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90s technology struggles (4 min comedy video) [NSFW]
AFAIK, we have enough material on land to power for quite a while in the future, if you use gen4 facilities.
Android® chrome™ 83 works fine.
Interersting article.
> I suspect that a lot of the nice behavior on HN is because, for the most part, people value the community, and consider this a "professional" environment, and it's not a bad idea to play nice in places where employers/ees can see us show our butts.

As I work in dysfunctional industry (enterprise software development), being professional would ruin a lot of the fun of being on HN, as I would have to parrot their dysfunctional beliefs... Hence, I always write from anonymous accounts and decomission them often to make sure I'm not doxxed.
First, you should definitely listen to the full interview because they go into depth on the internet's effect on how we read and then conceptualize the information to make associations. These are the underpinnings of our analytic capability, and Carr believes that on the whole we're losing a lot more of our associational capacity that we used to have when our brains weren't bombarded with interruptions. Our brains like to hoard data, and the way the internet works and (increasingly often) designed to provide lots of tidbits that excite us and alter our neuroplasticity. They do go into some counterarguments.

Also, an update to The Shallows has been re-released recently on the 10-year anniversary, which is why Ezra Klein interviewed Carr. Klein seems to have had a volte-face moment in which, as a blogger, he was dismissive of any critique about the internet because it was an instantaneous resource-rich environment. Now he understands that when he reads he's always searching for what he calls this "fugue-like" state of "deep reading" that allows him to understand and connect what he's reading to other arguments and topics.
> The EU/EEA reciprocity is due to EU regulations, not the assumption that every EU country has better driving license standards than every other country.

The EU reciprocity is based on a common binding framework for driving exams, with common minimal requirements, and Switzerland adheres to it via bilateral agreements.

The requirement to exchange the license is just an administrative one, there is no theory or driving test for EU and EFTA nationals (there is a vision test though).
90s technology struggles (4 min comedy video) [NSFW] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23730689
There's a whole lot that are struggling, too.

My apartment is on top of a shopping centre. There's the three major supermarkets, various electronic and fashion retail, a large doctors surgery, radiology and pathology labs, physio, dental, a bunch of pharmacies, and a whole lot of restaurants.

It's incredibly convenient for me. That said, there's been a lot of closures of various stores, and I know other people have repeatedly mentioned that sometimes it feels like a ghost town. I suspect that without the built-in client base living above, that there would have been a lot more closures of stores.
I don’t think he/she is wrong in saying they all employ the same strategy, where the last two being the only ones with a noble goal.

It’s a powerful weapon, and can be dangerous if not used carefully.
Anything can be hurtful. By definition free speech will insult someone at some point. There is a big difference between someone who has accomplished something and someone who has not crossed anyone. Looking for talent is one thing, lack of faults is another.

So race is the safe space right now. What next? Shall we deny admissions to anyone who used the term “bitches”?

Since we’re denying for racism, will we be denying admission to any minorities who post hateful comments about whites? Racism is racism. What if those whites are Jews? Are they protected then? What if they’re Christian? Immigrants from persecution? But you can’t tell that by the color of the person’s skin. All most people will see is “white” or worse “white patriarchy”. If they’ve had direct family members killed, does that give them enough suffering points to compete with historical injustices?

What if they are already attending classes? Do we expel them? Now we have restricted speech on campus, campuses where liberals frequently shout down ideas they don’t like at non-mandatory events instead of simply not attending. If we don’t expel them we’re sending the message that punishment for social transgressions as a minor are more severe than as an adult. That an institution will punish you more for an unwritten or at least unadvertised rule than later, when they have the opportunity to make it super clear.

Unless this is only exercised in the most extreme cases, it’s nothing more than pandering to the current movements because you’re selecting those who are ignorant enough to post stupid shit online.

Don’t get me wrong, some people are incredibly stupid in their conclusions (often from selection bias) and their actions (posting said conclusion on FB), but since I doubt it will applied equally, I’m not a believer.

All kinds of people hurt for different reasons. Why is everyone’s responsibility to be concerned about other people’s hurt?

I’m a minority and immigrant. My birth country has gone through such massive amounts of murders and fairly recent genocide I doubt most Americans can even contemplate such numbers. I see racial slurs against where I’m from and the people don’t even know it’s a slur, that’s how common it is.

Is it everyone’s responsibility to be aware of my feelings? No. Funny thing, if I’m insulted because of a lie related to my birth country, I’m a minority and have the right to be angry. If I’m insulted because of a lie related to me being a guy, it’s male fragility. Gatekeeping at its best.
That's because it's really hard to explain physics to non-physicists without using mathematics. The clever part isn't classifying the orbitals, it's finding the Schrodinger equation in the first place.

We knew electrons had wavelike properties, but what equation did they obey? Even with hindsight it's still a difficult thing to derive - the relativistic answer is actually wrong, for example.

You reach the truism because the equations take years to learn - in engineering you can just take the result and run but in physics you have to be careful to understand what you're doing.

The Schrodinger equation for hydrogen isn't that difficult to solve (try it), but conveying that process in English is difficult.
The 1 cup of quinoa that you added to the start contributes the final missing cup (its packing ratio does not change much, it's just the water that changes its packing ratio).
It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. The more the state lies, the less we listen to it, and the more we start looking out for ourselves, and disregarding the public good.

Government officials see us behaving like this, they assume we're too dumb and self-centered to do the right thing, so they attempt to manipulate us in order to get us to behave properly.
For what is worth: many health authorities world-wide have used the same strategy (conserve mask for healthcare by not advocating/dissuading their use). Taiwan and Korea being notable outliers.

So it is not that the CDC was malicious / selfish / conspiring. They did what they believed was the best policy response. Even if we know better now that they should have just published instructions on making community masks and advocating their use.
This is the first time Google has released this information. It’s also likely this is the first year that YouTube was profitable.
Windows
Firefox 78.0.1 works fine.

I can check Linux later
How does centralizing content on Google from multiple sources improve decentralization? The web is already decentralized. That's why it is a web.

AMP is a scourge. It's a bad idea being pushed by bad actors.
I'm defending a thesis I haven't thought about too much, but just to play devil's advocate, I'd say:

1.) Interesting about sedentary hunter-gatherers during the upper paleolithic -- I'd like to know more about that! But my argument would be that even if the the people were settled, the climate wasn't -- and that the severe climatic fluctuations which were happening would have been enough to deter the incremental steps towards agriculture.

2.) I presume Africa would have experienced the same climatic fluctuations as everywhere else. This begs the question of why they didn't develop agriculture 120k BPE, during the last interglacial? I'd argue it's because we still had some evolution to do to become behaviorally modern, around 80k BPE. So this interglacial is really our first time at-bat with a stable climate.

3.) True, but if they passed through the same bioregion/climate at the same time every year, then that's enough of a fixed point to begin experimenting with agriculture. My theory is as much about the mobility of the bioregions/climate as the people.

4.) Could be a counter-argument indeed. I know too little about New Guinea, which is a crazy fascinating place. I know that there was very early cultivation there, which was also abandoned some thousands of years ago. Don't know how that relates to its history of climate stability. Do say more?
It looks like this site got digi tech'd.

I was reading a nice refresher on anchoring, the page refreshed and it was gone.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/anchoring-and-adjustmen...
Interesting to see this kinds of tools get so much attention in the past couple of months!

I have seen a lot of buzz around Roam (which is interesting given how outright terrible the initial user experience and conversion funnel is - I did not have the patience and unsub'd immediately..)

I ended up buying https://zettelkasten.de/the-archive/
Super straightforward Zettelkasten system, and most importantly utilizing plain txt and not some weird proprietary format.
It is true. The classical wavefunction of a ground state electron overlaps pretty heavily with the nucleus of an atom IIRC.
> Say for example half of the population, 50 out of 100.

I think you're confusing susceptible and immune. If the antibody numbers are legit, then the asymptomatic rate is around 90%, but that's not the full story. You have to remember that asymptomatic people still spread the virus, so this plays differently in herd immunity modeling. You're still looking at a 1% average death rate in NYC too given those numbers.

That 50% of people you mentioned is not about symptomatic - they must also not be able to transmit. Otherwise using a SIR model or similar there's still 80% of the population that can catch and infect others. I have seen nothing about such natural immunity in people even in small numbers, let alone at 50% of the population. That assumption is doing a lot of legwork in your herd immunity claim.

At best, your assumptions still means we need to accept just under a million deaths. At worst, even with no increased death rate due to hospital load, that's closer to 3 million. When other countries have shown clear alternatives by taking measures that don't lead to 1% of their population dying (such as Germany at 0.01% so far), one of which is mask usage, I don't see how there's harm in the policy when it could mean literally saving millions of lives.

All of that relies on antibodies lasting, which doesn't seem to be guaranteed[1], as I pointed out in my post before. That can make this much worse if/when people begin to catch it again.

[1]https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/06/chinese-...
How to apply in “Who is hiring?” for remote job?
Hi all,

I am looking for my first remote job and I am looking at "Who is hiring?" posts.

There are some jobs following this pattern (1) for job applicants:

-To apply, please submit your resume to: <email>

-Feel free to contact me directly at <email> with your resume.

-Get in touch: <company url that can you apply>

and some other with that pattern (2):

-we would love to hear from you. Email us

-if you want to learn more, reach out to us <email>

-Contact me (founder) directly: <email>

-Email available in profile

-Please drop us an e-mail at <email> if you’re interested.

For the (1) approach it is straight forward you either send your resume with email or via company link.
For the (2) approach what I supposed to do? What is the best approach? Send directly the resume? send an introductory email? Ask some questions if you are not sure about the job description?

Thank you
For the younger, less-motivated child: "Mathematics: A Human Endeavor"

... so probably not good for this kid, but always worth mentioning in the context of awesome math books.
It's actually "risk of user refusal", which sounds even more ridiculous.
perceived higher quality

Wasn't it (also) actual higher quality then most if not all of the competition in the same price range?
If police had the same kind of rigorous training and process the military does this mess in the USA probably wouldn't have happened.
> Isn't that TCP's job? Is this person saying Gemini doesn't use TCP?

maybe he’s talking about higher level features, like the possibility to restart a download from a certain point, without redownloading the initial part? haven’t used this since dialup days, though
The cops know how to ask!

I had a couple of experiences in post-war Bosnia. A policeman would pull you aside for “speeding” and ask for 50 Marks (they had convertible Deutschmark as currency at the time). After some haggling they would agree to a 5 Marks reduced fine and give you a “receipt” from a standard notebook.
People have been railing against Google's Amp on HN for years, and I think I finally figured out what it's for.

It's Google way of combatting phone apps.

If all of the world's information — especially current news and similar information — moves from the open web into apps, then Google can no longer crawl, index, or scrape that information for its own use. The rise of the mobile phone app is a threat to Google on so many levels from ad revenue to data for training its AIs.

So Google comes up with Amp to convince publishers to keep their content on the open web, where it can be collated, indexed, and otherwise used by Google for Google's services like search and those search result cards that keep people from visiting the content creators.

Google's explicit carrot in all this is the user benefit of page loading speed. Google's implicit carrot in all of this is page rank. But Google's real motivation is to have all of that information available to itself.

Can you imagine what would happen if content from even one of the big providers was no longer visible to Google? New York Times, WaPo, or even Medium? It would create a huge hole in a number of Google products and services, make its search results look even weaker than they already are, and cause people to look for search alternatives.

That's my theory, anyway.
Investigation into EU institutions’ use of Microsoft products and services
Was it ever the plan to maintain physical distancing for the next several years? As lockdowns started, the most alarming projections had us cycling it on and off periodically. Not going cold turkey on all human interaction for the long haul.
Wording matters, a lot. I've even posted a few "I don't know why you're downvoting this when it's correct, and here's why" comments myself.
Huge chunks of economics are just as much garbage as the the rest of humanities because of the lack of experimental capabilities. Any field that has conflicting “schools of thought” is not really founded in evidence and reproducible experiments.

MMT and inflation theories in general are constantly brought up by politicians and they are junk science.

Piketty’s work on inequality is a glorified regression built on an unfounded assumption about the return on capital always outpacing inflation. That work dominates politicians discussing the wealth gaps and is used as “evidence” to tax the wealthy.

Some economics is great (e.g. Nash equilibrium) and is consistently reproducible and observable. That’s not the kind dominating headlines though.
How is deleting their account worse than opting out? Or are you implying that opting out of their studies is also an awful thing?
Can and did. I think china are getting it in the neck not so much for its origins but the way they mishandled it early on.
Yes, but that is what needs to happen: reduction of negative engagement.
That's actually covered in the deeper linked docs on Gemini.

Setting it up on a separate protocol / markup allows you to make hard reasoning about what kind of privacy, features and protection you get as a user, rather than relying on the goodwill or current promises of your content provider.
Plus the format itself. Twitter is inherently optimised for soundbites. Nuance and high-impact, 5-seconds-at-a-time communication don't really mix.

Then add the incentives built into any (anti)social network: they automate piling on. Engagement über alles, users be damned.

[I am painfully aware of the irony of posting a critical post about Twitter, quoting material that was originally posted at Twitter. The notion of pileon automation comes off of this tweet: https://twitter.com/mcclure111/status/1143950836533473286?la...]
If it seemed that I'm lumping the last two together with the complete negativity of the others, that's not my intent.

These modern sudden positive moral shifts are new phenomena made possible by the internet (and so one would be hard pressed to come up with significant older examples besides the temperance movement), whereas the older (negative) shifts were all driven by fear. But it doesn't change the fact that opportunistic, unscrupulous people can and will take advantage of them in the same ways, and unlucky people will be trampled underfoot.

The mob effect is very hard to counter because the rules of evidence range from low to non-existent. It's a question of momentum; all you need is a catalyst to set things in motion (for good or bad).
Ohh, thanks for pointing that out.
People know Kafka, it works well, AWS will sell you a managed version, using Protobuf or Json payloads isn’t an issue, and the conceptual model is easy to understand.

Pulsar may be better, but is it better enough to displace an entrenched piece of core software at the heart of an enterprise?
> Should downvotes be weighted by the karma of the voter?

As a person with 60k karma I would find it enjoyable to downvote comments to the center of the earth, but I don't think everyone would agree.
> How does centralizing content on Google from multiple sources improve decentralization?

It actually makes perfect sense in Doublespeak. /s
it was cheaper to fly commercial

Coach? Business class? First class?
In case you didn't know, read "Invitation Tree" section from https://lobste.rs/about

>The quickest way to receive an invitation is to talk to someone you recognize from the site or request one in chat (https://lobste.rs/chat). If you wrote a link that was posted, definitely contact someone for an invite, we'd love to have you in the discussion.

I requested an invite on #lobsters and a member responded via dm to verify my profile (GitHub/twitter/etc) and then sent an email with the invitation. Best time would be during the US work hours, since the channel is more active during that time.
Excel Goal Seek and Wolfram Alpha; Jane Street Puzzle of June 2020
Indeed, but you only need the part you are actively looking at in high resolution.

the bit of your eye that need high resolution is surprisingly small.
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Ground sassafras leaf has been eaten for hundreds of years by people in Louisiana.

It's literally the file' in file gumbo.
I was wondering if there's some real process that uses the "twist" trick, even if it's not inverting a sphere.

Packing a pop-up tent maybe? Always seems difficult enough..!
Dialog – display dialog boxes from shell scripts
>"But we also lost something. One thing we lost is a lot of our visual acuity in reading nature and reading the world. If you look at older cultures that aren’t text-based, you see incredible abilities to, for instance, navigate by all sorts of natural signs. This acuity in reading the world, which also requires a lot of the visual cortex, we lost some of that simply because we had to reprogram our brain to become good readers."

Or because larger numbers of people lived in cities and used craft skills to get money to live rather than hunting and gathering?
Real material objects can't self-intersect. Self-intersection is the only trick this uses that is nonexistent in the real world.
I suspect that it is this partial download that they are talking about.

That said, I can't tell whether or not I've used it recently. I know I don't use it when I play with personal projects, but I don't know what other sites do because I rarely have a console pulled up in my browser when I'm just using it, rather than developing.
In the real world you usually can't pass a material through itself.
The luxurious lives of Sparta’s women
Americans in particular cannot be trusted to take it seriously or to self-sacrifice for the safety of others

Like in World Wars I or II. Totally selfish on their part.
While I am not much of a fan of the language itself, it is a thing of the past so it is safe to look at its positive points. If you want to consider the negatives, context is an important factor.

One consideration is most BASIC implementations had to run on systems with very limited resources. On early personal computers, that could be 4 kB or 16 kB of RAM. That limited memory had to support both the editor and editor (which needed some RAM to store its state, even if the software itself was in ROM) as well as contain the user's program. Forget about superfluous syntax. Heck, forget about formatting since it was likely tokenized. Earlier versions of BASIC may have run on systems with more resources, but it was designed for education so those resources would have been shared by many users so I don't see the situation being terribly different. Later implementations did take advantage of additional resources, but the language was already on its way out so the impact would be limited.
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That paint over looks like it made major changes to the model. A second set of teeth and moved the mouth on the shark and painted out a bottle.

I would have expected this step in the process to touch up the water splashes and add highlights to the plastic, but not changes to model and composition.
The vid says the surfaces are allowed to pass through each other. I don't see how that corresponds to anything in the real world.
Brexit was dominated by misinformation and bad prospectouses far more than any recent election. People voted against things that were not going to happen any time soon, and in favor of things that were never going to be delivered, like the extra NHS money.
Users executing their code are the product. Giving those people the independence of knowing who they are talking to is contrary to their business model.

Image AMP? No URL for You! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23322730

Tangental: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20930270
Download managers that speed up downloads use this feature. I.e. they use 2 threads, 1 download from the beginning and the other continueing from the middle of the file. This fools single connection throttling measures.
Pretty weak evidence for something not being obscure. I'm willing to bet that a survey would support my position that it's obscure. As for my weak evidence: personally I don't know anyone that is familiar with stoic ethics, and even in my university's philosophy department, it's basically only the one professor who specializes in Hellenic philosophy that obviously is familiar with it. Furthermore I have seen several CBT practicioners and none of them have heard of it.