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> You simply cannot know how your code will have to change

Nonsense.

Of course you can make reasoned predictions about how your software will change or not in the future.

Some will be wrong, but if you have any sense many will be right enough to have been worthwhile to address up front, and the balance will be clearly positive.
Diablo was based on Moria/Nethack. First it would be turn based, but they switched into a real time gameplay.
I bought one of these new when they came out and it was life changing. The BASIC was surprisingly good and I got almost as much out of the spreadsheet as I did the word processor.

One area that was a disappointment is really doesn't like x-ray machines (or maybe the other bits in the scanning process — magnets?). I asked for hand inspection at LHR, they refused, and putting it through the scanner corrupted what was stored in memory. Only upside is doing something again is usually quicker and better than the first time.
Origin was somewhere around this 1989 email:

"You never sent me a response on the question of what things an app [application] would do that would make it run with MSDOS and not run with DR-DOS," ... "Is there [sic] feature they have that might get in our way?"

and 1992 one:

"What the [user] is supposed to do is feel uncomfortable, and when he has bugs, suspect that the problem is DR-DOS and then go out to buy MS-DOS,"
It's wild what constraints can actually open up for your creativity. I love making videos but ran out of the time I used to have to spend on it. And so largely gave up trying. But I decided instead of complaining about it or trying to find more time to pile on some constraints:

- only film AND edit on my phone
- only create a movie as long as a single song track. don't edit the song track besides muting clips of the song.
- only spend < 60 minutes on editing the video
- publish daily

So now there's little workflow pauses waiting for files to transfer. It's now impossible to spend too much time in a rat hole of an edit. Of course this limits things I'd love to achieve with it, but on the other side, I get to publish so many more ideas and feel insanely more creative with it.

Feeling stuck? Probably need a good dose of giving yourself what seems like arbitrary and ridiculously limiting constraints.
Crispr is not necessary for e coli mutagenesis. For plasmids you really want to use Gibson assembly. For chromosomal modification lambda red is as easy as crispr.

Gibson assembly is basically foolproof. I trained an intern with almost no molecular biology wetlab experience and in three months he designed DNA for and made fifty mutants (I picked whuch mutations to try) and ran biochemistry on half of them:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24934472/

For yeast, you need neither. Just drop the DNA in and the yeast takes it up!
I have got my Android phone with twice the resolution of iPhone 6S for $100. And recently updated (after long delay) to Android 10. Another year to go or more.

So it is more like 25$ per year for Android.

Not a perfect phone but good enough.
Boris Johnson confronted over claim no country has working coronavirus app
>On mobile they didn't give a flying finger about BC, and the contrast was noticeable.

Yep, a fatal mistake, made by leadership brought in from outside Windows. Pretty much wrote the epitaph for Windows with that move.

signed: bitter Windows Phone user.
A racist hate-monger masterminded America’s War on Drugs
BTW did you ever see the Diablo they came up with? There's gameplay, neat to think what might've been. https://blizzardwatch.com/2020/05/18/diablo-3-blizzard-north...
Reading that, it does seem like it is bad, but at least Microsoft has documented a registry setting to disable this feature. Still, that doesn't excuse most of the bad stuff they have done with this, and otherwise with Windows 10, even if they have made a few good improvements too.
> You just need to be okay without Cain.

Just play Youtube clips of Bane from The Dark Night Rises. I swear he is voiced by Deckard Cain.
because you don't have 501 karma, and you probably won't at this pace.
Transferable copyright is way worse imho. I have no idea why we subsidize rent-seeking by the kids of inventors (or sometimes, people who had nothing to do with the original invention).
Possibly, but I believe this would be interpreted as a regressive tax - charging users with less money more than those with more money for the same software. Maybe it's fair if you consider QA and additional developers, but this is what the public reception would be.
>> there is now a compelling reason to perform the impossible: spend all that damn money before the tax man gets it.

> Isn't that a recipe for hyperinflation?

But of prices on... what? Yaacts? It's not like people are going to start buying 1000x more bread loaves and corollas.

On the contrary, it'd probably deflate prices of housing in major "investment" markets, as families off-load second/third/fourth houses.

And for the luxury goods, it might even drive down prices of certain goods. More demand => economies of scale => more efficient production => lower prices => suddenly affordable to a larger market => more demand => ...

But the original premise is kinda depressing. There is an alternative to blowing all your money on hedonism. You can substantially ramp up your donations, for example. I think you'd see an explosion of small churches/local colleges/community centers/etc. with $100M+ endowments.
Facebook is a very unique position here, don't play it as "free market" when one player has control over more than 50% of the messaging communication going on in Brazil, Bacen is blocking the current implementation of WhatsApp Pay, doesn't mean if they integrate with PIX they won't be allowed. If they don't integrate with PIX then it's quite easy, given their position, to force users to stay only inside their platform, with PIX they are allowed to participate in the larger ecosystem, it's a better solution for all.

There is no competition when network effects take hold and create a de facto monopoly, like with messaging apps.
I mean, in philosophy, Diablo and Moria were related. The initial plan was to release Diablo as a modern Moria, and yes, turn based, but they switched into real time and they simplified the game for the more casual generation.

If any, Flare RPG has anything the first Diablo offers with a longish campaign and a good set of skills.
Yep. The parent makes the ever-so-prevalent mistake of assuming that spending( as opposed to greedy hoarding of investments!) is what drives growth and progress.
How do I submit blog on Hacker News? It keeps saying my account is too new?
Everytime I submit a blog url, It shoots the message of being too new on Hacker News. My account is 50 days old. Can anyone guide me?
The biggest inidicator of wealth is if your parents were wealthy. At least in the US.
It is said that 70% of families lose their wealth by the 2nd generation and 90% by the 3rd[1]

Inequality is not static, it is rather dynamic.

Nassim Taleb makes some good points about that here[2], for instance, ~ 70% of Americans will spend a year in the top 20% and only ten percent of the wealthiest five hundred American people or dynasties were so thirty years ago.

[1] https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/generational-wealth%3A-why-d...

[2] https://medium.com/incerto/inequality-and-skin-in-the-game-d...
Speed or meth probablly
I wonder if creating a different OS account on the same day-to-day work laptop with limited access to app, games and no internet would trigger the same "Pavlovian response" the article talks about. Did anyone tried this approach?
I haven't noticed this with Route 53 (but I also haven't used it for a year). My experience was that even Amazon's resolvers didn't update with my changes immediately. So if I added a record, then immediately did "dig @8.8.8.8 my.new.domain", I would get NXDOMAIN cached for the time on my SOA record. To avoid that wait, I had to be careful to not try resolving it for a couple minutes, so that the NXDOMAIN wouldn't be cached.

Maybe things have changed, which would be nice. Nowadays I'm on DigitalOcean and they don't let you control the TTL on the SOA record, so you have to be even more careful than with Amazon. Very annoying.
This behavior is predatory. Microsoft is inherently a racist organization because they choose profit over doing the right thing. If they were serious about caring about racism they would have open sourced Windows, but they are too afraid of losing money to care that much. You don't get a lot of quality education content and software when you install Windows, but you do get Candy Crush with microtransactions.
A wealth/inheritance tax does not necessarily mean 100%. The flip side of everyone working lots of hours would be the chance to spend more time with friends and family. That also seems valuable for future generations.
One of my employers was spun out twice, after having been acquired years ago. It was sort of a joke to tell people who the owners were. It made no goddamned sense. Sure, we had customers in common, but so do Xerox and people who lease out coffee machines. The toner-flavored coffee jokes practically write themselves.

They just got onto a growth tear and bought a bunch of things they shouldn’t, and eventually rounded up all of the vaguely similar ones and divested.

I wonder sometimes if Google would be better off having a system set up for spinning off ideas that are complementary to their business model but distracting, or not high volume enough. Not every idea has to be a billion dollar idea, and a one time cash infusion to five $200M ideas would be a pretty small opportunity cost for them.

The fact that such ideas are not a direct competitor also achieves another goal of overly large employee pools, which is to choke off the supply of talent to upstarts.
Nanny states are never a good idea. But lets say we prefer nanny state and lets say it works with FB. There is no guarantee that it will always work with every other shitty FB, or if it works, it might become China like, which is worse.

The best long term solution is to educate people - make them understand how much of their privacy is being violated, how much harm social media is causing (broadly speaking here, I know social media can be good too, once in a while) etc. If the general public understands these, they might stop/reduce willingly giving so much of their data to FB.

That said, not many people seemed to care (outside of tech circles) when Snowden happened :(
I am not American so I don't know the proposals. In my country, assuming current market situation, he would get close to a million and a half, close to a 200-300k will probably be for taxes. (not sure of the exact numbers as I am not up to date with all the little taxes you pay).

For you to have an idea, Currently, for every euro I get, I pay in taxes+social security+etc(all the little taxes around everything) around 60% of the money to the government.
Makes the 'rent strikes' and such seem even more unethical than they seemed at first.

Article also mentions a small GOP opposition to one provision of the bill (despite strong GOP support overall) while neglecting to mention the fact that the house delayed the bill for several more days than was needed. This is vox though, so...
It might be nice to be able to see train delays and flow.

Circuit-board transit maps face the challenge of showing train flow with their few LEDs. Online transit maps have lots of pixels, but face the challenge of showing patterns of flow at time scales larger than a users glance.

One brainstormy idea that has come up in conversation, is to do something analogous to wind graphics like [1], which convey air motion using sample particles moving with unrealistic speed. Perhaps one might do something similar with trains?

[1] https://www.windy.com/-Pressure-pressure https://www.windfinder.com/
They last line of the article summarizes it well:

> Perl 7 is v5.32 with different settings. Your code should work if it’s not a mess. Expect a user release within a year.

Are there actually people that are still deploying new things in Perl? The only times I see it is for legacy stuff, and then only because the script is too much of a hassle to be rewritten.
It's possible that SARS-CoV-2 isn't unique in that regard. We don't know whether other viruses might also cause the same damage because we haven't really looked. We know some of the risk factors for diabetes such as obesity, but patients with similar known risk factors have different outcomes. Maybe other viral infections are a missing factor?
How to Fix the App Store
So you mean you can hire cheap?

Couple that with the recent fast technological advances (ex: rejuvenating stem cells), the many possible applications, cheap capital, and I see all the ingredients for a boom.

Just like the 2000s were about internet and the 2010s were about fintech and cryptos, the 2020s may be about biohacking
Affordable 3D Mapping for AR and Autonomy
No. They’re arguing anyone with a registered trademark should have full access to everything, with no infringement required.

They’re also arguing a restriction to advertisers would be an undue burden.
You're right; a slight one, possibly. But the margin of error on the forehead scanners is so high you're not going to detect anything other than the most serious of fevers, which I guarantee people can tell they have.

If you want proper temperature checking you're going to have to get into oral checks, which nobody is willing to do. The forehead scanners are a placebo -- this has been known for a very long time: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-thermometers/accuracy-of-...
Interesting how you are basing your assumptions on two ex-employees who no longer work there probably because of what you experienced, not to mention the small sample size.
Wouldn’t they just do what a
Apple did? Hold it offshore and wait for a conservative administration to declare a tax holiday that allows them to repatriate it at little to no cost.
A lot of people here are concerned that taxing the rich will just make them hide their money offshore.

It should be noted, then, that it's gotten a lot harder for Americans to go offshore with their money due to two recent things:

1. Expatriation tax - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expatriation_tax

2. Foreign tax compliance act -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Account_Tax_Compliance...

When taken together, it means that Americans are basically unable to ever leave American taxation. No other nation has the ability to restrict their citizens like Americans do while their citizens are abroad.

This is bad news if you want to own a company while living abroad (you can't unless it's American or you'll be double taxed), live in a lower taxed country, or renounce your citizenship if you make more than something like 139k a year.

Any tax applied to America's rich would not result in money leaving the country - it's no longer really possible.

I wholeheartedly support strong inheritance tax. Dynasties are bad things and create bad systems. The US is uniquely positioned to enforce it even if it means that citizens are basically serfs to their country.
“At WWDC, Apple shared Safari stats for macOS Big Sur. It reminded me how much Chrome makes my machine go WHURRRRRR. Yesterday, I made Safari my default browser again.”

I talk to developer friends in my circles and I’m pretty sure I’m on a crazy list for running safari, but I really do think it’s the best Mac browser. Chrome is just an absolute hog and until there’s some Camino-like renaissance for Firefox/Mozilla on Mac it’s not going to work for me.
*pity
Gsuite/GAFYD domain users (which are a tiny fraction of all Google accounts, for what it is worth) have a special pain with all Google consumer products. Many products and features simply do not work with Gsuite accounts. Why? Gsuite accounts have a different terms of service, and getting legal, privacy, compliance, etc to sign off on launching your feature is a pain in the neck. Also it's possible that some features and products really aren't compatible with the Gsuite TOS. So as an engineer you can choose to just not launch your feature to Gsuite, or you can go through a lot of work to launch it all the way, for which you will gain no marginal users and will receive no recognition or compensation.
This story is so wild, imagine being this couple and trying to tell the police ebay execs are harassing me because I wrote mean things about them on the internet. This is a widespread thing that's going on in our culture right now, organized bullying and targetted harassment by those in power and it's having devastating consequences on the public discourse. This case is unique because the overconfidence and carelessness of the execs led to them being caught but in most cases people aren't reckless enough to leave easily tracked evidence of their misdeeds.

I can think of multiple examples of agriculture/pharma companies and game publishers engaging in this type of retaliatory harassment, most cases they're not careless enough to get caught.
I think folks here might enjoy the idea of cyberdecks

reddit.com/r/cyberdecks
I mean that is what taxes on companies are supposed to do.

In all smaller companies I know, at the end of the year, they try to spend as much of their profit as possible in a way that enabled growth the next year. They keep the profit low because it is being taxed.

For the state, both is fine - more profit leads to more tax, more growth also leads to more tax AND more employment, and better products due to research and so on.

Tax evasion and off shoring breaks this and the negative effect is far greater than the actual loss in tax. It breaks the system that incentives companies to invest in their futures rather than their shareholder's cashing out.
I once looked into something like this -- a UNIVERSAL, 100% death tax. When I googled it, it appeared that it could almost, but not quite, replace the federal income tax if you should solve for the fraud and loophole issues. (Which, I don't think you can btw.)

Then you think about, what happens when parents die in a car wreck to the kids? So maybe what you implement is some type of National Life Insurance federal program, geared towards minors or maybe more broadly across the population. Tweaks to Social Security survivor benefits, essentially.

There are also weird questions like, what happens to a company that's singularly owned by the newly deceased? It's sold to the highest bidder, even if it's company run by the whole family?

I don't actually favor this policy for the obvious reasons people will list. But I think it's an interesting question that gets to what it means to have something closer to equality of opportunity.
I don't want to excuse anything facebook does that's bad and do take some effort to be less tracked. I have FB blocked in one browser profile and I have all but FB blocked in another and many other things.

That said, my experience using Facebook is mostly positive. I see what my sister is up to, my mom, my aunt, several friends and acquaintances. Facebook messenger is by far my most used communications service.

I have taken step to keep it that way. I get no news of facebook. I've joined almost no groups. I unfollow anyone who gets too political, that has included a couple of close friends who I want to follow but they jsut can't stop posting politics several times week or even day so "unfollow".

I run FB Purity in the browser can block a bunch of stuff but I don't have that option in the FB app and for the most part I don't notice too much crap in my feed.

In other words, AFAIK it's mostly a positive in my life and the life of my friends. If I worked at Facebook I'd certainly be proud of how helped people stay in touch and organize group events.

I'm not excusing anything bad they do. Just suggesting I suspect many people have a mostly positive experience or they'd quit.
> Windows 10 can install on a typical 2005 PC? I'd be surprised if that's the case.

I have Windows 10 running dual boot on my Dell Inspiron 530s from 2005. It's a Core 2 Duo 2.33 GHz. I don't run Windows 10 full time because it's a little sluggish, but it works ok.

(I did upgrade to an SSD + 8GB RAM + Nvidia GT 610 but everything else is 2005).

On the same note, I also have Kubuntu 18.04 on the same machine. Now this is my daily driver. Runs Chrome, plays Youtube etc. and everything else just fine. Things are extremely responsive.
It's almost inconceivable to think I'm using a 15 year old computer in 2020 as my main machine but here we are.
23 million is absolutely not middle class wealth, which ends in roughly the top quartile or quintile by practically any definition.
Serious question: is it possible that part of the increased mortality for (type 2) diabetics is a result of high blood sugars caused by this kind of effect?
It is dynamically typed, because the typing is checked at runtime. Unlike a lot of other dynamically typed languages though it is strongly typed, because it does enforce type rules as you pointed out. That's not to say there's not a whole heap of other issues with this article though.
There is no universe in which $23MM+ is "middle class". If you have that much money, you can live passively off of investment income basically for the rest of time.

> Sheldon Adelson recently pledged to drop $100MM into Trump's 2020 campaign

Okay but Tom Steyer (also a billionaire) spent $343M on his election, and won a humiliating 0.38% of the popular vote (0% of pledged delegates).
> I think the issue is that regardless of the answer, it isn't decoupled in real world scenarios.

Did you think I was asking about non-real-world scenarios? And how do we know that it's coupled (or rather, the degree to which it's coupled) in real world scenarios?

> I think the solution isn't dependent upon race either. It is to ensure everyone have access to legal recourse regardless of socioeconomic status. This would have the side effect of benefiting races correlated with lower socioeconomic status more.

This makes sense to me, although I don't know what this looks like in practice.
Wouldn't you just invest the money and leave the stocks to be inherited? Not that that's bad.
> In the US at least, it isn't hard if in lower middle class or above to invest small sums over long periods to get large amounts.

Roughly 3/4 of the country lives paycheck-to-paycheck.
Requisite HN comment but also a genuine one too: Is there any chance any of these Freewrites, Alphasmarts or machines from Japan support, or could be hacked to support, emacs keybindings?
Yep, I know of one company still actively using Perl for a large part of its infrastructure. It has its use cases.
"Then something happened at Google. I’m not sure what."

Occam's Razor would say that what happened is that they couldn't figure out how to make much money from these tools, and therefore directed fewer resources to them :(
> Are there actually people that are still deploying new things in Perl?

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23593835
Furthermore, why is an inheritance tax needed? The income was taxed upon earning, and any growth in that sum was taxed via capital gains. To then take even more via 'inheritance tax' is just government thievery.
Freewrite supports at least 35 languages via configurable layouts in software: https://support.getfreewrite.com/article/27-freewrite-keyboa...
I do.

Efficient, cheap and stable. Ported to about everywhere.
Google has the best software development tooling in the business internally. Their problems are not around technology. Their problems are product focus, commitment and follow through. Google is in fact primarily a technology company. They struggle with being a "product" company.
Also, many people have a work email account and a personal email account, and a mailto link doesn't give them the option to choose which account to send from - there's no reason not to write out email addresses as the text itself.