for producers - depending how noisy your feed is, please keep it long enough to fetch several days' content. It sucks if I don't open up the client and something goes missing pushed out by newer content.
Alaska's 'Into the Wild' bus has been removed by air
> I guess, but as a kid, I practically lived in the thick woods around our house.

You were just enjoying nature and going back to the safety of civilization at night. McCandless was trying to break his dependence on civilization entirely. There's nothing wrong with what you were doing, I do it myself. But it's not the same thing.
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Still waiting on that inflation from QE in 2008-2014, are we?
Most banks think 2fa means they email you a code. At least the ones I've used, I've yet to find one that implemented an actual hardware key or even totp.
An attack is a reason to believe that you can solve the problem. I have no idea how'd I go about solving P=NP, but I did have some thoughts on provable security against transient execution attacks. Which is why I work on the latter but not the former.
Which has me a little bit worried about Flexport... SoftBank seems to be a good indicator or trouble.
So much text and so little actual content ... they should provide a TL;DR for people who have stuff to do.
Social status is maybe the most important thing to people after their basic needs are met. Having someone publicly lower your social status is therefore extremely painful.

And it's a one-dimensional quantity, to a first approximation.
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Big things have small beginnings.

(I have an alias specifically for finding that out)

Personnally, I don't care about any of the crytpo-mining-coining and I think the two are sufficiently distinct.
People with the ability to "work hard" on "important problems" are not rare. People who have the privilege to do so are incredibly rare. It's disappointingly thoughtless not to acknowledge that in a post published on Juneteenth. If gatekeepers, like Sam, put a little more effort into acknowledging how they perpetuate systemic inequality, and trying to avoid it, they could have a huge impacts.
I've felt this way about Pinterest for some time. It doesn't really follow any sort of trends, there is just a "Pinterest style" that's basically a meme. It was cool for a while when Pinterest was new, but it looks out-of-date these days and the echo chamber hasn't seemed to notice that people have moved on.
There's a bookmarklet that renders Tex/LaTeX, MathML and AsciiMathML notation on pages dynamically using the MathJax.

I use it mainly with feedbin. It works most of the time

https://www.checkmyworking.com/misc/mathjax-bookmarklet/
Isn't there a way to default back to a rendered image if MathJax isn't supported?
I find it amusing that Zoom’s user experience allowed it to capture the market to such degree that is now making waves in pop culture.

How did Google, Microsoft, Cisco, etc get it so wrong all of these years?
Thanks for digging in.
I lived like that growing up in Virginia. Mid-Atlantic has many areas like this. Minus the Nepali souvenirs though.
One funny thing about that VLDB'12 paper is Kevin Grittner's affiliation. Not often you see a state supreme court publishing cutting-edge database research. I'd love to hear the story around that.
Consider that black people in America do not have the luxury of forgetting about race.
What are you on about? The ranger is not talking about the bus, he's talking about ill-prepared young men visiting Alaska's wilderness in general.
I like flow as much as anyone but find the thought of working multiple days without speaking to my team to be crazy, I'd feel like none of us would be able to move as fast alone as we do together, and half the time would end up following rabbitholes, or spending too much time on the wrong things because we'd never check in for an opinion. The only way I'd see a full or more days of work without communicating working well is if we'd work on larger amounts of releasable code at once, but then there's more chances of conflicts, reviews get longer and harder to do and there's more risk releasing.

I think having a team with 1 rotating person responsible to handle all external requests per week, and everyone else being focused on their work but still being able to pair when needed, ask questions provide guidance, etc to be really cool. All of this remote, of course.
I run a Trello board along the lines of Getting Things Done, i.e., everything I have to do goes into this board. It starts with "incoming" list, which can also be filled from email. Every morning I look at what is there in the "incoming" list and these tasks move on to "today", "this week" or "later" lists. Also, tasks from those lists go back into "today" if needed. When I'm done with a task it moves to a "Done" list, which gets emptied automatically every night. Additionally, I have a "waiting on" list for things out of my control. That is about it. This system is free, I can success it from anywhere, and it is motivating to drag stuff over.
It's pretty easy to pick this apart. China is actually quite diverse culturally, but communism has long had a focus on equality. They're demonstrating that equality is a competitive advantage.
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Apple absolutely has a monopoly on phone apps. You can either get an app on the Apple App Store or the Google Play store in practice. Both charge 30% fees for every dollar spent on digital products, that they did nothing to provide. They have absolute authority on what apps can and cannot be used on phones.

Not sure why everyone has rose colored glasses for Apple's hardware enforced software monopoly.
Yes, OP's btfs was definitely first - in Tron's git history you'll also see that it's a fork of go-ipfs, so the vast majority of commits is from IPFS people.

However it's good to see that Tron are no longer trying to hide the fact it's a fork. For a long time they didn't provide the source code of their btfs.
Right! Absolutely no way you can lose your shirt in the public markets, right? Tell that to Wirecard investors...
> They are extremely persistent and willing to work hard.

I think it might be important to quantify these terms, but then I think it is pretty hard to do so. If I worked on some idea for 2 months, then am I persistent enough? And if I worked on it 10 hours a day, have I worked hard enough?

I guess, you just know it when you work hard or are persistent enough, but sometimes you dont know and you are hurting inside that you are not working hard enough or being persistent enough as you don't see any success
Great! Facebook's Oculus store, more locked-down than any smartphone app store, is the canary in the coal mine for the future of independent developers.
> Capitalism puts capital in the hands of private owners for the sole purpose of rent extraction.

That's one possible result of capitalism, but not the only possible one.

> I guess the theory goes that capital invested in profitable endeavors should produce value as a side effect.

No, you have it backwards. Capital invested in profitable endeavors to produce value is the primary effect. You need capital investment to increase productivity, and you need increased productivity to produce more value with the same inputs, which benefits everyone, but also benefits the owners of the capital. In other words, it's a positive sum process.

The fact that ownership of such capital can also be used to extract rents, which is not positive sum, is the side effect.

> it seems the capitalists determined that speculation and protectionism produces far more rent than actual value creation.

Speculation is not the same as rent seeking; it's a legitimate (though risky) form of investment.

Protectionism is not an inherent feature of capitalism; it's what you get when you allow the government to play favorites.

> we still need to find a mode of production that optimizes for producing value rather than rent.

We already have one: free markets, no government playing favorites. The problem is actually sticking to it.
You should be more angry about 700B on defense spending in the US, or >2000B in bank/corporate bailouts. Rather than being upset that money is being spent on a good thing instead of an (in your eyes) better thing.
That's when go-ipfs was started - see my other comment for more info
Being an academic researcher (kosurilab.org) and a founder (octant.bio), while I do think there are some similarities (working hard, etc), I think there are some really big differences too. Some of these might be more particular to academic research than research more broadly, but some quick thoughts:

1. Bias towards action & clear eyed => I think that's right, but there is another part of this too, that is more important as a founder – making decisions even under massive uncertainty. In a company, it's not just uncertain technical decisions, but also market decisions, cultural decisions, people decisions, etc. This is stomach churning, and most researchers can focus on the technical challenges in ways that founders can't. You have to do this in research decisions too; but as a founder it feels like it happens way, way more often with broader and broader sets of decisiosn.

2. One of the thing that I feel very different about founders is you have be honest about what the actual problems you have to solve are, and not turn your nose at the seemingly mundane and important tasks like managing a company. Great researchers are focused on their scientific problems over decades - founders are focused on building a lasting organization. These have pretty different consequences on what one chooses to spend their time on.

3. In academia at least, there are some really big differences in running a company versus running a lab. In a lab, my main mission is training people, while working on problems I find interesting... slowly moving towards my long-term scientific/technical goals. In a company, it's building a product that people will buy, and slowly moving towards those same goals. Again, this has pretty big consequences on what one spends their time doing and the types of problems you get to solve. There are positives and negatives to both approaches, some of which are quite subtle. For example, reputation games are far more important in academia than industry - I also find authority becomes a lot more pernicious in academia than industry. Anyways, lots here that are very different (but again this might be academia rather than research itself).
> that is updated regularly and uses both a secure transport layer for pacman and doesn't allow "some random guy's" gpg signatures, aka you'd have to manually check every source from AUR.

To be fair, all three of those are the defaults on any distro I've ever used. You have to say explicitly "no, I do not want to inspect this PKGBUILD file" in pretty much every AUR helper (and it's worth noting AUR helpers aren't even the supported way of building AUR packages).
I have a pet theory that Twitter is the ultimate annotation platform that’s been right in front of us the whole time. The reason it doesn’t seem like one is because it blurs the line between “annotation” and “conversation”.

I think the dynamic is similar: while a normal annotation is a comment on a fragment of text, a Twitter reply is (or at least can be) a comment on a single portion of a longer thread.

Two notable differences:

- While a typical annotation platform takes a freely-written text and allows any segment to be annotated, Twitter forces the author of a thread to compose their text with the segment boundaries in mind.

- While a normal annotation system doesn’t allow you to annotate the annotations, any given “annotation” on Twitter may itself be a thread which allows for annotation. It’s recursive!

Maybe the above is a stretch, but personally I think it’s an interesting way to think about Twitter.
Wikipedia lists PocketGear from 1999: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mobile_app_distributio...

If you drop the money a BBS is an old-man's appstore.
Is the current public market not a casino?
I've read Veblen's "The Theory of the Leisure Class", and I don't see that it applies here. The author writes:

"This rapidly growing industry has transformed the nature of entrepreneurship and encouraged a particular form of low-quality entrepreneurship. It has done so by leveraging the Ideology of Entrepreneurialism to mass-produce and mass-market products that make possible what we term Veblenian Entrepreneurship."

I'd agree with the first sentence, but not the second.

We really do have "entrepreneurship as a service" now. Or did, pre-epidemic. Wannabe writes a pitch deck or a white paper, and convinces VCs, Kickstarter users, or ICO investors to put in money. Get space from WeWork, technology infrastructure from AWS, and turn traffic into revenue with Google Ads. Show the traffic climbing and you're a success, even if not profitable. Some such businesses even succeed in the end.

The question is, is this diverting people from doing hard, useful things? Like refurbishing buildings in bad neighborhoods. Installing solar panels and inverters. Tree trimming near power lines as a service. Automating meat-cutting plants. Don't know. We don't have enough of the latter, though. Those things have no low-probability big upside, which is what VCs want.
Let's put aside originality for now. I think with a few small deep structural changes, you can get 80% of the way there.

I would have all posts require a tagged context, let's call it a topic (in reality it'd be multi facet hierarchical object). I would also have all profiles list the topics they'd like to be credible in.

The credibility score for a given topic would be an algorithm that would use followers credibility scores to "rub off" on your score for that topic. You seed the profiles you know to be credible and then propagate the graph. It'd initially be a guesstimate and then gets refined as more humans rate, interact and judge the post. Over a few posts, I think you'd be able to get a broad credibility bucket for a given profile/topic pair.

Btw I've built a social network with tens of millions of users and we used this approach and it works pretty well. It does require a bit of moderation and bad actor weeding out but for the most part it works.

Also, FB and Twitter aren't full of retards (shockingly) They know they can do this but they also know they would tank a shitload of their core quantitative metric for a vague qualitative metric. It'd just never happen from within.
Is is possible that you could author a high level design document of the process you followed?

This kind of control could be really useful for streamers and instructors who have production assistants in other physical locations.
I have the exact opposite opinion. The Quest is massively underpowered for the games I want to play. I want GTA VR (which is amazing except for the fact that it's not designed for VR). I want beautiful worlds to visit. I want more Half Life Alyx like experiences. I won't get those on a Quest with a mobile GPU anytime soon.

This is the major problem will all the mobile tech based VR. The content is not and will never be compelling to the audience that actually wants this tech.
So universities are conspicuous consumption, internships are conspicuous consumption, entrepreneurship is conspicuous consumption.

Perhaps the simple fact is that most people are motivated by the need for social validation, and only a tiny tiny fraction of the population is driven instead by things like intellectual curiosity, desire to help others / solve societal problems, etc. So any class of activity that becomes open to a sufficient number of entrants will eventually turn into a form of conspicuous consumption.

Now scientific research is conspicuous consumption (MIT Media Lab?), book authorship is conspicuous consumption, and political candidacy is conspicuous consumption. Are there any activities left that doesn’t function as a form of conspicuous consumption?
$721.5 billion per year, to be more specific.

While the collider cost is one-time.
The distinction between religion - the organization and religion - the spiritual practice can be applied to most religions. What makes Buddhism special?
You could CDATA a MathJax-produced SVG, but I don't know how well that would be supported in RSS readers. I doubt accessibility extensions would work correctly either.
I'm biased, but that's exactly what I would like to see, and I think would have huge scientific returns.

That's on the order of magnitude of the NIH budget in the US. But it's spread across a huge number of researchers rather than just a few huge projects.

The Human Genome Project was only a $1B project which led to huge technology development in sequencers.

Other efforts at developing large canonical datasets have been less effective at spinning out clear tech wins, but they have had huge science wins.

I think biology has been really good at balancing having tons of churn from small independent labs pushing on new ideas, and coming together for big asks when it makes sense.
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To understand basic notation like summations and matrix multiplications, I created Math to Code which is a quick tutorial to translate math into NumPy code:

https://mathtocode.com/

Previous HN discussion / it was on the front page earlier this week:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23513438
So... a startup?
The difference is that particle research doesn't stand to displace a multi trillion dollar industry with the world's biggest militaries to back it...
> You don't want your retirement account to be a casino.

You should take a look at Fed actions regarding public markets over the past few months.
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I doubt it's anything more than the cyclical nature of trends, and chance. There was already a movement away from Zoom to platforms that were less closed, but then the pandemic happened.
Err. Why would it not?

edit: more constructively, this seems to just use libtorrent in the backend, which supports the 'private' flag https://www.libtorrent.org/features.html . Though even if you didn't, it would still 'work' in the sense of being able to download chunks.
I used to work with Kevin, back when I was with VMware. I can confirm that it's an interesting story!
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she is also the person who accused the people running LIGO of major scientific misconduct. After reading a bunch of what she's written I really don't think her opinions in these areas contribute a lot to the long-term scientific discussion.
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Published by "The Startup" and selected by Medium into Javascript, SoftwareEngineering & Programming.

200 upvotes on Reddit (Programming Sub).

Completely fell under the radar here =/

This is a friends link.

Feedback appreciated!
Fusion technology is very dangerous though. Just think what would happen to my Bitcoin portfolio if energy was suddenly almost-free :/
Use DuckDuckGo
The operating budget for LHC is $1B/year.
> If you shame and ostracize people into not saying bigoted things, but you don't solve the thinking bigoted things problem, then all you've done is hide the problem

This is not true. It does not solve that person thinking bigoted things, but it does help prevent them from turning other people into bigots. A huge number of people have fallen into terrible thought patterns after being exposed to these ideas through youtubers and faux academics. If there are fewer people with PhDs after their name willing to lend a veneer of legitimacy to defeated ideas then there will be fewer people drawn into the trap.