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Console #10: JavaScript, Interpreted or Compiled? The Debate Is Over
Under US law copyright infringement is not theft, it is not considered theft, and in many courts the plaintiff is barred from calling it theft.
Automobile deaths has been declining for years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...

Cars are safer than ever. https://one.nhtsa.gov/nhtsa/timeline/index.html

The folks with those fancy cars are paying into the system too, insurance is about pooling after all.

It seems you have a point about bodily injury claims. https://www.insurance-research.org/sites/default/files/downl...

However, it looks like that is mostly due to more lawyers being involved in bodily injury claims. More lawyers involved points to a failure with insurance company's ability to properly adjudicate claims. When insurance is only about profits and finding tools to further squeeze your existing clients no one benefits. Insurance companies do not need more ways to rate me, they just need to do the job they get paid to do.
> correct answers and understanding

It's natural to lump these together as if they are a unit, but I think it's important to be explicit about the fact (which of course you know) that they are all too easily separable: it is incredibly easy, given sufficiently powerful tools, to get correct answers with little to no understanding. True understanding (not just "oh, I think I get it") that doesn't help to get answers is not nearly as common, but of course it exists, too.
Pretty close. It was a perfect storm of her being a subcontractor, buried under a hierarchy of a mix of incompetent subcontractors and incompetent employees who also happened to be fairly senior. In the mix was also a dose of HR sensitive health issues, and subcontractor politics.

In other words it was a mess. And it took a lot of firings to get rid of all of them once the tower of failure was discovered by a new outside hire department head. There appeared to be a something an effect of the incompetent senior person surrounding himself with incompetents who then hired incompetents and turtles all the way down.

It was almost comical that we ended up with such a group of terrible technical staff in this area, but "types code in MS-Word" was definitely the low point and is now a bit of a company legend.
Gitenberg was one of the alternate spellings of Gutenberg in the 1400s.
Probably? There are lots of separatist movements in the US; I've never seen anyone propose that e.g. the Calexit campaigners need to be put in re-education camps, even though some polls have suggested up to a quarter of the state might support it. The government just kinda says "come on this is silly".
As the article says, China learned it from the US. In the past, they have justified it by saying that they're just doing the same thing that the US did in its War on Terror. I wish the US could lead on this with moral authority, but in order to credibly do so I think it will have to reckon with its own actions. If we instead simply redouble sanctions enforcement, that _could_ work but from the Chinese perspective it would be humiliating capitulation to force. More likely it would just strengthen the resolve of the CCP to continue on its path in Xinjiang.
Are you kidding? Market share doesn't pay salaries. Money does.
How is this different from HiNative?
Why Are Plants Green? The Answer Might Work on Any Planet
dang, apologies this was flagged for your attention, I don’t understand why it was flagged but I’m actively seeking alternative forums [1] where this sort of discussion is welcome.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24028512
> The coincidence which has occurred here must have had its origin in an intention to produce it.

That is awesome!
I was curious about circular slide rules, and found one on eBay for a few bucks, so what the heck. It turned out that it was a give-away from a company that used to be in my town, so I ended up having a nice conversation with the seller about his history with the company and so forth. He was a long retired engineer.

Anyway, I started playing with ratios, and noticed that the thing is inaccurate! Further inspection and hypothesizing led me to discover that the scales were not printed concentrically with the mechanism. It's very slight, and not critical to my work in any way, so I treat it as part of the learning experience.
Made the front page a few days ago but didn't get much traffic or many comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23985816

http://hnrankings.info/23985816/
> I think the preference is age related: Personally I prefer text over video, as I can process it at my speed, while with video I'm limited to the speed with which it's explained.

> My children all seem to prefer video.

When I ask for text transcripts of our training videos, in place of having to sit through 20 minutes of poorly acted out skits (that, re-certification being a periodic thing, I have sat through some 5 or 6 times already in my 10 years on the job), I am always told "but people enjoy the videos"—as if providing transcripts were somehow exclusive of providing videos.
They were used for a few months after Christmas and then left unused.
Requesting recommendations and resources:

Almost 50, after a few boom and bust years, I’m finally debt free, but have zero savings or retirement, and make north of $200K. I have a partner to think about in my plans (so, retirement for two).

Job will let me work from home permanently, so I’m moving to Nevada.

I can aim to max out 401k contributions, and then what? I consider things like side hustles (with my partner) that could generate additional incomes which would go straight to retirement. I considered investing in a B&M business that would generate modest income that could go to retirement but that’s a weird option given pandemic circumstances.

I may be generating more income at some point that would let me pivot to self employment with non-salaried caps on income, but I won’t know for about a year (side hustle generating money isn’t past that “it’ll be stable now” maturity level yet).
tl;dr Hotz thinks Tesla's data (large numbers of real drivers) is better than anyone else's.

Hotz does not address the LIDAR controversy (Tesla thinks it's a fatal mistake, others feel it's vital). I'm not familiar with Hotz's company, but they seem from a quick search to be one of the few self-driving companies who feel the same about LIDAR as Tesla.
Hello, we've published some more work in this space -- no HTML version yet, but here's a more recent paper on our PushPin project.

https://martin.kleppmann.com/papers/pushpin-papoc20.pdf

You can also try PushPin for yourself:
https://github.com/automerge/pushpin/

likely outdated binaries are available here:
https://automerge.github.io/pushpin/

Also, we're currently in the midst of a new project called Cambria, exploring some of the consequences and data demands for a new Cambrian-era of software here: https://inkandswitch.github.io/cambria/
> While there are no known cases yet of TikTok spreading propaganda to meddle in foreign elections

It's odd how so few people seem to see (and by the dimness of your comment, even downvote it) the potential for TikTok to be used for propaganda purposes.
Dana is crying into his $100 bills before using them to wipe his ass.

My sympathy for copyright owners is very pragmatic, and is inversely proportional to the amount of fame and fortune they have at the time.

I am stunned to see on HN someone so gleeful at a pirate streamer getting their comeuppance.

Insert philosophical debate on piracy, victimless crime (sometimes?), whether the people who watched it would have if they had to pay, and so on.
Not an addiction widespread enough to care about. Unless it’s all free/stolen, limited by their economic capacity as well.
> The fact that [your potential supporters] don't have money already proves that they likely are not good at making money.

This is a critical thing to assess in any case where you’re investing time and effort and expecting to get support (either financial or “in kind”) in return. I see this ignored in many “startups” of all kinds (companies, social clubs, workout groups... anything that requires some effort to make happen).

The key test is: “Can this thing continue running without me? Do people care enough to give something if I’m not pushing?” (Pay a fee, volunteer for well defined role, resolve disputes, etc.)
> "How do people like this get hired for a programming job in the first place?"

No whiteboarding or coding test during the interview process. As much as I detest them, I wouldn't work for a company that doesn't use them to screen candidates.
> You do need a hole through the wall for the hoses but that's it.

That's what they're pointing out. It's not a huge hole but it's still a hole going through the wall, and if they rent and buy the unit with their own money they'd be leaving with it, leaving that hole in the exterior wall. 3" is probably on the upper bound of what you need but it's not wrong. And it's not like the landlord would be much happier with a 2" hole.
Twitter is good, start from @Halsrethink and branch out from there.
A well-written and illustrated explanation like this one? I can't imagine preferring a video unless someone just wants some background noise and they don't really care about understanding the subject.
https://www.bloggerzune.com/2019/10/a-bloggers-big-mistakes-...
Externality
For the audio side, Mumble is okay. Doesn't do feedback cancellation as well as Zoom, and it uses keys to auth which are really confusing for the user (and the UI isn't great at letting you switch which you're using).

But I got a mumble server up and running in no time flat, so it works that way, and the audio quality is amazing - far better than Zoom - as long as everybody's wearing properly-configured headsets.
I wish I could have figured out if I was good at Football. There were 120 people on the team and unless you were friends with the coaches kid, you never played. I was always first pick when doing 5th grade football because I could catch and was fast.

Defense had 0 tryouts. There was literally 2 attempts at being a wide receiver. 0 attempts at being QB or lineman.

I remember catching both passes, but maybe I wasn't fast enough? Whatever the case it was obvious it was hand picked. And our team won 2 of 8 games.

At least no one can dispute how much I sucked at track lol.
Thanks for sharing such a wonderful story. Something tells me your career path wouldn’t have changed significantly if you had never touched a slide rule, though :)
Tesla’s approach to self driving is worse than others in the short term, but I think its the only strategy that can scale. Waymo and GM are both relying on detailed 3D maps which can’t possibly scale past small rural areas. If we are ever going to have level 5 autonomy available everywhere its going to be with a solution very similar to what Tesla is building.
I think it is inherent to English at least in degree.

Reading translated books from Polish to Spanish or Russian to Spanish conveys a lot more information, than reading the same book in their English translation.

It's like every subtle nuance is lost in English.
A well-written and illustrated explanation like this one? I can't imagine preferring a video unless someone just wants some background noise and they don't really care about understanding the subject.
https://www.bloggerzune.com/2020/05/high-da-dofollow-profile...
There is one way you can beat dollar-cost averaging when you're investing large lump sums like this. Selling cash-covered put options until you get assigned. This is the only strategy that has proven to outperform buying and holding. The reason is obvious: you're buying at a discount if you get assigned, and you get to keep the premium if you don’t.
You are right. My comment is colored by the countless times I have tried conda and it was one of the worst experiences I have ever had with software.

Of all the times I have tried conda only once was it as easy as following the guide they post. The other times it was completely broken. I also greatly dislikes that it pollutes your default environment. Imagine if every piece of software would do that.
It's not debt, it's better: An interview with Harry Hurst of Pipe
I don’t think “entirely” entered the picture?
Well, a LimeSDR based E-UTRA (LTE) Band 38 2x2 eNodeB could be had for a couple hundred USD, depending on how cheap you can get the Host computer and clock source.

I'd consider just injecting the clock via the fiber (running a dedicated single-mode fiber from the next PoP (up to ~10 km away) to the eNodeB, potentially exposing Ethernet service from the base station, just like the typical monolithic DOCSIS wifi router), via one of two ways:

(1) run a separate wavelength via CWDM and just AM-modulate a sinusoidal reference oscillator output onto it, or

(2) anchor the clock for the data link from the PoP to the eNodeB to your reference oscillator, and just tap your reference clock (to feed into the local VCXO-based master-PLL) off of the data link receiver's clock recovery circuity. Some mild phase noise is acceptable thanks to the VCXO.
I've been running https://noclip.website for a few years now, which, while not a "real-world" workload, clearly approaches the amount of data that a game has to render. Check out e.g. https://noclip.website/#smg/AstroGalaxy which approaches the number of draw calls I'd expect a modern game to render with.

There are a lot of upsides to running it through the web platform (the big one is that I can give people a link and they can click it, rather than convince them to run an app, but there are others, too).

There are downsides: performance is heavily variable. A new Chrome can launch and my performance can be 5x worse than before, which is why I now always test in Canary to make sure I'm ahead of all issues. In Chrome, the WebGL layer is pretty solid, but I still find plenty of bugs and performance issues (e.g. looking at a profile unearthed this very simple issue causing browser resizing to be way slower than it needed to be https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=110347... ).

Firefox is quite a bit slower and has a bit more draw call overhead than Chrome (I'm guessing they run validation on the main thread rather than an IPC process, causing JS to block)

Most of the performance problems I encounter are actually JS-related, it's super easy to be knocked off of a fast path by complete accident, and there aren't good tools to know what I'm doing wrong. Math and ALU is plenty fast -- doing matrix multiplication on the CPU has never been a bottleneck, and you actually want that more on the CPU so that the GPU doesn't have to run a matrix mul for every pixel. Uniform data computation belongs on the CPU.

My big thing that I fight is the garbage collector, and you can see the awkward "manual register allocation" code style I sometimes resort to to make sure my allocations per-frame are super minimal, especially in fast math code. It doesn't look like traditional ergonomic JS code: https://github.com/magcius/noclip.website/blob/master/src/Su...

I could go on if wanted but this comment is already getting pretty long.
How about the ~opposite: you tweet something to move the stock price but you don't make any trade? It you have access to insider information this is a Reg FD violation as others have written. But what if you have no insider information? You just make something up and use your social media influence to manipulate stock prices -- for personal reasons, political reasons, or just for fun. I would assume this is also illegal, but can't recall any specific law or precident.
The last sentence is a bit facetious.
Really interested to read what HN's routine is. While I'm a night owl and can't seem to get a good night sleep and go to bed before 1am for I have a young kid and 9pm - 1am is the only real "me" time, it looks like the road to success is waking up before 6am. Oh well.
What don't you buy here? I'd say "It's pretty close!" is pretty accurate!
How is "cognition != consciousness" surprising, especially given the (now old) fMRI studies complicating (our experience of) free will?

Why would one assume awareness and processing abilities to be related, if there is no evidence for it?
hmm, googling around after my Q found this

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.80....

where the authors explicitly write: "Shamir's scheme for sharing secrets is closely related to Reed-Solomon coding schemes."

now, my eyes glaze over when it comes to the math, so I'll need to look it through a few times before I understand what they are saying.
Hi Eli,
Is your toolkit source open and free? as i may use and hack on it? Is it a service or could i use it in an airgapped network?
Backyard gardening is riddled with inefficiencies in every imaginable way, and is not for everyone. The only tangible benefits I see are for people who receive positive benefits from the actual experience of doing the hard work and somehow use it to benefit others (directly or indirectly). If you're not sure that applies to you, stay away.

Same goes for a lot of other things. Sometimes you have no choice but to do stuff that sucks and really isn't helping anyone, yes. Try to keep it to a minimum.
> Yeah, Bolsonaro was stabbed by a nutjob, and STF's ministers and family constantly receive threats from people online. Both affirmations are true, although that's not the reason for the censoring in question.

None of the censored made threats to any ministers, other than legal political activism. I would be surprised if you could link to just one occurrence of threat to ministers.

What is unfaithful is to say otherwise. The left in Brazil IS violent, period. They have a history with terrorism, in 70’s, agency with Cuba and USSR, the murdering of deserters (see Celso Daniel’s case), money laundering to finance despotic government abroad third world and their own plan “to be kept permanently on power“ - Dirceu again, has he retracted that as well?
"Common core" can mean different things to different people. When my kids were in grade school, I found that a few states have put their common core standards in fairly readable form. My impression is that common core is remarkably similar to what my siblings and I learned in K-12 math class. It actually led me to wonder what all of the fuss is about.

The main thing that seems to be lacking in K-12 math today, is proofs. Those were my favorite part of math.

With that said, K-12 math teaching in my generation wasn't all that successful.
Joseph Bongani
Unfortunately, I think your understanding is correct.
Correx: Send corrections down the same social media paths as the initial article
“Video games are a real problem. You know why? Because they’re fucking fun. They’re real exciting, but you don’t get anywhere… you’re going to waste your time.”

The claim was made that video games are (entirely) a waste of time.
I think this is a horrible idea; unifying the mindsets of all people via the same language would mean that we might get forever stuck in some local optimum and there won't be any other culture that could push humanity forward. People tend to become complacent if they aren't feeling competition, leading to a downfall, and that is true for all aspects of life.

It's like we are all in some sort of Reinforcement Learning algorithm and unifying the language portion would significantly restrict the exploration phase, the one that moves world forward. There are many concepts unique to each language, different emphasis on different things, different emotional response to different sentences, leading to unique ways of exploring the universe, and that all would be lost.
I viewed it as a story in how a great CEO realized that he needed to personally step in to drive and protect a program that could cannibalize their existing business. Similar story to Netflix’s video streaming over the CDs.
> This line of thinking is absurd.

It seems there is a kind of "conceptualization mode" that different people operate in when evaluating a scenario. If you consider this situation as a binary rather than a spectrum, then the respective behaviours do seem the same. Similarly, the same thing can even happen when two people are both looking from a spectrum-based perspective, but have differing levels of detail (number of included variables) in their spectrum.

If something like this is indeed in play, then it's not surprising how two different people can come to diametrically opposed conclusions, yet both have extremely high certainty that their conclusion is objectively correct...because they are (or at least plausibly can be) both "right", from the specific perspective each person is operating in.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24025100

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24024085
At least in my experience, pseudocode is often too ambiguous to be implemented correctly, missing crucial details or simply wrong.

With real code, those problems are less likely.
People who self-identify as gamers seem to be a minority subset of people who play video games (even if we'd filter by time spent, skill level, ...). The latter seems to consistently face-palm at the idiocy of the former, and avoids identifying as "gamers" for that reason.

Overall my experience matches yours, people who outwardly identify as "gamers" are often toxic individuals, certainly more so on average than people who don't express that group identity.

Multiplayer games often have very toxic or extremely toxic communities and players regardless, some more than others (e.g. CS:GO or GTA:Online have absurdly toxic playerbases, other titles less so).
the free software people say the same thing about open source
Could've sworn I remember hearing in grade school that one of then was actually calibrated with cow body temperatures. Don't remember which scale, though.
> I write systems and code with operations and developer ease in mind, not some academic idea of abstraction.

I'll be quite honest, if this is the same sentiment behind my experience at work (convoluted tangles of conditionals everywhere, 100+ line functions doing simple things - just to name a few), abstraction isn't just some academic idea.

I work with people who follow the path of least resistance and leave everyone else with the path of most resistance when we have to figure out what the hell is wrong with their code and fix the glaring oversights and errors they left behind.
Don’t mistake correlation for causation. Plenty of life’s lottery losers wake up early in the morning and it makes no difference to their prospects.
Have you played DDR while holding onto the bar? It’s serious cardio.
>settlement amounts levied against teenagers

From the article:

>and not be as cocky like I did back when I was 27

I'm not sure if 27 qualifies as a teenager. He was 27 when he was pirating UFC. He's slightly older than me if he was 27 in 2014.
I would’ve asked him to draw digits, potentially with his eyes closed, to see if he still has a representation of the shape of digits in his mind.
I used to placed more emphasis unification of standards (as in the case, unification of a natural language) but the truth is: humans will always diverge for various (conscious and less conscious) reasons.

Imagine a world of 7billion English speakers: there would obviously be a huge range of accents and standards. In fact, compared to other languages, English is much less standardized and I'd argue that the premise that there's a single "English" for NLP to focus on.

So, I'd rather NLP scientists find fulfilling work in exploring existing languages diversity.
Results of year-long reverse job post experiment
So basically he goes to sleep early and right after waking up he's checking out the news?

Why is it a news? what's so unique about this?
Ask HN: What’s your daily/weekly routine?
It's not clear from the thread what was Rose's role in developing the Kindle. Is this common knowledge?

I tried to look him up and it looks like he's running a VC fund and is a former VP of mergers and acquisitions at Facebook.
I mean, yes, you would expect basically any harm to public health to be a significant drag on the economy.

Kinda like this pandemic we're going through right now.