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The journalist writing the NYT story have been in contact with several SSC commenters

And I believe (not 100%) it started before the Hsu story
Passiflora fruits are very varied, there may be a hundred varieties, with all sorts of different flavours. There's even one that stinks of garlic!
Let's make this the most upvoted post in HN's history.
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I was all set up to hate on this.

The remark about "If one would take out the products, the buildings, the technology research etc. directly or indirectly connected to military, there is only a fraction left." particularly struck me as untrue - yes there are some technologies that are military, but the vast majority are not. I have played several games with no pollution and no aliens, and if you remove those then there is a significant game left. This game is not "about" killing bugs.

But, I also get the comment about interacting with the bugs. They do feel like cardboard-cutout characters left over from the first implementation and not touched since. They don't seem to interact with the world, and they do feel like a missed opportunity.

It would be cool to be able to trade with the bugs instead of destroying their nests to get materials. Having to manage pollution because it affected trade, etc.

I do feel bad when my filth-belching factory causes the bugs to attack me, and my only response is to destroy them. Hence playing games with this turned off. It would be great if there was an option to include them without inevitably getting into conflict with them.
My understanding is that the actual machineries and materials necessary to make and run fabs are made in US, Japan and Europe, not in China or Taiwan. For example photo-lithography machines are made by the like of ASML (Netherlands), Nikon (Japan) and Canon (Japan).

Although it would assuredly take some time to ramp up, TSMC should be able to spawn fabs outside of Taiwan, out of CCP reach. They are already building one in the US, albeit with a small output.
I have become increasingly frustrated with the NYT's reporting practices. They are very hypocritical about criticizing tech while continuing to advertise heavily on the same services they criticize to promote their journalism.

A lot of what they publish nowadays is often "technically correct" but misleading to the point of being dangerous. That, combined with the philosophy of the younger journalists working there to refuse having any contrasting opinions published (I say this as someone under 30), and it's clear that the NYT feeds off of bipartisan hatred and conflict in order to make money. It's astounding that the same practices they criticize others of they engage in themselves. The nation is becoming ever more deeply polarized, and I put much of the blame on the NYT and similar publications.
The biggest power in the world at this time was the Ottoman Empire, and they controlled all land access to their markets, and had no urgent need to explore further than the outreach of their empire, unlike the Europeans, who were struggling to get access to India and China. Even though the Ottomans did poses a naval fleet, there was no real economical incentive. Ie. the Suez canal was a very old idea that the Ottomans considered but did not carry through etc.
I have to disagree. I see the opposite problem. We think too highly of human intelligence, we should be more humble.

Our most important source of intelligence is culture. We copy what we see others doing and that make us think that we are smart. It's the equivalent to see a Mathematical proof and think that we could also have done it.

Most of our behaviour is based on instinct. That is why it's so hard to lose weight or study an uninteresting topic.

It took humanity one hundred thousand years to realize that writing symbols allowed for a good communication system. And we did that by copy and error, a kind of evolutive process. Nobody sit down for hours until they invented writing.

So, you see the glass half full, I see it half empty, I guess.

But there is usefulness in seeing the glass half empty. As, it makes us more aware of our lakings and biases.

This opinion, I formed by reading many other opinions adding one more step on the evolution of knowledge (maybe I'm wrong and it's just a dead end thou)
After getting in trouble with the law and getting the story in the paper as a kid, I realized people like a simple narrative which matches with their expectations. Reality is complicated and people just don't have time for it. Not the cops, not the media, and not the readers.
Point taken regarding the Hsu case. Maybe I jumped the gun there.

I don't want it to be the norm for any journalistic organ/employee to function/perform the way this one did. There are many ways to accomplish adoption of that norm, including (but certainly not limited to) firing people who do that.
I "blog" extensively on Facebook, but not a personal blog as those are too bothersome to set up.

What I do is simply write down notes around a problem and solution and them dump the notes on a post as briefly as possible. Usually the blogging itself is minimal effort.

Another method is just "scaling" up a conversation. People often talk frequently about the same topics, like tips on how to start freelancing, how to scale up a startup, and the answers are often the same but take minutes to type up each time. For this, it's useful to just write it once and then expand in full in a blog.

I recommend not trying to keep to a regular schedule of blogging, because this will force you to write sloppy, unless you're doing constant experiments on a topic and want to post updates.
That is what I have been saying about the Mac.

It isn't the Mac is so good, it is the alternative is downright awful. From Design, UX, to even technical.
Yeah if it were me there would definitely be another online release about how a certain reporter ruined my life just so he could get the "scoop".
Have you considered that the NYT reporter might be a fan of this cancel culture?
Reminds me of when I was in elementary and one day I was sick and all my classmates met the governor. The media was obviously there and one classmate was asked to write something to say to the governor. The media claimed he was 11 but his age was 12. The teacher taught us that the media isnt always necessarily telling you the truth. There is way more bias in the media these past few years than I have ever seen so confirming sources is more important than anything. I dont usually trust "anonymous sources" unless there is accompanying hard evidence.
> I’ve received various death threats. I had someone on an antipsychiatry Reddit put out a bounty for any information that could take me down (the mods deleted the post quickly, which I am grateful for). I’ve had dissatisfied blog readers call my work pretending to be dissatisfied patients in order to get me fired.

I think anyone who is not a sociopath would consider this proof of a “substantial risk of harm”.
A little background: Many women in the Dota 2 community are coming forward with allegations of sexual harassment. Mostly against a caster named Grant "GranDGranT" Harris.
I pay 4 Euro ($4.50) per month currently and for at least the last 10 years. Plus $22/year for the email client (postbox). Our work email is an additional $20/year per account. $99 wouldn't be a stretch. The $99 sounds much, but converted to $9/month it's similar to Netflix or Spotify and a 5% gain in email productivity would be worth it. (From their annoucement video the service doesn't fit my email work style.)
Great news! All of those Intel Macs will become scrap, sold at a loss or given away to someone who can install Linux on it!
Sorry, yes this is an exception.

Also one I've come across myself so I'm a bit disappointed I didn't call this out. So... kudos!
Is there any conceivable good reason for the NYT to publish the name in an article on the claimed topic, despite the author's wishes to the contrary? Can't think of any, unless the reporter was also misrepresenting the subject of the story or the angle he is taking.
Yes! This is spot-on. This is a social construct and a good example why I think we should focus more on male gender roles in order to achieve better equality.

Males have strict roles, expectations and reward structures in society, just like we all do. Equality movements have expected men to step down without giving them an alternative way of achieving self-worth. They still have the same pressures applied, but are expected to ignore them.

I think we should abandon the traditional work roles which cater so obviously to traditional male power and status, and also find a way to liberate men, so that they aren't pushed to such extremes to achieve status.
I had never read it, but just read the summary and couldn't believe the similarity to Mormonism's creation/fall story. Which led me to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlrPpbalG-g
they've already succeeded in getting the site removed from the internet, and done so with complete impunity.
You might like the actual paper: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
so it boiled?
Ah, I agree. Not sure if people have completely given up on email to use Slack. It's an excellent collaboration software, though.
I don't disagree with your characterization that the obligation of the journalist is to inform, but what is the marginal utility of revealing his whole name? It's hard for me to come up with anything.

I wouldn't be opposed to the story running under a fictional name, even though that would probably not be to Scott's liking either.
If your issue is that an online handle may sound strange or silly (e.g., ‘Count Dankula’), how would you handle someone whose legal name sounds strange or silly (e.g., ‘Moon Unit Zappa’ or ‘X AE A-XII’)?

If your issue is that an online handle is not someone's legal name, how would you handle someone who goes by a certain form of their legal name (e.g., using their middle name rather than their first name)? How would you handle someone whose name includes a title (e.g., ‘Cpl Bloggs’ or ‘Ambassador Taylor’)?

Everyone has a number of labels used to identify them, and the appropriateness of each is dependent on the situation being used. In the context of an article about the online community surrounding someone's online blog, which they publish under a certain name, it is entirely appropriate to use the relevant name. The only way that that person's legal name would be relevant to the article would be if it was reporting on their conduct outside of that community as well, which this article does not appear to have been doing.
This is why the NYT is going to blink. If they doxx this guy, then this becomes a huge grassroots story about how they are "fake news media" that doesn't uphold journalism ethics standards. (Even more so if the article is a negative hit piece w/ politicized overtones, as some people are - rightly or wrongly - speculating here. People _will_ stand up for him over his views, however controversial in some places.) He made the right call here; shutting the blog down and stating his concerns so clearly was the way to get everyone involved to face the issue.
Said managerial challenges are often self-imposed though; I think a lot of people will know of companies with too many managers, who don't do a lot of work (that we're aware of) and spend a lot of effort looking important and busy (and rich).

Mind you, for my previous employer (consultancy) I felt like there was too little management and hierarchy; every department had a management team consisting of one or two managers and one or two sales, with other non-core-business tasks (admin) handled by the parent company. But said managers had to do everything; sales, account management, hiring, personnel management & reviews, conflict resolution, and oftentimes they came "from the trenches" so there was often an attempt to help out directly in projects as well. I think they should've spread out the roles a bit more.

Mind you, by default both sales + management there would ALWAYS earn more than the developers; what they could have done is hire junior managers that took some of the work without the exorbitant pay check.
I wasn't wrong about anything. Durian does not smell like death, even to people that don't like it. I know people can perceive tastes differently.

My tone was too flippant because I found the article's tone annoying and misleading. I get it, hyperbole, but when most of the people reading it have no familiarity with these fruits it's going to put them off trying.
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> iOSification

Those square icons really got on my nerve for some strange reason. The previous design at least I know I am using a Mac.

Now I felt like I am using a glorified iOS. It feels more like iPadOS being ported to Mac.
The presentations today specifically mentioned booting other operating systems.
2020 is the year that poaches all good things!
The NYT published Walter Duranty’s denials of the Ukrainian Holocaust, and other warmed over Soviet propaganda. They were full on in their support for the Iraq war. Far less has changed about them than about your knowledge of them.
That's a problem specific to news reporting, not journalism as a whole. I consider news reporting seperate from investigative journalism. What happened is far easier to report and consume than a report on why it happened. So, a better filter against biased news reporting, better than averaging, is taking a longer view and reading more comprehensive analyses. You can spin everything, but I find the more the article tends towards a study (investigative journalism), the blatant spinners drop off exponentially. Any bias is usually clear in such texts and therefore easily accounted for.
But he is a medical professional that explains that releasing his identity is possibly detrimental for those he treats. Is "hospital" the important part of that policy we should be focusing on, instead of the implications of why they might not want to report that person's name?
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Some features are missing, but feedback is highly appreciated.

As off topic:

After thousands of unfinished side projects, and although a lot of them were close to being finished, I
was able to finish the first one and make it real.
The beautiful contradiction of this article is that it's a Marxist critique of a game which represents a reality which is congruent with Marxist critiques of our own. The issue is not that the game doesn't provide an opportunity for paradise but instead that the player inhabits the role of evil without an opportunity for reflection. Games can do this. Brenda Romero's Train is a well-known example where the player is unknowingly complicit in evil until the reveal. While I'm not a fan of the increasing politicisation of games, it seems to me that gamer's insistence of total amorality in gameplay is a barrier to games becoming a serious art-form.
Would you trust a hospital with a reputation for employing doctors that never get pulled up or fired for their bad work?
I mean he has had people put out bounties to find him on reddit. No doubt it was for violent purposes, but losing your job or clients because of it can be just a slower death. I hope he finds a way to convince the NYT to not wreck his life.
I most enjoyed the part where Satan, Moloc, Beelzebub and the rest of his fellowship discuss whether to retake Heaven and by what strategy, and they end up deciding that Satan alone shall sneak into Eden. I half expected him to say he'd throw his ring into the fire there :-)

Blake was right though – the parts not about devils are quite forgettable.
Last year they also released a phone with the front camera embedded behind the screen, which I thought was a great idea.

I wonder what's happened to that.
this reminds me racist dogs in Goa (India)

been staying on beach, dogs very friendly towards me (your Aryan white), forming even circle around me when I sat down on beach in early morning, but God forbid (dark) looking local tried to go on beach, they scared him away. I noticed this actually in some other tourist places as well, dogs being friendly to tourists while aggressive with locals

but if it makes anyone feel happy, dogs in Agra don't indiscriminate, I've seen them attacking badly local children same as they attacked me when going in morning to Taj Mahal, only place in India with aggressive dogs (towards me) I experienced
Also stopped reading any news and reports from big media about 3 years ago.

Just curious are there any independent investigation journalists that work on the patreon/subscription model? Would consider donation them rather than NYT or WSJ.
No doubt, it would be just as interesting of an article without his real name.
> There is already a sort-of licence. Being employed by a company as a journalist, especially if the company is a recognised media "name".

But this obviously fails as seen in this instance (and many others). Companies have interests that do not align with the public's interest of ethical standards. Much like we've generally understood (but unfortunately not really everywhere) that letting other industries regulate themselves isn't a good idea, I don't think it's any different in the media.
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You can already do this with a USB dock.
>- Shenmue with it's 3D open world and concept of fully immersing the player in the role

No. Mizzurna Falls was first.
The problem is in who owns the mass media.

Newspapers are bankrupt, specially the NYT,that earns more money in real state(newspapers own properties in the center of cities that are very expensive) than with journalism.

Newspapers gold days are long gone.

So when someone buys it, it is not for making good journalism but for buying a propaganda channel for the owner's own interest.

The good journalist do not matter, if they say anything that the owner does not approve they are instantly fired. So they auto censor themselves.

Journalist are people too, they have families that need shelter and food. Being independent usually means almost starving. Young idealistic single people usually do that until they pick the comfortable alternative.
No. There is a slightly higher chance with NYT than say TMZ but still. I've read many people saying the journalist told them it was for a fluff piece or positive article.
It's nice that the iPhone SE performs so well, but there's more to a phone than just the CPU.
Yes, but I am giving them some benefits of the doubt as it is not in Dark Mode. Hoping it would like a little better in it.
>I also find Math in German way easier and more beautiful than in English.

Can you expand on this?

>If "clean code" was a thing for languages, German grammar would seem to me to be one of the cleanest.

Can't agree more here.
Spoken like a true bean counter.
I would also like the aliens to be depicted as more peaceful. Would be nice if they just started with protesting in front of your factories with a little act of sabotage here and there.

It should only escalate to fighting after you mowed down protesters with your tank and zapped saboteurs with laser towers.

Wouldn't mind a diplomatic expansion where you can trade democracy for oil and help aliens get rid of terrorist cells and their backward religious believes.
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> As a game device, the aliens force the player to build a machinery of war. If one would take out the products, the buildings, the technology research etc. directly or indirectly connected to military, there is only a fraction left. So for a great deal, this game is a war game, with little strategic value I might add.

I think this author is simply oblivious to what makes factorio interesting. I'm pretty sure I've played hundreds of hours of factorio, the proportion of that time spent dealing with the aliens was negligible.

Saying there is little strategic value to factorio without the aliens is preposterous. Toward the end of my factorio playing I simply turned them off all together because it was just a mild annoyance to have to deal with the aliens.

I think the real purpose of the aliens in the game is much simpler: the early-mid game in factorio can be kind of boring, because your factory won't be consuming all of your time. The developers needed something to make this part of the game more entertaining, and so the aliens provide something to do during this phase of the game. In the late game, there's no need for a distraction, your factory will be providing plenty to do by itself. Coincidentally, around that point the game gives you ridiculous firepower and automated weapons so you don't need to deal with the aliens.
Not even with people running a startup; in my country there's a LOT of parents who have kids, take up their parental leave (and then some if possible) but then go back to work, leaving their kids with the grandparents or day care. Part of that is because living here (esp. the big cities) is too expensive, but the other part is that people like their careers, they don't want to have to give that up to raise a family. Not all families, etc, but there's quite a few that do. And the government is actually supporting it, subsidizing daycare for lower incomes.

I'm not judging it; I wouldn't want to switch careers to become a full-time parent, I don't like kids.

OTOH, if my girlfriend were to get a well paying job and I had the opportunity to work less to pursue other things, I'd probably take it.
That's not the reality of H1B. The reality of H1B is a recruiting industry completely dominated by Indian headhunters, who submit only Indians and not native U.S. citizens to their corporate clients. Followed by Indian H1B recipients then moving into two or three bedroom apartments they share with 10 - 15 H1B visa recipients, everyone splitting the rent and utilities, and sending the majority of their cash back to India.

U.S. workers in the engineering and technical disciplines cannot compete with H1B visa applicants who are submitted at probably 30% market rates and wages, and openly discriminate in the work place if you're the token white dude U.S. citizen working in the same office. H1B is miserable, corporate welfare for Zuckerberg and Bezos.
In 2015 their columnists were arguing for arming ISIS as a ‘homegrown Sunni resistance’ and the “last Sunni bulwark” against Iran[0]. That’s in the print edition too.

It’s not like their ethos were suddenly made worse in 2018 with Sulzberger.

As a bonus, that same columnist argued for arming a Kurdish-Shiite anti-Sunni militia in 2005 and fawning over a civil war.

He’s got three Pulitzer Prizes.

The cream of the crop.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/18/opinion/go-ahead-ruin-my-...
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Lots of people receive death threats and even more claim they receive threats or perceive types of loud criticism as threats. Being on the wrong end of these is no picnic but it is not, in itself, a substantial risk of harm. And again, his own efforts to protect his identity seem to have been relatively superficial. He just didn't think he was going to end up in the NYT and he was mistaken. As I said elsewhere, it's a bummer this is a disruption for him but it's not obvious we (let alone the journalist who actually figured out his name, as anyone wishing him harm could have) should take the claims of risk of harm at face value.
They’re not really though. Still slower
IPC.
My academic and work history is with GIS, but I've spent the last 4 years in fintech. What does the cutting edge of GIS look like in tech nowadays?
Yes, but not really for the email service. The email side of things is pretty boring. The way I see it is that if 'focus mode' saves me an hour or two a week, and makes me actually reply to people more quickly, then $99 is a bargain.
The offical Raspberry Pi distro of Linux is already called “Raspberry Pi OS”:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspberry-pi-os/